Hi all,

Have any of you run into this error before after installing and rebooting a new agent:

Error from Manager X.X.X.X (error code 401):

Unable to authenticate computer or user account with App Volumes Manager. Please try to log out and back in. If the problem persists, contact your System Administrator.

Virtualization is disabled.

During the install I disabled the certificate check, and from the agent machine I'm able to log onto the manager admin page through Firefox with no issue. Checking the svservice logs did not yield any additional information.

The KBs I've seen around 401 issues are for legacy versions of this product, and talk about disabling NTLM. I tried going through those steps and it did not resolve the issue either.

Thank you in advance for any assistance!

Get the following error with adding NSX Manager to the collector - Endpoint test failed. Error message: NSX endpoint test failed with HTTP error code: 403 and HTTP reason: Forbidden

I tried with an auditor account I set up, also tested with my administrative account just to make sure it wasn't a permission issue.  Is this a known issue?

The documentation and videos seem to be all over the place to me so I thought I could create a simple enough example to get it straight.

Lets say I have 2 ESXi host machines and 2 network interfaces on each host and one physical switch

I also have one Distributed switch on all the VM's

What to setup on cisco?

Do I setup 2 port groups one for each vmware ESXi host?

or

Do I setup 1 port group and add all 4 ports to it?

What to setup on vmware?

Do I setup 2 LAGs one for each machine?

If I setup 2 LAGS does the Distributed switch get a LAG as its uplink and only need one uplink per machine?

or

Do I setup 1 LAG and add all vmnic interfaces to the one LAG?

And how would I set this up as uplinks on the Distributed switch?

The video seems to be too simplistic and the documentation doesn't seem to help me.

I happened to read somewhere saying Raid 5 or Raid 6 is not good for esxi6. The better choices are Raid 0, 1, or 10. Why? Can someone explain the reason? Thank you very much in advance!!!

I am about to embark on a quite large host upgrade. We have 60-80 Vlan configurations. Typically I just run a script from the .csv file and it will import the vlans and switches. However , I still have to configure the physical adapters , iscsi etc. This is simple, but looking to streamline my process since I will be working with 300+ host. Just trying to work smarter. I have tried powershell scripts but doesnt seem to work. Is there a utility or application / fling that will back up my network config, and that I can push back out once my re-install / upgrade is complete on that host? Eager to hear the solutions.

Hi,

After installing the SRM 6.5 version, the plugins in the vCenter -- Home not visible . The only solution is restart the Web-Client or vCenter. With out rebooting it is not possible. Please suggest.

I am trying to run an AJAX call for verifying Vcenter credentials and read somewhere in the Javascript SDK:

### Browser

The browser samples launch a simple local server that hosts all required static

files and provides an HTTP proxy which is required due to the lack of CORS

support in the target services. Such a proxy is not needed when the samples are

hosted in the same origin as the API endpoint which is the case with the

official ESXi client.

Is there a way CORS support can be provided so that we can make Ajax calls?

I recently updated to 6.7 client SDK and my plugin is facing some issues when I run using localhost. The home page shows some issues while fetching plugins-icon.css file from VMWARE

Is there a known issue for the same? Has dev setup process changed or is different in 6.7 SDK as compared to 6.5?

In network tab, call to https://localhost:9443/ui/vropspluginui/assets/css/plugin-icons.css  returns 404 and below message shows in eclipse console logs

No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/ui/vropspluginui/assets/css/plugin-icons.css] in DispatcherServlet with name 'spring'

Message was edited by: bhavya bansal

Happy Friday!

This week, we upgraded our View infrastructure from 7.4 to 7.5 and AppVol 2.13 to .14. Our linked clone desktop pools are Win7 and we updated the View and AppVol agents to the same versions as well. All desktops have been reprovisioned and are running the new agents.

We normally redirect folders (Desktop, etc.) with the Persona Management GPOs but they don’t appear to be working correctly after the upgrades.

Looking at the persona mgmt log files on the Win7 client system, it shows all the folders that it should be redirecting per our GPO so it looks like it’s getting the policy setting. If I grab the desktop from a console and run a ‘gpupdate /force’, log off and then log back in, the folders are redirected. We may be able to script this but haven’t had to do so before.

I just browsed the release notes notes for View 7.5 (after installing... d’oh!) and found a bullet towards the bottom of Compatibility Notes indicating that Persona Management isn’t compatible with AppVol.

Is this a typo or a real thing?  I know Persona Management isn’t compatible with Instant Clones but that’s why we’re still running Linked Clones for now.

Thanks for any tidbits of wisdom you can offer!

I'll preface this with the fact that my VMWare knowledge is very limited. I know how to use vSphere and connect to a host to make simple changes. The issue is, for one of our clients we have a vCenter set up and we have Veeam backing it up. Backups started to fail with authentication errors, so I tried connecting to vCenter via vSphere and received login errors as well. I rebooted the vCenter, and now I receive 503 errors if I try to login via vSphere or the web.

