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Help with a super metric

May 12, 2016, 8:55 am
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I am looking to work out a super metric that will show me how many deployments of 250GB VM sizes are left on a datastore after i take off the 15% buffer.

 

It will look something like

 

Datastore name        Usable Capacity (Total - 15%)   Capacity Remaining  Deployments left

xxxxx                       1.5TB                                       400GB                   1

xxxxx                        1.5TB                                      550GB                    2

 

And so on The first 3 columns are fine as i can use the built in metric Disk Space|Allocation|Usable Capacity & Disk Space|Allocation|Capacity Remaining Value that takes into account my 15% buffer in my policy but i cant work out a super metric to take the Disk Space|Allocation|Capacity Remaining and divide it by 250

 

The end goal is to have a object widget that i can select a cluster compute resource that will show me all the datastores in that cluster in the above view but cant get a super metric to populate the last column.



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Switching from Parallels to Fusion, but find Fusion resource intensive. Need answer on this before purchasing.

May 11, 2016, 11:22 pm
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Hi,

 

I have been using Parallels for many years now and have been quite happy, but I need to run Ubuntu 16.04 and Parallels do not support this yet, so I have been testing Fusion 8 and must say I am impressed. It feels more stable and some functions that been troublesome in Parallels work flawlessly in Fusion.

 

But....

 

1) I find Fusion somewhat more resource intensive, running Ubuntu and Fedora in Parallels felt like running it native and my Mac did not get hot. But Fusion seem to be somewhat more resource intensive and my Mac have been quite hot. Of course this also can happen in Parallels when I run resource intensive programs in the VM, but with Fusion it seems to always be like this.

 

I have not imported the Parallels VM, I have created a new Ubuntu VM in Fusion.

 

2) Scrolling seems jerky/laggy. In Parallels scrolling web pages was just like using Safari in OS X, but in my Fusion Ubuntu VM it's jerky/laggy. Not much, but enough to be a ruin the experience, making it unusable over time.

 

My Mac specs:

MacBook Air 13" (Early 2014)

1,4 GHz Intel Core i5

8 GB Memory

(not heavy hardware, but have worked great with Parallels)

 

VM specs:

2 processor cores

4096 Memory

Shared graphics 768 MB

 

I use my VM as an development environment, thus spending a lot of time there. My issues mentioned are currently stopping me from purchasing Fusion 8, If I can get the above sorted out I would buy instantly. As for now I consider going back to Parallels and using a earlier version of Ubuntu and wait for Parallels to support Ubuntu 16.04.

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Expanding vCenter v6 Datastore?

May 12, 2016, 8:16 am
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Our environment consists of 2 ESXi v6 hosts and 2.4 TB of RAID 10 storage. Non-clustered. All storage is under one shared vCenter Datastore. The supporting hardware is a Dell VRTX with a pair of PowerEdge M630 blades.

 

The shared vCenter Datastore is a bit low of free storage capacity. And I need to spin up a final server VM that won't comfortably fit against it. The VRTX doesn't offer the ability to expand the storage array, so I cannot insert the new HDD's I have and increase its size. I'd have to rebuild the entire virtual disk, which is something I want to avoid. So instead I would need to insert the new HDD's and create a new Dell virtual disk for these new HDD's.

 

Here is my question. If I do create a second Dell virtual disk, can I add them to the existing vCenter Datastore? Or would I have to assign them as a second vCenter Datastore? And if I can indeed add them as an extent of the existing vCenter Datastore, what is the procedure for doing so?

 

I have documentation about how to get the new HDD's configured from the Dell VRTX angle. Just would like some pointers about handling things in vCenter!

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UEM Application Profiler Question

May 12, 2016, 10:12 am
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Hi, can the application profiler be used to condition UEM to capture data for applications that store user-specific data outside of the Windows user profile?  For example, if we have an app that puts user-specific data in "c:\program files\businessapp" or "c:\businessapp", can the profiler be used to make it so that for each UEM-enabled user, any data store in those directories is centrally preserved?  I see a lot about UEM abilities to preserve %USERPROFILE% data, but nothing about data outside of that.

