Hi,

We are seeing a small percentage of VMs failing after users log in and start opening work apps. When the failure occurs the problematic VM is showing Agent Unreachable in Horizon Admin and users gets disconnected from the session. When looking at VM in vCetner after the user is kicked out the VM shows no signs of life, SMB and RDP connections are timing out, however pings are getting responses. The problem is not host or pool specific. We have seen this behavior on all hosts and all pools. We are on Windows 10 (1909) with Horizon Agent 7.11 and VMWare tools 11.0.0. The parent has been optimized with b1151 build of optimizer tool.

What we see as a common pastern when the failure occurs  is High CPU utilization in debug log

DEBUG (09F4-0A3C) [ws_perfmon] System CPU use: 99%

INFO  (09F4-0A3C) [ws_perfmon] CPU-ALARM: cpu use = 99%

INFO  (09F4-0A3C) [ws_perfmon] High CPU use: pid=1288, sessionId=1, name=dwm, user=Window Manager\DWM-1, percent=45.7

INFO  (09F4-0A3C) [ws_perfmon] High CPU use: pid=5872, sessionId=1, name=explorer, user=CORP\vshang, percent=11.6

INFO  (09F4-0A3C) [ws_perfmon] High CPU use: pid=5260, sessionId=0, name=WmiPrvSE, user=NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE, percent=8.1

INFO  (09F4-0A3C) [ws_perfmon] High CPU use: pid=2372, sessionId=0, name=svchost, user=NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE, percent=4.4

and network failure in blast

[INFO ] 0x03c0 bora::Log: [VVCSessionManager] BlastSocketGetSessionMapEntry: SessionMap does have entry for vAuth:SX8SUc*****, sessionWrapper->vAuth:SX8SUc*****.

[INFO ] 0x03c0 bora::Log: [VVCSessionManager] BlastSocketHandleNetworkFailure: cookie is present for session: 1

[INFO ] 0x03c0 bora::Log: [Authentication] BlastSocketDropCookie: Cookie:7fKrF2***** dropped. Ref Count = 0.

[INFO ] 0x03c0 bora::Log: VVC: Closing the NCDeclined Channel, name: blast-mks, channelId: 7

[INFO ] 0x03c0 bora::Log: VVC: AbortChannel for channel blast-mks almost done.

[INFO ] 0x03c0 bora::Log: VVC: Closing the NCDeclined Channel, name: blast-audio, channelId: 9

[INFO ] 0x03c0 bora::Log: VVC: AbortChannel for channel blast-audio almost done.

[INFO ] 0x03c0 BlastSessionMgr::HandleConnectionClose: Handle BlastSocket connection close, vAuth:SX8SUc*****, vvcSessionId:1, Reason:VDPCONNECT_NETWORK_FAILURE (4)

[INFO ] 0x03c0 BlastSessionMgr::HandleConnectionClose: Shutdown OnConnectionClose for cnx:1

[INFO ] 0x03c0 BlastSessionMgr::DestroySession: cnx:1 closeReason:VDPCONNECT_NETWORK_FAILURE (4) flags:0x0

Any assistance with troubleshooting is greatly appreciated.

Thank you

We're really struggling to get a good experience out of Horizon view for video conferences.  (Horizon 7.x  on Windows 10 VMs, using PCOIP across the Internet with Windows Horizon Clients). 

We've got RTAV going with PCOIP (not extending mic or camera via USB)  and that is making the video work reasonably well, but where we're really struggling is the audio.  We did use group policy setting "Configure the PCoIP session audio bandwidth limit" to increase audio receive quality as mentioned in KB 2045764.  And we found that going into the microphone properties for the RTAV device on the VM, we are able to increase the microphone sample rate to 16K, which helped a lot.  So we though we were all set.... but then realized the microphone resets to 8K on each reconnection.    We then found KB article 78402 which points out that by design for backwards compatibility, which really kind of killed my excitement.

The KB is kind of frustrating because the "expected behavior" explanation implies this isn't a big deal and won't change.   But this isn't just a question of the audio not sounding great… what we're finding is that the echo cancellation in video call software isn't working right with the 8K microphone stream, and so everyone on the calls is hearing echos and clicks from the RTAV participants.  These issues decreases dramatically when we turn it up to 16K.

