I'm currently planning to upgrade my vmware environment from 5.1 to 6. I've Install new psc and vcenter appliance ver 6. My security team request to replace self sign cert with the domain cert to the vmware environment and not using the VMCA.

I have never replace certificate in vmware before. Any guide on how to replace the certificate? Does that meants I need to install cert on every vmware component eg host, vcenter, psc and update manager?

Hello everyone, I want to install ESXI in a small type server (Lenovo TS440) with the following specifications.

- CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3 4C 3.2 GHz

- Mem: 16GB

- HDD 2x 600Gb 15k 3.5" SAS HS

Is this CPU compatible with any of the ESXI available not only the 5.0 maybe and old one that I could get?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Kind regards,

hi

i am looking to deploy VSAN6.2 Hybrid in an active/active configuration across 2 sites (witness at 3rd site)

am i right in understanding that if i suffer from a Datacentre failure, and my VM's are recovered at their secondary site, there is no protection for the VM's whilst running at the secondary site whilst in this type of DR mode ?

So if i was to lose a DISK / CONTROLLER / HOST at the site that is available, i would lose the VM's running on that DISK/CONTROLLER/HOST, as there would be no +1 to recover with. 

Is that correct ? if so is there a smart way around this scenario ?

Thanks !

Anyone orchestrating VMAX arrays with vRO?  I really don't want to deploy ViPR just to do basic tasks on the VMAX.

Hi,

I have licensed Workstation 9 running. If I proceed with upgrade to 12, should I acquire new license or use existing one?

Thanks.

Hi,

After upgrading from View6 to View7, when I try to create a new Instant Clone pool, the list of vCenter server is empty (it is not the case for the other types of pool like "View Composer linked clones").

I've selected "Automated desktop pool" and Floating in the previous screens and the "Instant Clones domain account" fields are filled with an AD credentials with the right permissions.

Any idea?

Thanks for your help!

Looking for a workstation to download on my students 32 bit computers.....

It appears the Identity Source of AD LDAP is quite buggy. For instance:

1. the option to connect to any domain controller does not appear to use the Global Catalog or is there a way to do it as there was in VCSA6 by specifying a port of 3268(9) in a URL. If you try to just use the option to connect to a single domain controller you cannot just give the domain and a global catalog port.

2. The SSL just seems to work sometimes and not others. I will get more details and post later on that.

3. the check names when you add an AD user seems to fail if the name is a substring of another. For instance check names for domain\blah will work, unless there is also a blahlbah, or blah2, etc.

Is anyone else having some weirdness over this, or just me? Our VCSA v6 is configure with AD ldap with a URL to the the domain only and GC port, i.e. ldaps://domain.com:3269 and it works perfectly. I Cannot get this to work at all with the new VCSA 6.5. interface. Going to the same domain, same bind credentials and same cert.

I'm currently evaluating View 4.6 on top of our vSphere 4.1 Update 1 environment.

My problem relates to getting DNS set properly for the ethernet adapters in linked clones. DHCP currently hands out an external DNS service, not our internal Active Directory which has the records for our View Connection server and AD DC's.

I set the DNS statically on the adapter in the parent image, but it appears that this NIC is being removed and replaced when linked clones are deployed because the adapters in the linked clones have the label "Local Area Connection 2".

I tried adding a post-synchronization QuickPrep script to do this.  It points to a .bat file with the two lines:

netsh interface ip set dns "Local Area Connection 2" static <AD DC 1 ip>

netsh interface ip add dns "Local Area Connection 2" <AD DC 2 ip> index=2

This does not however seem to have any effect, or it is being overwritten by DHCP when the interface card comes up.

To fix the problem of finding our View connection server, I added a static host entry to the parent image.  Now when I create the pool, it fails at the Customizing stage with the error: View Composer agent initialization state error (18): Failed to join the domain (waited 730 seconds)

I understand it can't find my DCs, and I don't think I can remedy this by putting entries in the hosts file since the machine still wouldn't know that the hosts specified there are DCs to be used to join the domain.

