I'm running vsphere 6 eval version at the moment, or at least attempting to. I know this can be more difficult, but i am running both on the same computer, but with 3 different HDD's. Below are my computer specs, i don't believe power or hardware is the issue.

16 DDR3 RAM

AMD FX(tm) - 8150 Eight-core processor

HDD 1 - SSD primarily running windows OS - 240GB

HDD 2 - Caviar Black 2.5TB

HDD 3 - Caviar Blue 500 - Bare metal HDD with ESXI installed directly onto it

I have Vcenter installed on my 2.5TB HDD so while they are on the same computer they are on separate hard drives with different OS. I did it this way to attempt to simulate a closer representation of a real environment 

I've tried connecting by both the static IP i have set as well as the hostname but both are returning the same error message. "vsphere client could not connect, an unknown connection error occurred. (the request failed because of a connection failure. (unable to connect to the remote server))."

Since they are on the same machine and technically using the same IP address I ran a test with disabling both ipv6 and ipv4, however that failed as well. The most recent step i have tried to enabling SSH and shell script, I'm currently going through a few KB's looking for a solution.

My end goal with this is to create a working, or several, working VDI terminals as well as configure windows server 2008 and a citrix server (if i have the space for both that is) and then purchase a domain and publish the machines to it. I have a job interview coming up in the next few weeks and I'd like to be able to show a functioning product/lab in the interview, but well see if that's possible.

any help or suggestions is greatly appreciated.

Hello, I am currently using a trail edition of Fusion 8 to run Windows7 on MacBook Pro (running OS X El Capitan) and I have two questions.

1.  I have read Fusion 8 Pro will automatically suspend a VM when this lid of the MacBook is closed is it possible to make Fusion 8 do the same thing?

2.  As noted the Guest OS is Windows7.  The VM was created from a Lenovo ThinkPad using the VMware Converter Tool.  I have checked this option within Fusion 8 to "Pass Power to Guest" but after shutting down Windows and Exiting Fusion, then restarting Fusion and Windows the power information is still not passing to Windows.  I am wondering if this is due to the "Power Manager 3" software from IBM and if there is a way resolve this issue.

Good day everyone,

My VCP5-DCV expires next year , for what I see I can take either VCP6-DCV Delta Exam (2V0-621D) or VCP6-DCV Exam (2V0-621).

Wich one would be the better choice of the two exams?  after passing the exam what will be the new expire date?

Thanks in advance.

Boy that was quick. Just before the new recertification policy began I passed my VCP5. I had done the course a while before that, paid for by a previous employer, but never had the time to actually do the exam. So I worked pretty hard watching videos, reading guides etc and then paid the fee out of my own pocket.

Not too long after passing I was told that to continue to be a VCP5 I would have to do it all again. Not the course but do the exam thing again. I have never had to re-do my BA degree - it lasts a lifetime. My Microsoft MCP from 10 years ago is now labelled "legacy" but I can live with that - it is. My Netapp NCDA in 7Mode is for life now as the last version of Ontap in 7Mode has been done. However somehow on 7th April 2016 I will lose my VCP5 - what I worked for, paid money for, spent time on.

In fact it is "expired". I seemingly can't tell anyone I achieved the qualification. Like Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible I have been disavowed by Vmware. I can't just have it as a legacy qualification that isn't up to date. It has gone.

What are my thoughts. Being a ex-VCP5, maybe that's the title, I never got a bigger salary. I didn't get a promotion for the VCP5. Some colleagues were modestly impressed with my pass.

Why didn't I bother with Vsphere 6. In the support work I do I am just beginning to see the roll out of that. Most enterprises take two or three years for major infrastructure change. My VCP5 knowledge is, for the most part, up to date. There is some new stuff I want to learn but that will take some time including putting together learning materials. I am anticipating looking at version 6 later this year really.

