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Correct vShere Images for IBM Flex System x220 Compute Node (PureFlex)

September 2, 2016, 10:59 am
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We need to figure out what is the correct software packages to use to upgrade the following hardware:

  • IBM Flex System x220 Compute Node (PureFlex) : CPU Series:Intel Xeon E5-2400 Series
  • from vSphere v 5.5 to v6.0 U2. (currently running the IBM 5.5 image)

 

Do we use the generic package listed under the Product Downloads tab or the Lenovo System x Custom Image for ESXi 6.0 U2 Install CD listed under the ISO tab?

 

The following URL is from the Compatibly Matrix, but does not mention a custom image.

http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=server&productid=19408&deviceCategory=server&details=1&partner=43&releases=275&systemTypes=1&page=1&display_interval=10&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc

Thanks

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Brand new WS Pro 12 install and new Win10x64 VM. Cannot snapshot or clone. Get error "One of the parameters supplied is invalid"

September 2, 2016, 11:04 am
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I've installed a licensed copy of WS Pro 12.1.1 build-3770994 on a Win10x64 host machine, and created a Win10x64 guest. The guest runs without any issues that I can see. The guest (to date) has no snapshots, is not encrypted, and has autoprotect disabled.

 

When I try to snapshot or clone (either full or linked), I get the error message "Cloning/Snapshot failed: One of the parameters supplied is invalid."

 

I have tried:

  • changing the name of the clone (or snapshot) to something without spaces
  • "cleanup disks" option (completes without any errors)
  • defragmenting the disk

 

The program still does not work. What could be the problem?

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VMware View 6.2.2 Linux Desktop (CentOS 6.7) No Sound Issue

September 2, 2016, 12:26 pm
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Hi,

 

This is the setup...

 

VMware Horizon View 6.2.2 build-3508079

VMware View Client: 3.4.0

Linux Desktop OS: CentOS 6.7 64-bit

 

Scenario

Linux desktops are configured to mount an NFS dastore upon boot.

 

NFS Server configuration

  • CentoOS 6.7
  • Joined to the domain using Centrify
  • /etc/exports/

        profiles 10.64.0.0/24(rw,no_root_squash,sync,no_subtree_check,fsid=10)

  • NFS folder: /profiles (permissions 755)

NFS Client configuration (Linux Desktops)

  • CentOS 6.7
  • Joined to the domain using Centrify
  • Mount Point: /profiles (permissions 700)
  • After mounting: /profiles (permissions read 755 nobody nobody)
  • /ets/fstab

        10.64.0.8:/profiles     /profiles               nfs     defaults,_netdev        0 0

Centrify

    I am using Centrify to join systems to the domain. I configured the Centrify agent to use the NFS mount (/profiles) for all AD user home directories.

 

Whenever I log in, I am am able to create a home directory on the NFS mount fine. I can save files, change desktop settings and upon future logins, I am able to retain

the user experience. I don't see any problems reading/writing files under the user's context. I notice that the speaker icon in the top corner will not appear. I go to

System --> Preferences --> Sound, and I get a window saying "Waiting for sound system to respond." This is what I see in /var/log/message:

    Sep  2 14:53:29 lnx-01 pulseaudio[12578]: core-util.c: Home directory /profiles/User1 not ours.

    Sep  2 14:53:29 lnx-01 pulseaudio[12578]: lock-autospawn.c: Cannot access autospawn lock.

    Sep  2 14:53:29 lnx-01 pulseaudio[12578]: main.c: Failed to acquire autospawn lock

    Sep  2 14:53:32 lnx-01 pulseaudio[12643]: core-util.c: Home directory /profiles/User1 not ours.

    Sep  2 14:53:32 lnx-01 pulseaudio[12643]: lock-autospawn.c: Cannot access autospawn lock.

    Sep  2 14:53:32 lnx-01 pulseaudio[12643]: main.c: Failed to acquire autospawn lock

 

When I log in with a LOCAL or AD account configured to use the local /home directory that lives on the local disk, I am able to see the

sound icon in the top right corner, and sound works fine. I do not see the "pulseaudio" entries as I do when logging in with a user that

has their home directory on the NFS mount. This sound issue only exists when users' home directories are located on the NFS mount.