Unfortunately, setting the rate change requires many clicks in Windows, and so isn't something we can ask end users to do for every call, so if we can't automate it, we can't use it. I've done some tracing with process monitor, etc, to try to track down what is changing when we manually move this to 16K, but it seems buried deep in the registry under instance specific GUIDS, and not something we can easily automate.

Does anyone know if VMware plans to allow us to control this with Group Policy at some point?  Or has anyone found a way to automate this?   I've even though about hitting windows API's via powershell, but that seems like a black hole too.

For now we've had to resort to suggesting users do their video conferences outside of Horizon, which I really hate to do because it becomes a slippery slope back to them wanting a full client locally.

Just a couple of hours ago, I've updated from 15.5.1 (?) to version 15.5.5 of Workstation Pro.

I've been exited about this update, especially being able to use WSL2 on my developer system is a plus.

However, immediately after updating, I noticed a quite dramatic performance hit.

My mouse cursor doesn't even move fluently anymore, it hangs and stutters a lot.

I haven't installed Hyper-V related services yet.

Anyone else experiencing this?

System summary:

i9-10940X, 64GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070.

Running Windows 10 1909 still.

Hi

I use WX 15.5 Pro on a Windows 10 64 bit PC 16GB RAM

The routing function is enabled on the PC and the firewall was disabled during my tests

When I create a VM with a NAT network interface I can't ping the guest VM from the PC's LAN

The PC running VMWARE can ping the guest VM

The guest VM can ping ressources situated on the PC's LAN

Surely I must have omitted a step when setting up my VM ?

regards

yann

After Fusion 11.5.0 upgrade, no usb devices recognized

Hello Folks,

We have vROPS 8.1.0 ( 15972145 ) version. When I try to open VAMI with port 5480 I'm unable to browse to it. I need to patch this appliance. Any idea please? Or is there any other procedure to patch this?

TIA,

Best recommended Procedure with impact to VMs

Source:

Vcenter Server:5.5

ESXi Host:5.5

Distributed switch used for VMs with (Licensing Model: VCLOUD License)

Destination:

Vcenter Server:6.7

ESXi Host:6.7

Configuration is standard Switch (Licensing Model:Standard License)

I've a 480G Self Encrypting Solid State Drive that I want to make exclusive passthrough to a centos 7.2 guest VM.  This OS is meant to be the unlocking gate-keeper for data on this SSD which gets NFS and samba made available to other network connected VMs and physical machines.

Following the approach noted in https://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/esx41/creating-rdms-on-sata-drives , I was able to successfully "see" the drive in the booted VM guest:

[root@GPP0 ~]# lsblk

NAME                 MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT

sda                    8:0    0 6G  0 disk

├─sda1 8:1    0   200M 0 part /boot/efi

├─sda2 8:2    0   250M 0 part /boot

└─sda3                 8:3    0 5.6G  0 part

  ├─centos_gpp0-root 253:0 0     5G  0 lvm /

  └─centos_gpp0-swap 253:1    0 616M  0 lvm  [SWAP]

  sdb                    8:16   0 447.1G 0 disk  ß my test drive is a 480G

smartctl works to reveal details of drive:

Model Family:     SandForce Driven SSDs

Device Model:     HR3A2X0480AICC1

 

User Capacity:    480,103,981,056 bytes [480 GB]

 

Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical

 

Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device

 

Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]

 

ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS, ACS-2 T13/2015-D revision 3

 

SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)

 

within the ESXi host its listed this way:

[root@localhost:~] esxcli storage nmp device list

t10.ATA_____HR3A2X0480AICC1_____________________________________6G0005PR

   Device Display Name: Local ATA Disk (t10.ATA_____HR3A2X0480AICC1_____________________________________6G0005PR)

   Storage Array Type: VMW_SATP_LOCAL

   Storage Array Type Device Config: SATP VMW_SATP_LOCAL does not support device configuration.

   Path Selection Policy: VMW_PSP_FIXED

   Path Selection Policy Device Config: {preferred=vmhba0:C0:T0:L0;current=vmhba0:C0:T0:L0}

   Path Selection Policy Device Custom Config:

   Working Paths: vmhba0:C0:T0:L0

   Is USB: false

I can use the Hdparm –I /dev/sdb and it returns information.  Including ATA security info:

. . .

