I am trying to deploy an appliance image in to a VM that depends on the smbios "System SKU Number" being populated. Currently in a default VM that property reports as "Not Specified" and there does not appear to be a method to override that with the vmx file for the VM. I'm assuming that is because the default bios.440.rom does not have that property listed in its DMI Strings so it cannot be modified in order to produce a custom ROM to be used with the bios440.fileName vmx directive. Is there a way to populate the smbios system sku number in a VM?

Hello Everyone,

We  have a 500TB+ vSAN consisting of SSD capacity drives.  I am presently only seeing a dedupe/compression savings of around 12TB and a 1.04x ratio.

USED BEFORE: 329TB

USED AFTER: 317

The mass majority of the the usage is from Microsoft / Linux Cluster servers with disks formatted as thick provision eager zeroed. (Based on vendor recommendation)  The storage policy that the drives are assigned to do not have OSR set. (defaults to 0%)  Can someone please confirm whether or not that disks formatted as thick provision eager zeroed as well as thick provision lazy zeroed benefit from dedupe/compression?  I've done a bit of research and I've stumbled across a few articles that seem to imply that "thick objects" do no benefit from dedup/compression.  This would probably explain why our savings is so low if that's the case.

If they don't benefit from dedupe/compression, what are my options for reaping that benefit?  Do I need to rebuild / clone them and set the disk formatting to thin provision?  Being that we're using SSD, I'm thinking that eager zeroed probably isn't even necessary.

Thanks,

- Bill

This is my query:

Get-Datastore | where{$_.ExtensionData.summary.multiplehostAccess} | where {$_.name -like  "XIO*"}

i am getting this output. can any one guide me how i can sum the value for both FreeSpaceGB and CapacityGB.

and show them separably, my basic goal is to sum and have percentage of both columes

I'm using UCS - if I use multi-NIC vmotion - can I also still pin the traffic to one side of the fabric to prevent it from hitting the core or is that not possible with multi-nic vMotion on UCS?

Thanks!

Hi all, I'm attempting to set the Icon for an application, but I seem to be hitting some dependency that I don't have.  Any suggestions?

C:\Users\Administrator> Set-HVApplicationIcon -ApplicationName xxxx -IconPath C:\temp\xxx.png
New-Object : Cannot find type [VMware.Hv.ApplicationIconSpec]: verify that the assembly containing this type is loaded.
At C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\PowerCLI\Modules\VMware.Hv.Helper\VMware.HV.Helper.psm1:9294 char:13
+     $spec = New-Object VMware.Hv.ApplicationIconSpec
+             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidType: (:) [New-Object], PSArgumentException    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : TypeNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewObjectCommand

Set-HVApplicationIcon : Error in reading the icon parameters: The property 'IconSource' cannot be found on this object. Verify that the property exists and can be set.
At line:1 char:1
+ Set-HVApplicationIcon -ApplicationName xxx -IconPath C:\temp ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Write-Error], WriteErrorException    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorException,Set-HVApplicationIcon

Hello!

According to VMware® NSX for vSphere End-User Computing Design Guide 1.2

I wonder how Connection Server created on ComputeCluster and connected to tenant Logical Switch communicates with vCenter Server created on ManagementCluster and connected to VDS management portgroup. Do I have to create logical connection (routed) between tenant network and management network? Or maybe Connection Server should have two interfaces: 1 connected to tenant network and one connected to management network...?

Please tell me how you separate client traffic from management network.

Thank You.

Michał Czerwiński

Hi,

How do I run an App as an Admin?

The App will not run through the client but when I try it locally on the RDS server (Run as admin) it works just fine.  I went into the properties of the executable and changed it to "Run this program as an admin" and that still hasn't helped.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

I've just upgraded to the 4.12.14 Linux kernel (openSuse 15.0) and am unable to start WS v12.5.9. The error message is,

     "vmware-modconfi[4626]: segfault at 7950 ip 0000000000007950sp 00007ffd7597ee08 error 14 in apploader[55798bc03000+ad000]"

Host processor is Intel Penryn 2.8ghz Core 2 Duo. Thanks in advance.

Hello everyone,

I am running an Ubuntu 16.04.* server edition (without desktop) and VMware Workstation 12.5.7. But I do keep getting the message that "No 3D support is available from the host" when I start my Windows 10 guest. Graphical hardware is an Intel HD Graphics 530. 3d acceleration used to work on a Windows host, but now that I switched to Ubuntu as host I can't get it to work anymore. On the host I've tried several commands to see if 3d is indeed supported, see below:

lspci | grep VGA
"00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Integrated Graphics (rev 06)"

glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 4.0, 256 bits)
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:

glxinfo
direct rendering: Yes

Also the command "glxgears" shows the gears rotating without any problems. I have to mention that I use x11 over ssh to show apps that require a GUI. I've also tried using a desktop interface called XFCE4 in combination with xrdp (remote desktop tool), but this method also doesn't give me OpenGL 3.* support in the Windows 10 guest. Either way I am not using Unity.

Any ideas?