How can I set the proper DNS automatically after the linked clones are deployed and get their initial DNS addresses from DHCP?

Cheers

I am looking at setting up several old notebooks, HP 8840 and 6910. I am not that familiar with View but we recently purchased several View licenses in which I want to use a handful of them to convert these notebooks into VDI clients. One thing I am uncertain of is do I need an OS on them, Linux or Windows to start up the VDI client or is there a method which I can just boot these notebooks up to my VDI image? They currently are running a Linux OS and will be used for Kiosk machines to browse websites and to print to a specific printer. I looked over the VMware Horizon 6.0 with View white paper titled Configuring Kiosk Mode. This is exactly what I am looking to accomplish just not sure what is needed to make it happen. I would prefer to just have them boot right into the VDI image but from my little knowledge looks like I'll need something to run the View client.

Overall goal is to have these notebooks run the VDI image with little maintenance on these older notebooks to browse the web and print.

I've been have a tough time getting app volumes working on my testbed here.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I have a View Horizon 7.0.2 setup.  I am running a Instant Clone pool of Windows 7 VMs.  AppVolumes version 2.11.     I created a Win7 vm and install my WinZip application on it and created an AppStack.    I log to AppVolumes Manager and provision/configure the appstack successfully.   I then successfully assign the appstack to the user and system in my instant clone pool.   but when I login to the instant clone vm, I do not see my app (winzip) on the desktop.  My vCenter shows the appstack vmdk mounted on the VM as hard disk #2, but Windows does not show the software as installed. 

the svservice agent log shows this error "RunScript: CreateProcessW failed for "\SnapVolumesTemp\MountPoints\{5ae12525-aaaa8-11ase-fe83-34348jg833\allvolattached.bat": error 193  which may be a sign something went wrong.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

VMware has the really great Hands on Labs deployment through which they provide a lot of public free training to the public on their products.

VMware also offers a HOL-in-a-Box offering where you can request some space in their environment for a short time and setup your content to use for private use cases.

Does VMware either provide documentation on how someone can setup their own equivalent to HOL if they want to use extended resources amounts for extended times?  Or does VMware sell this as a product framework for customers that would like to build out their own lab?

Thanks

This has been happening since at least Saturday, and others have reported this as well (in the regular Hypervisor forums).

https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi6

Neither the "manually download" nor the "Download Manager" links do anything.

I've tried 6 different computers (Windows XP and Windows 7 Home and Windows 7 Enterprise), 4 different web browsers (IE10, IE11, Firefox, chrome), and 3 different ISP (Verizon FIOS, Road Runner, and whoever supplies our Corporate LAN--AT&T or something).

I'm not sure VMware is even aware that there's an issue.

Hello,

I'm working actually to brings actions for VM item for Customer needs

.

So i've followed the usual path --> Design / XaaS / Resource Actions / New (and publish...)

New action is quite simple : Connect an ISO to a CD-ROM into a VM so that users can install from sources they needs... (Windows features, SQL Sources, and so on...)

How to:

I've created a new action from VRO 7.1 "Mount CD-ROM"

I've also created a drop-down list of ISO available in a shared datastore as "filePath" and force "deviceType" as "Datastore ISO File" and hide it.

Customer have only choice on ISO images I've defined and made available from the Drop-down menu.

The thing is: this only works when VM is powered OFF!

Is there a way to create actions that allow users to "connect" or "disconnect" iso images from item list as "actions"  without needs of POWERING OFF the VM ??

Really enjoy help on this topic!

Regards,

Jacques

We are evaluating migrating to vCSA 6.5 and replacing the Windows flavor of vCenter completely. I had previously built a vCSA 6.0U2 appliance and imported a custom wildcard certificate which had been working just fine. However, after I ran the upgrade to vCSA 6.5, the integrated VUM is not allowing me to upload ESXi images (upload progress fails immediately).

