App Volumes Login Portal Failure. Please help.

So I've been all over the internet trying to find a way to create a search variable for a user and pipe that into a command that will search horizon for Sessions where the user matches or is like that variable and then pipe it out to a table.

The closes I've gotten is the below

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$Search = 'John'

#Create Horizon Services object

$HorizonServerServices = $global:DefaultHVServers[0].ExtensionData

#Create Query Definition object with EntityType SessionLocalSummaryView

$HorizonQuery = New-Object VMware.Hv.QueryDefinition

$HorizonQuery.QueryEntityType = 'SessionLocalSummaryView'

#Create Query Service object

$HorizonQueryService = New-Object VMware.Hv.QueryServiceService

#Horizon returns 1000 results at a time, so you have to loop until RemainingCount -eq 0

$HorizonQueryResults = $HorizonQueryService.QueryService_Create($HorizonServerServices, $HorizonQuery)

#Variable to save the returned results

$HorizonSessions = $HorizonQueryResults.Results

do

{

$HorizonQueryResults = $HorizonQueryService.QueryService_GetNext($HorizonServerServices,$HorizonQueryResults.Id)

$HorizonSessions += $HorizonQueryResults.Results

} while ($HorizonQueryResults.RemainingCount -gt 0)

$SearchHorizonSessions = $HorizonSessions | Where-Object -FilterScript {$_.NamesData.Username -like "*$Search*"}

$NamesData = $SearchHorizonSessions.NamesData.Username

$SessionData = $SearchHorizonSessions.SessionData.SessionState

$NamesData | Foreach {$i=0}{new-object pscustomobject -prop @{Username=$_;SessionsState=$SessionData[$i]}; $i++} | Format-Table

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This works fine until I try to search it. For some reason it breaks and only gives me one letter of the "SessionState". It also doesn't give me vdi Name which I need.

SessionsState Username                

------------- --------                

            C DOMAIN.LOCAL\John.Doe

I've also tried this which gives me all the data but when I try to search or filter it I can't get it to do it.

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#Query Horizon VMs by logged in User

$query = New-Object "Vmware.Hv.QueryDefinition"

$query.queryEntityType = 'SessionLocalSummaryView'

$qSrv = New-Object "Vmware.Hv.QueryServiceService"

$qSRv.QueryService_Query($global:DefaultHVServers[0].ExtensionData,$query) |

Select -ExpandProperty Results |

Select -ExpandProperty NamesData | where UserName -Like "*$Search*" |

Format-Table -Property UserName,DesktopName,MachineOrRDSServerDNS

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I've also tried messing with Get-HVMachineSummary and I can filter and search it fine but for some reason it does not display the user field. Its just blanklp

Any help would be much appreciated

I need  to find which users are connecting using HTML access (using web browser).  I believe it's always "Blast" using SSL/443 tunnel.  I'm pretty sure it's logged on security server or connection server.  Looking for the easiest way to extract it and create a report.  For example, from 6/1/20 - 6/30/20 These 458 users connected to vdi using HTML access.

hi..

i'm creating a vm via packer automation,  i was wondering if there's after creation to use ovftool or even a direct api call to vcenter to add vapps properties

i'm talking about version, vendor, vapp ip (static vs dhcp etc..)

Hello,

I have a single VCSA 6.7 appliance managing hosts in two small data centers.  Each data center has two small clusters in it, with workloads split between the two clusters.  Cluster A in data center 1 has similar workloads to cluster A in data center 2, and cluster B in data center 1 has similar workloads to cluster B in data center 2.

I'd like to add a "child" vCenter appliance to this configuration, so that the child vCenter server will only have visibility of the hosts in cluster B of the two data centers.  Ideally, the existing vCenter server would retain its visibility of all the hosts, but it that isn't directly possible, it could do so via it's "parent" relationship of the new "child" vCenter server.  Another option would be for the new vCenter server to become a parent of the existing server.  Either direction is acceptable to me.

I'm a little hazy on how to go about this process, specifically with regards to the PSC.  I'm not clear on how to add a new vCenter to the configuration, either as a parent or a child, and how to integrate the two without having to rebuild the existing distributed switches and other settings currently in place.

If there are any resources available that describe how to deploy a configuration like this, I'd be grateful for any pointers to them.  Thanks in advance!

Is there a way to get the build number and the version of vSAN with its patch level?

Hello there,

We have a new win 10 1909 environment we're trying to roll out and we're having extreme issues with DEM not applying/saving default apps and FTAs correctly and we cannot figure out why.

I have the Default Apps and FTAs flex engine enabled with a predefined forced setting to set Internet Explorer as default browser and to set adobe reader to open PDFs.

It seems to save and apply the adobe reader FTA, and it actually seems to map .http and .https files to Internet Explorer, but it only makes IE the default browser about 40-50% of the time, so when we click on a link inside of outlook it opens up in edge.

