VMware tools stops running - 1809 VDI
Hello, I deployed a Windows 10 1809 image, with no fancy software installed - just Office. VMware tools stops running after a few minutes, and only way to remedy this is to reboot the VM, however...
View ArticleDisk consolidation script -- Need help testing
Recently we encountered an issue where a team member mistakenly did not delete a snapshot following some maintenance on a VM. Long story short, the snapshot ballooned into more than 2TB and took many...
View Articlehelp needed stringing parameters together - powercli.
Hi,I have this string that half works.i am unable to sting together to get the .config and .guest and .guest.net all in one command string. any suggestions. > Get-VM -name "System1" | Sort |...
View ArticlePowerCLI snapshot reports
I'm struggling with two scripts that I would like to combine, but need assistance. Essentially one outputs html (this i need), the other has information that i also need:...
View Article20 to 30 second black screen on reconnecting with PCoIP and Blast
We are having an issue with a 20 to 30 second black screen on reconnecting a active sessions, in both Win 7 and Win 10 desktops. It happens on both PCoIP and Blast. We tested RDP with no issue, it...
View ArticleInvoke-VMScript. Pass variable in BASH
Hi LUCD, hi all!Small script to change IP in CentoS $IPguest = Read-Host -Prompt 'Enter IP Guest' $script = "sed -i 's:^IPADDR=.*$:IPADDR=$IPguest:g' /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ens160"...
View ArticleUpgrade path from 6.5U2d to 6.7U1b fixed yet?
Hello all gurus, Is there a way yet to upgrade vCenter from version 6.5U2d to any v6.7 yet? I have successfully upgraded my 6.5U2c vCenter to v6.7. It went smooth. But, I am stuck on my last 2 U2d...
View ArticleCannot log into Skyline Advisor
I just signed up for the first time earlier this morning. It was working at first but now I get this error when I try to log into the Advisor page: There was an issue with validating your login...
View ArticleAnother one - Skyline Advisor - There was an issue validating your login...
We set up Skyline Advisor last week and as-of this morning, 72 hours later, we're still getting the "There was an issue with validating your login credentials against our backend database." Any...
View ArticleHow to install vCenter 6.5 with Limited Browser Support
Hello vCenter Community. I'm trying to install vCenter 6.5 appliance as a VM and I'm running into a browser problem. Below are the steps that I've completed several times where it ends saying the...
View ArticleRegression: ssh results in broken pipe upon connecting in Vmware Workstation pro
Environment: Fedora 28 as VM in VMware Workstation Pro 14After a recent upgrade of openssh to version 7.8 ssh connections are not longer working as expected. This does not happen with a native Fedora...
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vSphere 5.5 to 6.5 : huge performance drop
Hello Everyone, We have 2 vsphere clusters and are migrating VM's from the v5.5 to v6.5. On the exact same hardware (2-socket xeon E5-2689 v4, 2 x (10 pCores / 20 thread) = 40 threads), we have a huge...
View ArticleVmware OSOT possibly causing CUstomization timeouts and long INstant clone...
Hello Everyone, We have recently engaged a 3rd party vendor that specializes in VDI deployment to do a health check on our environment. The number 1 issue that we are seeing is pretty high number of...
View Articleshutdown-vmguest and set cpu and mem
will this work? have not had a chance to test $vms = get-vm -name (get-content vms.txt)foreach ($vm in $vms) {get-VM -name $vm | Shutdown-VMGuest -Confirm:$falseif ($VM.PowerState -eq "PoweredOn") {...
View ArticleScript to automatically remove VM's older than 14 days.
Hi guys, A while back Mr. LucD helped me with a script that automatically deletes any VM that has been powered off longer than 14 days. The script does work as intended but I wanted to see if someone...
View ArticleVMware Fusion could not find any recovery partitions on this Mac
Hello all, just installed Fusion 11 on a Mac with Mojave (10.14.4) wit SSD and APFS. I cannot create a new VM with Mojave inside. I get the error "VMware Fusion could not find any recovery partitions...
View ArticleDatastore browser shows multiple copies of desktop name _number
One of my ESX hosts datastore's is starting to run low on space, when looking at it with the datastore browser I can see multiple copies of the machine name incremented with "_sequential-number" each...
View Articleresourcepool does not take two words as inputc
Hi, The resourcepool parameter does not take inputs such as Business Critical, see my simple code below and error. New-VM -Name ibgkbapp01 -Template rhel5u5-64-v7 -Datastore...
View ArticleEdit OS files when machine is OFF
Hello! I have a Windows 10 VM in which I would like to edit and parse files related to the Windows installation (for example editing a file on the Guest OS's Desktop folder), while the machine is...
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