 

We were interested in using writable volumes for that, but due to incompatibility with storage vmotion, they're not an option for us.

 

Thanks.

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Software not opening !

May 12, 2016, 12:03 am
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Quick start guide to install and use vCenter?

April 28, 2016, 11:26 am
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Hi, I've bought a license to use vCenter.  I'm a 100% newbie.

 

I have no idea what I'm supposed to do!

 

Why are there two ISO images?

   VMware-VCSA-all-6.0.0-3634788.iso

   VMware-VIMSetup-all-6.0.0-3634788.iso

 

Which one is for what?

 

Is there any quick start guide?

 

Thanks

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New Vcenter 6.0 U2 installation with "Local administration Authentication" is fine?

May 12, 2016, 10:13 am
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I have installed vCenter 6.0U2 on  physical server with “Local Administrator Authentication” instead of “Domain Account”. Because i was facing multiple policies issues on the domain account. Al tough server is on domain but sql and vcenter has been installed on local administrator authentication.

So is this fine or i need to install it from domain account? 

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CAB files in Temp directory

March 21, 2016, 7:50 am
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I have a VM that is a manual pool, and for whatever reason the C:\windows\temp folder keeps getting filled up with CAB files and shutting down my VM after the drive gets full.  Looks like something to do with Tools but not certain.  The attached file shows some of the files and there are some that i cannot delete.  I tried to uninstall and reinstall tools with no luck.  Tried the management service researt with now luck.  Does anyone know what is causing this or how to get rid of it without rebuilding the VM?  Any help is appreciated.  thanks

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Horizon View 6 - Scroll delay, black screen, resume

March 12, 2016, 8:57 pm
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Hello,

 

I have seem this issues in previous version of Horizon View and I am now seeing it with my 6.2 deployment.  I am in an environment with relatively low latency network with a large incoming pipe to connect to the view environment.  However I am seeing the following issues both from local VM access and remote VM Access.

 

1.  On initial connection to the VM, the screen will appear black for a few seconds.  Once the desktop appears for the user to logon, the mouse function is unavailable so the user has to hit "enter" on the keyboard to accept the computer policy to proceed to the logon process.  Once logged in the mouse appears and functional.  If I resize the Horizon View Client Window, by clicking and stretching it, the mouse will appear once the screen refreshes and resizes itself.

 

2.  In IE, Word, Outlook, or any other program or window, even File Explorer, that requires scrolling up and down, if you scroll too fast up/down the entire display will freeze for 8-10 seconds then unfreeze and the return to normal where you can continue to scroll up and down.  In some instances the screen will go black then return to normal.

 

I have different pools setup for both vGPU and standard SVGA VMs and I see the same issues in both pools.  We have a large user base that relies heavily on the vGPU VMs and I continue to struggle to fine a solution to the two issues above.  I have been trying to find the optimal PCoIP session variables that I control via Group Policy, but it seems like I cannot get these issues to go away.

 

My current PCoIP Group Policy valies are:

 

Image Cache Size = 500 MB

Min Image Quaulity = 50

Max Initial Image Quality = 100

Max Frame Rate = 60

Use Image setting from zero Cleint = Disabled

PCoIP Session Bandwidth Floor = 128.

Turn-Off Build-to-Lossless Feature = ENABLED (so yes, build-to-loss is turned off)  This did not appear to have an impact on VM performance on or off.

 

 

View Build:  6.2.0-3005368

View Agent:  6.2.0.3005627

 

Greatly appreciate any feedback or suggestions to assist me in troubleshooting these issues.

 

Thank You

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Is Vmware View management pack free or is it chargeable ?

May 12, 2016, 9:26 am
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Hi Team,

 

Is VMWare View management pack free ? If yes is there a official download link ?

 

If no then is it constable if yes how much is the cost & where can I buy it?