I worked with support and they had me drop the .xml file in the file type association page on DEM as well and like I said that part seems to be applying correctly just not for the default application part.

I'll attach several pictures and a log of my latest login to see if that will help any.

I do appreciate it!

Edit: I apologize, I forgot to list that we are using DEM version 9.11 as well.

I have one ESXi host (6.7) with a vSphere 6 Essentials license. We got the Essentials over free ESXi for backup purposes.

Is it necessary to renew our Support & Subscription every year with VMware? I don't need the support but it states we will miss out on the latest updates/upgrades. I am confused on the upgrade part. I can patch ESXi freely so what updates are they referring about?

Thank you,

We have a couple needs for this but has anyone seen any examples thru API's or otherwise that you can change the owner of a device from one person's Network ID to another in WS1?  We have two scenarios:

1. We assign shared devices to department manager.  We do use local accounts with their name in it but those people come and go and we have to wipe the device to change the owner in the WS1 console.

2. We have a telecom group that deals with leadership phones.  We wanted to do the enroll on a user's behalf but that doesn't work thru managed devices only unmanaged.  It was suggested to enroll the device with the telecom person's credentials and then programatically change it.  Not sure how that would work on the device itself with things like Boxer.

Thanks.

Steve

Hi,

I'm running a homelab with ESXi 6.7 (13006603). I got three nics in my host, two are onboard and one is an Intel ET 82576 dual-port pci-e card. All nics are assigned to the same vSwitch; actually only one is connected to the (physical) switch atm.

When I'm using one of the 82576 nics and put heavy load on it (like backing up VMs via Nakivo B&R) the nic stops workign after a while and is dead/Not responding anymore. Only a reboot of the host or (much easier) physically reconnecting the nic (cable out, cable in) solves the problem.

I was guessing there is a driver issue, so I updated to the latest driver by intel:

[root@esxi:~] /usr/sbin/esxcfg-nics -l

Name    PCI          Driver      Link Speed      Duplex MAC Address       MTU    Description

vmnic0  0000:04:00.0 ne1000      Down 0Mbps      Half   00:25:90:a7:65:dc 1500   Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection

vmnic1  0000:00:19.0 ne1000      Up   1000Mbps   Full   00:25:90:a7:65:dd 1500   Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection

vmnic2  0000:01:00.0 igb         Down 0Mbps      Half   90:e2:ba:1e:4d:c6 1500   Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection

vmnic3  0000:01:00.1 igb         Down 0Mbps      Half   90:e2:ba:1e:4d:c7 1500   Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection

[root@esxi:~] esxcli software vib list|grep igb

net-igb                        5.2.5-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820            Intel   VMwareCertified   2019-06-16

igbn                           0.1.1.0-4vmw.670.2.48.13006603        VMW     VMwareCertified   2019-06-07

Unfortunately this didn't solve the problem.

However ... this behaviour doesn't occur, when I'm using one of the nics using the ne1000 driver.

Any idea how to solve the issue?

(... or at least dig down to it's root?)

Thanks a lot in advance.

Regards

Chris

PS: I found another thread which might be connected to my problem: Stopping I/O on vmnic0  Same system behaviour, same driver.

We have a dual site SRM configuration (Site A-to-Site B pair) using Vsphere replication.  All appliance based with a 8.3 environment. Everything works well.

Now we would like to replicate some VM's on Site A from a primary SAN datastore to a secondary SAN datastore ( both SAN's are on Site A). We don't need a protection group/recovery plan for this VM.

Is it possible? If so, do I add a 3rd Vsphere Replication appliance to Site A? How it that integrated into the SRM (if this is needed)?

Is it possible to do a silent install of 15.5.6 while an older version of VMware workstation is running and virtual machines are powered on?

Even after enabling BGP on UI on Tire0 Gateway, still on the CLI, it shows as BGP as "Administratively shut down".

I am able to ping neighbor address from nsxt-edge1(tier0_sr). Only BGP shows as "Administratively shut down"

Can anyone pls let me know, how to fix this?

Tire-1 gateway is working fine.

nsxt-edge01(tier0_sr)> get bgp neighbor

BGP neighbor is 192.168.100.1, remote AS 65100, local AS 65000, external link

Administratively shut down

  BGP version 4, remote router ID 0.0.0.0, local router ID 192.168.100.2

  BGP state = Idle

  Last read 19:53:42, Last write never

  Hold time is 180, keepalive interval is 60 seconds

  Configured hold time is 180, keepalive interval is 60 seconds

  Graceful restart information:

    Local GR Mode  : Helper*

    Remote GR Mode : NotApplicable

    R bit          : False

    Timers :

     Configured Restart Time(sec)  : 180

     Received Restart Time(sec)    : 0

  Message statistics:

