Dears,

Is there anyway to get recompose history for past one year for Pool ? We have an audit requirement.

Thanks in advance

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to add a Powershell host, but the point in which the workflow adds it, it just hands.  I have to stop VRO and, in troubleshooting. kill off any running scripts.

I have followed the various winrm configuration instructions and I can successfully test winrm from my PC to the server.  I have tried configuring 2 seperate servers, both of which are in different domains and a different domain to the VRO server (3 domains).

I am attempting to configure a host with basic authentication, with a local user with admin and RM rights.  I can see a connection being made on the host using netstat.  I've tried turning off the firewall and Mcafee, but get the same result.

If I build a new server, with no domain and configure in exactly the same way, it works.........so what am I missing?

Hey Guys,

I am currently running some external powershell through vRO against our powershell server.

I have tried this in the following environments:

• vRO 7.2 - PS Plugin v1.0.11
• vRO 7.2 - PS Plugin v1.0.9
• vRO 7.1 - PS Plugin v1.0.9

The powershell is returning a PSObject, and it is being parsed via:

myvar.getResults().getRootObject().getProperty('InstanceId');

I know for a fact that the object is getting returned correctly because when I execute

myvar.getHostOutput();

My supposedly 'returned' object is being displayed to the console on the remote powershell server. I also have some logging setup on the powershell server that confirms this as well.

I believe it has something to do with a timeout of some kind within the powershell plugin. If I run my powershell cmdlet in 'test' mode, the script runs for 30 seconds and the data comes back just fine. However, when I am actually trying to run the cmdlet, it takes about 15 minutes, and I am unable to parse the response. I am getting the following error back:

TypeError: Cannot find function getProperty in object ,Windows IP Configuration,,Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.,DynamicWrapper (Instance) : [PowerShellPSObject]-[class com.vmware.o11n.plugin.powershell.model.result.PSObject

This error would indicate that the object that was returned wasn't actually a PSObject. But this is false, the HostOutput says otherwise, as well as the logging setup on the PS server.

Anybody else experience anything like this?

EDIT:

I have also attempted to just return a string instead of a PSObject, the result is the same. When the workflow runs quickly, it works. When it runs in full, nothing comes back.

I upgraded to 6.5 on my whitebox hypervisor system (Intel Sandy Bridge), I had been running a Marvel HBA storage adapter on community drivers, but looked forward to the return of native AHCI drivers in the form of vmw_ahci.

Alas, it wasn't to be, after a very short time I found VMs were getting I/O errors and after a bit longer I was in a position of having to recover vmdks from backup due to corruption.

It seems that people suffer from performance problems with this driver and VM's freezing, I don't think anybody has actually gone into the detail of why they're freezing.  I/O errors which can very easily lead to corruption of the file system.  I bought a Kaby Lake board to see if that worked any better, but the same problem was there with the driver and I can't disable vmw_ahci as Kaby Lake doesn't seem to have any other drivers yet - waste of £170!.

Has anybody been successful with unlisted AHCI controllers on 6.5?

Does anybody reckon VMware will do anything about this, or is 6.5 a no-go for me?  I think I might blow away the install and go to 6.0.

I am running esxi 6.5 with the latest patches and vmware tools 10.1.5

I am having very inconsistent performance issues with both of my hosts. Basically the windows 2016/windows 10 guests are sluggish at times. nothing will load and the os is basically unresponsive when interacting with the gui. The issue seems to be stemming from disk performance but I am not 100% certain that this is the cause, it may be a side affect.

What I have noticed is that some vms show a average response time for the disk of about 2000ms. Yet if i check the performance monitor at a host level the disk and datastores are all showing sub 1ms response time. I am not able to explain the inconsistencies there.

I have a local ssd datastore on each host as well as a rather fast nvme iscsi san that is connected via 100gb mellanox connectx4 cards. I see the issue with both hosts and both datastores. The issue seems to be worse now with the most recent patches and vmware tools drivers. I am using vmxnet3 network cards and paravirtual scsi controllers on all vms.