Security:

        Master password revision code = 3

                supported

                enabled

                locked

        not     frozen

        not     expired: security count

                supported: enhanced erase

        Security level high

        2min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 2min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT.

Logical Unit WWN Device Identifier: 538c9a9000001bf4

        NAA             : 5

        IEEE OUI        : 38c9a9

        Unique ID       : 000001bf4

Checksum: correct

BUT issuing the hdparm security unlock command returns:

[root@GPP0 ~]# /usr/sbin/hdparm --user-master u --security-unlock localpassword /dev/sdb

security_password="localpassword"

 

/dev/sdb:

Issuing SECURITY_UNLOCK command, password="localpassword", user=user

SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]:  70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0b 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 c0 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

so no further operations to fdisk, or file, etc. will work and the drive cannot be mounted for use. 

fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: Input/output error

I've also attempted steps from

  https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2013188 to ensure the LUN appears as a SSD, with same results. 

One last capture from the ESXi host, maybe someone can point out if there are other adjustments that this might reveal that should/could be made to allow the unlock command to work.

[root@localhost:~] esxcli storage core device list -d t10.ATA_____HR3A2X0480AICC1_____________________________________6G0005PR

t10.ATA_____HR3A2X0480AICC1_____________________________________6G0005PR

   Display Name: Local ATA Disk (t10.ATA_____HR3A2X0480AICC1_____________________________________6G0005PR)

   Has Settable Display Name: true

   Size: 457862

   Device Type: Direct-Access

   Multipath Plugin: NMP

   Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____HR3A2X0480AICC1_____________________________________6G0005PR

   Vendor: ATA

   Model: HR3A2X0480AICC1

   Revision: 2518

   SCSI Level: 5

   Is Pseudo: false

   Status: on

   Is RDM Capable: false

   Is Local: true

   Is Removable: false

   Is SSD: true

   Is VVOL PE: false

   Is Offline: false

   Is Perennially Reserved: false

   Queue Full Sample Size: 0

   Queue Full Threshold: 0

   Thin Provisioning Status: yes

   Attached Filters:

   VAAI Status: unknown

   Other UIDs: vml.01000000002020202020202020202020203647303030355052485233413258

   Is Shared Clusterwide: false

   Is SAS: false

   Is USB: false

   Is Boot Device: false

   Device Max Queue Depth: 31

   No of outstanding IOs with competing worlds: 31

   Drive Type: unknown

   RAID Level: unknown

   Number of Physical Drives: unknown

   Protection Enabled: false

   PI Activated: false

   PI Type: 0

   PI Protection Mask: NO PROTECTION

   Supported Guard Types: NO GUARD SUPPORT

   DIX Enabled: false

   DIX Guard Type: NO GUARD SUPPORT

   Emulated DIX/DIF Enabled: false

Suggestions or insights?

fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: Input/output error

I've a 480G Self Encrypting Solid State Drive that I want to make exclusive passthrough to a centos 7.2 guest VM.  This OS is meant to be the unlocking gate-keeper for data on this SSD which gets NFS and samba made available to other network connected VMs and physical machines.

Following the approach noted in https://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/esx41/creating-rdms-on-sata-drives , I was able to successfully "see" the drive in the booted VM guest:

[root@GPP0 ~]# lsblk

NAME                 MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT

sda                    8:0    0 6G  0 disk

├─sda1 8:1    0   200M 0 part /boot/efi

├─sda2 8:2    0   250M 0 part /boot

└─sda3                 8:3    0 5.6G  0 part

  ├─centos_gpp0-root 253:0 0     5G  0 lvm /

  └─centos_gpp0-swap 253:1    0 616M  0 lvm  [SWAP]

  sdb                    8:16   0 447.1G 0 disk  ß my test drive is a 480G

smartctl works to reveal details of drive:

Model Family:     SandForce Driven SSDs

Device Model:     HR3A2X0480AICC1

 

User Capacity:    480,103,981,056 bytes [480 GB]

 

Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical

 

Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device

 

Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]

 

ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS, ACS-2 T13/2015-D revision 3

 

SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)

 

within the ESXi host its listed this way:

[root@localhost:~] esxcli storage nmp device list

t10.ATA_____HR3A2X0480AICC1_____________________________________6G0005PR

   Device Display Name: Local ATA Disk (t10.ATA_____HR3A2X0480AICC1_____________________________________6G0005PR)

   Storage Array Type: VMW_SATP_LOCAL

   Storage Array Type Device Config: SATP VMW_SATP_LOCAL does not support device configuration.

