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Upgrade error vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Update 3h to vCenter Server Appliance 6.7 Update 1b

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My environment has PSC and VCSA both in 6.0u3h version. I upgraded from PSC to version 6.7u1b with no issues. When you upgraded the VCSA, the following error occurred:

 

Error

VMware VirtualCenter failed firstboot.

An error occurred while invoking external command : 'Command: ['/usr/lib/vmware-vmca/bin/certool', '--server=sv-vcentersso-p00.tjgo.gov', '--genCIScert', '--dataencipherment', '--privkey=/etc/vmware-vpx/ssl/tmp-data-encipherment.key', '--cert=/etc/vmware-vpx/ssl/tmp-data-encipherment.crt', '--Name=data-encipherment', '--FQDN=SV-VCENTER-P01.tjgo.gov'] Stderr: '

Failed to create data encipherment cert with hostname/ip SV-VCENTER-P01.tjgo.gov.

 

Resolution

Please search for these symptoms in the VMware Knowledge Base for any known issues and possible resolutions. If none can be found, collect a support bundle and open a support request.

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unable to remove LAG from dvSwitch

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Hi,

 

I'm having some trouble removing a LAG from my distributed switch (vCenter 6.5, dvSwitch 6.5). I have it removed from all the port groups (unused status, not standby), and yet removal still errors out with the message "The resource 'qa-lag' is in use. - Uplink or Link Aggregation group name qa-lag is in use by the teaming policy defined at DVPort c-635". When I look at the listing of ports (either in vCenter or by PowerCLI), there is no port with the id number 635. How do I find 'c-635' to change the teaming policy?

 

Thanks in Advance,

Ze'ev

fatal error 33 error loading /b.b00

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Hello, I had to restart my esxhost today and it's not starting anymore.

 

I got a fata error 33 error loadin /b.b00

 

I would like to copy the corrupted file from an other esx host running fine.

 

Could you help as I don't know to boot from live cd (which one) and mount the root as read write access to copy the file from usb ?

 

any chance with fsck ?

I'm running esx  6.0.0

 

 

thank you for your help

 

 

regards.

The VMRC console has disconnected.. attempting to reconnect

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Seeing this error on my Virtual Center client while tryign to get to the console.. We are running Virtual Center 5.0 Build 455964

 

Anyone now how to fix it?

vSwitch and Portgroup Security Settings

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I am looking for a way to query the security settings (Promiscuous Mode, Forged Transmits and MAC Changes) of vSwitches and Portgroups. MY PS skills are limited. I can get about this far mostly from patching together various scripts I found. However at this point I must supply a vSwitch and even when I am able to pass that information I have no idea what to do after that.

 

 

    Foreach ($VMHost in Get-VMHost){

    Foreach ($vSwitch in ($VMHost | Get-VirtualSwitch )){

    $hostMoRef = Get-VMHost $VMhost | % {Get-View $_.Id}

    $hostNetwork = $hostMoRef.configManager.networkSystem

    $hostNetworkMoRef = Get-View $hostNetwork

    $hostNetworkMoRef.NetworkInfo   

        }

    }

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      

 

 

is it possible to build a plugin without the vRO url specified?

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Ok, so the reason I ask this is because today my build hung (mvn clean install ...) because it was trying to download things from our vRO instance. Unfortunately, vRO was not behaving properly for reasons, so what the build was doing was... happily waiting for a response, for 4 hours!

 

Now ideally, it would have been nice if maven had given up. But it got me thinking, why does the plugin require a running vRO instance to act as a repository to download resources from to maven build a plugin?

 

So that is my question;

Can I change the pom.xml such that maven does not require my own running vRO instance, but instead can download the resources elsewhere from the internet?

