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Problem with Windows Server 2019 snapshot quiescing

February 13, 2019, 12:28 am
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Hi

 

We are running vSphere 6.7.0.2 and ESXi 6.7.0 11675023 in our environment.

We begun to test with Windows Server 2019. We have made a template an deployed a few test machines.

 

Everythings seams to be working as it should except that we have problem taking snapshots where we want to quiesce the guest file system.

We are running VMware Tools 10.3.5.10430147 on the servers.

 

We get the following errors:

 

Warning message on XXXX on XXXXXXX in vDatacenter: The guest OS has reported an error during quiescing. The error code was: 5 The error message was: 'VssSyncStart' operation failed: IDispatch error #8454 (0x80042306)

 

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine IOCTL_DISK_SET_SNAPSHOT_INFO(\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1) fails with winerror 1168.  hr = 0x80070490, Element not found.

 

Running VSSADMIN LIST WRITERS show the following problem:

 

Writer name: 'System Writer'

Writer name: 'ASR Writer'

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'

Writer name: 'Registry Writer'

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'

Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'

 

All with the same state and error:

   State: [7] Failed

   Last error: Timed out

 

No errors in VSSADMIN before trying to take a snapshot.

 

Anyone else with this problem?

Help appreciated.

 

/Olof

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unable to export the output to csv/xls file

February 8, 2018, 8:10 am
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Hi

Please find below my script. I am not able to export the output to csv/xls file. Please help me. And also i have 10 vcenters, I need this report in xls format with each VC worksheets in one excel file.

$VM = Get-Cluster test-cluster | Get-VM | `
ForEach-Object {
$VM = $_
$VMview = $VM | Get-View
$Snapshots = $VM | Get-Snapshot
$Report = "" | Select-Object VMname,vmCreatedByUser,vmCreatedDate,ESXname,ClusterName,MemoryGB,vCPUcount,VMXname,VmdkSizeGB,DatastoreName,SnapshotCount,Owner
$Report.VMName = $VM.name
$Report.vmCreatedByUser = Get-VIEvent $VM | sort createdTime | select -first 1 | select UserName | % {$_.UserName.split("\")[1]}
$Report.vmCreatedDate = Get-VIEvent $VM | sort createdTime | select -first 1 | select CreatedTime
$Report.ESXname = $VM.VMHost
$Report.ClusterName = ($VM | Get-Cluster).Name
$Report.MemoryGB = $VM.MemoryMB/1024
$Report.vCPUcount = $VM.NumCpu
$Report.VMXname = $VM.ExtensionData.Config.Files.VmPathName.Split("/")[1]
$Report.VmdkSizeGB = $VM.UsedSpaceGB
$Report.DatastoreName = $VMview.Config.DatastoreUrl
$Report.SnapshotCount = ($VM | Get-Snapshot).Count
$Report.Owner = $VM | Get-VIPermission | Where-Object {$_.Role -like "xxxxxx*"} | select Principal | % {$_.Principal.split("\")[1]}
Write-Output $Report
}

Thanks
Raghav

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test18-10-2019

October 18, 2019, 4:36 am
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The verification of VimPortType.cloneSession() failed even with a new clone ticket

October 18, 2019, 4:54 am
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We have a critical problem when using the new vSphere authentication in our remote plugin server, the below steps of new authentication approach are following the remote plugin sample from the SDK 6.7u3:

  1. Firstly, clone a ticket by sending a REST request ‘/vcenter/session/clone-ticket’ to the vsphere-ui service with vcenterGuid, vmware-api-session-id and vmware-gateway-url.
  2. Then construct a SOAP request to obtain a regular session ID from the Web Services API by using the cloneSession() operation on the VimPort(com.vmware.vim25.VimPortType.cloneSession(), our vim25 version is 6.7-7970399).

The issue is, if the first user with a session id passed the new authentication(step1 & step2), the other users with their new session ids would be failed to pass the verification of step 2 - clone session for VimPort(step 1 still passed), and the error stack like this(attached our log file):

Do anyone have the suggestions for resolving this issue? Appreciate that

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Black Desktop and Windows after Restart of Win

June 7, 2019, 1:38 am
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After the last update of Fusion, I encounter regularly a black desktop after I start the program. I t is configured to shutdown Win after quitting Fusion. I can sometimes solve the „problem“ with a restart of Win 0r with changing the desktop picture. That may work or not. Sometimes app windows are black when opened in full screen.

 

Can anyone give me some advice to get rid of this?

Thx, Michael

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VMs communicating with devices that have APIPA addresses

October 16, 2019, 2:30 pm
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We use virtual machines to run our automation software that we use to support production machinery. We have some machines that came into the facility with static IP addresses in the 169.254.200.* subnet, which is used by Windows to assign itself an address after DHCP fails.

 

Most of our machines have addresses in either the 192.168.0.* subnet or the 10.130.249.* subnet. For those machines, we can use the NAT adapter in the VM and connect with no difficulty. The ones in the 169.254.200.* subnet, however, won't route through the NAT adapter. Instead, we have to use a Bridged adapter. If we only had a few VMs, we could work around that, but we have 6 total host computers, each with 3-5 VMs. That's a lot of IP addresses to allocate in each subnet, and we don't have enough free for that.

