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Can not use USB in VM

June 29, 2014, 4:28 am
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Hi All,

 

I keep getting these logs and can not use the USB drives in the guest. I have MAC OS X 10.9.3 and have this error for guests with both Red hat and Windows 7. Re-installing the fusion didnt help.

 

Any ideas about how I can fix it?

 

 

2014-06-29T14:18:56.074+02:00| vmx| I120: USBGL: Error connecting to arbitrator socket /var/run/vmware/usbarbitrator-socket: No such file or directory (2)

2014-06-29T14:19:01.071+02:00| vmx| I120: SOCKET creating new socket, connecting to /var/run/vmware/usbarbitrator-socket

2014-06-29T14:19:01.071+02:00| vmx| W110: SOCKET connect failed, error 2: No such file or directory

2014-06-29T14:19:01.077+02:00| vmx| I120: USBGL: Error connecting to arbitrator socket /var/run/vmware/usbarbitrator-socket: No such file or directory (2)

 

Thanks

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Remove-Snapshot not returning when job is complete (synchronous)

July 25, 2014, 10:51 am
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Hello,

 

Recently, I was writing a script to delete snapshots on a VM and I'm not getting a return from Remove-Snapshots sometimes.

 

At times, it works fine, other times, I just never get a return and my script hangs even when the job is completed on vCenter.  The snapshots didn't take a particularly long time to complete.

 

I'm just running:

Remove-Snapshot -Snapshot $snapshot -Confirm:$false

 

I'm aware that there's a -RunAsync, but there's nothing I intend on doing other than continuing to wait for the Remove-Snapshot operation to finish.

 

Has anyone run into this issue?  I'd prefer to keep it synchronous, but if not, should I just RunAsync and then just check to see if it's completed, or does RunAsync always perform its callback?

 

PowerCLI: 5.1.0.4977

vSphere Client: 5.1.0 Build 941893

vCenter Server: 5.1.0 Build 1123961

 

Regards

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Smart card authentication with SSO works with RDP but not with PCoIP

August 22, 2011, 9:17 am
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Hi

I try to connect to our view connection server using an aladdin eToken Pro 64k and then logon to the virtual desktop using single sign-on. My local client is running Windows 7 using the SafNet Authentication Client 8.0 SP2 as PKI Client and eToken Driver. View connection server, view Client and view agent are release 4.6.0 366101..

If I connect to the view connection server I’m asked to enter my PIN and get forwarded to the Pool selection mask. So, smart card authentication works fine I think.

If I now choose our test pool and connect to it using RDP the single sign-on works and I can use my certificate to sign emails etc as usual on my physical client.

If I chose PCoIP to connect to the same pool/VM single sign-on doesn’t work and Windows 7 comes up with the user selection screen (3 icons in the middle). The first icon is the last logged in user, the center icon is "different user", and the third icon is "VMware SSO User". When I now login using my username and password, I’m not able to use my smart card, even if I connect it manually to the VM using the pull-down menu.

There is a KB Article describing my problem but I couldn’t find log entries as described in this article and I think that I don’t need to update KMDF on Windows 7, right?

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1036512

 

I also enabled SSO thru GPO Policy AllowSingleSingon = true on the view agent and “connect all USB devices to the Desktop on launch”on the view client, without success. Also using the Registry key AllowHardwareIDs for redirecting the smart card didn’t help. Probably I’m on the wrong way but I really don’t know what to try out next. Can anybody help me? Thanks!

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esxi 5.1 password reset

July 24, 2014, 9:34 am
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Hi

I have few servers connected to one vcenter server, but now I need to login  to server not by vcenter. I dont remember password. Is possibility to recover or reset password from vcenter

 

 

Any help with this would be great.

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Copying out VM files

July 8, 2014, 6:47 pm
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Hi there,

I'd like to know  if I were to copy out a VM into my personal laptop, what files do I need to copy out? I was told that the VMDK files are not enough. hence I'd like to which files exactly?

And also if my VM application  and VM database are 2 separate servers, will it work if I were to copy them out and run them on my laptop?

 

Thanks.

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Windows 8.1 application windows snap back

July 25, 2014, 4:19 pm
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Hi All,

 

Anyone else seeing an application window snap back to it's original position in TP2014? Unable to move the window at all without it going back to its original position.

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Flash copy from IBM storage - with ESXi 5.0

July 28, 2014, 9:59 am
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     Hello

 

I would really searching a answer for my questions for the flash copy using Vmware enviorment, can anyone answer my questions?

 

we have two enviorment prod and DR enviroment

 

we have assigned 200 gb lun to production and we formwated as vmfs and then allocated to VM's as vmdk file ( around 5 volumes including C drive)

 

Now we have Flash copy made available on DR environment, now my question is.

 

if we do rescan on DR environment with after enabling re-signature, does VMware will still recognizing as VMFS volume?? of 200 GB flash copy lun and can we get all VM's in that datastore? - any issue from the duplicate volume identify prospective from IBM storage?

 

I have same questions like below discussion but that discussion not answered hence questioning again in new discussion

 

https://communities.vmware.com/message/586050#586050

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Why use vSphere for OpenStack?

March 5, 2014, 10:55 am
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So I love almost everything about vSphere, but I'm trying to justify why I would prefer vSphere over KVM for a future OpenStack deployment...

 

Missing features when using VMWare driver for OpenStack: (Sort of a RFP for OpenStack support)

 

Nova Limitations: SSH Key Injection, Limit 1 Datastore, Live migrations do not work, VM Resize appears to only partially work, No Spice support, Security Groups.... (Huge disadvantage)

Cinder Limitations: No way to manage Cinder Nodes accurately (VMWare Cinder driver just uses whatever datastore it wants) I think there should be a way to select where your cinder volumes live (I.E Datastore) This would allow for tiered storage approach for Cinder.

