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Infoblox plugin - Allocate workflow input

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Just having issues with incorrect hostnames being registered in Infoblox.

We customize the host name in a vRO workflow triggered by  VMPS32.Requested lifecycle state PRE; and update the vcac:Entity with the new hostname.  Shows up in vRA fine new hostname.  Registers original hostname generated via machine prefix in Infoblox. 

 

For a while I was trying to figure out exactly how the "Allocate" Infoblox workflow was being triggered; seems when you register the endpoint during plugin setup, a hard-coded vRO Workflow ID is being set (which is the Allocate workflow)  What I don't understand is how this actually gets triggered by vRA since we dont set a subscription  event.  It just fires somehow during provisioning

 

2nd thing I noticed is that the Allocate workflow is being passed  a few variables; one of which is Resource (CompositeType).  The 'Name' key in this Resource has a value of the 'machinePrefix_name'.  When I rerun this allocation by changing that value to a custom hostname, registration in NIOS completes successfully. I just need to know where / how that 'Resource' input value is being passed from vRA to vRO to the 'Allocate' workflow; and potentially how to update what values it's passing Any help greatly appreciated Happy Thanksgiving!


LACP (or Etherchannel) on physical switches only

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Hello!

 

I'm currently having the following configuration and getting a little confused:

 

We have an ESXi host with 6 pNICs. All of them assigned as uplinks in vDS with a VM Portgroup with "Route based on physical NIC load" and all 6 Active uplinks.

All 6 pNICs are connected to a single Physical Switch (pSwitch1). This switch is connected to the second Physical Switch (pSwitch2) with LACP using two 10GE ports.

Several workstations are connected to pSwitch2 and they use some VMs on the ESXi.

 

Is this configuration supported at all? Currently traffic from the workstations must pass thru LACP to reach VMs on the ESXi. It 'does' work but can this configuration cause troubles? No LAGs is configured, "IP Hash" is not selected on the portgroup and ESXi basically doesn't know about the existing LACP between switches at all.

 

LACP was made to utilize both links otherwise blocked by STP.

Virtual machine not working

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I have a brand new MacBook Pro running Catalina. I downloaded Fusion for the 30 day free trial. When I set up a virtual machine everything seems to go fine. But when I try to run it, I get an error message (first attachment) that is completely meaningless to me. What the heck is a "Broken pipe"? I click OK and get a 2nd error message (2nd attachment).

 

Can someone tell me what's wrong and how to fix it?

 

Also I notice when Fusion is running, the laptop fan is blowing constantly at top speed. And this is without a virtual machine running since I obviously haven't gotten that far yet. What's going on?

 

Thanks for the help.

Win 10 - "BAD SYSTEM CONFIG INFO" BSOD

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Fusion 10.1.2 - Copied a Win 10 VM from old MBP to new MBP (both Mojave Beta) - now getting "BAD SYSTEM CONFIG INFO" BSOD each time I try to boot. Various MBR repair options (short of a re-install) have not been successful.  Any suggestions? Thanks!

Vmware Fusion Windows-10 Mouse Disappears

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Since upgrading to version 11.5.1: "Mouse disappears when Windows 10 boot", only keyboard works

I've tried all sort of things such as editing the vmx file or General tab all the options for the mouse for "Never optimize mouse for games and etc." with no luck. I have also tried default and Windows-10 profile for keyboard and mouse setting. But none of the solutions has has worked

 

I very much appreciate if anyone can help me out.

 

Thanks

-RS

What release of Workstation supports Intel Core i7 975 CPU

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I want to upgrade to latest VM Ware but Docs seems to say that Core i7 975 is not supported.

VMware Knowledge Base

In addition, the following are supported:

Systems using Intel processors based on the 2010 “Westmere” micro-architecture (e.g. Xeon 5600, Xeon 3600, Core i7-970, Core i7-980, Core i7-990)

What is the last release that supported Core i7 975 and can I still buy it?

Thanks

VMWARE-VIX-1.17 Error at installing

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Hello, i have some problems trying to install VMWARE-VIX-1.17 on my fresh instaled Ubuntu 18.04

 

When i execute the installer this problem come out:

 

 

i search everywhere for a solution and i cant find one. Here is the version of my OS:

Can not type the password in windows 10 logon screen

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I converted my physical machine which is windows 10 pro to virtual machine using standalone converter. Now when I start the Vmachine and the logon screen appears i can use only the mouse. I can not type anything in the pasword box. Also the caps lock does not respond or the num lock. I can not type anything so it is impossible to enter in the virtual machine. Any idea why that happens? Thank you very much in advance


VMWare (d)vswitch looping egress packets back to the guest during forget transmit.