Which brings me to whether I will do a further certification. Probably not. It's not just cost but I have looked at some of the people I know forever exam cramming to keep up with the latest cert. It's an industry. I see people with so many certs they are constantly on courses to keep up to date. I say this more from sadness than malice but recertification seems to be a sort of pump and dump scam. An endless stream of exams to push around training budgets in corporations and to justify high consultant costs. There is nothing wrong with that. However it's not the place for the working guys of the IT industry who study for personal knowledge at their own pace and pay their own way. For us we will just grab the free elearning, do the courses on offer, study for a few months and try the exam. On that timescale a two year recertification is completely uneconomic in terms of money and time.

So I am "expired", "disavowed" my Vmware learning has be de-recognised. I dont know any less than last week. I have recently been looking at VSAN but I am now officially a lesser person. I will continue to have a big interest in VMWARE technology and work hard to understand it and succeed. I dont know how many others are now disavowed by VMWARE but I think ultimately is not a constructive policy but is undoubtable financially lucrative.

I keep seeing "status of other hardware objects" error in vcenter 6.When i go to hardware tab i do not see anything.

Any help on how to debug this?

Thanks

sethu

have anyone attempted to remove a stack? still waiting for official procedure.

thanks

Sam

Hi, guys!
Thisquestion has been raised, and I'm sorry, butI do notknowwhat to do...

So, on the hostis Workstation, and inside it - ESXi 6.

I installedVCSA,usingVsphereСlientgained access to theESXi, all correct, VCSA works.

Next, I wentthrough thevSphere Web ClienttoVCSA,trying to create adatacenter,addtoitthe ESXi,as describedin manymanuals-butnothing happens!

(I,m sorry, I tried toattachscreenshots,using the "attach image" button, but the error"Thisimage type is forbidden"(???) is don'tgiveto do it...)

http://i80.fastpic.ru/big/2016/0409/ed/481e959eb3627f695cf8d142ca7861ed.jpeg

http://i78.fastpic.ru/big/2016/0409/8f/9e411754a75a5960095f40ccefe6658f.jpg

http://i80.fastpic.ru/big/2016/0409/b6/b4c0d2c2a0b05915ee360d6c453856b6.jpg
What am I doing wrong?Why inventory is empty? Please, explain it in simple terms)))

And another question, you can see it on the first screenshot: "Could not connect one or more vCenter Server Systems: https://192.168.1.110:443/sdk" - what is this, and is it important?

P.S.
Allipaddresses are usedfrom192.168.*.*
Domainnames are not used, i have simply home router.

Thanks to all in advance!

hi all

I am considering proposing EVO:RAIL at my organisation, however 4 host (1 appliance) is probably not enough, yet 8 host (2 appliances) is probably too much.

I assume that it is not possible, but can you have 2 appliances with 4 hosts in one and 2 hosts in the other? or three in each?

Thank you

Matt

Hello

Get what all things a user did over 1 week in vcenter..

Say  user X logged in in vcenter

that user  X put host A in miant mode

User X did disable DRS on cluster B

So on ...

i know what to use

can someone guide ?

eg i know its Get-VIEvent

Get-VM  | Get-VIEvent -MaxSamples ([int]::MaxValue)  -Start (Get-Date).adddays(-7) | `

where {$_.Gettype().Name -eq "VmDeployedEvent" -or $_.Gettype().Name -eq "VmCreatedEvent" -or $_.Gettype().Name -eq "VmRegisteredEvent" -or $_.Gettype().Name -eq "VmClonedEvent"}

Hi VMware Community,

Good day!

I am trying to convert my VM's from Windows Server 2012 r2 Standard Hyper-V to VMware vCenter 5.5 using VMware Converter Standalone 6.1.1 build: 3533064 but unfortunately I encountered an error: Failed at 1% "A file I/O error occurred while accessing ''. (please see attached image and vmware logs for reference)

Note:

Source: Windows Server 2012 r2 Standard Hyper-V

Destination: VMware vCenter 5.5

Vmware Converter: VMware Converter Standalone 6.1.1 build: 3533064

Thank you.

Blast Extreme is great but unfortunately RTAV doesn't offer better audio recording quality. The audio still hard limited to 8kHz mono and there is no way to increase it.

