With the help of Windows Resource Monitor, I've discovered an unsettling fact: my processor's frequency is not scaling down when all VMs are idle (or at least it doesn't appear to from the VMs perspective.) Maybe this is the default behavior of ESXi, but since I'm new to the platform it seems like odd behavior to me.

Let me share my configuration before I dive in further. I have a Dell Precision T5500 with a quad-core Xeon E5620 @ 2.4 GHz (HT enabled.) There are two VMs on 24/7; a pfSense VM with 1 vCPU that provides connectivity to VMs on an isolated, internal network, dynamic DNS service, and an OpenVPN endpoint. The other VM is a Windows 8.1 Pro x64 VM with 4 vCPUs with GPU passthru for an MSI GTX 670. In the vSphere client, under Configuration>Power Management ACPI P- and C-states are enabled, and the Active Policy is low power. The Windows VM is also configured for "Power saver" mode in the Power Options control panel. Additionally, low power mode is selected in the system BIOS, and C-states are enabled along with SpeedStep. Nonetheless, the CPU will not downclock.

There are a few other Windows and Linux VMs, but they are usually shut down.

First question, of course, is whether Resource Monitor readings are accurate in a VM. I suspect so since my power bill went up by $30 and the Dell puts out a lot of heat, even at idle.

Now one peculiarity of my setup is that in order to get GPU passthru working with a Geforce GPU is that I had to set the parameter:

hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE"

in the .vmx file for the VM. One noticeable side effect of this is that Task Manager no longer reports CPU usage correctly (it just shows 0% for all processes.) However, Resource Monitor does show CPU usage and frequency just fine.

So is it normal for ESXi to not clock down when idle? Can I trust the frequency readings I'm getting from Windows Resource Monitor? Is the "hypervisor.cpuid.v0" parameter causing problems with power management?

I store all of my documents on Google Drive. I have Google Drive configured so that it syncs most of my data to a Google Drive folder on my MBP.

I want to access my Google Drive data in my Windows 10 VMware Fusion guest but without having to sync it to the MBP a second time; i.e., I want to have Windows 10 access the data that's already been sync'd to the MacOS host.

I used Fusion's Shared Folders feature to make the Google Drive folder visible in Windows 10. When I install Google Drive in Windows 10 and then attempt to change the folder location from the default location (C:\Users\Chris\Google Drive) to \\vmware-host\Shared Folders\Google Drive, I get the following error: "The network path could not be found."

At first, I thought this might be an issue with Google Drive; so I next tried to map the shared folder to a drive letter using "net use G: "\\vmware-host\Shared Folders\Google Drive"; however, that generates the same error:  "The network path was not found."

When I open a Windows File Explorer window and then attempt to access \\vmware-host\Shared Folders\Google Drive, I get the following message: "Windows cannot access \\vmware-host\Shared Folders\Google Drive." I get a similar error when I use File Explorer to attempt to access \\vmware-host\Shared Folders or even just \\vmware-host.

How can I resolve this? Is this an issue with Fusion, with Windows 10, or with Google Drive?

Hi.

I'm trying to resolve a similar issue as described here:

Folder by Path - LucD notes

However, I'm trying to use the vSphere API to resolve the issue.

Trying to run the following code will display "Not found" when it's trying to find "UniqueFolderName" because FindEntityView will select the "wrong" "CommonFolderName" folder through the the first iteration of the loop.

In my environment, there's a "CommonFolderName" at the root Ievel and then another "CommonFolderName" that exists in a different folder at the second-level. l expected FindEntityView to select the "CommonFolderName" at the root level but it's actually selecting the one at the other level.

void Main()
{    VimClient client = new VimClient();    client.Login("https://vcenter/sdk/vimService", "username", "password");    string hierarchyPath = "CommonFolderName/UniqueFolderName";    Folder folder = GetFolder(client, null, hierarchyPath);    if (folder == null)    {        Console.WriteLine("Not found");    }    else    {        Console.WriteLine("Found");    }
}



private Folder GetFolder(VimClient client, ManagedObjectReference parent, string hierarchyPath)
{
    Folder folder = null;    string[] parts = new string[] { null };    if (hierarchyPath != null)    {        parts = hierarchyPath.Split(new[] { '/', '\\' });    }    foreach (string part in parts)    {        NameValueCollection folderFilter = null;        if (part != null)        {           folderFilter = new NameValueCollection { { "name", part } };        }        Folder folderPart = (Folder)client.FindEntityView(typeof(Folder), parent, folderFilter, null);        if (folderPart == null)        {            // failed to find folder            return null;        }        folder = folderPart;        parent = folderPart.MoRef;    }    return folder;
}

Any ideas?

