Please see the attached screen shot  it is missing the mfc100.dll please let me know what you think could have been done better when I built this app to include this MFC100.dll

Hi.  I have a question about Witness Appliance CPU usage...

I have a 6.7 witness appliance running on an esxi 6.7U1 (free) host and it is consuming roughly half of the host's CPU steadily even while there is virtually very little disk activity.  This seems very excessive to me.

The vSAN is healthy so I know the witness is working ok, any other data points on witness cpu usage that I can compare to?   Any way to check the witness to see why it is running wide open?   I haven't tried rebooting the witness yet but that is my next step.

FYI, I actually have two witness appliances running on the same esxi host and they are both exhibiting the same high CPU usage so my esxi host is running almost 100% cpu

Pics of the host CPU usage view plus the witness appliance view of the CPU attached.

TIA.

As stated in the object. Is there any official/unofficial study guide based on vSphere 6.7?

Thank you

R

These are XenDesktops 7.15 LTSR CU1 running on VSphere 6.5. When I click on Summary page to view the VM it shows black screen. I do not see a Windows Desktop.

Any suggestions?

I am not sure if it was during the migration from vCD 9.1 to 9.5.0.1 or when we upgraded to 9.5.0.3, but everytime I goto https://<VCDURL>/api-explorer I now get a 404 with the error of,

Problem accessing /api-explorer/system. Reason:

    No organization provided




As a bonus I know api-explorer shows documentation for /cloudapi, is there a way to get just plan old /api documentation in the same format?

I shutdown the machine and tried to add more disk space and the GB section is greyed out. How can I add additional disk space (Hard Disk 2)

Добрый день. Есть несколько вопросов в плане виртуальных машин.

1. Когда мы создаем виртуальную машину, там у нас есть: Количество процессоров, количество ядер.

Процессор появляется программными средствами или создается при помощи ядер физического сервера? Допустим хотим добавить два vCPU. Откуда они берутся, из ядер или откуда?

С чем то же должен быть связан vCPU.

Хотя предполагаю, что это как виртуальное, программное устройство и можно выбрать как 1, 2, 3 и тд. vCPU

Но ядра уже берутся из физической машины, с ними связаны.

2. Что будет эффективней в виртуальной машине 2 vCPU с 2 ядрами к примеру или 1 vCPU с 2-4 ядрами?

3. Так же вопрос vmWARE WorkStation использует только физические ядра или потоки тоже? Допустим у меня 2 ядра и 4 потока. Я же могу указать под виртуальную машину 4 ядра? Как Виртуальная машина определяет, поставил я ядра или потоки? Если я поставлю количество 12 к примеру, но у меня столько не будет ядер и потоков. Она тоже запустится и по какому принципу будет работать?

4. Параметры Виртуальный Intel VT-x/EPT или AMD-V/RVI что означает? Счетчик производительности виртуализации процессора? Виртуализация IOMMU? В каких случаях их выставлять надо, в каких нет.

I am using an HP Elitebook Workstation 8560w, which I have upgraded to have 512 GB SSD and 2TB internal hard drive (in the optical bay drive).

The laptop is from 2011 and runs Windows 7 x64 Pro.

I am running Workstation PRO 15 on this laptop.

Now I am planning to buy a new laptop and scrap the old one, but there are a few caveats:

1) P2V to be able to use software

I will have to virtualize (p2v) the old computer for two reasons:

A) because there are a few software products that I use a lot and which I cannot reinstall since the software vendor has vanished and the software uses a license keyed to the actual laptop. I have tried before to move this software over from one computer to another but no luck...

So by creating a virtual machine from it I can keep old settings etc too.

B) I need access to my old laptop as a backup should I have forgotten something on it....

By making a p2v clone I will fix this.

2) How to handle Workstation PRO 15?

Since the laptop is my host for a fair amount of virtual machines I have the following concerns while migrating:

- Do I have to uninstall WS PRO15 from the existing machine before I do the P2V conversion? It seems likely since I doubt you can operate Workstation from within a virtual machine, right?

- Are there licensing problems for WmWare to do this (uninstall WS15PRO from old laptop before p2v operation and install it on the new laptop which likely will be Windows 10)?

3) How do I handle the virtual machines?

Can I just move the folders containing the virtual machines out to an external hard drive to be used with the new laptop?

It is a pity that no current laptop models support an internal extra hard drive like my Elitebook does...