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I need some low-level clarification on VMWARE vswitch/dvs behaviour on ESXI 6.5 and above. I have read numerous blogs and the community discussions pertaining to ESXi Nested Virtualisation, unfortunately I am unable to find the right answer to the problem I encounter in enterprise environment.

 

Here's the ESXI guest deployment details. I have a guest (Debian 9) running on a ESXi host, sitting on a port-group which has Promiscuous Mode & Forged Transmit enabled. The guest never changes its primary mac address (the management mac and hence MAC changes is disabled on the port-group). However the guest constructs several ip network namespaces (akin to nested virtualisation) and sends out packet with random mac address. The switching inside the guest kernel is taken care by openvswitch.

 

In this situation, we have been noticed that, whenever a nested guest/ip namespace sends out a packet with a random source mac address (i.e forged transmit) the exact same packet is copied back into the guest interface, however the packet does go out to the uplink switch and the layer2/3 communication works fine. The only concern here is the egress packet being looped back into the guest interface is something I can't explain. Why this is important in my application is the fact that, in such cases our packet processor reports this as a mac collision, although the neighbourhood has no such host having the same MAC address as that of the nested guest/ip namespace (which in fact is a random mac).

 

I am not able to reproduce this issue on my local test-bed, however I can assert that this is the case in enterprise deployments, I am not sure whether this can occur when you have a distributed vSwitch spanning over multiple ESXi host or a standard vswitch on a single ESXI host. Any help will be appreciated, if it's a known issue or a duplicate topic, would be obliged if someone can point me to the appropriate forum.

VSAN 6.5U1 Witness Appliance

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Hi,

 

I am currently setting up a 2 Node VSAN in our remote office. I've downloaded and deployed the latest VSAN 6.5 U1 witness OVF.

steps are all good, deployed -- assigned root password, IP addresess etc, however, the root password of the VSAN witness appliance keep resetting to a "not set" state every time the appliance is rebooted. So regardless of whether I set a root password or not, when it reboots -- the password is lost and the appliance ends up with no root password.

 

Is there a step that I am missing ?

 

Thank you!

vCenter task unmapVmfsVolumeEx_Task triggered by vRO or PowerCLI timeout after 30 minutes

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Hello,

 

I'm struggling with running UNMAP from vRO against VMFS LUNs, while in case of bigger LUNs, task takes longer that 30 minutes, which is somehow default timeout value.
Once after 30 minutes vCenter task triggered by vRO or PowerCLI action time out, I do not have any information if and when UNMAP process ended.

 

 

Is there a way how to modify timeout of triggered VC:Task ?

 

I've already tried following in vRO:

TASK = unmapHost.configManager.storageSystem.unmapVmfsVolumeEx_Task(dsUuid);

TASK.createEndOfTaskTrigger(3600);

VC:Task modification does not return any error, but also having no effect in terms of when task in vCenter will timeout.
For example, if I will try: TASK.createEndOfTaskTrigger(15);
I would expect, that vCenter task will timeout in 15 seconds, but it is not the case.

 

I'm not looking for modification of any default vCenter value, as this could lead in case of unvanted scenario of whatever troubles to very long time of waiting for any task to "timeout".

If I would go for this single task even for 24 hours, then every single timeout will take 24 hours.

 

I'm rather looking for way how to modify this single task.

Like for example Enter Maintenance mode task is even explicitly expecting number:

<=0 for infinite timeout,

any other number >1 is actuall timeout in seconds for this single "Enter maintenance mode" task.

 

I've asked on vRO forum. as well already, but the only suggestion which I have is to ask vCenter guys

Re: unmapVmfsVolumeEx_Task timeout after 30 minutes

How to integrate ESXi6.5 U1 directly to the VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.5?

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I have some servers running ESXi 6.5, and I need them to not integrated to any of vCenter servers in the environment, although I need to integrate them directly with the vRealize Operation Manager 6.5 that already existing in the environment.

Player 15 VMguest LenovoB50 keyboard not working at login screen

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Hello Everyone,

 

I’ve converted a LenovoB50 laptop to a virtual machine using the Stand-alone Convertor. The VM boots up to the login screen with only the mouse working, keyboard failed.

Have gone through Host Registry menu, [ click Hkey_Local_Machine on Remote_Computer_Name on the Window menu, and then navigate to the following key: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96B-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} Double-click the UpperFilters:REG_MULTI_SZ: Lkbdflt2 kbdclass value, and then remove only the Lkbdflt2 entry].

Without success.

The virtual keyboard app in bottom left hand corner also failed.

Can someone please assist?

Restart VM automatically after reboot ESXI

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Hello everyone,

 

I have one question about vSphere 6.7.

