Check running tasks on VCSA by execution of vimtop CLI in the Shell or SSH Access.
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Re: High number of threads on vcenter6 appliance
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Re:Export to CSV a list of VMs with specific custom attribute values
yes I know...
this script looks at all VMs across 4 vCenters.. approx 2000 VMs. These two custom attributes are across all vCenters at the parent level and get assigned to all VMs, however not all VMs have the first attribute value set to True. Most are blank (for a good reason) and a hand full are set to true which is as expected. This script will pull those VMs set to true for the the first attribute and list them in the CSV but exclude the VMs with the second value set to win 7 and win 10.
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Re: I don't want this version of VMware
I want to revert back to VMware 10 from evaluation of 11.5 how do I do this
What do you mean VMware 10? Which product? Do you mean virtual machine hardware version 10?
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Re: View Horizon usage report?
This would be contained within your Events Database. You’ll have to do some digging to figure out your exact query, but it can be found there.
Unfortunately Horizon lacks on great out-of-box reporting, but there’s many great third-party tools out there that can help supplement.
There’s also a fling so you don’t have to query SQL with SSMS:
Horizon View Events Database Export Utility | VMware Flings
-Nick
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Re: Instant Clone Publishing fails
During the Agent install, did you specify Instant Clone as an enabled component? You cannot have both LC and IC enabled on the Agent, so you can’t use the same image for both.
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Re: Mac Catalina and Fusion Has Black Screen
It is not, however, a free upgrade from version 10. And version 10 is also the last version that will work on unsupported machines with AMD processors, not that that's any concern of the developers.
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Re: Automatically log on to VDI desktop as different user?
Interesting use case! Have you tried enabling automatic Windows logon to see if that works?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/324737/how-to-turn-on-automatic-logon-in-windows
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Re: ProfileUnity
Have you experimented with Dynamic Environment Manager? This is essentially VMware’s replacement for Persona Management and is pretty robust compared to it. This product was known as Immidio Flex before VMware bought it. It‘s scalable, low footprint (file share + GPO), and easy to use.
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ESXi 6.7u3 PSoD Reoccurrences (Exception 13) - what could be the root cause
I have been runnng ESXi on a machine for about a year now, recently over the past few months, I have been experiencing more and more PSoD.
Without the slightest clue as to specifically what is the cause, I did grab the coredumps according to the support website, however, for a home user, to spend $300 on a support contract is a stiff price, System wise, nothing has changed on the system.
System Spec Wise:
1TB Samsung NVME Datastore
120 GB Intel SSD ESXi installation
AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core Processor
64 GB ECC Samsung Memory
LSI 2008 HBA (pass through to guest)
6x 6TB Western Digital HDDs (pass through to guest)
GT710 GPU
X470 Master SLI/ac Motherboard
As the file is too large to attach here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mkEnaov-kT1PFJojx5U1-HftmJWweCvthttps://drive.google.com/open?id=1mkEnaov-kT1PFJojx5U1-HftmJWweCvt
Above are the two latest dumps that have occurred on the system.
Is there some specific troubleshooting I can do to narrow down the steps related to these dumps, as according to the support page (VMware Knowledge Base ) there is not any troubeshooting steps besides reaching out to VMeware Suport and shelling out $300?
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Re: Invalid Configuration for device '0'
I have the same error with you. And I do the operate like you,also The source VM came from Workstation 15 and I thought it may have to do with compatibility level. I tried changing the source VM level to 12
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Re: ProfileUnity
That's a good point-- I'll add that in our environment, we've used UEM for roaming small parts of a profile and Writable Volumes for large, per-user data (Outlook OST, Teams, OneDrive, Slack, etc.). Due to the general unreliability and performance cost of Writable Volumes, however, we've been testing UEM + FSLogix O365 containers instead-- and have been extremely pleased with the results. We're seeing 30 second login times and an excellent O365 experience, which was never the case before.
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Re: VMWare No Longer Works with a .vmdk has internal errors
I want to thank everyone for their help. I'll try the tools to see if I can extract the data. Whatever I can extract I will consider a bonus. At this point I'm writing it all off. It's a personal PC, not a work computer, so it's just pictures, articles, files, and whatever. I'm sorry to lose them, but it is more an inconvenience than a problem.
I'm done with VMWare and any other virtual machine software. I plan to run windows on my wondows PC and MacOS on my iMac and leave them pure. I can share files via a common cloud drive. So much simpler. Especially for the updates.
I consider this issue closed. Again thanks.