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LLOG technical informations?

May 12, 2016, 11:11 am
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Hi,

 

can anybody explain me the behaivior of der llog to plog to medical disk destaging?

 

On normal operation or on heavy load tests i get an llog log of 2-10 GB of data per ssd.

 

But on resyncs i get situations where the LLOG log space grows and grows and raising the default llog congestion vaues of 16-24 GB, so all vms stalled.

 

I assume, that this behavior occures, when resync is syncing not-yet-written-blocks (thin space) - for example in an reconfiguration (evac diskgroup) case.

 

i can cover this situation by increasing the llog limits to 48-64GB, while decreasing the ssd resync congestion values to a percentage value below the llog limits.

 

I noticed also, that in normal situations the valuie "log free delta" is below "relog threshold" (vsish -e cat /vmkModules/lsom/disks/52cc072f-0bd9-85f5-42e0-0d246411ddbc/info - from ssd disk)

but when llog log grows and grows, i see that "log free delta" is larger den "relog threshold" and "relog count" and "relog iterations" stucks.

 

 

 

Best regards

sebastian

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AppVolumes 2.10 and Taskbar Pinned Items

April 20, 2016, 8:47 am
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How are the rest of you dealing with pinning advertised shortcuts on the taskbar?  By "advertised shortcut" I mean the kind that does not have a path in the target field.  Microsoft uses them for Office (and other) products. Others publishers use them sometimes too.  (More about advertised shortcuts.)  These shortcuts actually point to the Installers directory under C:\Windows.  Here is a guy who wrote a vbscript to show the actual target.

 

Normally when you pin or copy one of these shortcuts the shortcut gets converted into a non-advertised shortcut.  It will now have a real path to the executable of the application.

 

The problem is when the application is on an AppStack that target path becomes something like C:\SnapVolumesTemp\MountPoints\{1ca2e473-0659-11e6-be68-005056b949ee}\PROGRA~2\MIF5BA~1\OFFICE14\OUTLOOK.EXE.  This works until the next time I logon.  The next time I logon the SnapVolumes mountpoint has different identifier and the shortcut is dead.

 

This was discussed in Apps in Stacks can no longer be pinned to Windows Taskbar after 2.6 upgrade where the thought was this broke in the 2.6 update and was fixed in the 2.7 update.  I wonder if that was really true.  If so it was broken again along the way.

 

Others having this issue?  Anyone know a work around?  I have considered going in my AppStack with Office and manually changing all the shortcuts to non-advertised shortcuts.  I would also have to search for any other apps using advertised shortcuts.  And would have to remember to check/fix this after any updates.  Seems like a mistake prone pain.

 

/David

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VMware Fusion: You do not have enough privileges to perform this operation. Administrative rights are required.

May 12, 2016, 11:54 am
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Hello. I've been trying to run the VMware fusion migration assistant on my Mac and every time I enter the passcode from my PC and I log into that account I get the error: Screen Shot 2016-05-12 at 11.50.27 AM.png

 

UAC is set to "never notify" on my PC. Firewall is disabled. It is a Mac so I can't "run as administrator".

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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VMware-Photon Customize the docker0 bridge IP Address

May 12, 2016, 12:05 pm
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I have installed VMware-Photon but would like to change the default IP address 172.x.x.x to another range.

 

How do I commit the changes persistently even after reboots?

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VM Keeps Losing Network

January 22, 2016, 12:10 pm
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Have a Win2k12 server that is on a separate VLAN.  This is a camera server and from time to time they will call me and say that the cameras are down. Look at the server and there is NO IP address.  Look at networking on teh OS and it shows Unidentified network.  I Play around with the settings with no luck.  The only way to get things going again is to remove the NIC from within Edit Settings then reinstall a new NIC. I tried VMNET3 nics and teh E1000 with teh same results.  Nothign in teh OS log files either.  Anyone have any ideas?  Any assistance is welcome.  Thanks.

