I'm working with the version 1.0.1 of the NSX plugin for vRO and I can't find any method to query for objects.

For example, I was able to orchestrate the creation of 4 Logical Switches for a user. But in another workflow I need to find all Logical Switches which names includes the name of the user.

Is there any way to do this with the plugin or I need to use the HTTP-REST plugin?

(Same thing for other objects like Edges)

Thanks a lot,

D.

Is it possible to report on or display only those vCenter alarms that have a particular action (like email) configured?

For example, I'd like to know every alarm setup to email bob@company.com. 

Connecting to vCloud Air no VMs displayed?

No Datacentre displayed, cannot upload ?

Any ideas ?

Hi all,

I'm trying to figure out how to add or create a user based on the requestor of the VM..

I'm using a clone workflow in my blue print so I'm guessing that VirtualMachine.Admin.AddOwnerToAdmins is out of the question. Currently I have a script that runs after the vm is provisioned, part of this is to scan GuestAgent.log for VirtualMachine.Admin.Owner then create a local user and add it to the Administrators group.

I'm guessing that this isn't the best or right way to do things so any pointers would be appreciated

Thanks!

Any word from vmware as to when Fusion will support Windows 10 Preview?  Think Win 10 will work in Fusion tomorrow when it is released?

Thank you.

I wanted to expand a virtual disk attached to a guest and needed to remove replication before doing this.  When I removed the replication I got an error and not my replication for that VM are in an inconsistent state.  When I removed the replication I got two tasks.  The first, "Unconfigure virtual machine..." completed okay.  The second, "Disable replication of virtual..." failed with the error "A general system error occurred: The system returned an error. Communication with the virtual machine might have been interrupted."

The VM now seems to be in an inconsistent replication state.  The replicated VM still exists on the target machine but does not show up on the list of VM's being replicated.  Attempts to increase the disk size of the VM on the source host result in the error, "vSphere Replication does not support changing the length of a replicated disk" which makes me think that something didn't get unconfigured when the original error occurred.  To further confirm my suspicion, when I attempt to configure replication for the VM I get all the way to "Finish" and then get the error "Configuring Virtual Machine for Replication... failed.  The vSphere Replication configuration of the virtual machine has an issue: Replication is already enabled."

I did run a vim-vmd hbrsvc/vmreplica.getState from the console on the source host and got the following:

This was not how I planned my Friday, has anyone seen anything like this?

Thanks for any assistance

Raymond

I'm trying to update a Custom property of a vCAC-provisioned VM using the subject Out-of-the-Box Workflow which is included in the vCAC Plugin Extensibility Package. Manually selecting a vCAC Host in the Common parameters window is not a problem. What I can't do is select/input anything in the virtualMachineEntity Field. Nothing appears in the Chooser/popup window and no data appears regardless of what I may enter in the vCAC:Entity Filter Box. Should this Field auto-populate with some type of data or is there a specific string I need to enter to target my VM?

Am I using the correct Workflow? I'd like to be able to replace the propertyValue of a Custom property of a specific/existing VM.

Thx. Ron

I am starting a new workflow but in the schema, I am unable to drag the decision icon over to the workflow page. any idea?

Hello,

Not sure if this is the correct place to post this so please let me know if I'm in the wrong spot, but I've been hitting problems with VMWare Player 7 installing CentOS and Ubuntu:

I've had several problems with with anything CPU intensive while trying to setup a CentOS 7

workstation inside of VMWare Player 7.  This is a fresh KDE workstation install out of the box

with maven installed via # yum.  The system was fully updates via # yum update. 

This problem comes up each time I try to build Apache Spark 1.1.0 with maven.  However it seemed

to be happening with other applications including GNOME Desktop.  I've tried the MATE desktop as

well and still have the problem.  

Environment:

Host:

  VMWare Player 7.0.0 build-2305329

  Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit 6.1.7601, Service Pack 1

  4 core AMD64 CPU

  16GB RAM

Guest:

  CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64 (KDE Desktop install)

  2 cores

  ~11GB RAM (have tried with different values)

  60 GB HDD

Any CPU intensive work causes this lockup.