   Path Selection Policy: VMW_PSP_FIXED

   Path Selection Policy Device Config: {preferred=vmhba0:C0:T0:L0;current=vmhba0:C0:T0:L0}

   Path Selection Policy Device Custom Config:

   Working Paths: vmhba0:C0:T0:L0

   Is USB: false

I can use the Hdparm –I /dev/sdb and it returns information.  Including ATA security info:

. . .

Security:

        Master password revision code = 3

                supported

                enabled

                locked

        not     frozen

        not     expired: security count

                supported: enhanced erase

        Security level high

        2min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 2min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT.

Logical Unit WWN Device Identifier: 538c9a9000001bf4

        NAA             : 5

        IEEE OUI        : 38c9a9

        Unique ID       : 000001bf4

Checksum: correct

BUT issuing the hdparm security unlock command returns:

[root@GPP0 ~]# /usr/sbin/hdparm --user-master u --security-unlock localpassword /dev/sdb

security_password="localpassword"

 

/dev/sdb:

Issuing SECURITY_UNLOCK command, password="localpassword", user=user

SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]:  70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0b 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 c0 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

so no further operations to fdisk, or file, etc. will work and the drive cannot be mounted for use.

fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: Input/output error

I've also attempted steps from

  https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2013188 to ensure the LUN appears as a SSD, with same results. 

One last capture from the ESXi host, maybe someone can point out if there are other adjustments that this might reveal that should/could be made to allow the unlock command to work.

[root@localhost:~] esxcli storage core device list -d t10.ATA_____HR3A2X0480AICC1_____________________________________6G0005PR

t10.ATA_____HR3A2X0480AICC1_____________________________________6G0005PR

   Display Name: Local ATA Disk (t10.ATA_____HR3A2X0480AICC1_____________________________________6G0005PR)

   Has Settable Display Name: true

   Size: 457862

   Device Type: Direct-Access

   Multipath Plugin: NMP

   Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____HR3A2X0480AICC1_____________________________________6G0005PR

   Vendor: ATA

   Model: HR3A2X0480AICC1

   Revision: 2518

   SCSI Level: 5

   Is Pseudo: false

   Status: on

   Is RDM Capable: false

   Is Local: true

   Is Removable: false

   Is SSD: true

   Is VVOL PE: false

   Is Offline: false

   Is Perennially Reserved: false

   Queue Full Sample Size: 0

   Queue Full Threshold: 0

   Thin Provisioning Status: yes

   Attached Filters:

   VAAI Status: unknown

   Other UIDs: vml.01000000002020202020202020202020203647303030355052485233413258

   Is Shared Clusterwide: false

   Is SAS: false

   Is USB: false

   Is Boot Device: false

   Device Max Queue Depth: 31

   No of outstanding IOs with competing worlds: 31

   Drive Type: unknown

   RAID Level: unknown

   Number of Physical Drives: unknown

   Protection Enabled: false

   PI Activated: false

   PI Type: 0

   PI Protection Mask: NO PROTECTION

   Supported Guard Types: NO GUARD SUPPORT

   DIX Enabled: false

   DIX Guard Type: NO GUARD SUPPORT

   Emulated DIX/DIF Enabled: false

Suggestions or insights?

fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: Input/output error

This document was generated from the following discussion: I have used the raw device mapping (RDM) apporach to put a Self Encrypting Drive  SSD in passthrough to my Centos 7.2 guest VM, but it fails to accept the hdparm security-unlock command: "bad/missing sense data".  Has anyone encountered this, found resolu

Hi,

Is there a way to get an alert in vROPS or vRLI when the vCenter alert vSAN online health alarm 'Thick-provisioned VMs on vSAN' is raised?

I can't find anything about it.

Need some help

Cheers!

Vincent

I searched VMWare troubleshooting docs and tried ALL of the steps, and searched here. Surprised I didn't find a solution so here goes:

VMWare Workstation Pro v15.5. Running a single VM just fine (Windows Server 2016 Standard).

