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Re: Reprotect fails with error

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What did the messages within Enterprise Manager / Storage Center for the Compellent say?

 

I suspect this will be not be SRM related, and you are probably best to work with Dell on this issue. The SRM SRA is simply passing instructions to the underlying array, but it sounds like something isn't set up correctly within Enterprise Manager.


Re: Windows 10 wrong date/time

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No this is before a user even logs into a desktop

Re: vSphere 5.5U3e Windows vCenter to vSphere 6.0U2 Appliance vCenter

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Hi Daniel,

 

As of right now, you would have to do a side-by-side migration, which would involve standing up a new VCSA 6.0U2 and then manually (or scripted) creating everything such as folders, permissions, cluster configuration, advanced setting etc ...

 

And then you would move the ESXi hosts across to the new vCenter server. If you are using distributed switches, there will be even more work involved as you would need to migrate everything to standard switches in the source vCenter server first. You'll also lose historical information.

 

With that said, VMware have been working on, and demo'd a migration tool, which will migrate and upgrade a windows 5.5 vCenter install to the appliance running 6.0U2. While VMware have made no commitment to actually release this nor say when, from the way the employees were speaking in the VMworld sessions and on twitter, it sounds like it could be released within the next couple of weeks.

 

If you can, I'd suggest waiting a few weeks to see if it gets released. It will save you a LOT of time.

 

Cheers, Matt.

Cannot mount USB 3.0 external disk after VMware Fusion 8.5.0 (4352717) update

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Cannot mount USB 3.0 external disk on Mac OS X 10.6.8 Server (Snow Leopard) 64-bit on VMware Fusion 8.5.0 (4352717) on Mac OS X 10.11.6 (15G1004) El Capitan.

 

Rosetta is needed to run some Mac applications, and Snow Leopard is the last Mac OS X supporting Rosetta.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)

 

The issue arose after updating VMware Fusion from previous version. No problem mounting USB devices in Mac OS X 10.11.6. The issue arises only when mounting in Mac OS X 10.6.8 Server (which is a virtual machine of VMware Fusion).

 

I have reinstalled and even uninstalled and reinstalled "Virtual Machine > Reinstall VMware Tools" to no avail. Repairing permissions with Apple Disk Utility does not fix it either.

 

1. Mac OS X 10.6.8 Server reports:

 

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System Extension cannot be used
The system extension “/System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBEthernetHost.kext” was installed improperly and cannot be used. Please try reinstalling it, or contact the product’s vendor for an update.

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2. Also, when I plug an external USB pendrive, I get:

 

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The device '...' was unable to connect to its ideal host controller.

An attempt will be made to connect this device to the best available host controller. This might result in undefined behavior for this device.

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If then I click OK to continue, Mac OS X 10.6.8 Server is frozen. I must unplug the USB disk or "Virtual Machine > Restart" (or Shut Down) to get out of it.


I have fixed issue 1 above reinstalling iTunes for Mac OS X 10.6.8 (which reinstalls AppleUSBEthernetHost.kext).

iTunes - Download iTunes Now - Apple

 

Once I turn off the virtual machine (Mac OS X 10.6.8 Server)

Virtual Machine > Settings > USB and Bluetooth > Advanced USB options

shows

USB Compatibility: USB 2.0

in a popup menu in which I can also select USB 1.1. But I cannot select USB 3.0, since it is gray dimmed.


And below it shows

USB 3.0 cannot be used unless the virtual hardware version is upgraded.

 

I have seen that I can select USB 3.0 with Windows XP, Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16 (all of them showed as USB 2.0 instead of USB 3.0 after the VMware Fusion 8.5 update!!!). But I cannot select USB 3.0 in the case of Mac OS X 10.6.8 Server, as said.

 

In summary, VMware Fusion 8.5 update resets USB settings (previously configured as USB 3.0 with previous VMware Fusion versions) and defaults to USB 2.0 instead of USB 3.0 in all virtual machines above (Mac OS X 10.6.8 Server, Windows XP, Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16), and then it is not possible to manually configure to USB 3.0 the one corresponding to Mac OS X 10.6.8 Server.

 

How to fix this issue? Thanks.

Re: keyboard/mouse do not attach to p2v vm. Okay for all other vms.

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PS Send Ctrl-Alt-Del to the vm doesn't do anything either.

Re: Save base64 encoded File Attachment from a SOAP service, as the original file

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Thanks for the inout Joerg.

 

First issue, is that I can't download via HTTP.

