JohnTotten wrote:
Just in case anyone else is looking at this. VMware has announced the beta VCP6 upgrade delta exam at a discount for all users that request it. Limited seats.
Unless you are in the UK - then you pay a nice 248% markup 
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Re: VCP6 Upgrade discount. Only for those that met the deadline?
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VMware Syslog Service not found in vCenter Server 6.0 Web client ?
In vSphere Web Client Home page, click System Configuration
Under System Configuration click Nodes and select a node from the list
Click the Related Objects tab. VMware Syslog service not found.
When I checked in VI Client I can see VMware Syslog collector and checked in services.msc VMware Syslog Collector service is running. I have installed another vcenter server 6.0 with fresh binaries but still same issue. Please let me know how I can fix this issue.
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Re: VCP6 Upgrade discount. Only for those that met the deadline?
The $50 does not include tax, so there was always going to be VAT on top of the fee.
Plus, the beta is still a lot cheaper than the final exam will be...
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vRA 6.2 401 invalid credentials
Hi vRa Community
is there a reason for the following error
Help
Thanks
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Re: vCAC 6.0.1 - Hide Machine Resources (#CPUs, MemoryMB, StorageGB) in Blueprint
I'm trying to do the same with fixed small, medium & large VMs at provisioning time but also want to allow for some entitled users the ability to reconfigure CPU/RAM as a 2nd day operation on the deployed VMs. If we do the setting of a minimum value only (no max) on the CPU/RAM fields to "fix" them for all provisioning jobs then we have issues on the vRA 2nd day operations. They fail to work for the entitled selected users as uses the blueprint min/max settings as the configurable range. Only solution I can see is add custom vRO workflows for changing vCPU/vRAM as published 2nd day action to replace the inbuilt vRA reconfigure action item.
Can anyone suggest a different way as I like the ease of 2nd day operations with attached approvals rather than writing admittedly simple vRO workflows.
Again for me hiding these fields is ultimate aim.
Chris
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Re: How to retrieve the network information (NIC) for each VM (perl vim)
Hi, now i use this code to find the Portgroup name:
my $portgroupKey = $nic->{backing}->{port}->{portgroupKey};
my $dvsPortgroup = Vim::find_entity_view (
view_type => "DistributedVirtualPortgroup",
begin_entity => $datacenter_view,
properties => [ 'name', 'key', 'config.distributedVirtualSwitch' ],
filter => { 'key' => $portgroupKey }
);
my $Portgroup_name = $dvsPortgroup->name;
this work.
and with this i can retrive the switch UUID:
my $SwitchUuid = $nic->{backing}->{port}->{switchUuid};
it's look like: 90 2d 05 40 1e 9f ba 9b-ea fe 3d ec 93 21 a1 ba
now i need to retrieve the DVSwitch real name, something like "dvs_TEST-DR"...can i use the UUID to find the associated DVS name, how?
Maybe is there a better way?
Thank You!!
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No USB 3.0 on ESXi 6?
Hello eveyone
I have come across something that makes no sense to me at all.
I got a Gigabyte GB-BXi7-4770R and when I install Windows 8.1 or Debian 7 directly on the device, I can utilize the full USB 3.0 speed via testing on a very fast USB drive.
But when I install ESXi 6.0.0 on it, it will only run at USB 2 speeds, which have me even more confused, since the brix only have USB 3.0 ports and no USB 2 ports.
On a windows guest, I add the xHCI controller, and see that it appears in the device manager as a xHCI usb 3.0 controller. But when I then connect the USB device to the USB 3.0 port on my brix, and then add it to the virtual machine as a USB device, it only connects to a USB 2 hub on the guest. The same problem is on Debian, and when I do a "lsusb" and a "lsusb -t" I get the following that looks at lot like the same in Windows:
frands@Exill-OMV:/$ sudo lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0e0f:0003 VMware, Inc. Virtual Mouse
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 174c:55aa ASMedia Technology Inc.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0e0f:0002 VMware, Inc. Virtual USB Hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0e0f:0002 VMware, Inc. Virtual USB Hub
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 152d:0567 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp.
frands@Exill-OMV:/$ sudo lsusb -t
/: Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, class="root_hub", Driver=xhci_hcd/4p, 5000M
/: Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, class="root_hub", Driver=xhci_hcd/4p, 480M
|__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, class="HID", Driver=usbhid, 12M
|__ Port 2: Dev 3, If 0, class="stor"., Driver=usb-storage, 480M
|__ Port 3: Dev 4, If 0, class="hub", Driver=hub/7p, 480M
|__ Port 1: Dev 6, If 0, class="stor"., Driver=usb-storage, 480M
|__ Port 4: Dev 5, If 0, class="hub", Driver=hub/7p, 480M
What is more confusing, is when I configure Passtrough and select all the USB controllers on the list and connect them to the guest system, it shows up as USB 2 controllers.