Frank
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Re: Atom C3758/X553 GbE driver for ESXi 6.5/6.7
I downloaded the latest driver as of Sep 2019,
Download VMware ESXi 6.7 ixgben 1.7.20 NIC Driver for Intel Ethernet Controllers 82599, x520, x540, x550, x552 and x553 family,
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=DT-ESXI67-INTEL-IXGBEN-1720&productId=734
I am also using the ixgben driver now.
On 11th Oct 2019, I switched from using my own driver (net-ixgbe_x553_7) to using ixgben 1.7.20 (I also upgraded from 6.7.0 to 6.7.0U3 at the same time).
So far it has been working well. I've had no problems and performance is great.
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Re: unknown configuration issue ESXi 6 host
Excellent ! It fixed the issue.
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Why does my Keyboard become non responsive on Mac side when running VM?
I am running a Mac with OS Majave 10.14.6. I use VMWare to access certain Windows software not available on Apple. When running VMwear the keyboard becomes non responsive on the apple side although the mouse works fine. I have tried uninstalling the keyboard and reinstalling it. It says it is installed. Keyboard works fine in VM. I can print from both operating systems. Windows is version 10.pro vs 1803.
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Re: ESXi Physical vmnic down ?
ask you network admin to check the speed and duplex of the switch port where that physical nic is connected.
I have not checked the VMware HCL and I am assuming all the hardware is supported..
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Re: How to change management network VLAN painlessly
Yes I am thinking about setting up a standard switch for a secondary Management network.
here is the plan I have in mind.
1) Disable HA and DRS in the cluster to avoid any issues.
2) Setup a standard switch on the ESXi hosts with the new management network. vLAN1000 and a new vmkernel port enabled with management traffic.
3) as we need to put our vCenter also on the same management network setup a VM port-group on the new standard switch for vLAN1000(you are OK to do this just for the host on which the vCenter is running on).
4) Once the setup is ready access the host directly and swap the vCEnter network from old vLAN to vLAN1000.
5) if you have everything configured with host-names using DNS this can actually be helpful. swap the IP in DNS server for the ESXi and vCenter hostname.
6) Once your vCenter is up with the new IP in new vLAN with all the services working fine, you are almost there.
7) Set the vCenter managed IP in vCenter to the new IP.
8) remove all hosts from vcenter one by one and add them again with the new IP..
9) if the migration goes smooth all you you have to do later ois discard the management from the old DVS switch and migrate the networking from standard to DVS
the only think I am concerned about is how these individual vCenter services work on changing the vCenter IP.
if you a vCenter appliance or a vCenter with all services running in a single machine well and good..
best of luck !!!
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Re: How to change management network VLAN painlessly
As I understand from your description, I think you are very worried about losing vCenter and managing capability of dvSwitches. However, as the primary point of virtual infrastructure management, you should always keep the vCenter Server in the top-level of availability by any possible solution (HA, VCHA, FT, Replication and so on). Although you should note the management plane of VDS is controlled by vCenter but data plane still remains in the ESXi host.
Execution of a safe VMKernel migration depends on many factors such as:
1. The current configuration of exist VMkernel port
2. Number of uplinks for the switch
3. VLAN configuration on the physical switch side
I believe the safest way is as you mentioned: Add another VMKernel port for the host management on the VSS or VDS based on the virtual networking structure you need, then start working on this new design network (subnet/VLAN) and connect them to the vCenter server. Whenever you are ensured about all aspects of connectivity, you can remove old VMkernel port, Anyway, you can migrate all of these phases (Uplink, VMkernel, VM Traffic) by running a single migration wizard if you have enough physical uplink to provide full physical redundancy for each dvPortGroup traffic
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Re: ESXI Web UI not working
No, it's not. They are two services for the host management and restart of them doesn't affect the virtual machines operations.
To understand how they work look at Undercity of Virtualization: hostd & vpxa & vpxd
review these items again:
1. Checking the DNS and Time (NTP) settings
2. Changing the browser to open web UI
3. Checking the proxy settings for browsers and system itself
4. Open the web interface from another client system and check the results
5. Check configured firewall rules of the host by running esxcli network firewall and allowed all traffic temporary if you required
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Re: Vcenter Server 5.5
I think we have a difference of opinion here. While i fully understand why you are keen on me not sharing anything & the bussiness behind it , we need to understand that i am not sharing any licences or anything, there are thousand of other sources available from where he can download the said version and most probably have already done that.
I am going to keep them in my archive for my own use
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