Steps to reproduce exactly: 

1.  Install CentOS-7.0-1406

2.  $ sudo yum install maven

3.  $ sudo yum update

4.  Download Apache Spark 1.1.0 sources from http://spark.apache.org/downloads.html and unzip  

5.  $ cd spark-1.1.0

6.  $ export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx2g -XX:MaxPermSize=512M -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=512m"

7.  $ mvn -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.2 -Dhadoop.version=2.2.0 -DskipTests clean package

eventually the machine locks up and a hard reset is required.

I'm not sure if this is a CentOS issue, a Kernel issue or more likely a VMWare Player issue. 

sure if this is a CentOS issue, a Kernel issue or more likely a VMWare Player issue.

Attached is a Crash Report.

Thanks,

Andy Palumbo

I have an ESX4 server on the internet.  I assign my VM's some internet IP's of 205.11.121.x.  To cut down on bandwidth charges I also assign private IP's (192.168.1.x) to the VM so they can talk without passing all the data to the upstream switch where its logged and charged.  This works fine.

My problem is how do I get a Windows 8 PC beside the vsphere server to see the private 192.168.1.x network too?  See attachment.

Hey brainiacs! In vRops 6.0 has anyone configured a scoreboard for oversized VMs? Used to be able to pick that in vCops -- waste|countDistinct|vmOversized -- and I'm not nearly as smart as you folks to work the math to get that happening -- if that's even possible.


Thanks

Good afternoon,

I am having an issue integrating VCO with NSX and vCAC. Upon successful completion of a "Create NSX Edge" workflow(edge 16), vCAC attempts to query for edge 16 in the NSX plugin using the find method, and the following is returned

2015-01-23 18:46:17.716+0000 [http-bio-192.168.10.25-8281-exec-50] ERROR {} [VcoFactoryServiceFacadeProxy] ch.dunes.util.DunesServerException: Unable to perform operation 'find('Edge', '7083569d-33f4-4b66-927c-e79f4439f705/edge-16')' on plugin 'NSX' : org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotReadableException: Could not read [class com.vmware.vshield.edge.dto.trinity.EdgeTrinityDto]; nested exception is org.springframework.oxm.UnmarshallingFailureException: XStream unmarshalling exception; nested exception is com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.CannotResolveClassException: edge
2015-01-23 18:46:17.913+0000 [http-bio-192.168.10.25-8281-exec-43] WARN  {} [SDKFinder] Unable to perform operation 'find('Edge', '7083569d-33f4-4b66-927c-e79f4439f705/edge-16')' on plugin 'NSX' : org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotReadableException: Could not read [class com.vmware.vshield.edge.dto.trinity.EdgeTrinityDto]; nested exception is org.springframework.oxm.UnmarshallingFailureException: XStream unmarshalling exception; nested exception is com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.CannotResolveClassException: edge
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

Any ideas or thoughts?

I have a issue while trying to start the VMware Horizon View Client inside the lab enviroment with the error message: Error: Timeout was reached

Could anyone please give me a help to solve this issue?

Hello All,

I'm having the hardest time finding a script that will give me ESXi Host CPU and Memory Usage. I just need something simple if there is such a thing?

Example of what I'm looking for:

Please help.

I have been trying to work out how to feed external values to an ASD form dropdown field. It is not obvious how one can link/associate an external source to the field.

There is an article on how to populate it in regular intervals with external values but i am after a real time lookup (e.g. find available meeting slots)

Is this realtime lookup of values supported? If yes, how can it be done?

I can run for hours a VM (windows 7 or 8.1) guest OS on Windows 10 technical preview, but as soon as I go to shut down or suspend the VM, it freezes and then crashes the host OS with a DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION exception. Has anyone seen this before?

