I currently have a two node cluster. Each node is identical. Each host has 128GB of memory and an 8 core CPU running at 2.1Ghz.

I have HA enabled on the cluster with admission Control as follows:

So I can tolerate one node failing (50%).

If this is the case then why do the vSphere HA numbers show 96% free for CPU fail over reserves currently available (not in use) and 99% memory fail over reserves currently available (not in use):

Shouldn't the blue bar in the above screenshot show a higher utilisation for memory considering I am using 106GB currently? Same for CPU?

My cluster utilisation at the time of taking the above screenshots is as follows:

.

The other thing I don't understand is, why do I get the following message sometimes after rebooting vCenter:

Usually my memory usage is way under 128GB of RAM so I should have sufficient resources to tolerate a host failure and yet I get the above warning in vCenter and I'm not sure why? The only way I have found to get rid of this warning is to disable HA and re-enable. I'm not sure if this is the correct thing to do?

I'm running vSphere 6.5 Update 1.

Thanks!

Hi all,

I would like to ask, if there is any limit for number of local users in case of VMware vSphere 5 Hypervisor, licensed for 1 physical CPU.

We have more users using and managing different VMs in our office. It would be nice if each user will have own vSphere local username with assigned rights to his VMs. But I didn't find any information if there is any limit to this in case of free license. 5 users will be OK for us. We don't share access to our server outside company, we are using it only internally.

Thanks in advance for any comments

Hi guys,

Quick info on the environment

ESXi 6.5U1

VCenter 6.5b Appliance

Horizon View 7.2(Connection,Composer,Security)

All Flash SSD SAN Storage

Teradici Apex 2800

Nvidia GRID K2

Basically as the title says, since our upgrade to the latest versions, we've had heeps of issues... weird lock files when recomposing our images, composer errors stating vmx files not being found during recompose or refresh, but this latest one is actually more severe. Our vGPU environment is simply unusable at this time, at least any pool running the latest agents.

Once a user logs in, we get a black screen for approximately 15-20 seconds, and then a kick out back to the desktop(Zeroclient or View Client have the same result).When we try again we get the following message from the client "The View agent reports that you have an existing desktop session request that is currently being processed. Please wait for this to complete before trying again".

After another 20-30 seconds, we can try again and it will bring us to the desktop,but 50% of the time, it is unusable. Taskbar is either incomplete or unclickable most of the time. So my only recourse for now is to downgrade all the images to the View Agent 6.2.2 which seems to work ok, but I would prefer finding the actual issue instead if anyone else has experienced this.

This isn't present on our vSGA cluster, only on the vGPU portion. Windows 7 and Windows 10 have symptoms. I still did a full clean install of Win10 with only the agents installed and no other software, exact same result.

I will do also a full power shutdown and clean start up of the environment simply for my sanity, but I don't think it'll get rid of the black screen issue.

Any input or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Ben

Hello,

We have noticed for the past few weeks we will see the task "Reconfigure Virtual Machine Task" but it does not display the deatils of what was changed on the VM itself. I was able to pull the VMware log file and I noticed the following tasks being repeated. After the "Setting machine.id =" lits the VDI broker servers for our cluster and the "vdi.broker.agentPrivateKey=paired" and "vdi.broker.vcopsServerUrl=rmi". Below is a screenshot of the tasks in the Tasks section of one VDI session and the times for each of the tasks. Nobody has complained about any issues due to this error but we trying to figure this out before it turns into a bigger issue. I have already tried performing a refresh of a VM and tried migrating to a different host in the cluster but the task still happens no matter which host the VM is on. We are trying to avoid having to delete and create the VMs are we have about 200 VDI users and would take a long time to migrate their data, applications, and settings. Any help would be greatly apperciated.

2017-09-11T17:34:22.528Z| vmx| I125: VigorTransport_ServerSendResponse opID=275c4a81-92-9b58 seq=115665: Completed ConfigParams request.

2017-09-11T17:34:22.533Z| vmx| I125: VigorTransportProcessClientPayload: opID=275c4a81-92-9b58 seq=115667: Receiving HotPlugManager.EndBatch request.

2017-09-11T17:34:22.533Z| vmx| I125: VigorTransport_ServerSendResponse opID=275c4a81-92-9b58 seq=115667: Completed HotPlugManager request.