 

-Rob

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MDT Test FAILED

September 2, 2016, 12:52 pm
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I am running Workstation 3.5, using the Storage Certification test suite.

I kicked of the Configuration and Collect Storage Information portion of the test and hit a failure.  The log is reporting MDT test failed.

The log in the 2nd screen shot says it cannot find storage60info.txt.

What creates the .txt file they are referring to or is that something I need to create.

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How to store configuration information?

September 2, 2016, 10:20 am
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I'm building a few workflows that talk to several appliances.

 

I can prompt for the user/password as part of the workflow I think but I would like to store the following information somewhere so that i can easily reference it and pull it up for use rather than prompting the user.

 

I'm just looking to store

 

- hostname/ip

- username

- password

 

Where could i store that data?

 

The thought had occurred to create an Action to store it as a resource but I'm not sure if that's the right way to do it. I'm also not sure how to do it.

 

If someone has an example i can use, that would be greatly appreciated.

 

thank you.

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inactive storage

August 30, 2016, 12:59 am
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ESXi 5.5

После неожиданного выключения и последующего восстановления питания одно хранилище  (storage) на моей ферме помечена красным значком (знак "Кирпич") и словом inactive.

Это хранилище - локальный диск на одном из хостов.

Вообще-то все работает, в том числе и по этому хранилищу можно полазить браузером файлов.

Более того, это хранилище мы не используем для размещения VM или их компонент.

Тем не менее, красный значок напрягает. А может у хоста вообще проблемы с собственным диском?

 

Вопросы:

1. Есть ли тут опасность?

2. Как это привести в норму?

3. Если я отмонтирую хранилище, которое одновременно еще и локальный диск хоста, ничего не рухнет?

4. Как посмотреть, есть ли у хоста проблемы с собственным диском? Вероятно, если бы проблемы были серьезные, хост бы вовсе не стартовал. А если менее серьезные?

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When does Fusion release CPU and Memory? (On Mac)

August 31, 2016, 3:27 pm
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Hi folks, a quick question if I may.

 

I have fusion installed on my mac, and a Win7 vm setup.  I don't have this set to run at startup, so there are no Fusion services showing in Activity Monitor, there is a VMWare Fusion Start Menu.

 

I have the vm setup to use a chunk of memory and 2 cpu cores, but when does VMWare take these resources, and when does it release them?  Does this startup service reserve anything?

 

Reason for asking, I don't have many things set to run at startup, and those that do are pretty small, but I have a large chunk of memory gone before starting up a vm.  I can watch Activity and see a lump of memory taken when I start the vm, and released when I stop it, but it's not the amount I have chosen in the settings - Does Fusion reserve all the memory in one go, or as needed?  And the same kind of question with the cores, I can't find a way to monitor the cores taken, certainly using the limited Activity Monitor.

 

The information in the FAQ's and online resources about this kind of thing is somewhat lacking.

 

Any help or information on this subject would be very much appreciated, especially as I may need several more vm's soon, and will need to manage the numbers pretty closely.

 

Many thanks.

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licensing and host profile

September 2, 2016, 1:22 pm
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Hi,

 

Sorry for a stupid question.  Does anybody know if can create host profiles using vsphere standard?

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not enough physical memory is available to power on this virtual machine with its configured setting

September 2, 2016, 9:31 am
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Hi guys,

 

I'm facing the shown below error when I try to start a VM (which is on an external HDD) with VMware Workstation 12 Player:

 

HDD free space = 1.1To

VM.vmdk size = 430 Go

 

VMware player release = 12.1.1-3770994

Memory for this virtual machine = 16092 MB

Hard Disk (SCSI) = 558.7 GB  > Current size = 410.8 GB

 

I did all the fixes described here: https://www.petri.com/fixing-enough-physical-memory-available-errors-vmware-workstation but no improvement

 

Please, can someone help me to resolve this issue ?