Hello, this is the first forum post i have ever made in my life, but i really cant figure this one on my own. I would really appreciate the help, if someone knows how to!

I recently moved my 6.7 ESXi hosts and 6.7 vCenter server to a distributed switch. Everything seemed to go fine, I can still access my 3 hosts form web and i can ping everything (including VCSA). However, i can't access VCSA from web anymore, with Chrome i just get a message saying 10.69.51.100 refused to connect. Can't access it with any other browser either. I've tried rebooting my vCenter multiple times, didn't help at all. I also tried checking if all the services are up and running. However, then i get these strange errors i couldn't find pretty much any info about online:

Command> service-control --status --all

2018-06-16T11:58:41.796Z  Error: Service name "applmgmt" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:41.816Z  Error: Service name "content-library" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:41.837Z  Error: Service name "vcha" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:41.857Z  Error: Service name "pschealth" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:41.878Z  Error: Service name "sps" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:41.898Z  Error: Service name "sca" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:41.936Z  Error: Service name "vmcam" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:41.956Z  Error: Service name "vmware-vpostgres" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:41.976Z  Error: Service name "vsphere-client" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:41.997Z  Error: Service name "vapi-endpoint" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:42.017Z  Error: Service name "vmware-postgres-archiver" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:42.037Z  Error: Service name "vsm" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:42.057Z  Error: Service name "updatemgr" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:42.078Z  Error: Service name "vmonapi" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:42.098Z  Error: Service name "vsan-health" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:42.119Z  Error: Service name "rbd" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:42.156Z  Error: Service name "vpxd-svcs" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:42.176Z  Error: Service name "statsmonitor" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:42.264Z  Error: Service name "imagebuilder" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:42.284Z  Error: Service name "vsan-dps" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:42.304Z  Error: Service name "cm" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:42.342Z  Error: Service name "mbcs" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:42.362Z  Error: Service name "vpxd" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:42.382Z  Error: Service name "netdumper" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:42.403Z  Error: Service name "rhttpproxy" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:42.423Z  Error: Service name "vsphere-ui" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:42.444Z  Error: Service name "eam" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:42.464Z  Error: Service name "perfcharts" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:42.519Z  Error: Service name "analytics" is invalid.

2018-06-16T11:58:42.539Z  Error: Service name "cis-license" is invalid.

Running:

lwsmd vmafdd vmcad vmdird vmdnsd vmware-pod vmware-sts-idmd vmware-stsd vmware-vmon

Could these be a part of the problem? If i try to start all the services, it only starts the ones already running again, doesen't even try to start those others with the invalid name.

Command> service-control --start --all

Operation not cancellable. Please wait for it to finish...

Performing start operation on service lwsmd...

Successfully started service lwsmd

Performing start operation on service vmafdd...

Successfully started service vmafdd

Performing start operation on service vmdird...

Successfully started service vmdird

Performing start operation on service vmcad...

Successfully started service vmcad

Performing start operation on service vmware-sts-idmd...

Successfully started service vmware-sts-idmd

Performing start operation on service vmware-stsd...

Successfully started service vmware-stsd

Performing start operation on service vmdnsd...

Successfully started service vmdnsd

Performing start operation on profile: ALL...

Successfully started profile: ALL.

Performing start operation on service vmware-pod...

Successfully started service vmware-pod

I haven't made any actual changes to vCenter configuration, other than moving it to a dswitch. Everything worked just fine before. Oh, and i'm just on a home lab, trying to work on my practical part of my thesis work. Does anyone know what's happening here? I'm happy to provide you with more information if needed/possible.

Hi Team,

View Horizon getting an ADAM database error,

We have 2 horizon administration console for a different domain but one of my horizon console getting an error like "Server error: ADAM 2,106"

1. We could not able to create any pools, recompose, entitlement...could not able to perform any option in that.

But I could able to connect the ADAM database from my VDi machine without any issue

Hello, I am trying to connect ESXi to my storage server "NAS4Free" over iSCSI connection. I have 4 gigabit nic ports on the storage server and 4 gigabit nic ports on the HP server (hosting the ESXi), and all 8 ports are connected to a central switch. I have finished the setup for the storage server side providing iSCSI over 4 IPs in 4 different subnets as recommended.

Now, on ESXi side, I am planning to host a pfSense virtual machine as firewall. Therefore, the network setup should have a WAN and a LAN interfaces. So I am not sure how many virtual switches and port groups should I add to ESXi to be able to satisfy the pfSense requirements of WAN and LAN and the 4 for the iSCSI.

Currently, I have the default vSwitch0 added and connected to vmnic0. I have added the remaining 3 vmnic1 to vmnic3.

I really appreciate your advises and thanks in advance.

Hey guys.

I used to run vmware workstation for connection usb devices into my virtual machines. This functionality stopped working a while ago, and now I started investigating.

OS is Win 10 x64, the USB devices are connected via usb 3.0 hub to a usb 3.0 port on the computer. The devices for passthrough are mixed usb 2 und 3, like a picoscope 3406D (usb 3), flash drive (usb 3), vector cancase and vn1611 (both usb 2).