The SOAP APi just returns a roughly 5.000 character long string, which is the actual representation of the file in base64 encoded format.

 

The solution I have come up with so far is this:

 

Adjust file permissions on vRO Appliance:

 

Edit /etc/vco/app-server/js-io-rights.conf

Add line:

+rwx /vro-file-temp/


Enable Operation System Commands for Command Class in vRO Javascript:


Edit /etc/vco/app-server/vmo.properties

Add line:

com.vmware.js.allow-local-process=true

 

Restart vRO Server Service, e.g. "service vco-server restart"


When the SOAP API returns that 5.000 character base64 string, save it as a variable like "base64FileAttachment".

Then in a Scriptable Task to the following:

 

var filePath = "/vro-file-temp/" + vmName + ".txt";

var myFileWriter = new FileWriter(filePath);
myFileWriter.open();
myFileWriter.clean();
myFileWriter.write(base64FileAttachment);
myFileWriter.close;


var cmd = "/usr/bin/openssl base64 -A -d -in /vro-file-temp/" + vmName + ".txt -out /vro-file-temp/" + vmName +".p12";

var command = new Command(cmd);
command.execute(true);

var myTxtFile = new File("/vro-file-temp/" + vmName + ".txt");
myTxtFile.deleteFile();

 

This creates a file in the "vro-file-temp" directory, named with the vmName name, as a TXT file.

Write the "base64FileAttachment" to that file.

Use openssl to decode the base64 TXT file into the original p12 file.

It then deletes the base64 encoded TXT file version, as that is not needed further done the "workflow-line".

 

This works, although it lowers the security some on the vRO system, do to enabling the "Operation System Commands for Command Class".

Re: vSAN Enabled Cluster - Mix RAID0 with HBA mode

Re: AV 2.11 and Office 365 (Office 2016)

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This is EXACTLY what is happening to me in our environment and all of the solutions above have not made a lick of difference.  I used the VMware recipe to install O365 (2013) and made the necessary tweaks, but nothing has changed. I get the 'Something went wrong' error almost every time I open Word or Excel and then the whole machine locks up.  Outlook works OK, but is VERY slow and sometimes locks up as well.

 

When I use the MSI installer and KMS activation, we have next to no issues with Office at all.  Anyone with any further advice?  I have opened a ticket with VMware, but dont expect them to jump right on this anytime soon.


Get Disk Status i.e. Online / Offline in 2008/2012 via WMI & PowerCLI

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Hey Guys

 

Just wondering, does anyone know how to identify offline disks within Windows via WMI and PowerCLI?

 

I need both ideally as I want to improve my SCSI ID match to hard disk script.

 

Right now it does everything I want except provide the status of the disk... the problem is, even when a disk is "offline" it still reads as "Status OK" in WMI. There has to be somekind of key or parameter in WMI that will allow me to determine if the disk is offline or online - this is the last thing I really need for my script for it to be 100% complete.

 

Thanks all

Re: Mixing 6gb and 12gb drives in the same cluster

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Everything mentioned previously still stands as far as that this is not a preferred configuration but I will make a small point. That point is that there should be no performance difference between 6Gb SAS 10K drives and 12Gb SAS 10K drives. The performance bottleneck of your drives is still the rotating assembly. If you were getting new 15K drives or 7.2K drives then I would say that you shouldn't do it but you're still looking at the same IOPs and performance characteristics from one 10K drive to the other.

 

My opinion but I think it's pretty valid.

 

Doug Arcidino

Re: Fans spinning up with 8.5, El Capitan Host, Win 7 Guest

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reinstalling Fusion is likely not going to help.

 

When dealing with an issue like this you want to isolate the problem.

Is it some process in Windows that is using 100%? <- normal reaction to CPU utilization is fans kicking on.

It the mac process 'vmware-vmx' using 100% cpu but Windows shows 0% utilization in Task Manager? <- Bug

Re: Cannot Even Install!

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That's random... something on the host is messed up, we've never seen it behave this way.

Have you tried a simple reboot?

The fact the installer disappears after typing your password means something is going wrong outside of Fusion itself.

Issues with RHEL 6 as guest OS in vmware

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I was planning to install oracle db 11g on vmware. For that I installed RHEL 6.0 as the guest OS. But after installing all the packages on linux when i rebooted it the guest OS was not responding and it simply hanged. Restarted the services but it didn't help.

Attached is the screenshot for your easy reference

Re: keyboard/mouse do not attach to p2v vm. Okay for all other vms.