Do guests work well if placed on external drives?

4) Will it run?

And lastly, will the converted Windows7 continue to run in the new virtual machine?

Getting a new license cannot be done since Microsoft has stopped selling them, and I will scrap the old laptop so I don't need both.

Any suggestions/ideas/howtos etc appreciated!

Hi All,

Having a play with Writable Volumes.

Our setup
Appvolumes Version: 2.16
Windows 10 1709
UEM 9.7

Question I have is we currently have a STD desktop pool that is load balanced between 4 clusters.
I have found if we create a writable volume on Cluster 1, the user does not get the writable on another clusters without manually moving the writable volumes.

So given the user could be load balanced to any of the 4 clusters is there a way to have the writable follow the user when logging in?

Sorry if silly question.

Thanks, in advanced

Here is a sample output of esxtop on a host running no VMs at all.

 9:58:51am up 61 days 13:51, 597 worlds, 0 VMs, 0 vCPUs; CPU load average: 0.08, 0.09, 0.11
PCPU USED(%):  61 0.2 0.9 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.1 AVG: 8.0
PCPU UTIL(%):  83 0.3 1.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.1 AVG:  10
CORE UTIL(%):  83     1.6     0.7     0.3     AVG:  21      ID      GID NAME             NWLD   %USED    %RUN    %SYS   %WAIT %VMWAIT    %RDY   %IDLE  %OVRLP   %CSTP  %       1        1 system            208   45.28  783.63    0.00 19653.99       -   39.23    0.00   13.77    0.00  
14004098 14004098 esxtop.4079612      1    3.74    2.84    0.02   95.57       -    0.00    0.00    0.01    0.00   
14002722 14002722 sh.4079405          1    0.07    0.06    0.00   98.36       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   
14003090 14003090 python.4079451     29    0.05    0.06    0.00 2854.05       -    0.01    0.00    0.00    0.00       6062     6062 hostd.2098611      31    0.03    0.04    0.00 3050.82       -    0.01    0.00    0.00    0.00       7488     7488 net-lbt.2098818     1    0.03    0.04    0.00   98.38       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00       9880     9880 vpxa.2099137       38    0.03    0.02    0.00 3739.81       -    0.01    0.00    0.00    0.00       5555     5555 hostdCgiServer.    12    0.01    0.02    0.00 1180.95       -    0.01    0.00    0.00    0.00       2198     2198 net-lacp.209774     3    0.01    0.01    0.00  295.24       -    0.01    0.00    0.00    0.00   
14002354 14002354 sshd.4079350        1    0.01    0.01    0.00   98.41       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00       6231     6231 rhttpproxy.2098    27    0.01    0.00    0.00 2657.21       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00          8        8 helper            154    0.00    0.00    0.00 15153.51       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00      2320     2320 vmkiscsid.20977     2    0.00    0.01    0.00  196.83       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00       5178     5178 vmware-usbarbit     1    0.00    0.00    0.00   98.41       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   

You see a pretty reasonably high %USED for the system world, and it doesn't seem to be enough to troubleshoot.

So what I do next is use e key to enter the system world.

This is what I get :

10:01:00am up 61 days 13:53, 597 worlds, 0 VMs, 0 vCPUs; CPU load average: 0.08, 0.09, 0.10
PCPU USED(%): 2.0 1.7 8.1 5.5 3.3 0.7 0.5 0.1 AVG: 2.7
PCPU UTIL(%): 3.5 2.6  11 7.0 2.7 0.8 0.9 0.1 AVG: 3.6
CORE UTIL(%): 6.0      18     3.5     1.0     AVG: 7.1      ID      GID NAME             NWLD   %USED    %RUN    %SYS   %WAIT %VMWAIT    %RDY   %IDLE  %OVRLP   %CSTP  %
 2097153        1 idle1               1    0.00   97.28    0.00    0.00       -    1.12    0.00    0.39    0.00   
 2097154        1 idle2               1    0.00   93.76    0.00    0.00       -    4.65    0.00    1.87    0.00   
 2097155        1 idle3               1    0.00   95.47    0.00    0.00       -    2.94    0.00    1.43    0.00   
 2097156        1 idle4               1    0.00   95.89    0.00    0.00       -    2.52    0.00    0.02    0.00   
 2097157        1 idle5               1    0.00   97.75    0.00    0.00       -    0.65    0.00    0.03    0.00   
 2097158        1 idle6               1    0.00   97.83    0.00    0.00       -    0.57    0.00    0.03    0.00   
 2097159        1 idle7               1    0.00   98.30    0.00    0.00       -    0.10    0.00    0.00    0.00   
 2097160        1 vmkEventAsyncMs     1    0.00    0.00    0.00   98.40       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   
 2097161        1 fastslab            1    0.00    0.00    0.00   98.39       -    0.01    0.00    0.00    0.00   
 2097162        1 SVGAConsole         1    0.00    0.00    0.00   98.39       -    0.01    0.00    0.00    0.00   
 2097163        1 debugtermlivedu     1    0.00    0.00    0.00   98.40       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   
 2097164        1 logSysAlert         1    0.00    0.00    0.00   98.40       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   
 2097165        1 serialLogger        1    0.00    0.00    0.00   98.40       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   
 2097166        1 tlbflushcount       1    0.00    0.00    0.00   98.40       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   