All devices are connected to this externally powered hub. Funny thing is, at first a single usb device was still showing in the removeable devices tab, the picoscope. It disappeared while I was trying to get other devices to show up.

I reinstalled and repaired both workstation 12 and 14 from scratch, made sure the usb arbitration service was running (it always was), reinstalled usb 3 drivers, changed the vms' usb controller to usb 2 or 3, but it did not change a thing.

Another fun fact, I have a notebook with win 10 x64, and there usb passthough works like a charm.

How can I solve this?

Hey all,

With introduction of vSphere 6.7 as you all know VMware added TPM 2.0 support and states that all new security features use the 2.0 module.  I can't seem to find anything stating the features that aren't supported on the existing TPM 1.2 module.  I'd like to get an idea of how current implementations of TPM 1.2 would be impacted post upgrade or even fresh install to servers with TPM 1.2 modules.  mikefoley  I saw your blog post but is there another doc or post that goes deeper into this?  TIA everyone!

hello

My administrator account connect to vcenter vcsa 6.0u3 and execute script on powercli/powershell

The vcsa Log the execution of these commands or activity of these remote commands?

thanks

I want to install plugin in vRO via Postman. Since in vRO 7.3 Basic Auth is disabled, I'm looking for alternatives to install plugins. I know we can use Swagger UI to install plugin. Is there any other way to do it.

I had read that we can do it via vRO CLI. How do install using CLI? I have not been able to find any documentation for this? Following is the right command for this right?

/var/lib/vco/tools/configuration-cli/bin/vro-configure.sh

Hello,

after restarting our server today, we got the following error with VMware.

Any ideas what could be wrong?

Hi,

I've been working with a new server, learning ESXi.  My first build was ESXi 6.5.

I was using iperf to test my network setup after following this guide: https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2016/03/quick-tip-iperf-now-available-on-esxi.html

https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2016/03/quick-tip-iperf-now-available-on-esxi.html

It was simple:

cp /usr/lib/vmware/vsan/bin/iperf /usr/lib/vmware/vsan/bin/iperf.copy

/usr/lib/vmware/vsan/bin/iperf.copy -s -B [IPERF-SERVER-IP]

Then I upgraded to 6.7.  I did not try iperf again using this method.  So, unfortunately, I don't know if the 'upgrade' preserved this function from 6.5.

I recently formatted and did a fresh install from ESXi 6.7 ISO.  Now, I want to iperf again... there are no traces of iperf on a fresh ESXi 6.7 install (that I can find).  But, I'm a CLI noob for all things Unix/Linux/FreeBSD/etc...

I did find a directory /usr/lib/vmware/vsan/perfsvc

But, I have no idea what it means or how it might be leveraged.

Appreciate any help here.

Br,

Mike

I've been using vmware free workstation player without any issues for several years. Lately however the guest OS, ubuntu linux, stops responding to mouse clicks after the player has been running for a while. The vmware player responds - I can access all the player controls and use the power option to shut down or restart the guest, which is now what I do every time this happens. I'm running windows 10. Any ideas?

I'm trying without any success to add a ICMP resource to an EP Ops Adapter via suite API on vrops 6.7.

I'm not sure if it's possible but if anyone have an example it will be really appreciated

I get 2 different behaviour:

1- Trying to do a push to https://vrops/suite-api/api/adapters/uuidoftheadapters/ I get a 405 error

<!doctype html><html lang="en"><head><title>HTTP Status 405 – Method Not Allowed</title><style type="text/css">h1 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:22px;} h2 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:16px;} h3 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:14px;} body {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white;} b {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;} p {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;background:white;color:black;font-size:12px;} a {color:black;} a.name {color:black;} .line {height:1px;background-color:#525D76;border:none;}</style></head><body><h1>HTTP Status 405 – Method Not Allowed</h1><hr class="line" /><p><b>Type</b> Status Report</p><p><b>Message</b> Request method &#39;POST&#39; not supported</p><p><b>Description</b> The method received in the request-line is known by the origin server but not supported by the target resource.</p><hr class="line" /><h3>Apache Tomcat/8.5.28</h3></body></html>

2 - If I try to push data to https://vrops/suite-api/api/adapters/  (as I've saw on some bluemedora examples i found here GitHub - BlueMedoraPublic/vrops-api-example: Example usage of the VMware vRealize Operations Manager REST API  ) i get a 500 error

{

    "message": "Internal Server error, cause unknown.",

    "moreInformation": [

        {

            "name": "errorMessage",

            "value": "Failed to create AI resource: localizedMessage=Could not create AI on vRealize Operations Manager Collector-ITNAPVROPS08 collector. Because collector already has EP Ops Adapter adapter., code=0"

        },

        {

            "name": "localizedMessage",

            "value": "Failed to create AI resource. Could not create AI on vRealize Operations Manager Collector-ITNAPVROPS08 collector. Because collector already has EP Ops Adapter adapter.;"

        }

    ],

    "httpStatusCode": 500,

    "apiErrorCode": 500

}

Any help will be really appreciated as I've to create a high number of object and it will be a really long job