Web Client/Horizon Client SSL Certificate
Hi, Do I need a public CA if I want to access my virtual desktops from public/internet using Horizon Client or Web(HTML) client? I have an Enterprise CA that I tried to use but whenever I access my...
View ArticlePanic requested by another PCPU caused by Win Server 2019 on boot
We have a long running ESXi instance (6.7.0 Update 2) that has been running a Win Server 2019 for over a year. Upon a recent reboot, we are getting a red screen of death reading:"Panic requested by...
View ArticleUpgrading a "Cluster" of ESXi hosts
Hi all, I'm sturdying the VMware Press VCP-DCV book (2VO-621) and have come across what appears to be a conflicting statement on P270 for vSphere upgrades. At the top of the page it states: "If you are...
View ArticlevSAN cluster IP change
Hi, I have 3 node vSAN cluster , with ESXi 6.7 , vCenter inside the same cluster & VSS was used. This cluster is moved to a new dc I changed the MANAGEMENT ip of the 3 ESXi IPs of all VMK will...
View ArticleConnect guest machine directly to modem and to LAN via dual NIC?
I have very little experience with VMs and networking but I feel like this should be possible but have no idea what I'm doing so thought I'd ask for some help or opinions. I have a normal PC running...
View ArticleInvoke-VMScript Response status code does not indicate success: 403 (Forbidden)
Hi, Hope you're all well. I am using Invoke-VMScript to interact with Windows VMs. Something strange is happening. On my Windows 10 machine every time I do an invoke-vmscript, it carries out the script...
View ArticleCrashed hard drive, ran recover software what file type should I look for?
HI Hard drive crashed, ran Data Rescue which has found many files. what file type should I search for to find the VM Fusion operating system and files for my windows 10 virtual machine?
View ArticleCargar ISO
¿Hola, alguien me puede ayudar, me estoy iniciando en el mundo de VMware, Tengo una PC con un procesador Rycen 9, una placa base MSI MAG X570 Tomahawk WIFI, memoria ram corsair vengeance rgb 32 Gb,...
View ArticleUpdate VM template (non domain joined)
Hello, Has anyone found a neat way of updating their VM template with Windows updates without joining to the domain? I have found the following post which is also on another website but wondering if...
View ArticlePermissions required to authenticate to REST API
Hello, One of our teams is requesting access to the Horizon 7.10 REST API to gather user session information and statistics. I granted them Administrators(Read-only) role, but when trying to...
View Articlestandalone vCloud Director without NFS (10.2)
Hi all, I am setting up a standalone single VCD 10.2 appliance. Is there no alternative for using NFS (or other shared volume). It add complexity to a so far simple setup.tup Alternatively i am...
View ArticleESXi Licensing Problem
I may have downloaded the wrong installation binary, but my VM went down yesterday from a licensing problem: "Your evaluation license for ESXi has expired.". I only want ESXi and no other features, but...
View Articlevsphere down
By mistake I have tried to change the esxi certificate, it gave me an error: the certificate cannot be installed. Then the console has been blocked and now it does not respond by ip.
View ArticleVMware Workstation: Error while Opening the machine.
I am getting the following error when I try to open the machine "The disk 'C:\VM Image\xxxxx.vmdk' has one or more internal errors that cannot be fixed. Restore from a backup copy of this disk. The...
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NSX-T Log upload fails with message: We were unable to transfer the support...
Hi team, sometimes the log upload process of huge files of NSX-T fails with following error: "We were unable to transfer the support bundle. ". Did someone face the same issue? Which are the possible...
View ArticleIdea how to improve Replication performances between VSphere vCenter 7.0.1...
Hi,I need a Help to improve performances replication procedure. This is scenario of my infrastructure:two ESXi 7.0.1 with 2 NIC 1Gb 2 NIC 10GbTwo NAS Storage with 2 NIC 1Gb, 2 NIC 10GbTwo Switch with 8...
View ArticleDatastore space after snapshot
I have a datastore that's holding a single Windows Server 2016 VM. On 10/27 PM the datastore used space was 1,451 GB when I took a VM snapshot and then downloaded/installed Windows Updates. On 10/28 AM...
View ArticlePenDrive Problem
hi, I recently plug a usb stick to the computer and showed me a message, where i want to start it (Vmvare or the local host). I chose Vmware and did what I want. By chance I turned off Vmware and after...
View ArticleFusion 12 for OSX - tools remain at 11.1.5
Upgraded to Fusion 12.0 Pro and noticed that the VmWare Tools remain at 11.1.5. Reinstalled tools on a VM and no change. Is that the expected behavior, or am I missing something. Thanks....
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Stormagic svsan 6.2 plugin installation
HiStormagic svsan has been running on our vcenter server for the last few years and never had any issues, until we upgraded vCenter to 7.0 (from windows to VCSA)I had to uninstall and reinstall the...
View ArticleVPN tshoot cli
Hi I can ssh to the edge vm that provide vpn services to tshoot a IPsec tunnel but am short of cli can any one provide me with the cli list of commands for Ipsec tunnel and Loadbancer tshoot thanks
View ArticleIs anyone having trouble enroling an Android Enterprise recenrlty
We have noticed that Android Enterprise Enrolment takes 15-20 stuck on "please wait while we retrieve and apply your enterprise settings". This is across multiple tenants.
View ArticleDIsk consolidation vs deleting snapshots
Hello everyone am new here, just want to say that i just made a catastrophe ,i deleted snapshots then consolidated the disk thinking that's just gonna clear my snapshots ,now month of data got...