 

Ideally, we would just move the machines from the APIPA range to the 192.168.0.* range, but the machine builder is unwilling to assist and can't provide us with a list of devices within each machine that would be affected. The risk to production is too great to experiment.

 

Is there a way to let the VM see the devices on the 169.254.200.* subnet through the NAT adapter? The host PC can see them fine and so can the VM through a bridged adapter.

 

We are running VMWare Workstation Player 12.5.2 build-4638234. The host and guest PCs are all running Windows 7 Professional SP1, 64-bit. We have a couple VMs on each PC that are running Windows XP for legacy software, but they don't need to see these machines.

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Connect Tape Library IBM TS3200 To esx 6.5

October 18, 2019, 3:00 am
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Hello,

 

As the title said, there is any way to connect IBM TS3200 to ESX 6.5 (and VM) ?

 

Best regards,

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How to reactivate datastore in vSphere Client?

October 18, 2019, 5:23 am
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Hi,

 

Would like to seek your assistance on how to reactivate datastore in vSphere Client. Per checking, the datastore is currently inactive, I tried to mount the datastore but an error occurred during the host configuration.

 

In the Datastores and Datastores Clusters, the datastore is no longer accessible. I tried to mount the storage via cli using below command but an error operation returned status: No space left on device.

 

# esxcli storage filesystem mount --volume-uuid <volume-uuid>

 

Upon checking on the Storage adapters, the status of vmhba33 is currently active and operation state is mounted in the storage

 

When I tried to run df -h, the filesystem is VMFS-unknown version, the size is 0.0B, used 0.0B 

 

Appreciate if anyone can help me on this. All vm guest reside on this datastore is currently down and unable to power on.

 

Should you need additional information or any logs needed, please let me know.

 

Thank you very much.

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VMware Workstation Player 15.5 fails to install in Linux Mint 19.2 Mate

October 18, 2019, 5:43 am
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Hello,

- I have downloaded "VMware-Player-15.5.0-14665864.x86_64.bundle".

- Then, in a terminal session:

 

sudoaptinstall gcc build-essential -y

cd ~/Téléchargements          ("Téléchargements" is the French name for "Download" directory)
chmod +x VMware-Player*
sudo ./VMware-Player*

 

- Here is the output of my terminal session:

 

michel@michel-G74Sx:~/Téléchargements$ sudo ./VMware-Player*

[sudo] Mot de passe de michel :       

Extracting VMware Installer...done.

Installing VMware Player Application 15.5.0

bora/lib/string/str.c:284 Buffer too small

 

VMware Workstation Error:

VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (host-8909)

bora/lib/string/str.c:284 Buffer too small

You can request support. 

 

To collect data to submit to VMware support, choose "Collect Support Data" from the Help menu.

You can also run the "vm-support" script in the Workstation folder directly.

We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.

 

Can you help me?

 

Regards,

MikeNavy

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List vCenter alarms that are set to email out

October 18, 2019, 5:50 am
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Im sure this is going to be a super easy one to fix but its driving me a little crazy... seems there are hundreds of blogs on how to setup email alerts but no one can tell me how to list them. Best i have come up with is:

 

PS H:\> Get-AlarmDefinition | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail

ActionType      Trigger
----------      -------
SendEmail       {...
SendEmail       {...
SendEmail       {...
SendEmail       {...

 

pretty useless.... Can someone tell me how i can get a list of the Alarm Definition Name, ActionType (Email) & Trigger? Thanks!!!

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changement d'adresse IP pour Vcenter Server Appliance (VCSA)

October 18, 2019, 5:00 am
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Bonjour

Je viens récemment d'intégrer une entreprise qui possède un parc de serveurs virtuels.

Afin de tout superviser je me connecte sous la console web Vsphère que j'atteins par l'adresse IP.

Nous avons également un projet imminent qui consiste changer de VLAN et donc réadresser tout notre parc informatique sur le nouveau VLAN. Mes VMs vont donc toutes devoir obtenir une nouvelle IP, y compris ma console VCSA, qui héberge le vCenter Server et le Platform Services Controller.

Lorsque j'épluche la doc d'installation officielle de VMWare, (https://docs.vmware.com/fr/VMware-vSphere/6.5/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-65-appliance-configuration-guide.pdf) notamment le chapitre 5, paragraphe Configurer le réseau de gestion de vCenter Server Appliance (page 60). A cet endroit il est écrit :

"Si, lors du déploiement du dispositif, vous définissez une adresse IP en tant que nom système, vous ne pourrez plus modifier l'adresse IP après le déploiement, car le nom système est utilisé comme identifiant réseau principal."

 

Et visiblement c'est ce qui a été fait il y a quelques années lors du déploiement de la solution VMWare.

Je me trouve donc dans l'impossibilité de modifier l'adresse IP de la console Vsphere.