 

Its possible to configure VM to restart automatically after reboot esxi ? Because, i saw on few websites they say :

 

If the host is part of a vSphere HA cluster, the automatic startup and shutdown of virtual machines will be disabled.

 

We are 3 esxi on a cluster HA and on vCenter  the order is start manualy and cant change it.

 

Thanks for help.

Issue setting 'options kvm ignore_msrs=1' for nested 64-bit VMs

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Hi,

 

I am having issues running 64-bit VMs on a nested ESXi 6.7 host running on KVM (Ubuntu 16.04.6 EVE-NG).

 

I believe the fix is to enable 'options kvm ignore_msrs=1' on the main Ubuntu machine.

 

I have tried adding 'options kvm ignore_msrs=1' in various places, including:

 

/etc/modprobe.d/kvm.conf

/etc/modprobe.d/kvm-intel.conf

/etc/modprobe.d/qemu-system-x86.conf

 

But after a reboot I still see:

 

root@eve-ng:~# cat /sys/module/kvm/parameters/ignore_msrs

N

 

I can set it to 'Y' with:

 

root@eve-ng:~# echo 1 > /sys/module/kvm/parameters/ignore_msrs

 

root@eve-ng:~# cat /sys/module/kvm/parameters/ignore_msrs

Y

 

But it doesn't survive a reboot.

 

Any suggestions? Thanks

 

P.S. I am running KVM on Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS.


Windows server 2016 react very slow and feel laggy

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Hello everybody,

 

I'm System integration and under my responsibility have many companies, I have multiple ESXI vCenter servers, in past six mounts we had upgrade near to 30 hosts and we also upgrade VMs from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 VMs.

the thing is windows server 2016 VMs they react very slow and it's feels laggy, in the same host i have 2008 R2 vm installed and it's react very fast and working good......

and it's not performance issue at all, cause i monitored the performance of host and also of all vm's, and i find there is more than 50% of resources available all the time.

 

to me it's seems to be a specific issue with server 2016.

 

Does anyone of you encounter with this issue?

I would glad to get some help from you

 

Thanks.

VMware Fusion 11.5.1 IS TAKING A LOT OF MY CPU

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THE VMware Fusion 11.5.1 IS TAKING A LOT OF MY CPU. WHICH PRODUCE THAT MY MACAIR 2018 TOUCH WORKS EXTREMELY HOT

 

macOS Catalina 10.15.1

1.6 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5

16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 (Memory used by VMW is 2048 MB)

Intel UHD Graphics 617 1536 MB

 

Would anyone can help me to solve this problem?

 

I really appreciate it

 

Carlos

Error on PUT API (after upgrading NSX-V from 6.4.0 to 6.4.6)

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Hello all,

I did upgrade to NSX-Manager from 6.4.0 to 6.4.6

and after the upgrade i get error when i use this PUT API : /api/4.0/firewall/globalroot-0/config/layer3sections/1009

 

Error:

 

{

 

    "errorCode": 100030,

    "details": "Precondition failed. Please update the current configuration with latest generation Number.",

    "rootCauseString": null,

    "moduleName": "vShield App",

    "errorData": null

}

 

I use this headers:

 

someone know something about this issue?

 

Thank you.

macOS Catalina issue [beta]

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Hello.  I installed the new macOS 10.15 beta today, and loaded fusion to find that my Windows 7 VM boots up and runs just fine, but only shows a black screen. I can see it in the library and even use it by typing, moving the mouse around in the black screen, and watching in the library but that's all. Has anyone experienced this before? I've tried reinstalling Fusion, to no avail. It also doesn't show anything during post/boot, so it's not a video driver issue I don't think.

 

- Accelerate 3D Graphics is NOT checked.

- I receive NO error messages.

 

Screen Shot 2019-06-03 at 7.04.06 PM.png

Creating Distributed Switch and Migrating Management Network..

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Hi,

 

I'm creating the following in Workstation, and am unable to understand how to go about it.

 

The following script adds hosts to the vCenter, then a Distributed Switch is created and hosts added to it, then Portgroups added to the Distributed Switch. Now only 2 things remain, the vmnics, and vmkernels which is what I'm not understanding. When I do them using GUI they work fine and transfer successfully but how to achieve the same via PowerCLI. The problem is when I try to add vmnic0 (management vmnic) the connection is lost, I have tested the script without vmnic0 and it works fine.