Hello. I received a BSOD error on Windows 10 9860 caused by vmware.exe process. I attach here the analysis of dump file:

MEMORY_MANAGEMENT (1a)

     # Any other values for parameter 1 must be individually examined.

Arguments:

Arg1: 0000000000001015, The subtype of the bugcheck.

Arg2: ffffc0009b838000

Arg3: 0000000000138399

Arg4: 0000000000380001

Debugging Details:

------------------

BUGCHECK_STR:  0x1a_1015

DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID:  WIN8_DRIVER_FAULT

PROCESS_NAME:  vmware.exe

CURRENT_IRQL:  2

ANALYSIS_VERSION: 6.3.9600.17237 (debuggers(dbg).140716-0327) amd64fre

LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER:  from fffff802e34dd8f5 to fffff802e34d3c73

STACK_TEXT:  ffffd000`20ef14f0 fffff802`e34dd8f5 : fffff802`e36deec0 fffff802`e36deec0 00000000`00000000 ffffe000`bf6733a0 : nt!MiDeleteSystemPagableVm+0x7a3

ffffd000`20ef1690 fffff802`e3438a44 : ffffd000`20ef1b50 00000024`000f0007 ffffc000`9b838000 ffffe000`aec00000 : nt!MiFreePagedPoolPages+0x205

ffffd000`20ef1810 fffff802`e363a18e : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000020 00000000`00000000 : nt!MiFreePoolPages+0x34

ffffd000`20ef1840 fffff802`e363a98d : ffffc000`9cf5d820 ffffc000`a4c7a210 00000000`00000001 00000000`00000003 : nt!ExDeferredFreePool+0x3de

ffffd000`20ef18c0 fffff802`e38a1476 : 00000000`00000002 00000000`00000000 ffffe000`c29014e0 00000000`00000000 : nt!ExFreePoolWithTag+0x74d

ffffd000`20ef19a0 fffff802`e3458091 : 00000000`00000002 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000001`00000000 : nt!MiSegmentDelete+0xd6

ffffd000`20ef19e0 fffff802`e380f3a1 : 00000000`00000000 ffffc000`968d9030 00000000`00000000 ffffc000`968d9060 : nt!MiCheckControlArea+0x1a1

ffffd000`20ef1a40 fffff802`e3420c7f : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 ffffd000`20ef1b99 ffffc000`968d9060 : nt!ObpRemoveObjectRoutine+0x61

ffffd000`20ef1aa0 fffff802`e380a0fb : ffffc000`968d9030 00000000`00000000 ffffd000`20ef1b99 ffffe000`aec4dd50 : nt!ObfDereferenceObjectWithTag+0x8f

ffffd000`20ef1ae0 fffff802`e3542ae3 : ffffe000`bf673080 00000000`00000564 00000000`0030fdb0 00000000`0040f3a4 : nt!NtClose+0x20b

ffffd000`20ef1c00 00000000`77bb2122 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KiSystemServiceCopyEnd+0x13

00000000`0030e978 00000000`00000000 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : 0x77bb2122

STACK_COMMAND:  kb

FOLLOWUP_IP:

nt!ExDeferredFreePool+3de

fffff802`e363a18e 4c8be3          mov    r12,rbx

SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX:  3

SYMBOL_NAME:  nt!ExDeferredFreePool+3de

FOLLOWUP_NAME:  Pool_corruption

IMAGE_NAME:  Pool_Corruption

DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP:  0

MODULE_NAME: Pool_Corruption

BUCKET_ID_FUNC_OFFSET:  3de

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  0x1a_1015_nt!ExDeferredFreePool