I recently added a second VM, a Windows Server 2003 Standard as a proof of concept only, it will never (hopefully) need to run on this host. This new VM was running on VMWare Player v6.x, I used the latest (v6.2.0) VMware vCenter Converter Standalone to "upgrade" it to the latest VMware it would convert to (hardware version 11 I recall). The new VM started up and a cursory check was fine. Since it was a test of a old but still running VM on another host, I changed networking to "Host only". I've since "removed" the new VM from VMware Workstation.

Now the original VM that was running flawlessly shows "no network access". I've tried everything I can think of! All appears fine with networking - the adapter is enabled and shows "connected", it has it's static ip address and all other pertinent network settings. The host's networking is fine, fully in production. The symptoms are simply "no network access", the tray icon has a yellow "!", the "network" is shown as an "Unidentified Network", "Public", Access Type: no network access" on "Ethernet0" adapter. Looking at the properties, everything appears correct. There is activity shown there, network traffic being sent a bit, and received a lot less but at least some. I can ping the loopback address but nothing else.

The network setting for the VM is Bridged (not checked "Replicate physical network state") as it always has been. "Connected" and "Connect at power on" are checked.

I've reverted the VM back to quite a few known good previous snapshots, including all the way back to near the beginning of the build - no luck. Uninstalled, reinstalled VMware Workstation. Allowed the upgrade from v15.5 to v15.5.5. Performed every trick in the book I know of resetting networking with netsh and even the "reset network" in the O/S GUI. No glaring items of interest are in the System or Application logs of either the host or the VM having the problem.

I've seen so tried "adding" a network adapter "Intel Pro 1000/MT" nic (replacing the original "Intel 82574L Gigabit network connection), that flunked with the new adapter reporting the hardware cannot start. Update driver for the original nic yields no available newer drivers. I've tried disabling the Windows firewall, uninstalling the Avast anti-malware software (ONLY the remote control module was installed anyway), and that's been solid since the beginning and on many other systems under my care. I've tried regenerating the MAC address for the VM. I'm still stuck!

Author : Chris Bedford

URL : http:////docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/com.vmware.vsphere.install.doc/GUID-1638AAC4-63A1-42F1-8823-E388EE33BF53.html

Topic Name : Choose Network Adapters for the Management Network

Publication Name : vSphere Installation and Setup

Product/Version : VMware vSphere/6.0

Question :

How can I configure the management interfaces through the console? I am trying to automate building esxi hosts that use vmnic5 as the management interface and all other interfaces should not be used for management.

Host CPU Power Usage and Power Usage Trend is Very High when Running VMware workstation V15.5.5 (windows 10- 64Bit)

I recently converted my physical machine to a virtual so I could have a copy of it after I formatted my computer. That was a few days ago and it's been running just fine since. Then, tonight, I added a shared folder through the vm's options settings and now it won't start. Every time I try, I get an error popup that says "The operation was cancelled by the user."

Both the host and guest machines are running Win10 Pro x64.

I did some Googling before posting here but none of the solutions I found worked for me. They also appear to be from 6 to 8 years ago.

Any ideas?

Since I've upgraded to VMware Workstation Pro 15.5.5 on a Windows 10 (2004) host, I've been unable to connect my sound card to my Ubuntu 20.04 guest. I guess an error message saying "The sound connection control operation failed". The sound card is an integrated Realtek device on an ASRock X470 Taichi board.

This worked fine with VMware Workstation Pro 15.5.2, even on Windows 10 (2004). I do not have Hyper-V enabled so I'll probably just downgrade to 15.5.2. If there's any information I can provide to help track down the problem, please let me know.

Hi,

I am getting the above error when I run the script and unable to get the output captured in the same CSV.