 

CSV File Content

 

Hosts,Cluster,NIC,PortGroup,VMK,IP

esxi21.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic0,ManagementPG,ManagementNetwork,192.168.2.21

esxi22.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic0,ManagementPG,ManagementNetwork,192.168.2.22

esxi23.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic0,ManagementPG,ManagementNetwork,192.168.2.23

esxi24.v.lab,iSCSI_Cluster,vmnic0,ManagementPG,ManagementNetwork,192.168.2.34

esxi25.v.lab,iSCSI_Cluster,vmnic0,ManagementPG,ManagementNetwork,192.168.2.25

esxi21.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic1,ManagementPG,ManagementNetwork2,192.168.2.31

esxi22.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic1,ManagementPG,ManagementNetwork2,192.168.2.32

esxi23.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic1,ManagementPG,ManagementNetwork2,192.168.2.33

esxi24.v.lab,iSCSI_Cluster,vmnic1,ManagementPG,ManagementNetwork2,192.168.2.34

esxi25.v.lab,iSCSI_Cluster,vmnic1,ManagementPG,ManagementNetwork2,192.168.2.35

esxi21.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic2,NFSPG,NFS,192.168.3.21

esxi22.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic2,NFSPG,NFS,192.168.3.22

esxi23.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic2,NFSPG,NFS,192.168.3.23

esxi24.v.lab,iSCSI_Cluster,vmnic2,NFSPG,NFS,192.168.3.24

esxi25.v.lab,iSCSI_Cluster,vmnic2,NFSPG,NFS,192.168.3.25

esxi21.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic3,vSANPG,vSAN,192.168.5.21

esxi22.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic3,vSANPG,vSAN,192.168.5.22

esxi23.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic3,vSANPG,vSAN,192.168.5.23

esxi24.v.lab,iSCSI_Cluster,vmnic3,iSCSI1PG,iSCSI1,192.168.4.24

esxi25.v.lab,iSCSI_Cluster,vmnic3,iSCSI1PG,iSCSI1,192.168.4.25

esxi21.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic4,vSANPG,vSAN,192.168.5.31

esxi22.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic4,vSANPG,vSAN,192.168.5.32

esxi23.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic4,vSANPG,vSAN,192.168.5.33

esxi24.v.lab,iSCSI_Cluster,vmnic4,iSCSI2PG,iSCSI2,192.168.4.34

esxi25.v.lab,iSCSI_Cluster,vmnic4,iSCSI2PG,iSCSI2,192.168.4.35

esxi21.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic5,vMotionPG,vMotion,192.168.6.21

esxi22.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic5,vMotionPG,vMotion,192.168.6.22

esxi23.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic5,vMotionPG,vMotion,192.168.6.23

esxi21.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic6,vMotionPG,vMotion,192.168.6.31

esxi22.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic6,vMotionPG,vMotion,192.168.6.32

esxi23.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic6,vMotionPG,vMotion,192.168.6.33

esxi21.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic7,FT,FT,192.168.7.21

esxi22.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic7,FT,FT,192.168.7.22

esxi23.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic7,FT,FT,192.168.7.23

esxi21.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic8,FT,FT,192.168.7.31

esxi22.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic8,FT,FT,192.168.7.32

esxi23.v.lab,vSAN_Cluster,vmnic8,FT,FT,192.168.7.33

 

PowerCLI Script

 

$csvFile = Import-CSV -Path C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\esxiHostsdvSwitch.csv

 

Connect-VIServer vcsa.v.lab -Force

 

Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -Scope User -ParticipateInCEIP $false -confirm:$false

 

$dc = New-Datacenter -location (Get-Folder -NoRecursion) -Name vDatacenter

New-Cluster -Name iSCSI_Cluster -Location $dc

New-Cluster -Name vSAN_Cluster -Location $dc

 

$dvSwitch = "vDCSwitch"

New-VDSwitch -Name $dvSwitch -Location vDatacenter -NumUplinkPorts 9 -MaxPorts 256 -Version "6.6.0"

 

foreach ($val in $csvFile)

   {

      $esxiHosts = $val.Hosts

      $clusterName = $val.Cluster

      $nic = $val.NIC

      $pgroup = $val.PortGroup

      $ip = $val.IP

      Add-VMHost $esxiHosts -User root -Password "" -Location $clusterName -Force

      Add-VDSwitchVMHost -VMHost $esxiHosts -VDSwitch $dvSwitch

      New-VDPortgroup -Name $pgroup -VDSwitch $dvSwitch -NumPorts 8

   }

 

foreach ($val in $csvFile)

   {

      $esxiHosts = $val.Hosts

      $nic = $val.NIC

 

      $dSwitch = Get-VMHost $esxiHosts | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -Physical -Name $nic

      Get-VDSwitch $dvSwitch | Add-VDSwitchPhysicalNetworkAdapter -VMHostNetworkAdapter $dSwitch -Confirm:$false

}

 

Thank You

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