I have found out that the controller that’s being used by Intel is an, Intel® USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller Driver for Intel® 8/9 Series and C220/C610 Chipset Family.
On the ESXi it shows up as a Intel Corporation Lynx Point USB Enchanted Host Controller #1 and #2
Can it really be posseble that ESXi dosen't support Intel USB 3.0 controllers?
What can the problem be and is there a way for me to add the driver using the ESXi customizer so I can use the full USB 3.0 speed?
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Re: cant copy/paste from guest to host
Hi all !
Our company just updated from VMWare Workstation 8 to version 11. Unfortunately the upgrade had resolved none of issues I was having (and I still have) with previous version.
Copy/paste is still not working. After couple of copy/paste actions this future will stop working and it is no longer possible to copy file into station or out of it (using ctrl+c/v or using drag&drop) until I revert snapshot. Sometimes copy/paste will cause deadlock of the application that is receiving pasted file (e.g. explore.exe or totalcmd.exe).
As a workaround I'm using vmrun to copy files into/from VMWare. Yet this solution has also a bug; copying files is incredibly slow. Especially large files (150MB takes ~30sec to copy). Version 11 upgrade did not fix this bug.
I don't suppose those issues will ever be fixed (or at least they weren't for couple of years).
Can anyone help me with this please ? Is there a 3rd party tool for supporting copy/paste in VMWare Workstation ?
Thank you for any help !
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Hourly performance stats report
Hello community,
I have a VM performance report which LucD's helped me with a couple of years back.. The report gets a day avg and peak value of both CPU and RAM for a VM. I'm trying to find out a way to pull and export hourly stats for set of VMs on a daily basis. I've attached a sample report which is an output from Solarwinds virtualization manager. There is no way in SVM to schedule this kind of a report so I'm opting for the good choice - PowerCLI 
I've also attached the script which I run to get a daily avg report but want to see if it can be tweaked to get hourly avg and push a report similar to the one attached. Can Luc or someone please help me out? Thanks in advance.
Regards,
VMSavvy 
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Bridging issues in Windows 10 and WS11
Hi all...
Just wondering if anyone else is having issues with Bridging on Workstation 11.1 and Windows 10 Build 10049?
I have reinstalled twice and made sure that Windows Defender wasnt running (other ppl with bridging issues said that some virus protection software causes issues) I have no luck with getting bridging to work.
The networking interfaces doesnt have the vmware bridge protocol installed and I am unable to manually get VMnet0 to bridge also.
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Re: Засисает esxi 5.1/5.5
"По фотографии" вам вряд-ли помогут, но если пальцем в небо я бы проверил\заменил флешку. Подобное бывает когда флешка погибает.
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Re: .vmx file is not a valid virtual machine configuration file
You will find the recreated .vmx files in the attached vmx.zip archive. However, I strongly recommend that you backup the VM's files/folder prior to powering them on again, because there are lots of errors in the log files regarding .vmdk issues!
André
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Re: Засисает esxi 5.1/5.5
скажите какие логи нужны, вылложи
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Re: Ошибка в VDP при создании бэкапа
Названия машины проверил, убрал спец.символы где встречались (в списке ВМ на BladeCenter). Ошибка осталась.
По поводу ошибки 10007 не очень понял пути решения. ВМ развернута на рэйде, на котором помимо данной ВМ крутятся еще несколько. С них копии делаются без проблем.
Логи выдают следующие строчки (почему то пишет Диск S [СЭПАК], хотя название поменяно, убраны квадратные скобки):
2015-04-02T12:43:15.019-04:00 avvcbimage Warning <0000>: The VM 'vmx/' could not be located on the datastore:[bc2_raid10] Диск S [СЭПАК]/Диск S [СЭПАК].vmx
2015-04-02T12:43:15.019-04:00 avvcbimage Warning <0000>: DataStore/File Metadata download failed.