My guess was it didn't like the custom certificate, although it is not clear what specifically. Reverting to the self-signed certificate fixed the problem, but I'd like to figure out how to get custom certificate to work with VUM.

Log output:

[2016-11-16T00:01:32.119Z] [ERROR] http-bio-9090-exec-7          com.vmware.vum.fileupload.impl.VumServerFileUploadClient          VumFileUpload: Exception executing http request -  javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure        at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:192)        at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:154)        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.recvAlert(SSLSocketImpl.java:2023)        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:1125)        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1375)        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1403)        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1387)        at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory.createLayeredSocket(SSLConnectionSocketFactory.java:275)        at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory.connectSocket(SSLConnectionSocketFactory.java:254)        at org.apache.http.impl.conn.HttpClientConnectionOperator.connect(HttpClientConnectionOperator.java:117)        at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.connect(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:314)        at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.establishRoute(MainClientExec.java:363)        at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.execute(MainClientExec.java:219)        at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:195)        at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute(RetryExec.java:86)        at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RedirectExec.execute(RedirectExec.java:108)        at org.apache.http.impl.client.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:186)        at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:82)        at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:106)        at com.vmware.vum.fileupload.impl.VumServerFileUploadClient.executeRequest(VumServerFileUploadClient.java:107)        at com.vmware.vum.fileupload.impl.VumServerFileUploadClient.login(VumServerFileUploadClient.java:69)        at com.vmware.vum.fileupload.VumFileUploadServlet.doPost(VumFileUploadServlet.java:100)        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:755)        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:848)        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:303)        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)        at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)        at com.vmware.vise.security.SessionManagementFilter.doFilterInternal(SessionManagementFilter.java:82)        at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:76)        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:220)        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:122)        at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:505)        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:170)        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:103)        at org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteIpValve.invoke(RemoteIpValve.java:683)        at org.eclipse.virgo.web.tomcat.support.ApplicationNameTrackingValve.invoke(ApplicationNameTrackingValve.java:33)        at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:950)        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:116)        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:423)        at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1079)        at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:620)        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:318)        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)        at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)


[2016-11-16T00:01:32.122Z] [ERROR] http-bio-9090-exec-7          com.vmware.vum.fileupload.VumFileUploadServlet                    VumFileUpload: Unexpected exception uploading file -  java.lang.NullPointerException: null        at com.vmware.vum.fileupload.impl.VumServerFileUploadClient.parseHttpResponse(VumServerFileUploadClient.java:215)        at com.vmware.vum.fileupload.impl.VumServerFileUploadClient.executeRequest(VumServerFileUploadClient.java:114)        at com.vmware.vum.fileupload.impl.VumServerFileUploadClient.login(VumServerFileUploadClient.java:69)        at com.vmware.vum.fileupload.VumFileUploadServlet.doPost(VumFileUploadServlet.java:100)        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:755)        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:848)        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:303)        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)        at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)        at com.vmware.vise.security.SessionManagementFilter.doFilterInternal(SessionManagementFilter.java:82)        at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:76)        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:220)        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:122)        at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:505)        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:170)        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:103)        at org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteIpValve.invoke(RemoteIpValve.java:683)        at org.eclipse.virgo.web.tomcat.support.ApplicationNameTrackingValve.invoke(ApplicationNameTrackingValve.java:33)        at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:950)        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:116)        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:423)        at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1079)        at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:620)        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:318)        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)        at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Hi,

I just reinstalled, reformatted Mac OSX on Mac Mini (late 2012). Installed Vmware Fusion 7 (latest), but I'm having problems with running any virtual machine.

I run "First Aid" on my mac's disk - everything is ok. My File system is: Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

I installed vmware, downloaded Ubuntu iso. Add -> new -> unchecked "Easy Install"... got an error while running.

Same story with windows 7 pro. Add -> new -> install from disc or img -> etc... I didn't install Vmware tools, because they're greyed (but even so, they are not necessary for ubuntu (I think).. so I guess it's not a problem).

I had Vmware running on this machine before the format, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

W