Looking into building a newly nested homelab with VMware Workstation on Windows 10. See the attached BOM list of what I am looking to build out. I want to run vSphere, vSAN, NSX, nested.
I want to be able to upgrade to more memory down the road to save on costs now so I am starting at 64 but would like to double later. Looking for advice and see if I missed anything. Aslo, maybe for what I am doing the i9 processor is overkill and I could go with i7 instead to save on cost.
Hi All,
What's the preferred way of provisioning VMs in vRA?
1. Provision VM from vRA and continue with the customization in vRO?
2. Provision VM from vRO and use vRA as the portal?
What are the pros and cons if we use option 1? how about option 2?
Regards
E
Hello folks,
Attempting to passthrough a wireless card to a VM under esxi 6.7. The device appears available for passthrough. If I check it, it says enabled/needs reboot, but then is not enabled (reverts to baseline) if I actually do reboot. Data below. (As an aside, the aquantia 10GBe appears STUCK on enabled/needs reboot, and multiple other passthrough devices work fine.) FWIW, I'm actually interested in using the Bluetooth to connect keyboard/mouse to the VM (I only have 3 USB hubs but need a forth, and no spare PCIE slots.)
System is an ASROCK Professional X399 with a Threadripper 1950x.
As of 15th July, NSX 6.4 for vSphere still have the end of general support in Jan 2021...So will it be the last major version of the NSX for vSphere? Or I need to start rolling out NSX-T for greenfield customers now...?
After the last update of Fusion, I encounter regularly a black desktop after I start the program. I t is configured to shutdown Win after quitting Fusion. I can sometimes solve the „problem“ with a restart of Win 0r with changing the desktop picture. That may work or not. Sometimes app windows are black when opened in full screen.
Can anyone give me some advice to get rid of this?
Thx, Michael
Hey guys,
We've encountered some issues with the igbn driver (version 1.4.7) on Dell hosts running ESXi 6.7 Update1. This has been raised with the vendors and Dell and VMware have both come back advising that there might a known issue in this driver. One our customers hosts running this driver encountered a PSOD.
Dell infact has reached out to their vendors (Intel) and they have confirmed that this impacting the Intel i350 cards. Both Vmware and Dell have advised to disable the igbn drivers and use the native igbo drivers.
Has anyone else encountered similar issues wit this driver? If yes then has anyone disabled it to use the igbo drivers instead? Is it a stable workaround?
Looking forward to some feedback on those who have switched over to the igb drivers.
Cheers, Onil
Greetings, having an issue on Debian 9 vmware-view client using CAC card to .mil domain. The error message after SSL login is:
"Error: An SSL error occured"
Some more details:
DoD root certificates all installed in /etc/ssl/config
For CAC smartcard middleware, using opensc (working great in Firefox and Chromium)
For Vmware version, I used 5.0.0 (Download VMware Horizon Clients ) using wget and then running the bundle:
This had a bunch of segfaults, so I installed and symlinked these library dependencies (got some help from the manual https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Horizon-Client-for-Linux/4.10/horizon-client-linux-installation.pdf ):
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y v4l-utils libv4l-0 gstreamer1.0 open-vm-tools-desktop python-gtk2 libglibmm-2.4-1v5 libglibmm-2.4-dev libffi-dev libffi6 libengine-pkcs11-openssl1.1
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.5
sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.0
#install libpng12, because of old dependencies
wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0_1.2.50-2+deb8u3_amd64.deb
chmod +x libpng12-0_1.2.50-2+deb8u3_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libpng12-0_1.2.50-2+deb8u3_amd64.deb
Vmware then loaded and the CAC card successfully unlocks with pin. Then the SSL error popped up.
Wireshark indicated SSL Certificate failure with TLSv1.2 packet "Alert (Level: Fatal, Description: Unknown CA)"
The server announcement and Wireshark on a working Windows 10 vmware client session indicated that the protocol in use was TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
This protocol is in TLSv1.2 of openssl 1.1.1, but not in Debian 9 xenial which uses openssl 1.1.0
Thus, I added Debian 10 buster apt stream and installed openssl 1.1.1, which now shows the needed cipher available (openssl calls it ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 instead of TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384, see https://www.openssl.org/docs/manmaster/man1/ciphers.html ).