I have run disk benchmarks on the vms and the resutls vary. I have already seen it where i run a disk benchmark on a guest, get horrible results, vmotion it to the other host, and benchmarks to the san are fine, and then i vmotion the guest back to the original host and the results are fine the second time I run it.

here is an example of a bad test, the reads are terrible:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

CrystalDiskMark 5.2.0 x64 (C) 2007-2016 hiyohiyo

                           Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]

* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

   Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 2) :     0.655 MB/s

  Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 2) :  5384.173 MB/s

  Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 2) :     0.026 MB/s [     6.3 IOPS]

Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 2) :   617.822 MB/s [150835.4 IOPS]

         Sequential Read (T= 1) :     2.306 MB/s

        Sequential Write (T= 1) :  1907.004 MB/s

   Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) :    53.942 MB/s [ 13169.4 IOPS]

  Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) :    52.104 MB/s [ 12720.7 IOPS]

  Test : 50 MiB [C: 5.2% (15.6/299.5 GiB)] (x1)  [Interval=5 sec]

  Date : 2017/03/25 20:29:18

    OS : Windows 10 Enterprise [10.0 Build 14393] (x64)

a few seconds later on the same setup i get perfectly fine results:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

CrystalDiskMark 5.2.0 x64 (C) 2007-2016 hiyohiyo

                           Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]

* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

   Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 2) :  6655.386 MB/s

  Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 2) :  5654.851 MB/s

  Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 2) :   695.193 MB/s [169724.9 IOPS]

Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 2) :   609.216 MB/s [148734.4 IOPS]

         Sequential Read (T= 1) :  1810.393 MB/s

        Sequential Write (T= 1) :  1626.112 MB/s

   Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) :    53.266 MB/s [ 13004.4 IOPS]

  Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) :    54.289 MB/s [ 13254.2 IOPS]

  Test : 50 MiB [C: 5.2% (15.7/299.5 GiB)] (x1)  [Interval=5 sec]

  Date : 2017/03/25 20:32:21

    OS : Windows 10 Enterprise [10.0 Build 14393] (x64)

Hi,

I have a new laptop MSI PE60-6QE i7-6700HQ 32Go RAM 1To SSD.

I installed VMware Workstation 12 Pro. Then I installed a VM ESXi 5.5 and a VM vCenter on VMware Workstation 12.
And from the VM vCenter, I wanted to do a VM Windows 12 or VM Windows 101 on VM ESXi.
The Windows VM in the ESXi VM is very very slow. It is impossible to install the operating system so the VM is very slow.

I have another pc and I do not have these problems slow.

It's really urgent because I have to make a presentation in a few days and I can not prepare my environment  Here are the actions I have already done: I checked the box : check the Expose hardware assisted virtualization to the guest OS

But it's not successfull

Thanks

Hi,

what is the correct way to re-add a VMFS Datastore with two Extents after a defective RAID Controller had to be changed.

Situation:

- ESXi 5.5

- local RAID controller with two RAID Arrays configured

- a VMFS Datastore was created with one RAID Array and then expanded with the second RAID Array

- RAID Controller died in the ESXi Host

- RAID Controller was replaced with a similar controller

- RAID Controller shows both arrays as healthy

- rescan Datastores in ESXi doesn't mount a datastore

- the add HDD/LUN Wizard shows both RAID Arrays as possible Target with option to mount the datastore by keeping the signature, changing the signature or format the volume

- the original big Datastore is not shown in this wizard

- as far as I could find out both shown volumes are recognized as mirror LUN since they are accessed on a different path because of the RAID controller change

Question:

how to re-add the original VMFS Datastore containing both RAID Arrays and not loosing Data on the VMFS volume

部署vRealize Automation，添加代理时，日志提示：This exception was caught: 执行该操作的权限被拒绝,如何解决，已经授权了，还是提示这个……

I am having an issue where when I power on a client, one of 3 things will happen :

1) Client starts normally

2) I get a VMware initializing screen, that will stay forever. All options to this client will be greyed out, this is the most common.

