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Editing e-mail notifications - velocity templates

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Hi,

I know that this topic has been picked up before. Since vCAC 6 the old e-mail templates on the vCAC Server are, for the most part, not being used anymore. The notifications sent out by vCAC are composed usind the velocity templates, located on the vCAC Appliance under /usr/lib/vcac/server/webapps/notification-service/WEB-INF/classes/templates

The e-mail generated using those templates lack a lot of information and I would like to include some vm properties (like name, owner, dc location, vm folder etc) with them. So far I have succeeded only in adding some text into the /usr/lib/vcac/server/webapps/notification-service/WEB-INF/classes/templates/email/html/extensions/csp.places.iaas.forms.vm. After restarting the vcac service the new text is shown in the notifiaction e-mail. I've tried to include a new property in the e-mail, for example VirtualMachine.Admin.Name, the property is assigned to the VM as soon as the request is submitted. I've defined a new variable in the csp.places.iaas.forms.vm file, using the same syntax as the rest of them found in the file. After saving and resetting the vcac service the new notifications don't include the change. I've tried the same for the UUID and the VM Owner Name, with no success.

I don't really know my way around the templates (altohugh it seems simple) and the official documentation doesn't include any information about them.

Any useful information is greatly appreciated, this problem is driving me nuts lately:/


"VMs failed over by HA" in vsphere - HA dashboard Log Insight 2.0GA

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I was looking at this dashboard and it seemed like a lot of VMs were being failed over.

When I dug into the VM names and looked in vCenter, the events seem to correspond to DRS events instead of HA events.

HOL-SDC-1303 - step 86 - no Transit Uplink in interface drop down

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HI,

 

I seem to be stuck on step 86, as the drop down for the INterface is blank.

 

I've gone back over my previous steps, and all seem to be complete.

 

I've also published the changes in between each step, and still no joy.

 

Any advice?

 

Thanks!

 

Keith

P2V physical DMZ web server to Esxi 5.5- how to.

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I currently have only one DMZ server, a physical 2008 web server.  We want to convert to a virtual machine on an Esxi 5.5 host.

 

What are the steps to make this happen?   I can't ping the Esxi host from the DMZ server, what ports need to open on the firewall for this to happen?

No route to host

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I'm trying to work on a lab using vCAC. The first step is to check the Endpoints. However I can't even seem to get past this first step. The web console states "java.net.NoRouteToHostException: No route to host". Please advise.

what am i looking for when reading esxi 5.5 syslog

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We have the vcentre syslog collector set up.

 

What am i looking for in the syslog to identify an error? whats the best way of reding the syslog? are there any tools that highlight errors etc?

 

Thanks

Exsi 5 is can‘t installed on a DIY machine, can not find the driver realtek8111g and disk driver

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Exsi 5是不能在DIY机器上安装,找不到驱动程序realtek8111g和磁盘驱动器

Question about VM Operation Manager installation

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Hi,

 

- Is IP Pools need same network as vCenter server ?? Or either connectable network is ok ??

 

- In my environment, there are around 150 VM in 2 cluster. What's the disk size I should assign for VMOM ??

 

Thanks


Vcenter appliacne Deployment

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This document includes all the steps of deploying vcenter appliance

Error importing Peopletools appliance

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So I'm trying to import a Peoplesoft Tools appliance (.ova file that works in virtualbox).

We are running vCenter 5.5 and all the hosts are 5.5

 

I found a really good post that walks you through converting the file and I'm really close:  http://gasparotto.blogspot.com/2013/04/virtualbox-appliances-for-peoplesoft-on.html?showComment=1398981749114

 

I'm trying to import the server to a host using ovftool and i'm getting this error:

 

- Wrong file size specified in OVF descriptor for 'FSCMDB-SES-853-11-disk1.vmdk

' (specified: -1, actual 1726696448).

- Wrong file size specified in OVF descriptor for 'FSCMDB-SES-853-11-disk2.vmdk

' (specified: -1, actual 3460785664).

- Wrong file size specified in OVF descriptor for 'FSCMDB-SES-853-11-disk3.vmdk

' (specified: -1, actual 7048273408).

- Wrong file size specified in OVF descriptor for 'FSCMDB-SES-853-11-disk4.vmdk

' (specified: -1, actual 7914648576).

- Wrong file size specified in OVF descriptor for 'FSCMDB-SES-853-11-disk5.vmdk

' (specified: -1, actual 11116916224).

Completed with errors

 

I attached the .ovf if anyone wants to see that.  I know it's a setting in there somewhere, i just can't figure it out.

1 gb of video memory allocated to vm on windows 7

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I have allocated 1gb of video memory to the virtual machine on display settings although on windows it states only 64mb of video memory. what gives?

VFabric PostgreSQL Open Source deployment

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Im preparing a rollout of Horizon Enterprise for our company;

 

     As VFafric PostgreSQL is a requirement for production environments is there any documentation on how to deploy the open source edition?

is there an opensource appliance that can be used?

if not, Im looking for a quick step by step.

 

Thank you

Help sought for upgrade free ESXi 5.0 to 5.5

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Good day.

Please be gentle.  I am a tyro.

 

We are a 24 hour 7 day operation for which down time is critical.

 

We are running free ESXi 5.0 and wish to update to free ESXi 5.5U1.  We have 3 VMs on one thick provisioned lazy zero 2.08TB datastore: 2 Windows 2008 Server R2 Standard and a 32 bit Windows 2003 Server.  The provisioned storage for the Windows 2003 Server is 104.5GB.  The provisioned storage for one Windows 2008 Server R3 is 102.22GB and the provisioned storage for the other Windows 2008 Server R2 is 1.60TB.