Not really useful, so I'm gonna sort by %USED using U key :

10:01:55am up 61 days 13:54, 566 worlds, 0 VMs, 0 vCPUs; CPU load average: 0.08, 0.09, 0.10
PCPU USED(%): 0.3 0.1 5.1 0.2 0.0  53 0.5 0.1 AVG: 7.5
PCPU UTIL(%): 0.4 0.1 4.2 0.3 0.0  75 0.6 0.1 AVG:  10
CORE UTIL(%): 0.5     4.4      75     0.1     AVG:  20
Sort by %used      ID      GID NAME             NWLD   %USED    %RUN    %SYS   %WAIT %VMWAIT    %RDY   %IDLE  %OVRLP   %CSTP  %
 2097153        1 idle1               1    0.00  100.84    0.00    0.00       -    0.08    0.00    0.02    0.00   
 2097154        1 idle2               1    0.00   96.73    0.00    0.00       -    4.18    0.00    0.00    0.00   
 2097155        1 idle3               1    0.00  100.77    0.00    0.00       -    0.14    0.00    0.01    0.00   
 2097156        1 idle4               1    0.00  100.88    0.00    0.00       -    0.04    0.00    0.00    0.00   
 2097157        1 idle5               1    0.00   70.16    0.00    0.00       -   30.75    0.00   12.81    0.00   
 2097158        1 idle6               1    0.00  100.51    0.00    0.00       -    0.40    0.00    0.07    0.00   
 2097159        1 idle7               1    0.00  100.84    0.00    0.00       -    0.07    0.00    0.00    0.00   
 2097160        1 vmkEventAsyncMs     1    0.00    0.00    0.00  100.00       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   
 2097161        1 fastslab            1    0.00    0.00    0.00  100.00       -    0.01    0.00    0.00    0.00   
 2097162        1 SVGAConsole         1    0.00    0.00    0.00  100.00       -    0.01    0.00    0.00    0.00   
 2097163        1 debugtermlivedu     1    0.00    0.00    0.00  100.00       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   
 2097164        1 logSysAlert         1    0.00    0.00    0.00  100.00       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   
 2097165        1 serialLogger        1    0.00    0.00    0.00  100.00       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   
 2097166        1 tlbflushcount       1    0.00    0.00    0.00  100.00       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   

As you can see, it doesn't really work. You might think that's because pretty much everything is at zero, but if I manage to display much more lines in my terminal output by reducing character size, I find some stuff way down :

      ID      GID NAME             NWLD   %USED    %RUN    %SYS   %WAIT %VMWAIT    %RDY   %IDLE  %OVRLP   %CSTP  %
[...]
 2097277        1 CpuSchedRealloc     1    0.07    0.06    0.00   98.32       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00 
 2097278        1 CpuMetricsLoadH     1    0.01    0.01    0.00   98.37       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00 
 2097279        1 CpuSchedExtende     1    0.00    0.00    0.00   98.37       -    0.01    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00 
 2097280        1 PktSlabMemorySt     1    0.00    0.00    0.00   98.37       -    0.01    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00 
 2097305        1 DCFlushCaches       1    0.00    0.00    0.00   98.38       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00 
 2097306        1 OCFlush             1   50.76   36.98    0.00   61.40       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00 
 2097341        1 bcflushd            1    0.00    0.00    0.00   98.38       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00 
 2097358        1 VSCSIPoll           1    0.06    0.06    0.00   98.31       -    0.02    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00 
 2097369        1 Storage-APD         1    0.00    0.00    0.00   98.38       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00 
 2097414        1 serialSwitcher      1    0.00    0.00    0.00   98.38       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00 
 2097415        1 logterm             1    0.00    0.00    0.00   98.38       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00 
 2097416        1 logterm-scroll      1    0.00    0.00    0.00   98.38       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00 
 2097417        1 memMap-adj          1    0.00    0.00    0.00   98.38       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00 
 2097418        1 pmemArs             1    0.00    0.00    0.00   98.38       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00 
 2097423        1 NRandomHwrng        1    0.00    0.00    0.00   98.38       -    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00 
[...]