 

Thanks in advance

 

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vSphere upgrade from version 5.0 to 6.0

September 2, 2016, 10:18 am
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Current vSphere version is 5.0
All VM were backed up using HP data protector using Traditional Method (i.e. Backup agent installed on the guest operating system and were back up)

 

 

Plan is to upgrade the vSphere from ver5.0 to ver.6.0

Post upgrade will there be any issues/trouble related to backups. Do I need to take any precautionary steps related to backup infrastructure before the upgrade of vsphere

 

 

Please provide your inputs/thoughts

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vCenter upgrade from 5.0 U3 to 6.0 U1

September 2, 2016, 10:05 am
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Plan is to upgrade the vCenter 5.0 U3 (Windows based) to vCenter 6.0 U1 (Windows based)

 

 

I check in VMware site for vCenter upgrade path compatibility check, I found that vCneter server appliance can only be update from ver.5.1 U3 to ver.6.0. Does it mean that windows based vCenter cannot be upgraded to newer version.6.0 ??

 


How I should plan for the windows based vcenter upgrade.

 

I need your valuable inputs/suggestion and direction on this.

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Are multiple Witness appliances on single host supported?

September 2, 2016, 9:56 am
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I'm working on a design that includes two (8)-node VSAN 6.2 Stretched Clusters and a 2-Node ROBO MGMT cluster.

 

Assuming it resides in a 3rd site and is sized properly with required number of vNICs, disks, cores, etc., can a single physical ESXi host support the (3) Witness OVA appliances that each cluster will require?  (2 "Normal" and 1 "Tiny")

If so, what are the possible downsides to this design beyond scale?  It's unclear to me what would happen in the event of a host failure in this case.

 

Many thanks for your assistance.

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VSM No longer very Useful

September 2, 2016, 5:23 pm
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Hello,

 

The usefulness of VSM just dropped significantly. I can no longer download the products I own. The ability to download CustomIso's, Drivers and Tools, and the software was incredibly important. Going through the My VMware is very difficult. Now, since I have to login to VSM for it to work, one would assume that you could then use the same information to pick up any entitlements and allow the existing software to be downloaded.  VSM made it very convenient to get updated codes and code. Now we have to go back to the old increasingly painful way of doing such downloads and keeping everything up to date.

 

I request you add the functionality back in but also check any entitlements. If you ARE checking entitlements, it is odd that you dropped vSphere 6.0 from the update list as all the other tools include it as part of all other bundles. Keeping up to date is important!

 

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

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ESXi Backups

September 2, 2016, 9:53 am
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Hi folks!

 

So I have the great luck of inheriting a small (3 server) esxi farm that I need to upgrade and clean up.  I also dont have the ESXI root passwords!!!

 

Does anybody know of a way to pull server configuration back ups so that once i reload ESXI on it I wont have to go through the hassle of manually re-building all the settings from scratch?

This is also VMware standard license so i cant do profiles.

 

On a side note, and i am doubtful, but, since i can see that the NTP is shut down and the time is off, can this cause the root passwords that they swear are it not function?

 

Lastly, would setting up AD help me by pass lack of root password?

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vCenter 5.5 to 6.0 Upgrade doubts

September 2, 2016, 6:35 am
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Hello everyone i am planning to upgrade our vCenters Servers (3) from 5.5 to 6.0

 

My doubts are these ones:

 

1. We have separated SSO domains, after the upgrade we want to replicate the three PSC is there anyway to do that? I mean repointing PSC between them.

 

2. Between two of the vCenters we have installed Site Recovery Manager, what considerations we need to have if we can replicate the sites?

 

Thanks you very much.

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EVC mode

September 2, 2016, 8:41 am
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Hi

  I would like to enable mode for cluster .How to find processor belong to which family.i can see lot of options in drop down like while enabling EVC for intel.

 

Intel®"Merom" Gen. (Intel® Xeon® Core™ 2)

Intel® "Penryn" Gen. (Intel® Xeon® 45nm Core™ 2)

Intel® "Nehalem" Gen. (Intel®Xeon® Core™ i7)

Intel® "Westmere" Gen. (Intel®Xeon® 32nm Core™ i7)

Intel® "Sandy Bridge" Generation



How to find my processor belong to which category.please help me on this.