2017-09-11T17:34:22.620Z| vcpu-0| I125: TOOLS call to unity.show.taskbar failed.

2017-09-11T18:03:31.627Z| vmx| I125: VigorTransportProcessClientPayload: opID=1549266a-3-cc68 seq=116742: Receiving HotPlugManager.BeginBatch request.

2017-09-11T18:03:31.627Z| vmx| I125: VigorTransport_ServerSendResponse opID=1549266a-3-cc68 seq=116742: Completed HotPlugManager request.

2017-09-11T18:03:31.629Z| vmx| I125: VigorTransportProcessClientPayload: opID=1549266a-3-cc68 seq=116745: Receiving ConfigParams.SetVolatileEntry request.

2017-09-11T18:03:31.629Z| vmx| A100: ConfigDB: Unsetting "machine.id"

2017-09-11T18:03:31.629Z| vmx| A100: ConfigDB: Setting machine.id = "vdi.broker.emptySessionTimeout=1;vdi.broker.useSysprep=0;vdi.broker.brokers= our view connections servers are listed here with the correct FQDN.

vdi.broker.vcopsServerUrl=rmi

Hi All,

Could anyone please tell me how to reset UUID from SSH.

What I'm trying to accomplish is to change some of the "about me" and metric info under the "performance" and "capacity" boxes on the right-hand side of the Virtual Machine Summary page in vROps.  I also want to rearrange the layout of the page, etc...

From what I have found, it looks like you're unable to tweak the default page but you can replace it with a dashboard you create... with that info I have gone about trying to replicate the summary page as a dashboard but it's arduous and I am hoping to find a better way. 

Can I replicate the "summary" dashboard somehow? then simply tweak it as needed and set as default?

The issue I'm having with recreating the summary dashboard from scratch is that I can't figure out how to add the "about me" section they have with properties of the object.

Any help appreciated, thanks!

This is the page (when you select a VM) I want to recreate or tweak somehow:

Folgendes Vorgehen:

1. Login in Webclient
2. VM erstellen/editieren
3. Speichern
4. eine weitere VM erstellen/editieren
5. Es ist ein negativer Wert im RAM-Grenzwert voreingetragen
6. Keine Dropdowns/Felder können bearbeitet werden

Folgender Fehler beim Klick auf Speichern:

Ursache: TypeError: _vimTypes[_deviceNetwork[i].AdapterType] is not a constructor

Version: 1.21.0

Build: 5724747

ESXi: 6.5.0

Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0

Ausnahmestapel:

toVirtualMachineConfigSpec@https://192.168.2.155/ui/scripts/main.js:380:23532

reconfigVM@https://192.168.2.155/ui/scripts/main.js:381:4134

reconfigVM@https://192.168.2.155/ui/scripts/main.js:389:18996

saveVMConfig/<@https://192.168.2.155/ui/scripts/main.js:365:29121

f/<@https://192.168.2.155/ui/scripts/main.js:320:10283

$eval@https://192.168.2.155/ui/scripts/main.js:320:17493

$digest@https://192.168.2.155/ui/scripts/main.js:320:16060

$apply@https://192.168.2.155/ui/scripts/main.js:320:17773

@https://192.168.2.155/ui/scripts/main.js:428:24753

dispatch@https://192.168.2.155/ui/scripts/main.js:317:14412

add/r.handle@https://192.168.2.155/ui/scripts/main.js:317:11234

Hey Everyone.

Had a severe vSAN problem in IBM Softlayer over the weekend and I'd like some thoughts on what happened.  First some details on the environment:

• IBM Softlayer provided hosts
• 6 hosts in a vSphere 6.0 U2 vSAN 6.2 all flash cluster
• Each host has 1 disk group comprised of
  • Cache device: 1.2TB write-intensive SSD
  • Capacity devices: 3x 1.8TB general purpose SSD for capacity
• All VMs are using FTT=1 and R5 erasure coding
• Plenty of CPU and RAM availability

What happened is that when I went to put one host into maintenance mode, I accidentally chose the "Full data migration" option instead of the "Ensure availability" option.  Within 30 minutes of doing this, I was getting log congestion warnings.  After a couple of hours I had hosts disconnecting from vCenter and was seeing VM write latency numbers around 450ms.  This resulted in VMs crashing and application data loss.