La solution que j'envisage est de monter une nouvelle VM qui hébergerait le vCenter Server et le Platform Services Controller. Une fois mes 2 machines en fonction, je n'aurai qu'a éteindre ma machine virtuelle initiale.

Cependant je ne sais pas comment cela se comportera sur mon réseau.

J'ai donc essayé de refaire 2 VMs, une qui hébergerait le Platform Services Controller et l'autre pour le vCenter Server.

Pour le PSC je parviens à me connecter et répliquer la base existante.

En revanche pour le vcenter, je ne sais pas comment l'associer au  centre de données existant.

 

Quelqu'un pourrait il m'aider sur ce sujet car je ne trouve aucune procédure pour ce cas de figure ou me dire si je fais erreur et qu'il y aurait d'autres pistes à envisager ?

Merci d'avance.

Cordialement.

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vSphere virtual machine provision takes a long time

October 18, 2019, 6:18 am
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Can anyone advise what event triggers the Successful status when provisioning a virtual machine?


I'd expect that once a vm template has been cloned and customized successfully that should be it.


For example, guest customization completed on the VM thats being provisioned below completed at 1:54PM yet the status didn't go successful until 2:02PM.
It was the only deployment running, and no event subscriptions or external workflows were executing during this time.

 

This is a consistent and frequent occurrence.

 

Thanks,

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vSphere replication 8.2 root password

October 18, 2019, 3:06 am
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Hi,

 

After new installation 'vSphere replication 8.2' I am geting root password issue, frequently getting error 'account locked' and below pop-up.

 

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RVTools not working with VCSA 6.5 (TLS 1.0 is disabed)

September 22, 2017, 3:04 am
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Hi Guys,

 

Has anyone been able to get RVTools working on VCSA 6.5?  For me it's not working since vCenter 6.x.

I urgently need to generate a report from it for Orphaned VMDK's across 30 vCenter. Can anyone please help me getting RVTools working?


Thanks

 

 

Sunny

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Various Windows Server snapshot quiescing issue

October 18, 2019, 6:29 am
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Can some from VMware clarify this (non-consistent backups when VMware Snapshot Provided disabled). We have several non-2019 servers too where this "fix" has been applied and the assumption is that the snapshots are app consistent as long as the app "can be quiesced", not that we were removing the possibility of it being quiesced and being fooled into thinking all is good.

 

Also where in this architecture if so would this service sit.

 

Thanks

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Recent 6.5U3 update causing i350 NICs to 'flap'

October 9, 2019, 10:06 am
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I recently updated my vmware hosts from 6.5 U1 to U3. The hosts are Dell R620 with Intel i350-t4 NICs. For the most part all is well, but I have two hosts with frequent flapping (link down/up). Anyone else come across this?

 

I should mention one host is in an offsite DC so I haven't changed the patch cable. The other host however I've changed the patch cable, patch panel location, switch port...

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Data store utilization increase

October 18, 2019, 3:42 am
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Hi All,

 

Recently there was an increase in data store free space 52% reduced to free space 22 %. Free space has recently come down and wanted to find out what had made the data store utilization went high.

 

There are multiple VM's in a data store, hence it's not possible to compare each VM's.

 

Can we find out from script which VM recently migrated to data store/VM disk expended or grown/ backup snapshot had caused the data store utilization high ?

 

 

Thanks

vmk

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Upgrade Graphics Card

October 18, 2019, 7:07 am
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Hi guys!

I have an old motherboard GA-990FXA-D3 that I have an old Asus GeForce 9600GT graphics Nvidia graphics card....

I am running Vmware workstation 15 pro and feel that it is time to improve on the hosts graphics....

I have Linux on this machine...Debian 10...

Can someone recommend a good graphics card that will play well with vmware workstation 15 pro....

I don't play games and this machine is just a work horse for imaging customer computers....

Thanks

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Upgrade to 15.5 workstation in ubuntu 16.4 crash and is impossilbe to recover

October 18, 2019, 2:39 am
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Automatic upgrade to 15.5 from 15.1 fails and destroy my previous installation. host OS: ubuntu 16.4

It is not possible to run again any VMware installation. Neither the previous 15.1 bundle:

 

Extracting VMware Installer...done.

[AppLoader] Use shipped Linux kernel AIO access library.

An up-to-date "libaio" or "libaio1" package from your system is preferred.

Gtk-Message: 10:57:23.193: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"

/usr/lib/vmware-installer/3.0.0/vmis-launcher: error while loading shared libraries: libpython3.7m.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

 

 

 

Nor the new one (I tray to use the workaround  Re: Workstation 15.5 for linux installation fails but the bundle is not recoginec, I can t acces it as sudo ./VMware etc the file is listed in my dir with ls but in white instead in green)

 

Therefore I am not able to use anymore my workstation licensed product

 

I am very disappointing that an official upgrade let me without my computer to work.

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how to download template vm from vsan

October 18, 2019, 7:45 am
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There is a vsan cluster, ESXi 6.0 ,but vc got down. I am going to backup a template vm to local before I rebuild vc.

anyone can help?

thanks

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