2015-04-02T12:43:15.019-04:00 avvcbimage Warning <0000>: [IMG0016] The datastore from VMX '[bc2_raid10] Диск S [СЭПАК]/Диск S [СЭПАК].vmx' could not be fully inspected.
2015-04-02T12:43:15.034-04:00 avvcbimage Info <19704>: DataStore Storage Info:bc2_raid10 capacity=2198754820096 free=791101308928
2015-04-02T12:43:15.034-04:00 avvcbimage Info <19716>: DS Capacity=2198754820096 FreeSpace=791101308928 / HD committed=166564819085 unCommitted=1046 unShared=166564819085
2015-04-02T12:43:15.034-04:00 avvcbimage Error <14671>: The file with extension '.vmx' could not be located on the VM
2015-04-02T12:43:15.034-04:00 avvcbimage Warning <0000>: Download VM .vmx file failed.
2015-04-02T12:43:15.034-04:00 avvcbimage Error <17821>: failed to download vm metadata, try later
2015-04-02T12:43:15.034-04:00 avvcbimage Info <9772>: Starting graceful (staged) termination, failed to download vm metadata (wrap-up stage)
2015-04-02T12:43:15.034-04:00 avvcbimage Error <0000>: [IMG0009] createSnapshot: snapshot creation or pre/post snapshot script failed
2015-04-02T12:43:15.034-04:00 avvcbimage Error <0000>: [IMG0009] createSnapshot: snapshot creation/pre-script/post-script failed
2015-04-02T12:43:15.034-04:00 avvcbimage Info <0000>: isExitOK()=157
2015-04-02T12:43:15.034-04:00 avvcbimage Info <40370>: snapshot created:false NOMC:false ChangeBlTrackingAvail:true UsingChBl:true, ExitOK:false, cancelled:false, fatal: true
2015-04-02T12:43:15.034-04:00 avvcbimage Info <0000>: vcbimage_progress::terminate
2015-04-02T12:43:15.034-04:00 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:VixDiskLib: VixDiskLib_EndAccess: Disk access completed.
2015-04-02T12:43:15.034-04:00 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:VixDiskLib: VixDiskLib_Connect: Establish connection.
2015-04-02T12:43:15.034-04:00 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:VixDiskLibVim: VixDiskLibVim_AllowVMotion: Enable VMotion.
2015-04-02T12:43:15.035-04:00 avvcbimage Info <16038>: Final summary, cancelled/aborted 0, snapview 0, exitcode 157: miscellaneous error
2015-04-02T12:43:16.756-04:00 avvcbimage Info <17819>: VixDiskLib vMotion reservation successfully released
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Машину перевез на другой БлэйдЦентр и другой сторэдж, потом обратно смигрировал (вернул всё, как было изначально). Создал новую job для ВМ, запустил - бэкап выполнился.
Причина, почему не выполнялся бэкап ранее так и не осталась ясна.
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Re: Backup solution for (free) ESXi
VDP ain´t free, you need at least an vSphere Essentials Plus licece (kit)
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Re: Network Layer stops working randomly
did you check the HCL?
i don't think the S5 is certified for 5.5 or higher
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Re: Can you partition a virtual drive with VMware?
For the operating system it doesn't matter whether it's a physical or virtual disk. You can even decide whether you want to partition a single virtual disk, or create additional virtual disks for a VM.
André
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Re: Network Layer stops working randomly
I Agree with BoneTrader this hardware is not supported for ESXi 6.0
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Re: Migrate VM fails? Could not complete network copy for file...
From the given scenario possible reasons are:
1) Snapshots - check if there any? Disks consolidation pending?
2) ESXi agents are not responding (you tried with that KB already)
3) FILE.vmdk used by other Application/Lock (you mentioned VM in power-off state so there is no lock by theory)
Is there backup software given access for the Data stores?
4) Change the destination ESXi/Data store and give a try
5) Finally do cold V-Motion first followed by Storage V-Motion
Let me know how it goes ...
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Re: failed to deploy ovf package: invalid configuration for device '7'
Hi Richardson,
Thanks very much for your fast reply, yes, you are right, I have done the same with the vSphere WEB client and all has gone OK, I could deploy the virtual machine without any problem.
The true is that I had thought about it, but I thought "it must not be this...." and it was, so working with the WEB client is very much better that with the one that is not WEB...
Best regards,
Guillem
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