After searching online, I saw documentation saying this could be caused by the storage being full. I tried allocating more storage from the host, but the host is being managed by the vCenter I guess so it won't let me. I was able to access it by it's IP:5480 but it logged me out immediately every time. Connected to it via shell by editing the boot sequence and accessing shell, then resetting the root pw and setting it to never expire. I could then login and it alerted me storage was low there too. I enabled SSH and connected to it and checked it using df -h. It was using 100% storage, and it appeared most was coming from the storage/logs. I cleared it out using info from KBs and now I'm at 53% usage. I also ran an update from the 5480 page and now it says there are no more, the current version is 6.0.0.30500.

I saw a forum post mentioning that someone fixed it by upgrading it to 6.5. Well I downloaded the installer and attempted this, but it won't connect to it to upgrade it.

Also just tried this but it didn't work:

Unable to Connect to VCSA - Unknown Connection Error (503 Server Unavailable)

I still have the same errors, but I can access it via SSH. I confirmed the IP and the loopback are listed in the hosts file. I've restarted all the services I could find.. I've attached some screenshots and I also pulled the vm-support package but it's over 12 GB and I'm not sure how to get anyone access to it as this would take two weeks to upload on their network. I also have no idea how to read these so any insight on what I need to check here would help too! I feel like it might be a simple fix, but I've read through so many articles and forum posts and I have no idea what I'm missing here.

Thank you ahead of time!

- Vince

Hello.  What is the ETA for the next version of VVD including vRA 7.4?  There are several advisories/CVEs recommending vRA 7.4 to remediate a couple of vulnerabilities, but 7.4 is not included in the latest VVDs.  Please advise.

I was trying to enable Active Directory authentication on my v1.2 skyline appliance.

It seems to take the settings (there is a weird UI bug on that settings page where I will change the values, Hit Save, and receive an error that nothing has changed on the page)

After applying the settings I attempt to login to the collector with a member of the AD group that I granted access and I get an invalid credentials error.

Does the appliance have the ability to connect to more than one DC?

Is there a log on the appliance I can look at to see what is preventing the auth?

Thanks

-Chris

EA 111957025

Message was edited by: Chris Bujak

I've found other posts with this problem that had different solutions. At present all the language is in Italian, and I'm trying to get it to English.

It's an Italian version of the VMWare software which means that the default language is Italian. I tried the method of changing the folder name of the files in the "messages" folder in order to get the software to default to English after rebooting VMWare. It just defaults to Italian.

Worse still I find that in the desktop "messages" folder there is only Japanese and Mandarin while in the virtual windows VMWare "messages" folder there is no English folder. There are instead German (de), French (fr), Spanish (es), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Mandarin (zh_CN), Taiwanese (zh_TW). (I may be wrong about the languages indicated by the abbreviations, but there is no (en)). I'm not sure why the Italians who installed it would go out of their way to eliminate English as an option, but I don't see it there.

I've also gone to the Control Panel/ Languages/ to set everything to English. It was already set to it. "Formato" is set to "Inglese (Stati Uniti)"; "Localita corrente" is set to "Stati Uniti"; under "Cambia Tastiere" it's set to "Inglese (Stati Uniti) - Stati Uniti"; and under "cambia impostazioni locali del Sistema" it's set to "inglese (Stati Uniti)". Everywhere in the Languages Control Panel. There's also an icon in the lower right corner of the Virtual Windows desktop screen that reads "EN" with a "hover-over" message of "Inglese (Stati Uniti)". However, when I open the "Copia Impostazioni" ("copy settings") tab it opens to a window that shows what language everything is in listed as such:

Utente Corrente (Current User):

Lingua di visualizzazione (display language):     italiano
Lingua di input (input language):                         Inglese (Stati Uniti) - Stati Uniti
Formato (Format):                                               Inglese (Stati Uniti)
Localita (Localization):                                        Stati Uniti

Schermata iniziale (Startup screen):

Lingua di visualizzazione (display language):     italiano
Lingua di input (input language):                         Inglese (Stati Uniti) - Stati Uniti
Formato (Format):                                               Inglese (Stati Uniti)
Localita (Localization):                                        Stati Uniti

Nuovi account utente (New user account):

Lingua di visualizzazione (display language):     italiano
Lingua di input (input language):                         Inglese (Stati Uniti) - Stati Uniti
Formato (Format):                                               Inglese (Stati Uniti)
Localita (Localization):                                        Stati Uniti

So there is still some setting that might change the "display language" to English, but everything else is set to English without affecting anything, even the startup screen messages.

If anyone can assist me this would be helpful. There is actually another issue regarding this laptop's failure to recognize connected network devices, but until I can read the language of the laptop (without resorting to Google translate for everything), it's that much harder to troubleshoot.

Thanks

Hello!