We make use of vR Ops, so I have lots of stats available for the workload.  Right before I placed the host into maintenance mode, the cluster was generating around 500 IOPS which is nowhere near what I'd consider to be high for an all flash vSAN cluster.  Even a small one like this.  It took nine hours for vSAN to finally migrate that data onto the five other hosts in the cluster and get the host into maintenance mode.

I had engaged VMware support on this issue as it was happening and was told the following:

• No safe way exists to abort a running evacuation.  You just have to wait and deal with it
• They reduced the "copy to write" value from 50 to 5 after about 6 hours of it evacuating data.  Said that this was something that you tune after having a problem like this
• Was told that performing a full data migration will always cause problems like this.  That seems to be a serious problem if true.
• I asked if I'd have the same problem should the cache device fail on any one disk group if it took me more than an hour to replace it.  Was told that this would not happen, which frankly confuses me based on how I understand vSAN rebuild operations.  Why would a full data evacuation of a disk group be more or less impactful than vSAN recovering (after an hour) from a disk group failure.

Any comments from the community on this situation?

Hi everyone,

We've been working on an implementation to support ESXi 6.5, we have found some DLLs which rely on WCF GitHub - vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-.net: C#.Net Samples for the vSphere Automation SDK, however to establish channel communication with assets take about 1-2 minutes, by looking at some of the discussions here, we found a code example which implements DLLs that doesn't rely on WCF, this makes it faster for us, we found those DLLs in the following thread Performance Manager returning no data - C#, vSphere 6.5

• vimservice65.XmlSerializers.dll
• vimservice65.dll

We've been looking for the licensing regarding those DLLs in order to make sure we can include them in our product, so far we haven't found them anywhere besides the thread indicated above.

Could somebody help us to find any information regarding those assemblies licensing?

Thanks in advance,

Misael.

I am about to start learning NSX and I was wondering, can I install NSX in a home lab setup that has only one cluster with two hosts? What I've read so far about NSX states that you need a management cluster and two compute clusters. Obviously I only have a single cluster so will this be an issue?

This is purely for learning in a home lab setup. My home lab cluster has 256GB of memory so I have more than enough resources to run NSX but I just wanted to know how strict the minimum requirements are for installing NSX when it comes to the number of clusters needed.

Thanks.

I can not connect to The VMware Horizon client for Windows on one desktop, while it works with at least 3 other machines on the same network.  I am using VMware Horizon Client Version 4.40 build-5171611.  It allows me to connect, but when I click on a remote desktop it runs for about 15 seconds before telling me "The connection to the remote computer timed out."  I am connecting via PCoIP, which is required.  Connecting with Microsoft RDP appears to work, but I get a notice saying the requested session access is denied when using RDP.

I have tried connecting on multiple other computers, both wired and wireless, on the same network.  All of them work just fine, except the computer I need to use.  This leads me to believe it is an issue with the settings on this desktop.

The computer is running Windows 10 Pro, 64 bit.  Remote desktop version 10.0.15063.  I've turned off windows firewall, rebooted, and tried uninstalling and installed a couple other versions of (version 4.5 and 4.2) and haven't seen any different behavior.

I'm running out of ideas here, and will take any suggestions.  I need this to work, even if it means replacing the computer.

Hey folks, can't find much on this error after scouring the web and many blogs. Basically the Certificate replacement process (Option #2) looks like it's completing successfully then hangs at 85% during  the " Starting Services" phase, which then gives a message about services failing to start  due to a timeout and proceeds to roll back this process however also fails and I'm left with a semi-bricked appliance unless I restart.

Here's what I'm doing:

I have a small lab on VMware Workstation 12 running ESXi 6.5d and vCenter appliance 6.5d (I've also tried A, B patches to see if this is a new bug introduced in version D) along with Horizon View 7.  I want to have the vCenter appliance act as a "Subordinate CA", replace the root cert with the appliance using a Certificate generated by my CA server, and Automate the replacement of all Certificates, including ESXi hosts done by VMCA with Signed CA certs. I have a single tier PKI using SHA 384 and 4096 bit key.