2 years ago we were looking to increase audio recording quality in RTAV but this setting is not adjustable (see this post https://communities.vmware.com/thread/480070?start=0&tstart=0)

So the only option is to use Teradici Audio driver with PCOIP and this way all is fine. But Teradici doesn't work with Blast Extreme.

Is there a way to "tweak" RTAV to get better bi-directional audio quality?

On a Macbook Pro running El Capitan, I am running fusion 8.1, with a Windows 7 guest.

Just now, I wanted to retart my Mac:

• So I tried to  close Fusion, which automatically suspended the VW. This is the right thing to do, of course. The Windows 7 VM was in sleep mode, which I wouldn't expect to matter.
• The suspend just keeps running without finishing, although I can see in the Activity Monitor, that vmware-vmx is using about 400% of memory.

I work in this VM all day, every day and it always works perfectly ... up til now.

Can I just kill Fusion and hope that the VM will work properly after I restart my mac and start up Fusion? I don't know if I have any options, since I have been waiting for an hour, hoping that the suspend will overcome any timeouts and exit.

thanks for any help,

Peter

Just testing the VSAN 6.2 (v3) with 3 node (name them A,B,C) cluster in my lab. Decided to simulate some power loss on all nodes but with some delay.

Had 8VMs running a disk benchmark at the time of power loss.

First I shut down the node C. Waited for 5 minutes and powered off A and B with 2 seconds interval.

Waited for a couple of minutes and started to power on but in reverse.

I deliberately powered on the C first knowing the data on it will be outdated. I wanted to test how the cluster recovers.

After 2 minutes I turned on two remaining hosts.

During the boot process ESXi spend several minutes initializing the VSAN disks. Even though the C started first there was a period of time when all three host were in VSAN initialization process at the same time.

I thought it will be enough for the system to resynchronize but I was wrong!

After all 3 hosts were online 3 out of 8 MWs were in the Inaccessible STATE. 3 other VMs were accessible but out of sync. 2 were healthy.

The cluster is stuck on rebuilding of one object. The object is only 1GB but after 10 hours it is in the same state:

/localhost/DC74/computers/CLSTR01> vsan.resync_dashboard ~cluster

2016-04-09 05:41:16 -0500: Querying all VMs on VSAN ...

2016-04-09 05:41:16 -0500: Querying all objects in the system from b1200. ...

2016-04-09 05:41:17 -0500: Got all the info, computing table ...

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------+---------------+

| VM/Object | Syncing objects | Bytes to sync |

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------+---------------+

| A_temp_moving | 1               |               |

|    [vsan_ssd1] 3574e73e-d79b-d092-8bfb-00266cf2880c/A_temp_moving.vmx |                 | 1.00 GB       |

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------+---------------+

| Total | 1               | 1.00 GB       |

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------+---------------+

3 VSAN objects corresponding the 3 inaccessible VMs are also marked inaccessible:

/localhost/DC74/computers/CLSTR01> vsan.check_state ~cluster

2016-04-09 05:45:42 -0500: Step 1: Check for inaccessible VSAN objects

Detected 3 objects to be inaccessible

Detected cef8e73e-955e-f306-1078-00266cf2880c on b1200. to be inaccessible

Detected 31f8e73e-ab51-c751-5bb5-00266cf2880c on b1200. to be inaccessible

Detected e8f8e73e-7056-0d95-1f51-00266cf2880c on b9100. to be inaccessible

2016-04-09 05:45:42 -0500: Step 2: Check for invalid/inaccessible VMs

Detected VM 'A_temp_moving8' as being 'inaccessible'

Detected VM 'A_temp_moving6' as being 'inaccessible'

2016-04-09 05:45:42 -0500: Step 3: Check for VMs for which VC/hostd/vmx are out of sync

Found VMs for which VC/hostd/vmx are out of sync:

A_temp_moving9

A_temp_moving7

A_temp_moving4

A_temp_movin3

Examining of the inaccessible objects further shows that some of them have All components ACTIVE, but marked as STALE! Other have 2 components ACTIVE one missing but all marked STALE.