    Inq depth is 0

    Outq depth is 0

                         Sent       Rcvd

    Opens:                  0          0

    Notifications:          0          0

    Updates:                0          0

    Keepalives:             0          0

    Route Refresh:          0          0

    Capability:             0          0

    Total:                  0          0

  Minimum time between advertisement runs is 0 seconds

  Update source is 192.168.100.2

For address family: IPv4 Unicast

  Not part of any update group

  Community attribute sent to this neighbor(all)

  0 accepted prefixes

  Connections established 0; dropped 0

  Last reset never

BGP Connect Retry Timer in Seconds: 10

Read thread: off  Write thread: off

nsxt-edge01(tier0_sr)> ping 192.168.100.1 source 192.168.100.2 repeat 6

PING 192.168.100.1 (192.168.100.1) from 192.168.100.2: 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 192.168.100.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=2.020 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.100.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=2.382 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.100.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=2.396 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.100.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=1.961 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.100.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=1.687 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.100.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=1.891 ms

--- 192.168.100.1 ping statistics ---

6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.687/2.056/2.396/0.257 ms

Hello,

We have ESXi 6.5 update 3 running on Cisco B200 blades using 6248 Fabric interconnects.

We have purchased new 6454 fabric interconnects and I have moved 1 chassis and 1 blade to the new FIs for testing.

The blade/ESXi host is connecting and pinging on the network good.

However, if I try to rescan storage it takes 30 minutes and fails. If I try to reboot it takes over an hour and doesn't really attach all storage successfully.

If I unmap all storage it reboots and rescans as normal. It sees the array just fine.

The zoning is connected at 8 Gbps and the FIs say connected at 8 Gbps.

However, VMware says the speed is 0 Gbps. see below output.

I have checked compatibility lists and it seems our fnic, enic, vmware version and ucs version is all compatible.

Has anyone seen this?

Any help is much appreciated!

[root@kcesx9:~] esxcli storage san fc list

   Adapter: vmhba1

   Port ID: 0A3A03

   Node Name: 20:00:00:25:b5:a5:02:df

   Port Name: 20:00:00:25:b5:a1:02:df

   Speed: 0 Gbps

   Port Type: NPort

   Port State: ONLINE

   Model Description:

   Hardware Version:

   OptionROM Version:

   Firmware Version:

   Driver Name:

   DriverVersion:

Adapter: vmhba2

   Port ID: 0B1203

   Node Name: 20:00:00:25:b5:a5:02:df

   Port Name: 20:00:00:25:b5:b1:01:df

Speed: 0 Gbps

   Port Type: NPort

   Port State: ONLINE

   Model Description:

   Hardware Version:

   OptionROM Version:

   Firmware Version:

   Driver Name:

   DriverVersion:

==================

These are some of the naa's that popped up with connectivity issues.

naa.6001738c7c80534900000000000134a8

naa.6001738c7c8053490000000000021977

naa.6001738c7c805349000000000002204c

naa.6001738c7c805349000000000001349f

naa.6001738c7c8053490000000000013499

In the logs:

2020-07-06T19:19:51.900Z cpu11:65844)WARNING: HBX: 2580:Failed to cleanup VMFS heartbeaton volume5e604295-151f2b8e-871a-0025b500a516: No connection

2020-07-06T19:19:51.900Z cpu23:66148)ScsiDeviceIO: 3015: Cmd(0x439590d03b40) 0x28, CmdSN 0xa from world 74231 to dev "naa.6001738c7c805349000000000002204c" failed H:0x8 D:0x0 P:0x0 Invalid sense data: 0x0 0x0 0x0.

2020-07-06T19:19:51.900Z cpu23:74231)LVM: 5953: PE grafting failed for device naa.6001738c7c805349000000000002204c:1, vol 5e6079a4-96282218-633b-0025b500a516/7688724183283841769: Timeout

2020-07-06T19:19:51.900Z cpu11:65844)WARNING: HBX: 2580: Failed to cleanup VMFS heartbeat on volume5e604295-151f2b8e-871a-0025b500a516: No connection

2020-07-06T19:19:51.900Z cpu11:65844)Vol3: 3073: Error closing the volume: No connection. Eviction fails.

Hi:

I've not had much experience with "passthrough", but recently I needed to emergency P2V a physical server that had a SAS tape drive connection. I installed the LSI model SAS9212-4i4 SAS adapter in our R730 host server, and "passed through" the PCI device to my rehomed VM. All surprisedly works.

Now a question has been asked, can the same PCI device be passed through to another VM?  What I read, particularly regard GPU passthroughs, seems to suggest yes, the passthrough of a device can be configured on multiple VM's.

Am I going down the wrong road here?

Symptoms:

- Unable to power-on / take snapshot for a VM , getting error insufficient disk space.

- VM is thin provisioned.

- Datastore is not VMFS6

- Datastore is over provisioned.