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vSAN have a psod
vsan have a psod,vmkernel.log is below: 2020-09-30T08:21:00.742Z cpu9:2098356)DVFilter: 5963: Checking disconnected filters for timeouts2020-09-30T08:22:52.307Z cpu21:2099525)CMMDS:...
View ArticleMultiple Vcenter Servers.
I have 2 Vcenter servers. One is the SSO server for both. It is joined to my AD domain. If I log into it with my vsphere credentials I see both servers. If I log in with my AD credentials I only see...
View ArticleESXI 7 network serial port licence level
What level licence do I need to be able to add a network serial port to a VM, "telnet://192.168.1.1:4001" for example. It seemed to work in the evaluation but since I have applied my Essentials licence...
View ArticleConvert 500+ thick disks to Thin
Hi, I need a script which can covert thick disks to Thin, requirement is aa below. 1. Get VM name/Thick disks list, source datastore and destination datastore from CSV file.2. Move only the thick...
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Image not mounting in Mojave VM
Using Fusion 11.x on Catalina, and one particular image (.iso) is connected to VM, but cannot mount.. Yet it mounts in Windows 7 VM, and Catalina (host) below, just fine.. This is the error when i try...
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Can vSAN and iSCSI share a VDS and its uplinks?
Hi Communities, I have two vSAN clusters under one vCenter Server sharing a VDS. I want to use the vSAN iSCSI Target Service to access some of each cluster's vSAN storage from the other cluster. Using...
View Articlehow to disable SIP (system integrity protection) in vmware fusion 12 for...
Is there a tutorial on how SIP can be deactivated for a big sur vm in vmware fusion 12? Seems holding the Command+R key during boot should work, but it does not for me. Another solution is described in...
View Articleembed web console of html5 client into my app
Hi buddies, We have an internal operation management webiste, now we would like to integate the console of VM into this website for convenience, currently we run HTML5 client for vCenter management, so...
View ArticleVM memory reclamation
currently analyzing how VMs' reclamation work in production environment(primarily vSphere 6.7) to prevent service down time. I'm reading the...
View ArticleShrink server on VM
Hi, We are running ESXi 7. Have a server running that is 400GB allocated in ESXi for the drive. We can shrink the drive size down to 300GB within Windows Server not a problem. However how would you...
View ArticleIMM Ip Address through PowerCLI
hello I am exeucting following line from https://www.altaro.com/vmware/esxi-ilo-idrac-powercli/Get-VMHostWSManInstance –Vmhost (Get-VMhost ESX01.tglab.lcl) –IgnoreCertFailures –Class...
View ArticleReplaced XP with Windows 10
Running Fusion 11.5.6. Replaced XP with Win10. Now I cannot find Program Files. Where are the programs from XP?
View ArticleConnecting networks inside guest VM
Hi everybody,I am a hardware engineer with good programming skills and intermediate networking knowledge in industrial environment (so it is Windows, Linux, PLC, embedded devices, virtual machines...)...
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Is a way to extract installed softwares and version for auditory with PowerCLI?
Hello, I have an audit. I need to extract for each vm an installed softwares and I don't know if exist a way through vmware cli. Thanks and regards,Tomás
View ArticleHow to upload plugin to cloud director and access log insight
We are two student interns that are trying to upload a plugin for wmware cloud director and got stuck. We are using this code: GitHub - vmware-samples/vcd-ext-samples at developer-container/9.7-10.0We...
View ArticleFully automatic QR-code generator for 2-Factor Authentication in Horizon View
We are using the 2-Factor Authentication from Google in Horizon View for all our external Horizon users. Therefore we have setup a CentOS VM with the Google Authenticator package installed. The Guide...
View ArticleOva deployment failing in Vcenter 7.0
I am trying to deploy ova using my http server link which is a remote server and getting following error." Unable to retrieve manifest or certificate file"When I check " vsphere_client_virgo.log"...
View Articleabsent of uploading preconfigured profiles for macOS
So when i have an preconfigured signed profile downloaded from here step 4 point 1 for macOS I can't install from terminal any-longer since Apple has removed that option from version 10.15.4. WS1...
View ArticleSCSIcanonicalname?
Hi, I am using the following script to keep track of RDMs in relation to migrations. $DiskInfo= @()$vm = Get-Cluster "CLUSTERNAME" | Get-VM foreach ($VMview in Get-VM $vm | Get-View){foreach...
View ArticleAdvice on server hardware specification
Hi All, Can I ask for a bit of advice. I am looking at a HPE Server (ML350 Gen10) for a client (accounting firm) and wondered what specification you would use for the following scenario. 1 x VM -...
View ArticleVM auto start in workstation pro 16
How can get the virtual machine auto start after the host reboot in workstation pro 16 note: there is no shared vm feature in workstation pro 16
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Nat source ip address not in API?
Dear all, I figured out that "Source IP Address" and "Source port" does not show up in API but does in the NAT tab of the WebUI.Any idea about where I could find them? API version=34.0 Best...
View ArticleHelp regarding down sizing a vmware. Hidden snapshot inside? 200 GB
Dear, I have a vmware machine that has grown to big.The local folder is about 192 GB If I check the disk inside vmware(win10) the size is 85 GBFrom settings there are 200GB allocated.I think there are...
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Service failed on vrops
I was looking at the f5 LB that we have in front of our vrops and noticed 2 of the noes were shown as offline. |Looking ta the health moniter it is using a API call GET...
View ArticleDNS
Hello, Can someone please tell me: I have a text file called 'Server_IP' and in that sheet it has all the IPs.Is there anyway I can script and get the DNS names by doing nslookup of that IPs and get...
View ArticleNSX-T Declarative API
I need to use declarative API to perform some automation tasks, for this instance i need to create few segments. Below code is to create just a single segment and i am putting a Patch request to...
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