<LSTR01> vsan.object_info ~cluster 31f8e73e-ab51-c751-5bb5-00266cf2880c

DOM Object: 31f8e73e-ab51-c751-5bb5-00266cf2880c (v3, owner: b1200., policy: No POLICY entry found in CMMDS)

  RAID_1

    Component: 31f8e73e-738f-3952-44b2-00266cf2880c (state: ACTIVE (5), csn: STALE (owner stale), host: b4300., md: 5288d2ea-7203-770d-5875-a5a721d925bc, ssd: 52f5b565-c20e-17d9-6b1f-6ebd6c50ae23,

votes: 1, usage: 0.4 GB)

    Component: 31f8e73e-f1f7-3b52-08a5-00266cf2880c (state: ACTIVE (5), csn: STALE (owner stale), host: b1200., md: 527993ca-0b3f-d92f-a78b-a94ceccec98d, ssd: 52a32e68-80fc-285d-23f1-1758e80d63a5,

votes: 1, usage: 0.4 GB)

  Witness: 31f8e73e-53f0-3d52-c1cc-00266cf2880c (state: ACTIVE (5), host: b9100., md: 52d67be3-f1a1-c6df-c4fa-60100694133c, ssd: 528b8cac-c51d-f0fb-f5fe-7c4d1fd1220d,

votes: 1, usage: 0.0 GB)

  Extended attributes:

    Address space: 273804165120B (255.00 GB)

    Object class: vmnamespace

    Object path: /vmfs/volumes/vsan:52f5f66efc19ecc0-f72aa19c783c8172/

    Object capabilities: NONE

I tried to fix it with the  "vsan.check_state –r –e ~cluster"  command but it didn’t change anything. I also tried to go the Virtal SAN tab in vsphere client and repair it with “Repair object immediately” button but it was greyed out.

Does anybody have the solution for the problem?

Shouldn’t there be any tool to tell the VSAN what of the STALE object to use if all in such state?

Shouldn’t there be an automatic recovering of situation like this in the Enterprise class solutions?

My MacBook Pro Retina Late 2013 with Nvidia GT750M is with MacOS 10.11.4 and installed with VMWare Fusion 8.1.0 Pro. Like the other user complains on VMware 8.0.1. There is only ""Supports DirectX 9.0EX with Aero and OpenGL 2.1" in Display settings dialog -> "Accelerate 3D Graphics", not the Direct10 support. I also installed the DirectX SDK from MSFT website per user guide.

Attached the log. Please help me to fix it.

System details below:

Host OS: Mac OS 10.11.4

Host Hardware: MacBook Pro Retina, 16GB RAM

Host Graphics: Nvidia GT750M with 2GB RAM and Intel Iris Pro 1536MB RAM

Fusion Version: 8.1.0 (Pro version, licensed user)

Guest OS: Windows 7 x64 Professional SP1 installed with Microsoft DirectX End-User Runtime

Hello,

I am using VMware Workstation 12 Player (with host = Windows 8.1, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3632QM CPU @ 2.20GHz, 64-bit o.s.) (and guest =Ubuntu14.04-LTS).

My problem is that I cannot see and mount on my virtual machine the "Shared Folders": indeed the path "/mnt/hgfs/" is empty... and I am quite sure that the problem is about the VMware Tools.

When I power the virtual machine, I see this line:

...

Starting VMware Tool Services                        [fail]

...

I attach in a document the picture of my virtual machine setting regarding the VMware Tools.

I have already installed all the components, through the following issue:

Player ---> File ---> Preferences --> Download All Components Now --->

---> All downloadable components are up to date

I have also tried to remove and add again the shared folder but nothing happens...

Some days ago, I could open the Shared Folders, modify the file either in the host or in the guest and I did not have any problems... The only operation I have done so far maybe is to "Install Software Updates" in my virtual machine... and to create some new files in the host shared folder.

Thank you for your attention,

please help me!

Bye,

Francesco

Hi,

i'm new on the VRO.

I'm trying to figure out how can i call a IAAS blueprint from XAAS blueprint.