- Datastore has free space.

- Storage pool has free space "in case of thin provisioned LUNs"

- On /var/run/log/vmkernel.log you will see entries like:

2020-07-09T14:05:38.142Z cpu0:2738555)Res3: 7412: 'DataStoreX': [rt 3] Resources t 0, e 0, np 16, wb 0, b 0, RCs u 0, i 0, nf 4031, pe 0, oe 0

2020-07-09T14:05:38.548Z cpu9:2738556)WARNING: Res3: 7411: 'DataStoreX': [rt 3] No Space - did not find enough resources after second pass! (needed: 1, found: 0)

on the Datastore details you can see no free pointer blockes:

[root@esxi] vmkfstools -P -v 10 /vmfs/volumes/DataStoreX/

VMFS-5.61 (Raw Major Version: 14) file system spanning 1 partitions.

File system label (if any): DataStoreX

Mode: public ATS-only

Capacity 70368475742208 (67108608 file blocks * 1048576), 3067355332608 (2925258 blocks) avail, max supported file size 69201586814976

Volume Creation Time: Thu Nov 16 14:09:40 2017

Files (max/free): 130000/129935

Ptr Blocks (max/free): 64512/0                                           <=====================

Sub Blocks (max/free): 32000/31987

Secondary Ptr Blocks (max/free): 256/256

File Blocks (overcommit/used/overcommit %): 0/64183350/0

Ptr Blocks  (overcommit/used/overcommit %): 0/64512/0

Sub Blocks  (overcommit/used/overcommit %): 0/13/0

Volume Metadata size: 1147240448

UUID: XXXXXXX

Logical device:XXXXXXX

Partitions spanned (on "lvm"):

        naa.XXXXXXXXXXXX:1

Is Native Snapshot Capable: YES

OBJLIB-LIB: ObjLib cleanup done.

WORKER: asyncOps=0 maxActiveOps=0 maxPending=0 maxCompleted=0

Cause:

The VMFS extent reached the maximum number of block pointers, a block pointer is allocated for each 256 MB.

Resolution:

To fix this issue on the short term, migrate some workload from the datastore.

To fix the issue on the long term, upgrade to VMFS6.

Resources:

ESXi 6.7, ESXi 6.5, ESXi 6.0 Configuration Maximums: https://configmax.vmware.com/home

PTR Bloc on VMFS5 VMware Knowledge Base

On MacOS Big Sur Beta 1, receiving the following error when launching any VMs that worked fine prior to update:

"Not enough physical memory is available to power on this virtual machine with its configured settings."

Mac has a total of 16GB of RAM, VM has 4096MB allocated in preferences, and shows that there is still 12GB available for the Mac.  Same issue no matter how much memory is allocated to the VM.

Posting to report to devs as potential bug with new beta, but obviously any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks!

Boa noite pessoal!

Estou com o seguinte problema no Vcenter quando tento adiconar Storage:

Hello people!
I have the problem with Vcenter when adding storage:

[root@localhost:~] partedUtil setptbl "/vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0" gpt

gpt

0 0 0 0

Error: Read-only file system during write on /dev/disks/mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0

SetPtableGpt: Unable to commit to disk.

Podem me ajudar? Obrigado!

Can you help me? Thank you!

I have a Dual-Port ConnectX-3 Pro EN 40/56 GbE QSFP+ NIC (MCX314A-BCCT)

I have been struggling for days now to get this card working.

To explain the topology, I have two other Hosts, with an Infiniband Switch between them.

Both of the other Hosts are plugged into the InfiniBand Switch via Passive QSFP Copper Cables.

The other two Hosts and the Mellanox Cards in them are working fine.

Example:

I am now trying to add a third host, with this NIC in it.

The NIC is VMware-certified, and I am using the VMware-provided Driver specifically made for it.

(VMware Compatibility Guide - I/O Device Search)

But the NIC Ports will not connect and link when plugged in to the Switch.

I tried replacing the Card. I tried replacing the Cables with known, tested cables.

I have tried changing the port_type_array to Ethernet, and to Infiniband.

When the card's two ports are directly plugged into one another (while the NIC in Ethernet Mode), Link is active.

But the card has to be in InfiniBand mode because it is an InfiniBand Switch on the other end, and the other two Hosts are running in InfiniBand mode.

I notice that the new NIC is using a different Driver:

The existing, working NICs are using the "ib_ipoib" driver, and the new Host's NIC is using the "mlx4_en" driver.

I don't know of any esxcli or esxcfg command to specify or change the Driver that's being used for the card, and switch it to ib_ipoib.

I've tried installing older drivers, going all the way back to the ESXi 5.0 Drivers, but nothing I did -- for days -- got those ports to energize.

The InfiniBand card's ports remain in "Down" state.

I am at my wits end at this point, and so I am reaching out to the community here.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get this card working?