I've been evaluating Horizon and created a desktop pool from a template but every VM has the same DNS name as the template! I've set up a guest customization and selected "use VM name as guest OS name" and "generate new security ID" but it does not look like this customization is being applied to any of the machines.  I have not sysprepped the template with sysprep.exe (I'm coming from Hyper-V where you are required to sysprep an image, not sure how to handle this portion on VMWare).

Also when I went in and removed a VM from the domain and then rejoined it with a new, unique name View Admin console deleted the machine and didn't generate a new one   Can anyone point me in the direction of a desktop pool with unique machine names?

thank you!

Lucas

What pitfalls will I encounter by upgrading my 6.0 VCSA w/external PSCs environment to 6.7?

Can I leave my 6.0U3 esxi hosts at 6.0U3, or do I have to upgrade them to 6.7?

I currently have 7 hosts (esxi 6.0U3), a VCSA (Build number 4823866), and 2 external PSCs (Build number 4823866). The vShpere Web Client is Version 6.0.0 Build 6855238.

I am building 6 new hosts with esxi 6.7, and plan to migrate all our VMs from the 6.0U3 stack to the 6.7 stack. (Then I'll wipe the 6.0U3 stack clean, rebuild all the disk groups (since I messed them up when I first built it and have had capacity and congestion issues ever since), update those hosts to esxi 6.7, and use that stack for DR.)

I *think* my best course of action is to update my current VCSA environment to 6.7 and add the new hosts to the cluster; that way I can simply vmotion the VMs to the shiny new hosts, rather than mess with replicating and failing over.

Is this reasonable? What pitfalls will I encounter?

Thanks!

Hello,

I'm currently running vRO/vRA 7.3.1.  I've created a blueprint in vRA which has been nice, but I'd like to do more with it.  I have some PowerShell scripts that I'd like to setup as a workflow in vRO and then have them as a blueprint somehow in vRA (if possible) so anybody on my team or in the company if needed could just click and run a script.  I have created a PowerShell machine (2k12 R2) that has PowerShell 5.1 on it.  I've run the New-VICredentialStoreItem on there for a particular vCenter to test with.  Below is the code I'm using for the script:

$creds = Get-VICredentialStoreItem -File C:\vicredentials.xml

Connect-VIServer -Server $creds.Host -User $creds.User -Password $creds.Password

$log = Read-Host "Enter log name i.e. VRM.txt"

$GetVM = Get-VM -location VRM | sort Name

$GuestCredential = Get-Credential #Provide Guest OS credentials

$obj = foreach ($vm in $GetVM)

{

   $string = "query user /server:$vm"

   Invoke-VMScript -vm $vm -ScriptText $string -ScriptType Powershell -GuestCredential $GuestCredential | Format-List | Out-File $log -append

Basically I'd like to setup a workflow somehow to just list the particular vCenter this would apply to, then ask the user for the name of the log file they want and then have it pass that into the script.  They would also pass the credentials for the machines (a service account, or maybe that's in the workflow, but hidden somehow).  The script would run and somehow (I'm not sure if this is possible in vRO/vRA) the file is created and the user can access it somehow after vRA has completed it..  Perhaps I create a share they can get to that the script puts it there.  I tried looking around on google for this, but whatever I tried really didn't work, so I'm stuck.  I'm not sure if this is possible or not, but since this is the simplest script I have I want to try it first before moving onto ones that require more input from the user.  Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

I have a scenario whereby I have a single ESXi host, and would like VMs to gracefully shutdown when a shutdown command is issued to the host.

For reasons I won't go into, I do not wish for VMs to autostart when the host is powered on.

Is it possible to configure autostart to stop VMs during a host shutdown, but not have them startup during host power on?

Cheers

Eds

Hello,

I would like to script the graceful shutdown of my running VMs by connecting to my host using SSH and running some commands.

I have the appropriate command to shutdown a VM gracefully as:

vim-cmd vmsvc/power.shutdown VMID

What I need assistance with, is to try and use:

vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms

To try and only return a list of VMs currently running, and to also filter out one specific VM (which the script will effectively be run from).

Is there a way to either do this directly in the commands, or can I capture the output of vim-cmd and interpret it in a script to achieve this?

Cheers

Eds

Hi,

VDDK documentation suggests  "sum of all NFC connection buffers to an ESXi host cannot exceed 32MB".  Every while and then we see NBD_ERR_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES error coming while backup is running sometimes even with less no of VM backups running.

I am running into some queries due to this -

Can we verify this value on ESXi server?

Can we verify how much is in-use while backup job is running?

Can this be increased from ESXi server?

How can we find answers why we might be seeing NBD_ERR_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES and ways to avoid it?

Appreciate your responses!!

Thanks!!

Hi,

I reset both my live accounts passwords, but I still cannot log into VMWare Fusion on my Mac.

When Fusion comes up, it has the user pre-configured and I cannot change it. I can only enter my password. There are no links such as "Forgot my password"

on the login screen. There is a user icon, my full name, and the password dialogue. That's it.

I've entered the Live password but get the error:

That password is incorrect. Make sure you're using the password for your Microsoft account.