I've spent several days/nights looking over many articles and videos and I don't appear to be missing any Critical step with the setup of my Certificate Template for vSphere 6.0 VMCA, configuration of my CA, or the Certificate Signing process itself, but something is wrong somewhere.

What I've done so far. vSphere 6.0 Environment with Custom Certificates (External PSC) - YouTube

1. I've installed a Server 2012 R2 Root CA in Enterprise mode with Certificate Web services and have created the template per guidance of this article and this video.

2. I've patched the vCenter to the latest build which is Version D Build #

3. I've duplicated the Subordinate CA Certificate template and have customized it per VMware guidance

4. I'm using VMCA Cert Tool to generate the CSR

5. I am able to successfully generate a certificate based on this CSR

6. I'm able to upload the cert chain and key file provided by the vCenter appliance into the cert-tool during the process for Option # 2 from the main menu

7. the Process executes and looks to be updating and replacing all of the certs using the Certificate i've generated for VMCA

8. the process fails @ 85% when attempting to start the services again

9. I've exhausted most of my troubleshooting and knowledge in this area

However, I'm running into this weird error when attempting to run through the process. As described in this Article.

Replacing a vSphere 6.x Machine SSL certificate with a Custom Certificate Authority Signed Certificate (2112277) | VMwar…

As soon as I get to 85% starting services, it hangs for several minutes and then errors out and rolls back everything. Upon examining the logs, I can find no clear indication of what is failing outside of services not starting, which does not make sense is the fact that the  certificate replacement was successful per the logs, why would a failure to start these services cause the entire process to roll back?

The thing that boggles me is that I can confirm this in the /storage/log/vmware/vmcad/certificate-manager.log, I receiving messages that would lead one to believe that the certificates were successfully replaced along the way.

2017-05-26T22:51:09.381Z INFO certificate-manager []

2017-05-26T22:51:09.382Z INFO certificate-manager Create a entry using Key and File generated earlier

2017-05-26T22:51:09.382Z INFO certificate-manager Running command :- ['/usr/lib/vmware-vmafd/bin/vecs-cli', 'entry', 'create', '--store', u'vpxd', '--alias', u'vpxd', '--cert', u'/storage/certmanager/rollback/vpxd_bkp.crt', '--key', u'/storage/certmanager/rollback/vpxd_bkp.priv']

2017-05-26T22:51:09.413Z INFO certificate-manager Command output :-

Entry with alias [vpxd] in store [vpxd] was created successfully

If i do a search for error the only items that show up are

Service-control failed. Error Failed to start vmon services.vmon-cli RC=1, stderr=Failed to start vapi-endpoint, vpxd-svcs services. Error: Operation timed out

there's also mention of this during the rollback, but I don't find it usefull at all...

2017-05-26T22:51:09.871Z ERROR certificate-manager 2017-05-26T22:51:09.833Z   Updating certificate for "com.vmware.vim.eam" extension

2017-05-26T22:51:09.871Z INFO certificate-manager Command executed successfully

2017-05-26T22:51:09.871Z INFO certificate-manager Running command : ['/usr/bin/python', '/usr/lib/vmware-vpx/scripts/updateExtensionCertInVC.py', '-e', 'com.vmware.rbd', '-s', 'vc1.lab.local', '-c', u'/storage/certmanager/rollback/vpxd-extension_bkp.crt', '-k', u'/storage/certmanager/rollback/vpxd-extension_bkp.priv', '-u', 'administrator@vsphere.local', '-p', '*****']

2017-05-26T22:51:10.109Z INFO certificate-manager Command output :-

2017-05-26T22:51:10.071Z   Updating certificate for "com.vmware.rbd" extension

2017-05-26T22:51:10.109Z ERROR certificate-manager 2017-05-26T22:51:10.071Z   Updating certificate for "com.vmware.rbd" extensio

Any thoughts folks? 

I was hoping for a little help here. Ive written a script that Should set a lun to "Perennially Reserved" using Powercli & Get-ESXICli, however when I run the following command locally on a host to confirm this worked and luns are tagged respectively, i find that the output is False

esxli storage core device list | grep reserved

The script ive written is below. Im aware their are easier ways to obtain the identifiers and get host names, etc. However im more concerned about the actual action of the script in setting the reservation.