 

I feel the need to back up these VMs in case disaster should befall us during the update procedure.  My question is how to back up the VMs with minimum down time?  From what I have read snapshots are not suitable for this purpose.  The only solution I have so far is to shut down the VMs and copy them to another drive using rsync or scp with compression.

 

Anyone have some better solutions?

 

Thanks,

David Chapman

ゲストが使えるメモリについて

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お世話になります。

 

あるゲストOSのメモリを16GB(シェア100%で予約なし)で設定しています。

 

消費されたホストメモリとしても16GB消費されています。

 

一方で、ゲストOSでメモリ負荷の高い処理をすると、

8GB程度で異常終了し、16GBの半分強しか使うことができません。

 

ホストのメモリ使用率は90%とかなり高いのですが、

処理中に他のゲストOSと合わせたアクティブメモリを合計してみると、、

ホストの物理メモリの16%程度しか使っていません。

 

他のゲストOSでメモリを予約していることはなく、

どうしても10GBで頭打ちになる理由がわかりません。

 

どなたか、教えていただけると助かります。

 

よろしくお願いします。

NIC setup & vlan

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Hopeuflly I can get some comments on my config.  I've done plenty vsphre work in the past but usually it's a simple config; standalone, etc.

 

In this case, I have 4 NICs (2 are 10GB iscsi dedicated) which leaves 2 more 1GB each for network, mgmnt, & vmotion.

I have Powerconnect 6248 switches (in addition to the iscsi 10GB switches which are completely segregated and not applicable here)

 

Is two switches enough for mgmnt, vmotion, & the VMs to communicate out of?

I'm trying to create a vlan for all manament traffic, DRAC, ILO, that's away from the user facing VLANs.  Can I put the mgmnt IPs on that vlan so end users cannot hit the interface or will it cause a headache in terms of connectivity.


can i run VMwareComplianceCheckerForvSphere1.3

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Dear team,

 

I have downloaded "VMwareComplianceCheckerForvSphere1.3' for vsphere 5.1 . Just want to know can u run these safely without impacting any VMs. If I run these application will it change any thing or just fetch the data and present to us. Need ur assistance before running this software.

 

regards

Mr VMware

Horizon View Automated Pool Increment number.

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I have an automated pool that uses a template. Name scheme is VDI-{n:fixed=2}

 

Next vm provisioned will be VDI-04

 

How do I edit increment number? I want next VM's to start at 10.

VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vmui) ASSERT

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Hi Guys,

 

While working with one VM (Windows 7 64bit) I wanted to start another in a new window to be able to run it on a different screen (I have two displays). I was able to start a new window (as before) and select the VM I wanted to start. I could also start the new VM, but while the new VM was starting I recieved an error message from the first VM (a workstation error message):

Fatal Application Error: The operation was canceled (class foundry::Error)

 

After Clicking OK the first VM seems to be killed, while memory and processor resources are not returned to the host machine (Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit). Also, the following error message was displayed:

VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vmui)

ASSERT

d:/build/ob/bora-1829221/bora/apps/vmappsdkWin32/vmappsdk/mksCtl.cpp:969

A log file is available in "C:\Users\Jim\AppData\Local\Temp\vmware-Jim\vmware-ui-6540.log".

You can request support.

 

After closing all VM's and restarting the Workstation software, the original VM can be opened again and appears to have survived the 'crash' and did not even shutdown (it continued to run in the background). If I then want to start the second VM again in a new window, it all goes wrong again.

If I start the second VM in the same window (so using the TAB view) it starts and keeps the original VM running also.

 

I could run the two VM's in seperate windows up until a few days ago and have not changed anything to my display setup or display driver setup.

Workstation 10 Dropping packets

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Here is my setup.  I am using a hosted 2012 Server Standard.  I have workstation 10 installed and have 5 guest VM's running on the same virtual network (192.168.10.0).  This is setup in NAT form because my server hosting company will not allow bridge networking in anyway.  I can ping and tracert between the VM's with no issues, but once I test from the host I get dropped packets.  I have turned off all offloading on primary network as well as inside the VM's.  I have all the VM Tools up-to-date.  Via VMware support I have also removed my current virtual network and created a new one. My VM's are running 1 Server 2008 R2 and 4 versions of CentOS.  On that note I do get a better ping from the Server 2008 R2 but still randomly get about 25% drop packets.  As for the CentOS, the packet lost ranges from 50% to 75% and sometimes 100%.  I don't think I left anything out but if you think you might can help please ask any question.  Any help would be great!!

Activate Server 2012 R2 on VSphere/ESXi 5.5

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Hi,

 

I've run into a recent problem where Server 2012 R2 Datacenter guests will not automatically activate their license on VSphere 5.5/ESXi during the SCCM OSD deployment process.  When looking at the logs of the KMS server, it appears that the guest OS is never even talking to the KMS server.  When i run slmgr.vbs /ato manually on the guest once the OS is available, it activates just fine.  What's strange is that physical systems and Hyper-V guests activate fine during the OSD deployment process.  It's just VMWare guests that are not activating. 

 

I originally thought all of this was a fluke and didn't pinpoint the problem was specific to VMWare until just today.  My first record of a system not activating was May 4th and I can consistently reproduce the issue every time.  

 

Prior to May 4th I was testing OSD deployments of Server 2012 R2 and they were activating successfully (from what I remember).  May 4th is not a hard date though, so I can't pinpoint what may have changed in our environment around that time. 

 

Has anyone seen anything like this themselves?

 

Thanks

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