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Cannot deploy to datastore cluster

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I'm trying to import a OVA file using the tool, but I cannot seem to import it to a datastore cluster. If I don't specify the datastore, I get this:

Error: No target datastore specified. Possible completions:

  DS-CLUSTER1 (datastore cluster)

    - DATASTORE1

    - DATASTORE2

  DS-CLUSTER2 (datastore cluster)

    - DATASTORE3

    - DATASTORE4

So I try adding the datastore cluster to my command: ovftool --acceptAllEulas --datastore="DS-CLUSTER1" "c:\path\to\vm.ova" vi://user:pass@vcenterip/dc/host/cluster/Resources/resource

 

But it comes back with the error: Found no hosts in target cluster to deploy on. Cannot deploy to an empty cluster.

 

I tried with the datastore name rather than the datastore cluster name and it still fails. Any ideas?

 

Thanks.


Filter options like Where { $_.Created

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Hi guys,

 

This filtering option, where can i find it other properties?

 

Found this in Get-VM|Get-Snapshot|Where{$_.Created-lt(Get-Date).AddDays(-7)}|Remove-Snapshot

 

from the command above i understood about what it will do but what i'm looking for and try to understand is the filter object $_.Created, i assumed it has other option as well than $_.Created which i wanted to understand due the nature of the filter object is not something you could enter tab button as like commandlet where it will assist you options of the syntax(i think).

 

 

 

 

Server certificate chain is not trusted and thumbprint verification is not configured when configure the vSphere Replication Applicance

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Hi Experts,

 

when configure the vSphere Replication Applicance, the "Server certificate chain is not trusted and thumbprint verification is not configured" error.

 

Are there any solutions?

 

 

Bug: Changing from Fullscreen back to Window mode alters guest language

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I noticed the following issue with Workstation:

 

When I change from Fullscreen to Window mode by hitting the keyboard combination <SHIFT>+<ALT>+<RETURN>, the language in the guest changes.

 

It's just like hitting <WINDOWS>+<SPACE> in the guest:

Languages.gif

 

I set up Windows to support both, German an English, for spell checking reasons.

 

In VMware Workstation preferences I changed the Workstation hot key setting to <SHIFT>+<ALT> because the original keyboard combination interferes with Visual Studio when installed in the guest:

 

Hot Key Settings.png

 

Same happens when I switch between VMs in Fullscreen mode using the keyboard (<SHIFT>+<ALT>+<LEFT ARROW> or <SHIFT>+<ALT>+<RIGHT ARROW>):

 

Unintentionally switching languages.gif

(see how the Windows UI language changes in my multilingual guest OS when I switch between VMs back and forth)

.

 

Is it sufficient to report this issue here? Or do you want me to buy a support ticket for this issue?

 

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vSphere web client

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Dear all,

 

I got a problem when uploading file more than 4GB via vCSA vSphere web client 6.5u2 to datastore. Mostly it is fail upload, i have to login through esxi console instead. And another awful thing is it doesn't show status of upload file, even flash or HTML5 interface.

Have you guy ever met this case? plz shared your experience and solution to fix this.

 

 

all your comment is valuable.

Thanks all. 

vCenter 6.5 Datastore unable to delete some files

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vCenter 6.5

 

Today I received an alert that one of my datastores was running low on disk space.

 

The datastore contains VM's and replicas from Veeam B&R

 

I found several folders named the same with a _# so I reviewed them and found they are no longer needed  I failed replication job here and there

 

So I went to delete the folder and most deleted but I have 3 or 4 that just will not delete

 

I tried powercli but only got as far as listing the datastore get-datastore   then get-datastore DataStore-3T  with some info

 

How can I delete those unused files?

 

Thank you

Tom

shared virtual disk between multi VM

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Dear all,

 

I have one VM configured to share disk between two VM.

when i try to increase the shared disk. it is error.

 

Could you help advice me on that case?

 

Thank you for your comment.

vivath

vSphere 6.0 to 6.5 upgrade

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Hi,

 

We have vcenter 6.0 + external PSC which is a subordinate ca of our enterprise CA.

Just wondering if the CA settings will be preserved during vSpehre 6.5 upgrade, or we will have to reconfigure it.