Please help

Script

$code = @'

$Today = (Get-Date)

$StartDate = $Today.Date.AddDays(-22)

$EndDate = $Today.Date.AddDays(1)

"### Output ###"

New-Object System.Net.Sockets.TCPClient -ArgumentList $_.Name,3389 | Select "Connected" -ExpandProperty "Connected"

"### Output ###"

(Get-HotFix | Where {$_.InstalledOn -gt $StartDate -AND $_.InstalledOn -lt $EndDate }| Measure-Object).Count

"### Output ###"

Get-HotFix | Where {$_.InstalledOn -gt $StartDate -AND $_.InstalledOn -lt $EndDate } | Select CSName,Description,HotFixID,InstalledBy,InstalledOn | ConvertTo-Csv -UseCulture -NoTypeInformation

'@

$report1 = @()

$report2 = @()

$report3 = @()

Import-Csv -Path $reportlocation2 -UseCulture -PipelineVariable row |

ForEach-Object -Process {

    $sInvoke = @{

        VM              = $_.Name

        GuestCredential = $creds

        ScriptTYpe      = 'powershell'

        ScriptText      = $code

    }

    $dummy, $out1, $out2, $out3 = (Invoke-VMScript @sInvoke).ScriptOutput -split '### Output ###'

    $out1 = $out1.TrimStart("`n`r") -split "`n`r"

    $out2 = $out2.TrimStart("`n`r")

    $out3 = $out3.TrimStart("`n`r")

    $report1 += Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name 'RDP Status' -Value $out1 -PassThru | Export-Csv -Path $reportlocation3 -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture

       $report2 += Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name 'Count' -Value $out2 -PassThru | Export-Excel -Path $reportlocation -AutoFilter -AutoSize -BoldTopRow -FreezeTopRow -WorksheetName Server_Info

    $report3 += $out3 | ConvertFrom-Csv -UseCulture | Select-Object -Property CSName, HotFixID, Description, Caption, InstalledOn, InstalledBy | Export-Excel -Path $reportlocation -AutoFilter -AutoSize -BoldTopRow -FreezeTopRow -WorksheetName Patch_Info

}

Error:

0).

At D:\validation2.ps1:82 char:36

   .Commands.InvokeVmScript

You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.

At D:\validation2.ps1:83 char:5

You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.

At D:\validation2.ps1:84 char:5

You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.

At D:\validation2.ps1:85 char:2

cmdlet Add-Member at command pipeline position 1

Supply values for the following parameters:

InputObject:

cmdlet Add-Member at command pipeline position 1

Supply values for the following parameters:

VMware 6.7 U3   ESXI 6.7 U3

I have setup Email notifications on my vcenter.

Questions.

1. Do I have to edit every Alarm to allow the alarms to send an emails?

2. When I Edit a Alarm and click the button to send email   I type an email address myemail@mydomain.com

    Only sending email on First alarm and first reset

Click next a couple of times  and then Save and I get an Error.  Not sure what the error is because on the console it displays the error but nothing of value.

If I select an email address from the drop down list it works.

How do I update the drop down list?

Where does the Alarm get this information from?

I have two email addresses in the drop down list but they are not defined in my users on vcenter any where

Any ideas

Thank you

Tom

I've had a setup working for some time with Catalina guests running under VMWare Fusion. Upgraded the machines (6 Mac Minis) to the latest 10.15.5 Supplemental Update and two of the machine will not run the guest any more.

Steps

- Guest is started via vagrant (using macinbox configuration) and a provisioning script

- Guest starts up and eventually gets an IP address and vagrant moves to waiting on SSH to start provisioning

- At some point in the above sequence the route to the vmnet8 network is dropped from the routing table and the local NAT IP is no longer reachable, resulting in a failed SSH.

- Ping and SSH also fail via local tools and traceroute shows a sequence off box (i.e. following original routing to Internet)

Other observations:

- DHCP is issued to guest via vmnet DHCP but takes time (appears unsurprisingly related to OS boot time)

- The four machines that continue to work appear to correctly show vmnet1 and vmnet8 in local routing table of host

Not clear if this is a timeout or crash of the NAT network manager. Node is still active and can be accessed through UI. Nothing shown in vnetlib log file.

How can one enable debugging for networking in VMWare Fusion for Mac?

We hear about SDWAN, what do you guys think of Velocloud vs Viptela or Meraki.

From a whole Vmware design, I don't really see link to vmware product...

Hello,

I upgraded my workstation to latest version 15.5.5. Now I cannot connect to shared VMs on another VM Workstation (V12.9) anymore.

The following error message appears (image type forbidden?):

"Unable to connect to the MKS:

vim.fault.GenericVmConfigFault."

The log file of the remote VM indicates:

• Failed to start server on WebSocket pipe, error 1: Asyncsocket error
• Expiring webmks ticket ....

Can anyone help? Thank you in advance