So I have two questions :

- Why can't we sort when inside a world in esxtop ?

- What is OCFlush and why it would be taking so much CPU while no VMs are running ?

Why does it matter? This is actually a home lab, and ESX is running on a spare MacBook Pro, bottomline is the fans are making too much noise and I want to fix this!

ESX 6.7.0 (Build 8169922)

Hi!

I have this server setup at home:

SuperMicro X10SLL-F

Intel Xeon E3-1241 v3

32GB 3CC 1600

LSI 8708EM2

2x Velociraptor 10k 300gb RAID 1

4x WD Red 2TB Raid 5

I was running Vsphere 6.0 since a long time, and I decided to go over 6.7. Installation worked fine, I have access to everything, all is working... Except 2 things:

1. I can't get my LSI 8708EM2 (detected as a 1078) to show drive status

2. Can't get my Storage Manager to access disk info or rebuild raid.

When I was on vSphere 6.0, I was able to see my drive status (and veeam one could alert me), and with my WIndows VM, I had LSI MSM and I was able to configure the raid card.

So what I did:

Install SAS driver I was using in version 6 --> not working

Installed the SMIS I had  --> not working

Installed lastest SMIS  --> not working

Disabled the Firewall --> not working

I have no idea what else I can do. I know it's an old card, but I got it for cheap. Any idea how can I get this fixed?

Thanks

Author :

URL : http:////docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations-Manager/7.0/com.vmware.vcom.config.doc/GUID-C4CABB37-43B0-4638-9AE0-0E6A15EC1442.html

Topic Name : About Configuration

Publication Name : vRealize Operations Manager Configuration Guide

Product/Version : vRealize Operations Manager/7.0

Question :

time server

Hi Everyone,

We have just noticed that our datastore is missing and we cannot see it under the ESXi webpage.

Not sure when did this happen, but maybe after we have updated the Esxi to 6.7.

The VMs are running fine.

We can see the Adapter under Storage -> Adapters.

We can see the hard drive under Storage -> Devices.

But the Datastore is empty and we cannot change any settings of the VMs as it throws an error

When I try to browse: "There are no browsable datastores. Currently, only vSAN and local VMFS datastores can be browsed."

I have tried to figure it out and run a few commands under SSH, but I cannot see what could be the issue or how to fix it.

Could you please let me know how to get back the datastore?

esxcli storage vmfs extent list

    Volume Name  VMFS UUID                            Extent Number  Device Name                           Partition

    -----------  -----------------------------------  -------------  ------------------------------------  ---------

    datastore1   5c8a7789-1a4c3a5c-0a47-b083fec42bdd              0  naa.6b083fe0cfb8ba002400ee74143fdef7          3

esxcfg-mpath -l

    sas.5b083fe0cfb8ba00-sas.6000ee74143fdef7-naa.6b083fe0cfb8ba002400ee74143fdef7

       Runtime Name: vmhba0:C2:T0:L0

       Device: naa.6b083fe0cfb8ba002400ee74143fdef7

       Device Display Name: Local DELL Disk (naa.6b083fe0cfb8ba002400ee74143fdef7)

       Adapter: vmhba0 Channel: 2 Target: 0 LUN: 0

       Adapter Identifier: sas.5b083fe0cfb8ba00

       Target Identifier: sas.6000ee74143fdef7

       Plugin: NMP

       State: active

       Transport: sas

       Adapter Transport Details: 5b083fe0cfb8ba00

       Target Transport Details: 6000ee74143fdef7

esxcfg-scsidevs -c

    Device UID                            Device Type      Console Device                                            Size      Multipath PluginDisplay Name

    naa.6b083fe0cfb8ba002400ee74143fdef7  Direct-Access    /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6b083fe0cfb8ba002400ee74143fdef7  3814400MB NMP     Local DELL Disk (naa.6b083fe0cfb8ba002400ee74143fdef7)

esxcli storage vmfs snapshot list

     This returns nothing...