Please share your experience,


FT limitation and max configuration on esxi 6.7

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Dear all

Hi

i read a document about max configuration for vsphere 6.7 i saw FT max configuration :

 


     Virtual CPU per host  = 8

Virtual CPUs per virtual machine = 8

      Virtual machines per host  =4

is that means i can run 4 vms that each of them has 8 vcpu and enable FT on all of them (4 vms)

 

Is that correct ?

 

Br

Babak

Get HBA firmware and driver version for all ESXi hosts

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Hello, as you probably know the only way to find out about HBA firmware and driver versions these days is by running:

 

/usr/lib/vmware/vmkmgmt_keyval/vmkmgmt_keyval -d     to see which are the HBA devices, then

/usr/lib/vmware/vmkmgmt_keyval/vmkmgmt_keyval -l -i vmhba1/qlogic     to actually retrieve the needed  info for a hba. In this particular case I get this precious data below:

 

value:

QLogic PCI to Fibre Channel Host Adapter for QMH2562:

        FC Firmware version 8.02.00 (90d5), Driver version 2.1.50.0

 

which I need to retrieve from all my ESXi and save to a file. I enjoy writing simple powercli scripts but I'm puzzled about this one. I know that esxcli commands can be scripted too but what about this? I could script something with plink

 

 

$plink = plink path

$plinkAuth=" -v -pw $Pswd"

$remoteCommand='/usr/lib/vmware/vmkmgmt_keyval/vmkmgmt_keyval -l -i vmhba1/qlogic'

$command="Echo Yes| "+$plink+" "+$plinkAuth+" "+$User+"@"+$hostName+" "+$remoteCommand

$result=Invoke-Expression-command$command

$result

 

but as the command above throws quite some stuff I don´t know how to grab only the data output I need and save it. Obviously this is to compare with vmware compatibility matrix later. Anyone did this? I already checked Re: Host Hardware info with HBA and nic driver information but the following values are returned blank, and not sure those match the  ones above that I need. I already added  the -V2 switch to the script of that post.

 

 

Fnicvendor   :

fnicdriver   :

enicdriver   :

Enicvendor   :

application pool

Horizon 7.5 and UEM 9.4 Clipboard and Smart Policy not working

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As the title points out, I have deployed Horizon 7.5 and UEM 9.4

 

I'm using a GPO to start UEM and within UEM I have smart policies defined to enable clipboard in both directions and it isn't working.

 

I have tested other settings in the same smart policy such as disabling printer redirection and that works, disabling USB redirection and that works as well but the clipboard doesn't, I have uninstalled and reinstalled Horizon 7.5 Agent and UEM 9.4 and that didn't help either.

 

The other thing I noticed is that the HTML File Transfer doesn't work either, I've tested with PCoIP and Blast.

 

I also tried enabling the clipboard within GPO and that didn't make a difference.

 

Any one else run into the same issue, anything I am missing, thanks.

ESXi 6.0 Download Seemed Not Working

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Hello All,

 

I was trying to download the ESXi 6.0 today but it seemed not working.  I have logged in and reached the screen shown below, but both the "Start Download Manager" and "Manual Download" link provided no responses when clicked on.

 

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I have tried to use Firefox and IE, and IE's without add-on mode.  All not working.

 

Could you please let me know what if anything I did wrong?  Thank you.

Painfully Slow Logon Times

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I'm working with a customer that is transitioning from persona to UEM. Some end users are experiencing horribly slow login times. Upwards of 15-20 minutes and we're not sure what's causing it. One user waited 33 minutes. I've attached some log files and GPO configurations. If you need any more information please let me know I'm hoping to get this resolved for them as soon as possible.

Using UEM to Capture Acrobat DC Pro login

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Has anyone managed to use UEM to Caputre Acrobat DC Pro Login details?

 

User is getting prompted to login every time..


How to force users to choose only from a list of hosts, datastores, VLANs, etc

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So it seems I'm never done with this script.  I want there to be default answers in some areas, and if a user passes something that's invalid it asks again until they pass a proper bit of info.