Param(  $RootCredentials = (Get-Credential)
)


$RDMDisks = ("naa.60002ac0000000000000003e00002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000002800002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000003f00002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000002b00002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000002d00002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000002f00002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000003100002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000003500002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000003600002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000003700002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000003800002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000003900002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000004100002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000003b00002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000002600002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000002700002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000002900002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000002a00002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000002c00002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000002e00002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000003000002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000003300002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000004000002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000003c00002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000003200002b3e","naa.60002ac0000000000000003400002b3e")
$TargetHosts = ("Server190","Server191","Server192","Server193","Server194","Server195","Server196")




Foreach ($ESXHost in $TargetHosts) {


Connect-VIServer $ESXHost -Credential $RootCredentials
}    
Start-Sleep -Seconds 3
Foreach($esxcli in Get-ESXCli) {                                      Foreach ($ESXHost in $TargetHosts){                                                      Foreach ($Disk in $RDMDisks) {                                                                 $esxcli.storage.core.device.setconfig($false, $Disk, $true)                                               }                                   }                           }
Foreach ($ESXHost in $TargetHosts) {
Disconnect-VIServer $ESXHost -Confirm:$false |Out-Null
}

Thanks in advance for any help.

Virtual machine under ESXi 6 shows invalid. I'm not sure how to proceed and this system was setup a while back and I have no record from the previous admin as to the account with VMware. I called support but the woman on the phone wouldn't help me without the purchase order or the account. This VM is only a print server and our update server for ESET antivirus. We are getting ready to upgrade everything to a full VM system and won't need this VM but that will be roughly 3 months away and I would rather not trash this one and redo it if possible. Any help would be appreciated!

Edit: The machine will not boot, all options to edit the VM are gray'd out.

Hi there guys,

a quick one, by any chance do you know what is the API call for enabling and disabling NSX EDGE specific interface? so for instance Vmnic_0.

thanks

VMware Workstation is having problems with openSUSE or vice-versa - again.

1)   Installed openSUSE Leap 42.2

2)   VMware Workkstation 12.5.6 compiles with kernel 4.4.62-18.6-default

but the Workstation Servef does not start

3)    Upgraded openSUSE to openSUSE Leap 42.3 Beta

4)   With Kernel  4.4.68-2-default WS fails to compile since it cannot find file version.h.   Version.h is nowhere to be found in any sources.    This happened with some versions of openSUSE many years ago but there version.h could be found otherwise.

5)   I have a choice.   I can go back to kernel 4.4.62-18.6-default or I can use kernel-4.4.68-2-vanilla which I know will compile and has version.h.    The other possibility of course is to use another distro.   Unfortunately I'm finding that Debian 9 has problems with recent upgrades.

If anybody knows how I can version.h for the current Leap kernel I'd appreciate it.

Marty

Hello, I am attempting to set up a Horizon 7 infrastructure for evaluation.  I am using evaluation copies of Horizon at this time in order to test whether this will work how our company needs it to.  The VM's are running Linux and I am having trouble finding an evaluation copy of the Horizon/View agent for Linux 64 bit.  I was hoping someone here can assist me in finding this last bit of software so I can finish setting this up.  I have found this link, but every time I click on download it tells me I do not have access to it.  I try and get the trial and it just sends me to .exe files of the agent.  Thanks for any assistance you can provide.  

We are trying to include the TOP LEVEL folder that each VM is under, as a column in one of our report views.

I see that we can include the parent folder property, but we need the highest level folder, not the parent.  Any way to do this?  Super metric??

thanks!

Is there a way to pair VADC enable desktops with a security server?

Hi Horizon View Community,

We have a working Horizon 7.1.0 build-5170113 Desktop Pool called 'Administrators'. Around 50 users are using it with no problem.  They connect to it through a VIP, hosted on a load balancer.  The pool for the VIP has the two Connection Servers in it.

We created a second Desktop Pool, identical to the first, except it has a different name and different VMs in its Inventory.

For some reason when entitled users attempt to connect through the VIP with their VMware Horizon Client, they get the error below.

This desktop currently has no desktop sources available. Please try connecting to this desktop again later, or contact your system administrator.

Has anyone seen this issue before?  I have a case open with support, but they have not called yet.