esxcli system coredump partition list

    Name                                    Path                                                        Active  Configured

    --------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------------------------  ------  ----------

    naa.6b083fe0cfb8ba002400ee74143fdef7:7  /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6b083fe0cfb8ba002400ee74143fdef7:7   false       false

    naa.6b083fe0cfb8ba002400ee74143fdef7:9  /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6b083fe0cfb8ba002400ee74143fdef7:9    true        true

partedUtil getptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6b083fe0cfb8ba002400ee74143fdef7

    gpt

    486267 255 63 7811891200

    1 64 8191 C12A7328F81F11D2BA4B00A0C93EC93B systemPartition 128

    5 8224 520191 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0

    6 520224 1032191 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0

    7 1032224 1257471 9D27538040AD11DBBF97000C2911D1B8 vmkDiagnostic 0

    8 1257504 1843199 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0

    9 1843200 7086079 9D27538040AD11DBBF97000C2911D1B8 vmkDiagnostic 0

    2 7086080 15472639 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0

    3 15472640 7811891166 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 vmfs 0

If I run a rescan on the device the kernel log shows this:

2019-04-11T16:47:15.591Z cpu6:2099152 opID=b3571b7d)World: 11943: VC opID 24fae6e5 maps to vmkernel opID b3571b7d

2019-04-11T16:47:15.591Z cpu6:2099152 opID=b3571b7d)NVDManagement: 1461: No nvdimms found on the system

2019-04-11T16:47:25.437Z cpu2:2097756)ScsiDeviceIO: 3068: Cmd(0x459a41156c40) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x11be from world 0 to dev "naa.6b083fe0cfb8ba002400ee74143fdef7" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0.

2019-04-11T16:47:25.466Z cpu2:2099150 opID=bf5b1e18)World: 11943: VC opID 24fae6ee maps to vmkernel opID bf5b1e18

2019-04-11T16:47:25.466Z cpu2:2099150 opID=bf5b1e18)VC: 4616: Device rescan time 16 msec (total number of devices 5)

2019-04-11T16:47:25.466Z cpu2:2099150 opID=bf5b1e18)VC: 4619: Filesystem probe time 30 msec (devices probed 3 of 5)

2019-04-11T16:47:25.466Z cpu2:2099150 opID=bf5b1e18)VC: 4621: Refresh open volume time 1 msec

New HPE DL380 Gen10 servers running the HPE customized ESXi 6.7 software

Management is setup on standard switch, DVswitch used for VM, iSCSI, and vMotion traffic

VMkernel ports are all setup for iSCSI and vMotion with iSCSI binding showing all storage volumes

Reboot a host and the IP address information for the iSCSI and vMotion is gone! The IP address for the management network stays just fine

Not sure if the problem lies with the setup of these new servers (BIOS or NIC settings) or with the HPE customized version of ESXi

Any ideas?

Hello,

I just upgraded to Mac OS Mojave v10.14.5 Beta (18F108f). Ever since doing that I can no longer start any of my VMs. I'm running VMWare Fusion Professional Version 11.0.3 (12992109). I've allowed VMWare under security & privacy previously and it's not showing as needing to be allowed again. I've uploaded my support info to Google Drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1m43f2GA9SdHzARAef6AFVfIf_a1qqFgc

How do I defeat this check so that I can configure longer passwords?

PS C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation> .\vmrest -C

VMware Workstation REST API

Copyright (C) 2018 VMware Inc.

All Rights Reserved

vmrest 1.2.0 build-12990004

Username:username

New password:

Password does not meet complexity requirements:

- Minimum 1 uppercase character

- Minimum 1 lowercase character

- Minimum 1 numeric digit

- Minimum 1 special character(!#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[]^_`{|}~)

- Length between 8 and 12

Hi

I'm using VMWare Pro 15.0.4.

I'm disappointed that it doesn't support DirectX 11 but only 10 but the game requires 11.

Can you please add DirectX 11 support?

How does this deal with such problems？

I am sure this has been asked before, but is it possible to say exclude certain data stores from regular admins selecting them? i.e. local SSD or BOSS drives?

Just curious.

Hi team,

In VMware VPP License model, will it include certification and training that are purchased directly by customer?

Regards

PK