Thank you.

Hello, I am working on upgrading from vSphere 6 to 6.5. As part of this upgrade I also need to change the IP address of  vcenter( different VLAN) and the Management network of the ESXI Hosts.

VCenter has an IP of 192.168.10.x and I would like to change it to 192.168.7.x. The Vlan is saturated on 192.168.10.x as it has the VM Network Portgroup( standard vSwitch) along with the  MGMT Network and vMotion running on this same Vlan.

The current vcenter is running Windows 2012 which I am going to use the Migration tool to convert it to the Virtual appliance.  I would like some recommendations on how to achieve the changes with no impact(meaning no VMs going down).

vswitch0 ( Not license for Distributed switch) is configured as follows:

VM Network( Contains All of our Prod VMs) 192.168.10.X vmk0 - MGMT Network - 192.168.10.X

After the successful migration of vcenter to VCSA I am going to :

• change IP of vcenter and make any applicable changes to the DNS Server so it points to correct IP of vcenter( At this point I won't be able to manage the Host, is this ok? can it be avoided?)

• log on to the console of the ESXI host and change the IP and restart MGMT network agents( Should I move the VMs off of the ESXI hosts?). Also, while I change the IP I will also choose a new vmNic that corresponds to the new vlan (192.168.7.x).

This is where it gets a bit scary for me as I don't want the VMs in the VM Network that are part of vswitch0 to be impacted. My next plan was to create a new vswitch and choose the vmnics that were previously used for vswitch0 and the MGMT Network ( How do I get the VM Network on to this new vswitch?)

So in a nutshell , I'm not too sure how the VM Network is moved to the new vswitch( unless there is a better way of doing all this) and how can I make sure that I will be able to vmotion the machines back to the host after I change the IP of the  MGMT Network and I move on to the next ESXI Host and repeat the process.

The end result should be :

vcenter is on the  192.168.7.X along with all the esxi hosts and MGMT Network on the same 192.168.7.X while keeping the VMs where they are on the VM Network port group.(192.168.10.X) Thank You.

qatesting12

I have Horizon View 7 confiugred with Access point and its been in production for months, no issues.

Now Im trying to implement VIDM (we have plan to implement airwatch and integrate).

I installed VIDM server and configured View Pod, synced with No error's. Configued SAML settings on View admin console and accepted the certificate.

Users are able to login to VIDM but when they try to access the applications, I get this below error

This horizon server expects logon cred from another server.

Same issue posted here https://communities.vmware.com/thread/551448?start=0&tstart=0

Our internal domain name has a underscore, vmware doesnt like underscore in fqdn (had lot of issues configuring with underscore). hence to solve this we created fqdn for connection server and VIDM  with differnet domain name , certificates are installed for this fqdn. Have proper reverse and forward lookup configured in dns for this fqdn. 

EX:  actual server fqdn is vidm.doamin_name.local , created another dns record vidm.domainname.local and installed certificate for this fqdn

I not sure whether this is causing the issue

I am getting this error does anyone know whats causing this ?

Thanks

Hello together!

We wanted to do an upgrade from vCenterServer 5.1 to 6.0.

But we get an error after I have to enter the vCenter Server Credentials.

It is the following error:

Error: IP Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is present in certificate subject alt names but under DNS key.

This ip address cannot be used for installation.

Resolution: use an ip address or dns name that is present in the certificate subject alt names or regenerate ssl certificate for sso before continuing.

I have no idea what to do.

Hi,

I am able to retrieve the coredump partition and coredump file path along with partition status using esxcli for single host. However I am looking for some command or script where I can get all this information remotely for multiple ESXi hosts and export them to a csv or html file.