BUCKET_ID:  0x1a_1015_nt!ExDeferredFreePool

ANALYSIS_SOURCE:  KM

FAILURE_ID_HASH_STRING:  km:0x1a_1015_nt!exdeferredfreepool

FAILURE_ID_HASH:  {d82a7e7b-09f4-e862-9d39-cca6de199853}

Followup: Pool_corruption

---------

1: kd> !process PROCESS ffffe000bc4008c0     SessionId: 6  Cid: 2d38    Peb: 7f744000  ParentCid: 70c4     DirBase: 183cc7000  ObjectTable: ffffc000ae0ca8c0  HandleCount:     Image: vmware.exe     VadRoot ffffe000c32955c0 Vads 587 Clone 0 Private 8095. Modified 12955. Locked 0.     DeviceMap ffffc000aa78f0b0     Token                            ffffc000a690c060     ElapsedTime                      00:33:37.900     UserTime                          00:00:01.671     KernelTime                        00:00:03.328     QuotaPoolUsage[PagedPool]        629120     QuotaPoolUsage[NonPagedPool]      88208     Working Set Sizes (now,min,max)  (23167, 50, 345) (92668KB, 200KB, 1380KB)     PeakWorkingSetSize                23358     VirtualSize                      315 Mb     PeakVirtualSize                  400 Mb     PageFaultCount                    1586504     MemoryPriority                    BACKGROUND     BasePriority                      8     CommitCharge                      11558     Job                              ffffe000bf7bd320         THREAD ffffe000bf673080  Cid 2d38.52d8  Teb: 000000007f74a000 Win32Thread: fffff90144933010 RUNNING on processor 1         THREAD ffffe000c4bb94c0  Cid 2d38.a348  Teb: 000000007f61a000 Win32Thread: fffff90144817010 WAIT: (UserRequest) UserMode Non-Alertable             ffffe000c15543c0  NotificationEvent             ffffe000c37d0460  SynchronizationEvent         THREAD ffffe000af2b3080  Cid 2d38.9070  Teb: 000000007f617000 Win32Thread: fffff90140870570 WAIT: (UserRequest) UserMode Alertable             ffffe000bffc7c10  NotificationEvent             ffffe000c52e22a0  NotificationEvent             ffffe000bff392c0  NotificationEvent             ffffe000c2ceb720  NotificationEvent             ffffe000c234d060  SynchronizationEvent             ffffe000beaad440  SynchronizationEvent             ffffe000af0d53a0  SynchronizationEvent             ffffe000af1ba8a0  NotificationEvent             ffffe000c26c7d90  SynchronizationEvent         THREAD ffffe000c2106840  Cid 2d38.81d8  Teb: 000000007f608000 Win32Thread: fffff90144f174b0 WAIT: (UserRequest) UserMode Non-Alertable             ffffe000c4365060  NotificationEvent             ffffe000c56f58a0  SynchronizationEvent         THREAD ffffe000c4e06840  Cid 2d38.6aac  Teb: 000000007f605000 Win32Thread: fffff901441b3a60 WAIT: (UserRequest) UserMode Non-Alertable             ffffe000bf5b61e0  Semaphore Limit 0x7fffffff         THREAD ffffe000c3921400  Cid 2d38.32f8  Teb: 000000007f5fc000 Win32Thread: 0000000000000000 WAIT: (UserRequest) UserMode Alertable             ffffe000c0c85850  NotificationEvent         THREAD ffffe000c470c340  Cid 2d38.8ad8  Teb: 000000007f60b000 Win32Thread: fffff90140840b30 WAIT: (UserRequest) UserMode Non-Alertable             ffffe000c1f26180  Semaphore Limit 0x7fffffff         THREAD ffffe000c5090840  Cid 2d38.615c  Teb: 000000007f5f6000 Win32Thread: 0000000000000000 WAIT: (WrQueue) UserMode Alertable             ffffe000af78e080  QueueObject         THREAD ffffe000c43cc080  Cid 2d38.9304  Teb: 000000007f5db000 Win32Thread: fffff901441ac010 WAIT: (WrUserRequest) UserMode Non-Alertable             ffffe000c018d250  SynchronizationEvent         THREAD ffffe000af5e2380  Cid 2d38.7b58  Teb: 000000007f61d000 Win32Thread: fffff90144341b30 WAIT: (UserRequest) UserMode Non-Alertable             ffffe000c30ca490  Semaphore Limit 0x7fffffff         THREAD ffffe000c1330080  Cid 2d38.217c  Teb: 000000007f611000 Win32Thread: fffff9014083d010 WAIT: (UserRequest) UserMode Non-Alertable             ffffe000c1b171f0  SynchronizationEvent             ffffe000c0b02410  NotificationEvent             ffffe000c43f34c0  SynchronizationEvent         THREAD ffffe000af423480  Cid 2d38.2158  Teb: 000000007f747000 Win32Thread: 0000000000000000 WAIT: (WrQueue) UserMode Alertable             ffffe000c125d4c0  QueueObject         THREAD ffffe000c21bb080  Cid 2d38.284c  Teb: 000000007f60e000 Win32Thread: 0000000000000000 WAIT: (WrQueue) UserMode Non-Alertable             ffffe000c47dc340  QueueObject         THREAD ffffe000c473f080  Cid 2d38.9478  Teb: 000000007f5ff000 Win32Thread: 0000000000000000 WAIT: (WrQueue) UserMode Alertable             ffffe000c125d4c0  QueueObject