3) Black Screen, I can't see what is going on, but inputs are available, rare

In 2) & 3), if I try to close the VMWare workstation window from taskbar, I get a "Virtual Machine is busy" message

If I kill the VM workstation from task manager, it will be killed and when I restart the VM workstation, I will see that client already powered on and running normal.

There is no time from the kill to restart of VM workstation for the client to have reached that stage of startup,

so the only conclusion is that the client runs fine when I initially power on, but the workstation GUI failed to connect to it properly.

Once the VM workstation GUI connects to the VM clients, it works fine even I reboot the client multiple times.

Host OS is responsive throughout.

Any idea what might be causing the issue ?

My host is Windows 10 Pro 1703, with 24GB ram.

VM Workstation Pro version is 12.5.6 build 5528349

Clients include windows 7 SP1, 10 1703, Server 2012 R2 and CentOS 7

Hello,

I have setup a lab environment in my machine with VMware workstation. In the workstation i have created a domain controller , ESXi host 6.0 , vcenter server applicance and mapped the ESXI host to the VCSA server. But  whenever i am trying to deploy  virtual machine in the esxi host ( through vcenter or directly through the esxi host) the host goes to unresponsive state.

Could someone help me in resolving this issue.

Regards

Sathish

I am trying to do a very basic View Composer pilot and when I get to the Host or Cluster setting to house the desktops, all my clusters are grayed out and even after selecting Show all hosts and clusters, I receive the "Not all hosts are View Composer or Instant Clone compatible."  error. I've never run into this before on any View environment.

Here are the details of the components:

* Horizon 7.0.2

* vCenter 5.5 VCSA

* Standalone View Composer using 2012 SQL Express

* Three ESXi 5.5 hosts

* SolidFire Array

* Windows 7 SP1 gold image with snapshot

Any ideas?

I am running an ESXI on a desktop computer with 2 VMs. My windows 10 VM is used for recording and monitoring my 2 police scanners using proscan software. I am having trouble getting the VM to recognize my serial to USB cables. The software will usually see them and show the (virtual) com ports as available, but not properly detect my scanner or say the baud rate is incorrect. Does anyone know some other things I can try to get these to work? I am also having an issue getting a USB sound card to be detected. not sure if that is also related.

Thanks for the help!

Olá,

Atualizamos a versão do VDP para a 6.1, porem não é possível selecionar o novo appliance no drop-down do VDP para gerenciá-lo (aparece somente o nome da VM do appliance antigo);

Verificamos que existia um alerta de consistência no novo VDP, iniciando então o processo de verificação de integridade para verificar se este é o motivo da VM não estar na lista de appliances válidos no VDP, porem não obtivemos sucesso.

Acompanhamos a verificação pelo web client e também executando o comando "avmaint hfscheckstatus --ava" no ssh. O campo status estava como "completed" e o result deve estar como "OK";

Iniciamos o serviço de manutenção com o comando "dpnctl start maint". A partir deste momento, o alerta referente à integridade de checkpoints desapareceu, porem ainda não aparece o novo appliance no drop-down do VDP para gerenciá-lo.

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Histórico de todo procedimento feito

-Inicialmente, foi perdido o vCenter, que estava na versão 5.5, instalado em servidor Windows;

-Foi criado um novo vCenter (VCSA), um novo datacenter e novo cluster, adicionando os mesmos hosts que estavam no vCenter anterior. Este novo vCenter, na versão 6.5;

-Após a criação do novo vCenter, verificamos que não existia compatibilidade entre o VDP 5.8 e o novo vCenter (plugin do VDP não aparecia no vCenter web client);

-Realizada tentativa de atualização do VDP 5.8 para 6.0.5 sem sucesso. Ocorreu problema por falta de espaço em um datastore. Abortamos a atualização;

-Com o problema de falta de espaço, tivemos que excluir o snapshot do VDP original;

-Para acelerar o processo, decidimos importar os discos de dados do VDP 5.8 em um novo appliance na versão 6.1 e recriar os jobs de backup. Procedimento finalizado com sucesso;

-A partir da importação e configuração do novo appliance e dos discos do appliance antigo, o plugin do VDP voltou a aparecer no web client;

-Não é possível selecionar o novo appliance no drop-down do VDP para gerenciá-lo (aparece somente o nome da VM do appliance antigo);

-Verifiquei que existia um alerta de consistência no novo VDP, iniciando então o processo de verificação de integridade para verificar se este é o motivo da VM não estar na lista de appliances válidos no VDP.