If would be great if anyone can assist me on this as it will save me a great deal of manual work.

thanks in advance

Satish

Hi,

I have a strange issue where I have 2 VMs running on my ESXi 6.0 Host, which is running on a Cisco UCS-C240 M3L server. My setup is as follows:

• VM 1 is EVE-NG (Network simulator similar to GNS3)
• VM 2 is Windows 10, with Windows FW turned off
• 1 Shared port-group and vSwitch which both VMs reside.
• All VLANs are allowed
• Permiscuous Mode is set to Accept in the Security Settings

Details of my setup:

• Within EVE-NG network simulator, I have a virtual Cisco IOS Switch (IOL or vIOS) with a VLAN access set to the port which my Windows 10 VM will connect to
• Windows 10 has a static IP address set to the network adapter that is part of the same vSwitch and Port-Group in ESXi
• I have attached 3 screenshots of the vSwitch, the port-group, and the topology on EVE-NG.

Details of Problem seen:

• Cannot Ping W10 to EVE VMs, no ARP entries are showing up, no Dynamic MAC Address entries are showing up on the Switch within EVE-NG

Some background info:

• I Successfully did an upgrade (not clean install) of ESXi 6.5 from 6.0 and then rolled back to 6.0 in hope this would fix it. This could be an issue, but I'd have to workout how to move my VM for EVE (see next poInt) before I think of doing the clean install.
• The EVE-NG VM is approx. 120GB big, so hard to export, but I do have a second Cisco UCS-C240 M3L server on the same LAN segment that I could export the VM to.

Any help and advice would be very much appreciated. I Could try to rebuild the network stack in ESXi, but not really sure how to be honest. I have powercycled the Host and also, but doing the upgrade and downgrade of ESXi I've already had to completely delete and rebuild the EVE-NG VM, which was very painful, so I'd like to plan ahead more this time and export the VM first.

Cheers,

Joe.

As I found out I can NOT boot a (bootable) winOS DVD in a VM with Linux guestOS.

More precisely: I can boot but cannot use network resp. Internet connection.

When I boot the same WinOS-DVD in a VM with WinOS guestVM everything is fine and I can use Internet.

It seems to me that the network related parameters in the underlying *.vmx file are guestOS specific and cannot be used
by booted DVD from another OS world. This is surprising.

I thought a booting DVD OS is completely independent from the environment (as in real world).
But this is not the case.

Are there any generic, OS-independent network vmx parameters which let me boot (and use Internet) ALL DVDs regardless which OS world they come from?

Matt

hi,

we have just put vra 7 in and we are building blue prints etc.  One issue i have is that when you connect to the server using rdp a rdp client is downloaded for you to connect.

this is fine when i am in the office but remote users will use MS direct access so can only connect over the host name. is there a way of populating the rdp client with the server hostname rather than the ip address?

thanks

現在、ESXi　6.0を使用し　外付けHDD（USB3.0　2.5TB　HDD）を接続。

lsusbコマンドで該当HDDが認識されているところまで来ました。

2.5TBなのでNTFS のGPTパーティションで

ls /dev/disks/mpx.vmhba42:C0:T0:L0

と表示されます。

新規のデータストアとして使用するため、パーティションを　partedUtil set したところ

The device /dev/disks/mpx.vmhba42:C0:T0:L0 has zero length, and can't possibly store a file system or partition table.  Perhaps you selected the wrong device?

容量無いからパーティション作れない。デバイス間違えてんじゃないの？みたいなメッセージが表示されます。

FAT32でフォーマットし2TBと500MBで切りなおすと二つのデバイスとして認識し

それぞれのパーティションが表示され上記のようなエラーになりません。

2.5TB一つのデータストアとして使用したいため、うまくいく方法がないが探しています。

ご教示願えないでしょうか？

宜しくお願いいたします。

Hi,

Hopefully someone might be able to point me in the right direction here, I'm a bit out of my depth....

I have a LAB setup of 3x ESXi hosts, on one of which vcenter is installed.