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Boot the VM into a Windows7 LiveCD. Use regedit and load the system hive of the Windows on disk. Disable keyboard and mousedriver manually.
If that does not work try the Converter-option "configure VM" again.
Maybe the VM allows access via RDP - if that is enabled you can login and remove the keyboard and mouse drivers.

Re: I am getting Error Access to resorce settings on the host is restricted to the server that is managing it: 192.168.0.230

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ON the Basic tasks i can hit "Manage this Host from Vcenter server"   is that what I sould do?

 

In short, yes. When the host is being managed by vCenter Server, which yours is, it is best to make any changes to the host or VMs running on that host from vCenter Server rather than directly on the host. This is so vCenter is aware of all changes being made within the environment, eluded to with this part of the message you received:

 

Changes made to the host during this session may not be reflected in VSphere client sessions currently viewing  the Vcenter

 

With that said, if you are just increasing the size of an existing VMDK, then you can happily do this either from vCenter or when connected directly to the host.


So this is more of an annoyance - I had to re-install from scratch whole hard disk - since then - VMWare doesn't re-open windows that were open.

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You Re-open VMWare and the VM's that WERE open don't re-open.  I don't have the VM's start automatically since that has burned me plenty of times in the past.

 

To re-produce;

1) Install from scratch.

2) Open (not import) VMDK (which may be my issue  but I wanted to mention this)

3) Leave Windows open after suspending.

4) Quit VMWare Fusion

5) Re-open VMWare Fusion <-- windows that WERE open will remain in the "Library" but will not re-open until I click "Start" button.

 

it is merely an annoyance but... am I missing a setting?

Re: Exception 0xc0000005 (Access Violation) (vmx)

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DISKLIB-SPARSE: "D:\Virtual Machines\SAPPRD-INTERMIDATE\SAPPRD-INTERMIDATE-000003.vmdk" : failed to open (14): Disk needs repair.
You can try to repair the snapshot with vmware-vdiskmanager.exe
vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -R "D:\Virtual Machines\SAPPRD-INTERMIDATE\SAPPRD-INTERMIDATE-000003.vmdk"

You probably must do that several times - if it works at all. Check vdiskmanager.log to verify progress.

 

I noticed that you assigned 16 vCPUs. I bet you get a better performance with less vCPUs.

Best VMWare Solution for my Requirement

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Hi All,

 

Currently working towards the migration of my companies services to a much more virtualised and highly available solution.

 

My current plan is to have around:

 

4 Powerful physical server stacks in different racks, with different UPS' powered by different power supplies. Each server stack contains:

 

  • 1 x physical server containing a minimum of 64GB RAM, probably more likely to be 128GB, and either 2 x 4 Core Xeons, or preferably 2 x 6 Core Xeons.
  • 1 x JBOD/SAN array containing at least 6 disks.
  • 1 x 10 Gb/e Switch.

 

All switches will be connected in a mesh system and two switches will connect to 1 router (2 routers for the 4 stacks). Each Router will have its own ISP connectivity to different exchanges.

 

There will be different servers in each stack, for instance backup servers, appliance servers, etc, but for now I'm trying to concentrate on the virtualised infrastructure.

 

What I'm after is the best VMWare solution to utilise all of the server stacks as one; as if the individual units were invisible. Basically, I want it to spread the load across all 4 server stacks, so that if one stack failed, the others would take up the load. I understand that there will have to be compromises with this, but I'm trying to find the best solution for my requirements. I've used VMWare vSphere and vCentre and I'm sure that this could go someway to delivering what I'm after, however I was wondering if there was a better option because outside of those two products, my knowledge on the range is limited.

 

Any issues you can think of with the above, or better ways of achieving what I'm after would be greatly appreciated.

 

Rich

Re: Error while powering on: The file specified is not a virtual disk

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The vmware.log describes a successful start - user.cdski was present and was accepted as a monolithicFlat  vmdk.
Moka5 seems to do some snapshot voddoo at the end of the log and that seems to have failed.
The vmware.log looks like it is not the one you wanted to post.

Anybody know if Vmare is providing more licenses code for Vcenter server 6.0 and ESXi5.5

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Anybody  know if Vmare  is  providing  more  licenses  code  for  Vcenter server 6.0 and  ESXi5.5

 

I have  a home lab and  my license  will expire tomorrow ?  I try to  get  another  60  days  but

 

I dont  see license  codes please  advise  asap  thanks.!!

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