Hi,

I'm running VMWare Player 7.1.4 because this is the last version to support Unity with Linux guests. (https://communities.vmware.com/thread/518568)

My host is currently Debian 8 (Jessie) with Kernel 3.16.0.4 and everything works very nicely!

Debian 9 was recently released and defaults to Kernel 4.9. I know that the modules for network support, etc. must have their code patched to properly build with the newer Kernel and newer GCC.

I'm sure that others must be using Player 7/Workstation 10 to keep Unity Support. Any info on getting this working with newer kernels would be much appreciated!

P.S. I found a patch put out by Arch Linux (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vmware-patch/) designed for VMWare Workstation and I suspect part of the answer is there.

Thanks much!

Mark

Hi,

I am struggling with running a guest CentOS 7 / KDE on a Windows 10 laptop which has a high dpi resolution of 3200 x 1800.

Because the guest has unsatisfactory support for high dpi (and I cannot change the guest), I am trying to solve the problem from the outside. The following works somewhat OK:

* resize the client area of the guest (i.e. the VMware window) to 1600 x 900

* go full screen with the VM (Ctrl+Alt+Enter)

* make sure that "View -> Autosize -> Stretch Guest" is enabled

For the to work sufficiently well, without fuzzy rendering, I really, really want the client area at 1600 x 900.

What is the easiest way to set this reliably? Right now, I have to manually resize, which is a real pain to do manually.

Bonus question: Are there other means to compensate for the bad high dpi support in guest CentOS 7?

Hi,

I am trying to configure the VRA Management Pack with VRops. I downloaded the management pack as a zip file(vmware-MPforvRealizeAutomation-2.1-4378245.zip). But when i am trying to add the solution in vrops, i cannot find the ".pak" file.

below is the url from where i downloaded the zip file. Please help.

Regards,

Selvan

I have a 16 VCPU server running 6.5. For ease of explanation, I have 16 VMs with 1 VCPU assigned to each. When monitoring the system as a whole, I see random spikes where just 1 or 2 VCPUs will spike to 100%. All of the rest are stable at the time when this happens. Should this be a concern. And while we are on the subject... Is 1 VCPU assigned specifically to 1 VM, or do all VCPUs share the load for the system as a whole. I.E., if VM A is idle and it's VCPU is at 0% usage, and VM B's VCPU is maxed out, will VM A's VCPU pitch in and help?

Hi All,

I have writen a workflow where I am invoking the powershell script and I am getting the output of my poweshell script in vRO sucessfully. Now I want to use the VRO output to my next workflow. Could anybody help to that how to grep vRO output and use in next workflow?

Hi,

The VirtualBox creators and user community has been successful on enabling SATA and USB 3.0

support for Windows XP guests.

Are these two supports in any way also possible (vmware natively or not) in case of Fusion hypervisor ?

10 days ago, I got a new system with Windows 10. I installed the latest VMware 12.5.4 and everything worked fine until Friday. I remember that when I shut down my system Friday, Windows updated something.

Yesterday, Monday, suddenly my system crashes 6 times with BSODs. It took a while to understand that the crashes are related to the VMware.

This morning, I removed VMware 12.5.4 and installed version 12.1.1, but I wasn't able to install Windows 7 (failed driver) and it crashed my system once more.

Is there somebody who experiences the same?

Version    10.0.14393 Build 14393

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz, 4201 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)

Physical Memory (RAM)    32.0 GB

Available Physical Memory 29.2 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Crucial_CT2050MX300SSD1 Size 1.86 TB (2,050,406,023,680 bytes)

Windows Error Reporting    Fault bucket , type Event Name: BlueScreen;