I have some IAAS blueprint with properties i need (Like CPU, Memory, custom properties). The only thing that i found to list this properties is JSON code. I just want to use with VRO java script.

I want to display them and put more properties from the user input to run the blueprint.

Please help,

Thanks.

In https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=1033696

It says:

Note: Scratch space is configured automatically during installation or first boot of an ESXi host, and is not required to be manually configured. ESXi Installable creates a 4 GB Fat16 partition on the target device during installation if there is sufficient space, and if the device is considered Local.

About the "sufficient space for 4GB" and "considered Local".

Under WHAT conditions does VMware think those conditions are met when one wants to use an SD card to boot from

We have been booting from SD cards on all sites where we have SANs. I want to have a persistent scratch location at those sites as well.

Of course I can and do relocate the syslog to the SAN but in case there is a problem with the connection to the SAN I would like to have the logs preserved as well.

Bonno

Hi All,

Need your help on issue: I have converted a Windows 2K12 R2 template to VM and then exported template to OVF. Copied the OVF to another non-vc site and deployed the OVF as VM to ESXi and when powered on it says "OS not found" ..

Source: VMware vSphere vCenter 5.0 (ESXi 5.0)

Destination: VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5

Let me know if any one need more details.

Thanks

Madhav

Hi,

I had some problem in easyinstall but got a manual setup later of tools, but still see the text for some second asking for login to setup.

Could explain how to get rid of that at boot?

Thanks

Fabio D'Alfonso

Currently I can't seem to open any of my virtual machines. I get a dialog popping up saying "Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory"

I am running VMWare Fusion 8.1.0 on OS X 10.11.4, on a current model Mac Pro.

Any ideas on how I can fix this?

The following lines are written to the console when I launch VMWare Fusion:

4/7/16 5:43:20.108 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 209.

4/7/16 5:43:20.209 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: JMicronATA.kext has no Info.plist file.

4/7/16 5:43:20.224 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 11.

4/7/16 5:43:20.239 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 209.

4/7/16 5:43:20.245 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 11.

4/7/16 5:43:20.278 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 209.

4/7/16 5:43:20.284 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 11.

4/7/16 5:43:20.303 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xpc.launchd.oneshot.0x10000007.VMware Fusion Start Menu[1012]) Service exited with abnormal code: 1

4/7/16 5:43:20.406 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Untrusted kexts are not allowed

4/7/16 5:43:20.406 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: ERROR: invalid signature for com.vmware.kext.vmci, will not load

4/7/16 5:43:20.425 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 209.

4/7/16 5:43:20.431 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 11.

4/7/16 5:43:20.445 PM tccd[368]: SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22

4/7/16 5:43:20.481 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 209.

4/7/16 5:43:20.487 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 11.

4/7/16 5:43:20.599 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Untrusted kexts are not allowed

4/7/16 5:43:20.599 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: ERROR: invalid signature for com.vmware.kext.vsockets, will not load

4/7/16 5:43:20.609 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 209.

4/7/16 5:43:20.615 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 11.

4/7/16 5:43:20.663 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 209.

4/7/16 5:43:20.669 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 11.

4/7/16 5:43:20.776 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Untrusted kexts are not allowed

4/7/16 5:43:20.777 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: ERROR: invalid signature for com.vmware.kext.vmnet, will not load

4/7/16 5:43:20.787 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 209.

4/7/16 5:43:20.793 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 11.

4/7/16 5:43:20.838 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 209.

4/7/16 5:43:20.844 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Can't create kext: invalid CFBundleVersion in identifier cache entry entry 11.

4/7/16 5:43:20.948 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: Untrusted kexts are not allowed

4/7/16 5:43:20.948 PM com.apple.kextd[53]: ERROR: invalid signature for com.vmware.kext.vmx86, will not load

4/7/16 5:43:23.458 PM VMware Fusion[936]: SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22

4/7/16 5:43:23.458 PM VMware Fusion[936]: SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22

4/7/16 5:43:23.458 PM VMware Fusion[936]: SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22

4/7/16 5:43:30.000 PM syslogd[51]: ASL Sender Statistics