 

$type = Read-Host "Enter Host or Cluster"

if ($type -eq "Cluster")

{

Get-Cluster | Select Name | sort Name | Format-List #Gets a list of clusters in the vCenter#

$Cluster = Read-Host "Enter Cluster Name"

$myCluster = Get-Cluster -Name "$Cluster"

Get-VMHost -Location "$myCluster" -state "Connected" | sort Name | Select Name,ConnectionState,PowerState | Format-Table #Lists the host from the cluster specified earlier#

}

else

{

Get-VMHost | where {$_.state -eq "Connected"} | sort Name | Select Name,ConnectionState,PowerState | Format-Table

}

$vmHost = Read-Host "Enter host name"

Get-Datastore -VMHost $vmHost | where {$_.type -eq "NFS"} | Select @{N="Cluster";E={$cluster.Name}},Name,CapacityGB,FreespaceGB,@{N='UsedSpace';E={$_.FreeSpaceGB/$_.CapacityGB*100}} | Out-Default #Lists datastores and capacity#

$datastore = Read-Host "Enter Datastore Name"

$myDatastore = Get-DataStore -Name "$datastore"

$ovfhost = Read-Host "Enter path to OVA/OVF"

$vmName = Read-Host "Enter a name for the VM"

$diskStorage = Read-Host "Enter Thin, Thick or EagerZeroedThick for disk format"

Import-vApp -Source "$ovfhost" -VMHost $vmHost -Location $myCluster -Name "$vmName" -DiskStorageFormat $diskStorage -Datastore $myDatastore #Imports the OVA/OVF into vCenter#

Sleep 10

$VMmove = Read-Host "Enter folder to move VM to"

Move-VM -VM $vmName -Destination $VMmove #Moves VM to the appropriate folder#

Get-Cluster -Name "$Cluster" | Get-VMHost -Name "$vmHost" | Foreach-Object {$strClusterName = $_.Parent.Name; Get-VirtualPortGroup $_ | Select-Object @{N="Cluster";E={$strClusterName}},Name,VLanId} #Gets available VLANs from the host#

$VLAN = Read-Host "Please enter the VLAN name to use"

$NIC = Get-NetworkAdapter -VM $vmName

 

So for the first part for $type it defaults to Host which I'm fine with.  After that I get a list of only hosts that are in the Connected state.  I'd like it if someone could just only type a name from the list provided, and if they don't provide one it prompts again.  Same thing would be fore the rest really, for the datastore, disk storage, folder path (hoping they put in a valid path) and VLAN type.  I'm new to all of this and have been googling around, just haven't found what I need yet.

Horizon VDI - Onedrive for business configuration

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Hi!

 

I'm working on a windows 10 image, where we need to configure onedrive for business so we only get a shadow copy of the files.

I have tried to figure out how we can manage this, and there are so many cookbooks on how to do this, but most of them includes a third-party software that includes a license.

 

We are running non-presistent desktopswith office 365 installed in the Golden Image, and can not let the synch tool synchronize every time they logs on since the cmoputers are deleted when users logs out.

 

How have you guys managed onedrive for your users?

any step-by-step guide will be appreciated.

 

BR

"Attempting to start up from: Mac OS X ... unsuccessful" after updating mac

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I updated Mac Os 10.12 to 10.13.5.

After restarting, Mac OS doesn't work and VMware  shows below image:

Screenshot from 2018-06-11 12-51-17.png

and after that this page:

Screenshot from 2018-06-11 12-51-20.png

I did this changes to .vmx file:

  • removing firmware
  • changing firmware from efi to bios
  • add smc.version = 0 without quotations

and also:

  • Install another mac and mount .vmdk file as second HDD, but it can not open it, and in disk utility it shows the disk as below:
    Screenshot from 2018-06-11 18-00-20.png

 

I attached vmware.log file:

VM crash

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Hi,

 

We have a ESXi 6.0 Dell host and 3 VMs running on it. Last week one of the VMs went down a few times and eventually vSphere logged the following message: "Error message on VM: We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement. An application (/bin/vmx) running on ESXi host has crashed (3 time(s) so far). A core file might have been created at ...."

 

The core file exists indeed but I couldn't get from it something to point me in the right direction. I check the other log files and I couldn't find anything suspect either.

 

Since then we shutdown the host and run a number of hardware diagnostic tools (ePSA from Dell as well as some other tools) testing especially memory and the CPUs). None of them returned any error.

 

Anyone has any idea how can I figure out the reason for this crash?

 

Thanks,

 

Daniel

A couple of basic questions from someone new

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My boss has asked me to look into virtualizing our development machines. Our dev machines need to run on dual monitors because our software runs on dual screens for the users so we need to make sure it all looks good together. Right now we have 2 monitors on a physical machine and VNC to them (when working remotely) so that we still get both monitors. Would I be able to configure vSphere (I'm assuming that's what I'd want) so that each VM has a resolution that would be equivalent to dual monitors?

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