All the ESXi hosts were added and everything was working very well. I needed to change the IP addressing of the network the three ESXi/vcenter hosts were on. Initially there was no problem, moved form 192.168.1.x/24 to 192.168.100.x/24. Again, initially everything seemed ok.

I think the problem I am now getting, which is when trying to access vsphere web client I get '[500] SSO error: Cannot connect to the VMware Component Manager', started after the VM hosting vcenter rebooted, though I can't be certain of this.

I've seen posts suggesting a requirement for entries in the hosts file of the vcenter server if forward/reverse DNS isnt working, but it is. I came across another post suggesting to reset the certificates using the certificate-manager.bat command, which I've tried but with no luck error stays the same after services/server reboot.

I pulled the vsphere-client-virgo.log but the only thing I could see in it was an entry of: failed: Connection refused: connect

In case it helps I've pasted the section below;

[2017-02-15T14:16:25.874Z] [INFO ] Timer-0                      com.vmware.vise.util.debug.SystemUsageMonitor                    Summary: heap = 269.95 MB, threads = 87

Heap    : init = 134217728(131072K) used = 283060008(276425K) committed = 376438784(367616K) max = 557842432(544768K)

non-Heap : init = 2555904(2496K) used = 189541640(185099K) committed = 210223104(205296K) max = -1(-1K)

No of loaded classes: 22227

Live Thread Count(w/o the live daemon threads): 6

Peak Thread Count: 90

Daemon Thread Count: 81

Tomcat Request-Processing Threads Count: 20

Blocked threads: 0

Waiting threads: 80

Threads blocked in Data Service: 0

Threads waiting in Data Service: 0

Threads blocked in Logback: 0

Threads waiting in Logback: 0

[2017-02-15T14:21:25.911Z] [INFO ] Timer-0                      com.vmware.vise.util.debug.SystemUsageMonitor                    Summary: heap = 289.84 MB, threads = 87

Heap    : init = 134217728(131072K) used = 303914664(296791K) committed = 376438784(367616K) max = 557842432(544768K)

non-Heap : init = 2555904(2496K) used = 189541640(185099K) committed = 210223104(205296K) max = -1(-1K)

No of loaded classes: 22227

Live Thread Count(w/o the live daemon threads): 6

Peak Thread Count: 90

Daemon Thread Count: 81

Tomcat Request-Processing Threads Count: 20

Blocked threads: 0

Waiting threads: 80

Threads blocked in Data Service: 0

Threads waiting in Data Service: 0

Threads blocked in Logback: 0

Threads waiting in Logback: 0

[2017-02-15T14:23:34.228Z] [INFO ] http-bio-9443-exec-2        70000007 100002 ###### com.vmware.vise.util.i18n.I18nFilter                              The preferred locale for session 100002 is set to: en_US

[2017-02-15T14:23:34.250Z] [INFO ] http-bio-9443-exec-2        70000007 100002 ###### com.vmware.vise.vim.security.sso.impl.SsoCmLocatorImpl            Fetching SSO endpoints from CM

[2017-02-15T14:23:34.266Z] [INFO ] http-bio-9443-exec-2        70000007 100002 ###### com.vmware.vise.vim.cm.impl.ComponentManagerServiceImpl          Creating a CMServiceHolder for URI https://myserver.mydomain.local/cm/sdk?hostid=5d6bdf00-db61-11e6-9a06-000c299e8cce

[2017-02-15T14:23:36.295Z] [INFO ] http-bio-9443-exec-2        70000007 100002 ###### com.vmware.vise.vim.cm.impl.ComponentManagerServiceImpl          Retry won't be attempted for CM https://myserver.mydomain.local/cm/sdk?hostid=5d6bdf00-db61-11e6-9a06-000c299e8cce for error: com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.exception.ConnectionException - org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connect to myserver.mydomain.local:443 [myserver.mydomain.local/192.168.x.x, myserver.mydomain.local/fe80:0:0:0:4858:3366:c0:39df%8] failed: Connection refused: connect