Additionally, I had made these modifications to attempt to prevent a TLSv1.2 fallback:
#Vmware config files modified with "sudo nano ~/.vmware/view-preferences"
view.autoHideToolbar = "FALSE"
view.deviceID = "00:16:3E:5E:6C:00"
view.enableDataSharing = "FALSE"
view.enableH264 = "TRUE"
view.enableH264YUV444 = "FALSE"
view.sslProtocolString = "TLSv1.2"
view.sslVerificationMode = "2"
view.usbAutoConnectAtStartUp = "FALSE"
view.usbAutoConnectOnInsert = "FALSE"
Log provided with some personal info redactions, the log has two apparently relevant lines:
"Built using OpenSSL 1.0.2q-fips"
As well as:
2019-07-16 18:32:02.872-04:00: vmware-view 30041| Found a valid EKU: TLS Web Server Authentication
2019-07-16 18:32:02.872-04:00: vmware-view 30041| certsList has 1 certificates
2019-07-16 18:32:02.873-04:00: vmware-view 30041| cdk_cryptoki_rsa_sign: need to sign 32 bytes of data and hash type is: 672
2019-07-16 18:32:03.047-04:00: vmware-view 30041| C_Sign failed: 0x101 [ ]
2019-07-16 18:32:03.048-04:00: vmware-view 30041| CdkRpc_ProcessResponseForCall: Returning the whole response for not finding response element of set-locale
2019-07-16 18:32:03.048-04:00: vmware-view 30041| CdkRpc_HandleResponsesAsync: Handle Response with rpc call id: 3.
2019-07-16 18:32:03.048-04:00: vmware-view 30041| Got a response to request 3
Some ideas:
Is there a way to force the openssl version to use the newer 1.1.1, or is this issue possibly due to it being baked in so that my particular server's cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 cannot be used at this time?
Other avenues:
Is vmware definitely using the root certificate store in /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt? I do get a green lock in vmware-view and no other certificate errors, and the DoD certs work in Firefox and Chromium allowing logins using the OpenSC CAC middleware.
I have been extracting numerous flows to plan microsegmentation. When I go to export flows I'm
surprised that there is no option to export what DFW rule was hit. There is a Firewall Rule and
Firewall Rule ID and Firewall Action in the options to include in the export. However these are
blank, blank, ALLOW. I'm not sure what firewall this.
Is there any way to get a flow report which will tell me what DFW firewall rule was hit? And
for my information - what is the firewall that's offered in the export of the flows?
Thanks!
Hi,
After the upgrade I've been experiencing the inability to perform updates on existing appstack.
AppStacks have been created on 2.17 but update doesn't start the provisioning workflow.
Tested with both a custom created appstack template and the default template.
Simple installation with Notepad++.
Can anyone confirm they experience the same so it isn't limited to my environment?
I was just reading this blog.
Decoding the vCenter Server Lifecycle: Update and Versioning Explained - VMware vSphere Blog
It is coincidental, because I will be starting to upgrade to v6.5 U3 this week. Our vCenters are currently in ELM with 4 PSCs. We are mixed at v6.5 U1 and v6.5U2.
So it seems reading this I have to upgrade the v6.5 U1 to U2 first, and then apply the last U2 patch. And then upgrade to U3? And the v6.5U2 I need to patch the last U2 patch and then apply U3?
I could have sworn I have not done this before and jumped around in earlier releases. Thank you.
Author : mbanov
Topic Name : Assign Roles in the vRealize Orchestrator Client
Publication Name : Using the VMware vRealize Orchestrator Client
Product/Version : vRealize Orchestrator/7.6
Question :
I logt in to the vRealize Orchestrator HTML 5 Client as an administrator and I want to assign a new role. But I can't find at the administration menu the roles management. How can I find this?
Hi gurus
I have found myself with this oddness and dont know where to start Troubleshooting this problems.