 

Any thoughts would be helpful

 

 

Thanks

Move-VM does not keep independent disks

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Hi were creating new vms thru powercli, and add a new HDD with:

New-HardDisk -VM $myvm -CapacityGB 20 -StorageFormat EagerZeroedThick -Persistence IndependentPersistent

but when we later move this vm with:

Move-VM -VM $myvm -Datastore $myDatastoreCluster1

the disk gets dependent instead of  IndependentPersistent, when you move it via GUI you have the choice of "same format as source" how can we fix this with Move-VM?

 

This is also decribed as sort of a bug here:

VMware Knowledge Base

ESXi 6.7 hosts not responding after checking for updates

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We have a new 6.7 environment that has not gone into production yet. Using the embedded Update Manager, if I check for updates they all fail and say "Could not scan host xxx.xxx.com". Then within a few minutes, all of the hosts go into a "Not Responding" state. Each of the hosts' web interfaces still work and all of the VMs stay up and running. If I log into the console for the host and Restart the Management Agents or reboot the host itself, it comes back as if nothing happened and shows responsive as well as any VMs it has on it. The DNS is resolving for the vCenter and all hosts. We are using custom SSL certificates for the vCenter and all hosts. The vCenter vpxd.certmgmt.mode is set to custom. This only appears to be happening right now if I check updates.

 

Has anyone seen this before?

 

The hosts are all Dell PowerEdge M630 blade servers with VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 13006603 installed on SD card.


[INFO] - Windows 10 license clarifications

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Hi all!

We are on the middle of assembling a VMWare ESXi cluster for a customer where we need to deploy a number of VMs for HMIs (Human Machine Interface).

 

I have a big thought now... we will have 4 Windows 10 VMs running on the cluster... and access will only be using RDP with admin credentials no multiuser BS...

My question is what kind of license would I need? I have no reason to think that would require a non standard retail license since it's a computer just running on virtualized hardware...

The cluster is also very simple is just two hosts 380g10 with vMotion...

 

What do you think?

 

Thanks a lot!

 

Fabio

How to check CPU frequency in ESXi

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Hello! I have an ESXi host with a 2x Xeon Gold 6130 the base freq. of the CPU is 2.1Ghz now anywhere I check (ESXi web client, vCenter, SSH) it says the clock speed is at 2.1Ghz even though the CPU's all core turbo is 2.8Ghz as it can be checked here: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/xeon_gold/6130 , 1 core turbo is 3.7Ghz.

I have the servers CPU utilization at 70-90% and it still says everywhere its at 2.1Ghz and I cannot believe it is really at that speed since I have turbo boost enabled, ESXi power management set to high performance, and in the servers BIOS it is set to maximum performance. (C States are enabled aswell if it changes anything)

Can anyone give me a clue how to check the frequency accurately like the exact speed of it at the time of checking, or if these infos are accurate then why I have only 2.1Ghz all core speed?

Thanks for the help.

Property Groups and Definitions with visibility set to All Tenants not returned in Content Management API

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How to I get Property Groups and Property Definitions to be included in my results when they have their Visiblitiy set to "All tenants".  It appears that the API is only return results for content that has the visibility set to "This tenant".

example uri with filter for just property groups:

https://<vra host>/content-management-service/api/contents?%24filter=contentTypeId+eq+%27property-group%27

{
    "links":  [

              ],
    "content":  [
                    {
                        "@type":  "Content",
                        "id":  "420f6fcc-d066-414c-a969-c9c063699f7b",
                        "contentId":  "NetworkInformation",
                        "name":  "NetworkInformation",
                        "description":  null,
                        "contentTypeId":  "property-group",
                        "mimeType":  null,
                        "tenantId":  "test", <<< ONLY RETURNING RESULTS FOR TENANT SPECIFIED IN LOGIN
                        "subtenantId":  null,
                        "dependencies":  "",
                        "createdDate":  "2018-09-03T17:58:55.143Z",
                        "lastUpdated":  "2018-09-03T17:58:55.143Z",
                        "version":  0
                    }
                ],
    "metadata":  {
                     "size":  20,
                     "totalElements":  1,
                     "totalPages":  1,
                     "number":  1,
                     "offset":  0
                 }
}

unable to create a new virtual machine : no permission to perform this operation

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Bonjour à tous,

 

Je viens de réinstaller sur un nouveau portable VMWare Player 15 sous Opensuse Tumbleweed. Outre que j'ai bien galéré comme d'habitude avec les fichiers vmmon et vmnet...