[2017-02-15T14:23:36.300Z] [ERROR] http-bio-9443-exec-2        70000007 100002 ###### com.vmware.vise.vim.cm.impl.ComponentManagerServiceImpl          Error when creating component manager service: https://myserver.mydomain.local/cm/sdk?hostid=5d6bdf00-db61-11e6-9a06-000c299e8cce com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.exception.ConnectionException: org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connect to myserver.mydomain.local:443 [myserver.mydomain.local/192.168.x.x, myserver.mydomain.local/fe80:0:0:0:4858:3366:c0:39df%8] failed: Connection refused: connect

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hello team,

I am using VM ESXi 6.0 with a free license (2 Physical CPUs) on below HP Server. I have installed 3 VMs with below settings. The performance is not meeting the requirement, its damn slow, even worse than a normal machine. I suspect the limiting factor is processing speed. I checked that hyperthreading is enabled.

Need your support to optimize the same.

Another query, the per VM configuration summary there are 8 vCPUs allocated (2*4 vCPUs) why the max speed in the Operating system (MS Server 2012, R2) properties, it is showing only 2.4 GHz.Should not it be at least 2x2.4 GHz ?  

Hi all,

Did a clean install of a ESXi host version 6.5.0.

First VM was a Sophos UTM. I could install VMware tools on that VM.

Just added a VM, Windows 10. I 'm not able to install VMware tools on this VM.

Tried to install VMware tools when the Windows 10 VM was powered off.

Through the vSphere webclient I start the installation of VMware tools.

I see the task 'Mount Tools Installer' end successfully, but nothing else.

The CD drive mounts: ISO [] /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso.

Any ideas?

Thanx Jaap

Is there a View (6.2.3) best practice that indicates that Windows 7 VDI desktops should be logged off by the VIew media pool settings after 24 hours if left in a disconnected state or else there may be corruption within the ADAM database? We are running our VDI environment on vCenter 6. Are there any best practices documented for this as well?

Thanks in advance...

Scott

Guys i know this horse has been beat to death before on other forums but i can't seem to find anyone that has posted with a problem like this.  I am running a Horizon 6.2.1 environment with windows 7x64 workstations on a network that is separated from the internet by a proxy.   I have a security server out in front of the proxy that has the appropriate firewall exceptions allowed (per the VMWare ports and protocols white paper) and everything seems to be hunky dory.  Here is where it takes a downward turn however.  I have about 80 users in a building in VA (i am located in AL for reference) that seem to randomly give errors in the connection server log that the pending session has expired.  The end users experiences the same effect as if the firewall ports were not opened properly, they get presented with the pool to choose from when they click the pool the windows launches black then closes and they get a generic display protocol error.  I can go into the connection server and see where they tried to connect to machine X, i can then manually restart that machine from vcenter and they are able to connect to it perfectly fine with no problems.  This is happening multiple times a day and it doesn't seem to have any rhyme or reason to it.  Once a user is connected, as long as the session doesn't time out from inactivity, the connection is stable and they can work all day without problems.  I have the connection server set to automatically log off after 60 minutes of disconnect and have asked the users to log off vs just close the window.  There doesn't seem to be any correlation, that i can see, between how the user terminates the session and them not being able to log back in later.  I also have tried having the systems recompose after log off but that introduces a slew of other problems and didn't seem to correct this one.

I have been trying to work this out for months now and this project is only growing and the problem is only getting worse.  I will take any help or direction that i can get at this point!  I have attached the error the end user gets

Dear all

Hi

Today i have logged in to my vcenter (5.5) and see this alarm on all of my vms :

Alert

vSphere HA virtual machine failover failed

i hhave read in KB but could not find any reason for this problem why appear this problem ?

BR

Hi

I am getting the error " Invalid Identity Manager url, unable to find valid certificate to " when it ry to install the load balanced FQDN URL..

I had installed the root CA certificate...but When i try to connect using curl, get the below response..any pointers please

error:14094410:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert handshake failure

* About to connect() to  port 443 (#0)

*   Trying .. connected

* Connected to port 443 (#0)

* successfully set certificate verify locations:

*   CAfile: none

  CApath: /etc/ssl/certs/

* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):

* SSLv3, TLS alert, Server hello (2):

* error:14094410:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert handshake failure

* Closing connection #0