I have a some VM that are stuck at this 13%, I think is an issue as ALL of them are stuck at the same %, has anyone come across this and how do you gurus fixed the issue.
I have reboot the Vcenter appliance with no avail.
Thanks a bunchhhh for any help and time on this
Hi,
We have vCenter vCSA 6.0 and two ESXi 6 host in HA cluster.
Presumably after upgrade vCenter from 6.0.0.30800 to 6.0.0.30900 we finded out our HA Cluster does not work. When we try to migrate any VM from one ESXi host to other we got "The host is reporting errors in attempts to provide vSphere HA support".
We tried to disable HA Cluster and enable it back. What we got:
In log /var/log/fdm.log on ESXi host we have:
2019-07-16T19:59:44.248Z warning fdm[FFFB2B70] [Originator@6876 sub=Election opID=SWI-60b7acd9] [120 times] Build mismatch (13638473 != 9291058) from host 10.160.250.135 - dropping message
It looks like we have different HA agents on ESXi hosts.
Any help or ideas would be very appreciated.
Hoping it is possible as this was a large install capture.
Was wondering if ITSM 5.1 is compatible with VRA 7.6 ? Can't find any documentation on that.
also the OVERVIEW page of this forum still references itsm 3.0. will that ever be updated.. its years old at this point.
Hi!
I would like to create a cloud server for my server PC and create virtual payment machines for customers can be done with vmware esxi or vsphere ?.
If yes, how do you do it?
Thank you and I await answers.
I have seen sample scripts online that include "Install-Module VMware.PowerCLI" as a step in a script that might automate certain ESXi/vSphere tasks, and I have seen others that talk about Installing and then doing "Import-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI". I'm wondering whether import is simply a dated, unnecessary concept, since things seem to work fine with Install but throw an exception on Import:
Import-Module -name VMware.PowerCLI
Import-Module : VMware.VimAutomation.License module is not currently supported on the Core edition of PowerShell.
At line:1 char:1
+ Import-Module -name VMware.PowerCLI
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : OperationStopped: (VMware.VimAutomatio\u2026tion of PowerShell.:String) [Import-Module], RuntimeException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : VMware.VimAutomation.License module is not currently supported on the Core edition of PowerShell.,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ImportModuleCommand
Searching for that complaint, I saw two instances, one in the code where it's thrown, and one here: https://cloudhat.eu/powercli-11-1-0-linux/
This described the same complaint, and suggested a fix to modifying a manifest, except it seemed to match a different format (I only saw VimAutomation in an XML).
So, two questions:
This seems to be a problem in 11.3.0.13990089 at least.
Thanks.
I have an automation script using Packer and VMware and I am having trouble with the Server 2019 Unattaned file. Every time my scripts run the OS install hangs on applying disk configuration.
I can deploy these same scripts locally with Workstation on my local machine but try to deploying it to a Dev vCenter it will fail on the autounattend file that I am using with windows. Using the same file just connecting to an environment not local. I would say disk driver issue of some sort but then why does it work on VMware workstation locally?
Any ideas?
How can I retrieve 'Swap Objects' capacity from vCenter using powerCLI.
You can find it in VSAN cluster > Monitor > vSAN > Capacity.
See below picture.
Hello,
i am looking for some help if i may on how in vROPS (running 6.6 version) i can automate (create report) for CPU and Memory % averages against ESXi hosts spread across several clusters in different vcenters.
I am currently using flowing little scripts that outcome will require a lot manual work and my director wanted me to find if in vrops this can be automated and report sent via email to requester:
#Connect-VIServer -server vcenter server names -User corp\XXXXXX
$stat = "cpu.usage.average"
$entity = Get-VMHost -Name (Get-Content "C:\users\mpandzic\desktop\RI_CitrixHosts.txt")
$start = (Get-Date).AddDays(-7)
Get-Stat -Entity $entity -Start $start -IntervalMins "60" -Stat $stat | Export-Csv -Path "C:\vcheck\RI_CitrixHostsCPU.csv" -NoTypeInformation
If you can assist me i will greatly appreciated
Cheers!