Je rencontre maintenant le problème cité en titre.

 

J'essaye de créer une nouvelle MV et j'obtiens ce message "unable to create a new virtual machine : no permission to perform this operation"...

ça arrive lorsque je termine soit la configuration de création d'une nouvelle MV soit lorsque j'essaye d'en créer une sans même mettre le système d'exploitation.

 

Avez-vous une idée ?

En vous remerciant

 

Philippe

Remote powershell timeout

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Hi,

 

I have an old environment with Orchestrator version 7.3.

This environment is connected to domain named: main.contoso.co.il.

I connected to this environment 3 remote powershell sessions (Add a Powershell host).

I can run Powershell script on these hosts without errors.

 

I have 3 different domains: main.contoso.co.il, mngt.contoso.co.il, dev.contoso - there is no trust between them.

Each host I connect to the old environment are in different domains.

 

I created a new environment with Orchestrator version 7.5.

This environment is connected to domain named: contoso.co.il.

I try to run "Add a Powershell host" workflow on same hosts like the old environment but receive timeout error:

[2019-05-02 20:20:31.387] [E] Workflow execution stack:

***

item: 'Add a PowerShell host/item8', state: 'failed', business state: 'null', exception: 'Receive timed out (Dynamic Script Module name : addPowerShellHost#19)'

workflow: 'Add a PowerShell host' (EF8180808080808080808080808080803D80808001270557368849c62c352aa82)

|  'attribute': name=errorCode type=string value=Receive timed out (Dynamic Script Module name : addPowerShellHost#19)

|  'attribute': name=sslUrl type=string value=

|  'input': name=name type=string value=Ex3

|  'input': name=type type=string value=WinRM

|  'input': name=transportProtocol type=string value=HTTP

|  'input': name=port type=string value=5985

|  'input': name=hostName type=string value=Ex3.dev.contoso

|  'input': name=username type=string value=admin@dev.contoso

|  'input': name=password type=SecureString value=__NULL__

|  'input': name=sessionMode type=string value=Shared Session

|  'input': name=authentication type=string value=Kerberos

|  'input': name=acceptAllCertificates type=boolean value=false

|  'input': name=shellCodePage type=string value=UTF8

|  'output': name=host type=PowerShell:PowerShellHost value=null

*** End of execution stack.

I also updated /etc/krb5.conf file with other domains (and restart the appliance):

[libdefaults]

  default_keytab_name = /etc/krb5.keytab

  default_realm = CONTOSO.CO.IL

  default_tgs_enctypes = AES256-CTS AES128-CTS RC4-HMAC

  default_tkt_enctypes = AES256-CTS AES128-CTS RC4-HMAC

  preferred_enctypes = AES256-CTS AES128-CTS RC4-HMAC

  dns_lookup_kdc = true

  pkinit_kdc_hostname = <DNS>

  pkinit_anchors = DIR:/var/trusted_certs

  pkinit_cert_match = <EKU>msScLogin

  pkinit_eku_checking = kpServerAuth

  pkinit_win2k_require_binding = false

  pkinit_identities = PKCS11:/opt/likewise/lib64/libpkcs11wrapper.so

#       default_realm = EXAMPLE.COM

 

 

[realms]