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Yes - that's what I said - this has gone far enough and its time the user community took a stand to let VMware know how horrible the web client is, it is tantamount to my worst user interface experience in 20 years of IT.  

Attention VMware - this is really simple - all the money you wasted developing this could have been spent in other areas.  you are forcing GARBAGE on your customer base, and for that you will eventually crash and burn, its only a matter of time.  Hasn't the thousands upon thousands of posts about this sunk in yet??  Hello?

Purpose of this post is simple and obvious...  please refrain from your A** kissing pitch about cloud this and that... don't need to hear it.    and I could care less about managing a complex infrastructure from an android or ipad, its ridiculous to expect someone to squeeze the mountains of information that needs to be at your finger tips quickly to efficiently manage a VMware infrastructure on a tiny screen...

If I wasn't totally pissed off with having to use this client I wouldn't have posted this VENTING.. 

I could be having one of those days, but I can't seem to figure this out. We have a cluster with three hosts, each has 256 GB of RAM. There is a single resource pool in the cluster. The RP is set to unlimited for memory and CPU. The total reservations on VMs is low at 37GB for vShield and Nexus VMs. On the Summary tab of the RP, the Host Memory and Guest Memory max value appears to be 315392 MB. I am expecting that value to be around 256*3 minus overhead. I changed HA to +1 and turned off admission checking, but the value doesn't go up or down in either case. I have no idea where that number is coming from. FWIW, the configured value is 308 GB and worst case is 319 GB.

Another RP I have is configured with a 1.2 TB reservation configured on an 1.5 TB cluster with HA+0 and only shows 925696 MB of host memory??? (904 configured and 928 worst case)

Non-HA DRS clusters appear way more inline with values I would expect.

There appears to be a pattern above. Am I having a total lapse in brain function here or what?

Thanks in advance!

(vCenter and ESXi 5.0.1)

Hi Guys, I want to test creating Pools using 2 Active Directory domains. I've setup my environment as follow:

Domain A

1- Connection Server

2- Composer Server

3- Security server

4- vCenter Server

Domain B

1- Connection Server

2- Created a separate View Composer account

At the moment Horizon View 5.3.2 is fully functional on Domain A. But I need your help deploying pool using Domain B. After setting up Connection Server(joined to Domain B) I tried to add Domain B using View Composer account by logging to View Admin(Domain A) > Edit vCenter Server > Edit View Composer Settings > Verify Server Informations(under Domain) but I'm getting "Bad domain name"

Could you guys please help or send me a link to setup one-way trust which is needed for VMware View so that I can deploy Pool using Domain B.

Without creating any trust, I've added Domain B conditional forwarder on Domain A which let me add the Domain B without "Bad domain name" pop up. But I don't know what to do next. Can someone please guide me.

Regards