Perry

 

ESXi 6.0

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Deploying VMs from a Template to Different Datastores

May 12, 2016, 9:33 am
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Folks,

 

Currently I use the script listed below to create one VMware Datastore per LUN, total of 256 Datastores. It works fine. However, now I need to deploy 250 VMs, being one VM per datastore (all VMs from the same template)...

I am having a hard time to plug a "foreach loop" into the script listed below.

Any help is really appreciated.

 

###########################################################################################

 

Thank you all!

$tag = $args[0]

 

Echo ('# tag = ' + $tag)

 

if (!$tag) {

    Echo '# Usage: .\mountLun.ps1 tag'

    Echo '# The parameter tag will be the prefix of every datastore created by this script.'

}

else {

   Echo '# Rescanning all HBAs on all hosts...'

   Get-Datacenter "My datacenter" | Get-VMHost <my-host> | get-VMHostStorage -RescanAllHba

 

    # Selecting one host from the vCenter for the subsequent operations.

    $server = Get-VMHost <my-host>

    Echo ('# The following host will be using for LUN discovery and datastore creation.')

    Echo $server

   

    Echo '# Discovering LUNs...'

    $lunlist = Get-ScsiLun -vmhost $server -LunType disk | Where-Object {$_.CapacityGB -eq 25}

   

    Echo ' '

    Echo '# Creating datastores...'

    ForEach ($lunx in $lunlist) {

    New-Datastore -VMHost $server -Name ($tag + '-ds-' + $lunx) -Path $lunx -vmfs

    }

   

    Echo '# Datastore creation completed.'

    Echo ' '

    Echo '# Rescanning all datastores on all hosts...'

    get-VMhost | get-VMHostStorage -RescanVmfs

}

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Report to Iterate through mutiple objects of same type

May 12, 2016, 12:28 pm
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Hello and thanks in advance!

 

I'm trying to build some reports in vROPS, specifically I'm trying to clone and customize some of the OOB ones, but I can't figure out if it's possible to have the report iterate through all of an item.

 

Case and point for this is I like the "Datastore Average Latency (ms) Trend View Report" and I want to run it against all the datastores in my environment.

 

Is there any way to do this without running the report and selecting each datastore specifically? I have 800+ datastores and there is no way!

 

 

 

Thanks!

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vCenter 6 Hardware status not working

January 25, 2016, 2:11 pm
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Hello,

 

We have a puzzling issue with 2 of our vCenter appliances.  The hardware tab has no data, or at best shows sensors with no data. (note this is not the same as VMware KB: In the vSphere Web Client in vCenter Server 6.0 the Hardware Status tab reports: No host data available)

 

My dev vCenter appliance started showing this behavior in December.  Worked fine for about 2 months post upgrade from 5.5.   We've had a case with support open since then with no results.

 

This past weekend, we migrated our production hosts to a clean install 6 appliance, and now this appliance is showing the issue.

 

Before the migration to the clean prod install, the hardware status tab was working for host that tested the migration.  This is no longer the case.

 

If I use the fat client and log into a host directly, the hardware status is working.  The issue is with the vCenter appliances themselves. 


Has anyone else ever seen this behavior?


Thank you in advance.

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Has anyone upgraded to Horizon View 7?

May 12, 2016, 12:26 pm
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Wondering if anyone has updated to Horizon View 7?  Are there major differences?  I am currently running 6.1.1 and debating on updating to 6.2.2 or if I should just go to 7.

 

Thanks in advance for any replies

 

Ryan

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Local datastore slowly diminishing (ESXi 4.1)

May 6, 2016, 12:24 am
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Hello folks! Don't know what is going on with my datastore. In my inventory I created several virtual machines with thin provisioned hard disks. I thought that this was the reason why my storage started to slowly diminish. Then I made an inflate procedure on this thin disks because I was pretty sure that this action may help. Anyway it diminishes every day little be little. It's starts getting rather dangerous.

 

Can I stop it? How can I find the real reason of this issue?

 

Many thanks in advance!

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