  CONTOSO.CO.IL = {

   auth_to_local = RULE:[1:$0\$1](^CONTOSO\.CO\.IL\\.*)s/^CONTOSO\.CO\.IL/CONTOSO/

   auth_to_local = RULE:[1:$0\$1](^CONTOSO\.CO\.IL\\.*)s/^CONTOSO\.CO\.IL/CONTOSO/

   auth_to_local = DEFAULT

  }

  MNGT.CONTOSO.CO.IL = {

      kdc = ad2.mngt.contoso.co.il

      admin_server = ad2.mngt.contoso.co.il

  }

  MAIN.CONTOSO.CO.IL = {

      kdc = ad1.main.contoso.co.il

      admin_server = ad1.main.contoso.co.il

  }

  DEV.CONTOSO = {

      kdc = ad4.dev.contoso

      admin_server = ad4.dev.contoso

  }

#       EXAMPLE.COM = {

#                kdc = kerberos.example.com

#               admin_server = kerberos.example.com

#       }

 

 

[logging]

    kdc = FILE:/var/log/krb5/krb5kdc.log

    admin_server = FILE:/var/log/krb5/kadmind.log

    default = SYSLOG:NOTICE:DAEMON

[domain_realm]

  .contoso.co.il = CONTOSO.CO.IL

  .mngt.contoso.co.il = MNGT.CONTOSO.CO.IL

  .main.contoso.co.il = MAIN.CONTOSO.CO.IL

  .dev.contoso = DEV.CONTOSO

[appdefaults]

  pam = {

   mappings = CONTOSO\\(.*) $1@CONTOSO.CO.IL

   forwardable = true

   validate = true

  }

  httpd = {

   mappings = CONTOSO\\(.*) $1@CONTOSO.CO.IL

   reverse_mappings = (.*)@CONTOSO\.CO\.IL CONTOSO\$1

  }

From the appliance of the Orchestrator there are good results for ping commands to other domains and kdc servers.

The strange thing is that I can see any activities in the firewall between the old Orchestrator appliance to the hosts I try to connect in port 5985.

I see only the icmp (ping command) activity in the firewall.

 

What am I missing?

In the hosts everything are configured correctly (WinRM configurations) because the old Orchestrator is connected to same hosts I try to connect to the new one.

The file specified is not a virtual disk

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Let me explain how i ruined the working system.

 

The virtual machine is encrypted and consist of 2 virtual disks.


When VM was running, i decided to get rid of drive D (connected as 2nd disk to vm), because i wont need it anymore and i wanted to do it when VM was running.

 

I realized i am unable to remove drive d from properties of virtual machine, when machine is running. Then I opened windows disk manager in the OS on vm. then made drive d offline.

 

drive d disappeared from "my computer" but VMware still was not allowing me to delete it then a tooooo much bright idea appeared in my head. I tried to delete files of 2nd drive when vm was running.

I dont know how it is called, the file that is 2 kb of virtual disk was deleted, rest werent.

 

Then, I paused the VM. I thought now I can either remove 2nd disk or at worst I will delete disk files and even if paused vm wont continue, i cant discard and reboot the OS.

 

But as above, it didnt go as I expected. At the moment literally I am unable to do anything. It neither discards nor runs the vm. it is giving "The file specified is not a virtual disk" error.

 

Please dont tell me there is no way to fix it pleaseeeee.

 

Moreover by using a program that restores removed files, i restored that 2 kb disk file, i put it to its path but still vm doesnt run or discard

VMWare VCS unable to install Windows

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Hello,

 

I'm trying to install VMWare VCS to a Windows Server 2019, it's failing badly. Any ideas what's wrong?

 

Attached are the installer generated log zip.


Trouble finding out wich ESXI version to use

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Godd afternoon,

 

I am currently migrating some VM.s from a host to another in order to performe HW maintenance(upgrades) on thi server wich is a ML350 Gen9 w/E52620 dual CPU.
This server currently has ESXI 6.5-4564106-standard but when i check VMware website to check for compatibilities it only says that for this server we need to use version 6, and so now i am realy confused in wich version to use. The main goal is to do a full format on this Gen9 and place a DAC storage via fiber connections so we can maximize the usage of the server. Can anyone help me out? thanks

Could not open /dev/vmmon: Broken pipe installing vmware fusion pro 11

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i am trying to install the trail for vmware fusion pro on my Mac and bring up a windows 10 instance, i am getting an error "Could not open /dev/vmmon: Broken pipe. Please make sure that the kernel module 'vmmon' is loaded." followed by "Failed to initialize device". The only thing I have been able to find on search is to make sure VMWare is in the Security and Privacy settings for Accessibility, which it is. Any ideas here?