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Storage Performance Degradiaton Issue On Local Storage

September 2, 2016, 7:56 am
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Hello,

 

Currently, I run a ESXi 6 physical host. It has the following specs:

 

2 x Intel Xeon V3-2630 CPU - 8 physical cores

128 GB RAM

2 Quad-Port NICs

4 On Board NICs running Tntel NICs

9 SAS Drives

3 SSDs

1 Adaptec 72405 RAID Controller

 

I've noticed when I transfer files between disks on Guests VMs while running on top of the ESXi Hypervisor, the storage speed is very, very slow.

 

When I disconnect ESXi and put a Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter as a hypervisor, the speeds return to normal.

 

To more specific, when transferring a large 100 GB file from disk 1 to disk 2 on a guest VM (or VM-to-VM or within the VM from one of its VMFS disk that is located on one physical disk to another VMFS disk located on  another physical disk), storage performance goes initially in the first second at 60 Mb/s for read/write speeds to sustained transferred speeds of only 10 Mb/s for the next hour.

 

The physical disk are local storage. Each one of my physical hard drives (Seagate Constellaiton 4 TB at 7200 RPMs) are then connected via a Norco RPC-4224 Chasis. It has 24 bays. It is then connected to my Adaptec 7 Series RAID Controller, which is also connected via the PCI slot.

 

I have alraedy tried to troubleshoot this issue. I've done these things alrady:

  1. I ran diagnostics.
  2. I've disconnected the ESXi boot disk, and booted in Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2. On a Windows box, I can get read and write speeds at 140 -160 MB/s. But I don't know why I am getting only 10 Mb/sec on ESXi. And that's a huge difference!
  3. I also disconnected each of the physical drives and plugged my physical hard drives into the motherboard's onboard SATA/SAS ports.
  4. I've also went into the ESXi Advanced Settings to play around with the "Disk" settings. After all this troubleshooting, I am still getting the same problem.
  5. Already upgraded the storage drivers from Microsemi for the Adaptec 7 Series RAID card, and even updated the firmware/BIOs for the motherboard.

 

Any ideas how I can resolve this?

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AMD FirePro Passthru

September 2, 2016, 5:18 am
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ESXi 5.5 3568722

 

I have installed an AMD FirePro W2100

I have successfully passed it through to a Server 2008 R2 VM

 

The video drivers for the card have installed perfectly.  I can see the video card in the Device Manager

 

However, I cannot get the VM to use the GPU - it wants to use the VMWare SVGA 3D

I disable SVGA - then lose my screen

I then RDP into the VM and can see the screen but Windows only indicates that the video card is running on an RDP channel

 

 

How can I determine if the VM is actually using the GPU

 

 

Steve

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VMware Announces Fusion and Fusion Pro 8.5, Workstation Player and Pro 12.5

August 30, 2016, 4:04 am
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See: VMware Announces Fusion and Fusion Pro 8.5 With Sierra and Windows 10 Anniversary Support - Mac Rumors

 

I have seen no official announcement on VMware's website yet. According to the article, VMware Fusion 8.5 and Fusion Pro 8.5 are free upgrades for Fusion 8 users.

 

I hope it fixes my two pet bugs: "Unity windows constantly grab focus" and "Virtual Machine Library mini windows don't display current virtual machine screen".

 

Window focus issues in Unity mode

Windows apps steal focus after choosing app from Mission Control using Unity

 

Mini Windows in Virtual Machine Library Do Not Update?

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Thinapp error

September 3, 2016, 12:38 am
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Whenever I try to open a portable program created with Thinapp I get an error message like :" ThinApp has encountered an unexpected error.Click Abort to close the application, Retry to debug,or Continue to ignore the error. Support info:PID=5408, Runtime2.cpp@841".

You can not go on and have to close the program.

What can I do to get it working again ?

OS : Win 7 64 bit Home premium

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