VMWare Player 15 for Ubuntu 19.4 and Fedora 30 (kernel 5.x)

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Any indication of when updated kernel modules will be available for version 5 of the Linux kernel?  Now that Fedora 30 and Ubuntu 19.4 have been officially released it would be nice to be able to use Player on machines which have upgraded to the new O/S releases.

About manual installation of vmware tools

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Hi,

In a vsphere 6.7 upd 2 infrastructure, I had to install a windows 2003 server.

I know that this version of windows is not fully compatible with vsphere 6.7.

But unfortunately I am forced to use it in order to run an application that the software manufacturer has not yet updated.

My problem is this.

When I try to install Vmware Tools, I have the error that the application was not found.

Is it possible to do a manual installation by downloading the tools?

Has anyone already fixed the problem?

Hoping for help, best regards

Gaetano

I can no longer install `open-vm-tools-deploypkg`

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I am running CentOS7 Guest and we had previously been installing the "deployPkg" plugin. Something appears to have changed over the weekend.

 

When I run the command: "sudo yum install open-vm-tools-deploypkg" this returns:

 

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror

Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

* base: mirror.sjc02.svwh.net

* elrepo: elrepo.org

* extras: repos-lax.psychz.net

* updates: repos-lax.psychz.net

base                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | 3.6 kB  00:00:00    

docker-ce-stable                                                                                                                                                                                                           | 3.5 kB  00:00:00    

elrepo                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | 2.9 kB  00:00:00    

extras                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | 3.4 kB  00:00:00    

updates                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | 3.4 kB  00:00:00    

vmware-tools                                                                                                                                                                                                               |  951 B  00:00:00    

vmware-tools/primary           FAILED                                                                                                                                                                              0.0 B/s |    0 B  00:00:00    

http://packages.vmware.com/packages/rhel7/x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum                                                                                         0.0 B/s |    0 B  00:00:00    

Trying other mirror.

vmware-tools/primary                                                                                                                                                                                                       |  962 B  00:00:00    

http://packages.vmware.com/packages/rhel7/x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum

Trying other mirror.

 

 

One of the configured repositories failed (VMware Tools),

and yum doesn't have enough cached data to continue. At this point the only

safe thing yum can do is fail. There are a few ways to work "fix" this:

 

     1. Contact the upstream for the repository and get them to fix the problem.

 

     2. Reconfigure the baseurl/etc. for the repository, to point to a working

        upstream. This is most often useful if you are using a newer

        distribution release than is supported by the repository (and the

        packages for the previous distribution release still work).

 

     3. Run the command with the repository temporarily disabled

            yum --disablerepo=vmware-tools ...

 

     4. Disable the repository permanently, so yum won't use it by default. Yum

        will then just ignore the repository until you permanently enable it

        again or use --enablerepo for temporary usage:

 

            yum-config-manager --disable vmware-tools

        or

            subscription-manager repos --disable=vmware-tools

 

     5. Configure the failing repository to be skipped, if it is unavailable.

        Note that yum will try to contact the repo. when it runs most commands,

        so will have to try and fail each time (and thus. yum will be be much

        slower). If it is a very temporary problem though, this is often a nice

        compromise:

 

            yum-config-manager --save --setopt=vmware-tools.skip_if_unavailable=true

 

failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from vmware-tools: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

http://packages.vmware.com/packages/rhel7/x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum

 

With the checksum error I believe this to be on the VMWare side of the equation. Who do I contact to fix this problem? Does a fix exist? Or other mirrors to try?

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