Neutron (Without having to purchase NSX...) Why would I want to adopt a hypervisor for OpenStack (open source) that requires me to pay for cloud networking? Time to market is much greater because of this.

Ceilometer - No support

Glance - Better support for Image Creation and import functions. I want to build images in a manner to where I'm not having to specify all the parameters that the image needs to be imported in. (IE. Spare, Thin, Preallocated, etc etc.)

Enterprise Support - Who's going to support me using vSphere+OpenStack? Possibly Mirantis...but I don't even know if that's a good choice.

VOVA Appliance - I would be nice to have a more real world feel using a distributed architecture instead of all-in-one. Example: Using puppet to automate the OpenStack configuration of nodes, but in this case multiple appliances running different functions like nova, glance, cinder, keystone, etc etc. I know the initial point of VOVA was to get VMWare users familiar with OpenStack and use it as a PoC. I just hope the PoC gets a little deeper.

 

I know of few of these are just fixes that are coming in later release such as Icehouse or Juno, but I don't feel I've even listed all of the issues I've came across. It just feels like I'm forcing OpenStack to run on vSphere instead of it feeling more natural...Granted KVM is the hypervisor of choice for OpenStack, and a lot of development has been centered on it, but I want my cake and the ability to eat it too. I know VMWare probably prefers pushing vCAC with vCloud/NSX networking instead of OpenStack....

 

I'm looking for someone to provide their two cents about what I've thrown out there.

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vCOPs monitoring of NetApp Storage - Beta Announcement / Signup

July 28, 2014, 10:52 am
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In August Blue Medora will be making available the next major release of the vCOPs Management Pack for NetApp Storage.  A beta release will be available in early August to anyone willing to participate and evaluate the Beta and provide feedback in the form of completing surveys. 

 

Key features / new functionality under consideration for this release include:

  • Additional resource kinds (including Disks)
  • Deeper/expanded set of performance metrics
  • Support for OnCommand v6+
  • Set of 5-7 out-of-the-box dashboards
  • vCOPs v.Next compatibility

 

If you have any interest in participating in the Beta program, please send us an email at beta@bluemedora.com.

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ESXI frequent disconnects

July 28, 2014, 9:26 am
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I am running a vSphere test lab in WMware Workstation 9 on Windows 7 Pro. Hardware is an i7 processor with 32 GB of RAM. I run 3 ESXi 5.5 hosts with 8 GB RAM each. I also have a Windows 2003 DC, an Openfiler VM and vCenter running in VMW.  Within the ESXi hosts I run 6 CentOS VM's, the vMA and one Windows 2008 server.

Everything runs smooth as silk except that about once a day one or two ESXi hosts will disconnect from vCenter.  When I try to re-connect it says that the host is unreachable even though I can ping it. the only way I can reconnect is to reboot the ESXi host.

I am using vCenter VA but I had the same problem when running the Windows version of vCenter.

An ideas why it disconnecting and any possible solution.

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vCenter 5.5 Web Client shows incorrect inventory

October 29, 2013, 12:52 pm
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I upgraded my vCenter to 5.5 from 5.1 and it works except the Web Client has incorrect inventory data.  It is missing some VMs and has some ghost VMs that don't actually exist.  There aren't any error messages that suggest the server is malfunctioning.  The really strange thing is that when I connect with the vSphere Client on Windows, everything is correct there.  Also Veeam shows all the correct inventory when it connects to the vCenter server.  So its only the Web Client that is wrong.  Has anyone experienced this or have any ideas on how to force the Web Client to refresh?

 

edit: forgot to mention this is VCSA

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Script to display pathing of all rdms

July 28, 2014, 9:18 am
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I need a script that will scan a cluster for all rdms and output into a csv what the multipathing is set to.

 

Here is a simple script that finds all the rdms and another that finds all the pathing.  How can I combine these into one script that gives me what I need.

 

Write-Host "Checking pathing for $cluster"

get-cluster $cluster | Get-VM | Get-HardDisk -DiskType "RawPhysical","RawVirtual" | Select Parent,Name,DiskType,ScsiCanonicalName,DeviceName | Export-Csv "c:\$cluster rdms.csv"

get-cluster $cluster | Get-VMHost | Get-ScsiLun -LunType disk | select CanonicalName, CapacityGB, MultipathPolicy |  Sort-Object -Descending CapacityGB | Export-Csv "c:\$cluster pathing.csv"

 

There is an excellent script here

 

http://pingforinfo.com/powercli-script-to-list-vmfsrdm-and-free-luns-in-a-cluster/

 

that if it also included pathing information would be perfect.

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install vSphere to SD card -- what specs should SD card have??

July 28, 2014, 10:50 am
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I'm looking at SanDisk SD cards for installing vSphere onto -- what specs should they have??
Is 80 mb/sec adequate or should I get the 95 mb/sec flavor??
They are both UHS-I SD cards, I'm planning 64 MB to have some local storage...

HP Gen8 DL380 servers...

Thank you, Tom

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Does APC Powerchute software work in a vCenter Server environment?

July 28, 2014, 9:01 am
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Hello,

 

I have a client that uses a VMware vCenter Server environment running approximately 8 different virtual servers. APC Powerchute software is installed on the actual server hosting the vCenter environment and works fine. It recognizes if the APC UPS loses it's power supply and has to go on battery, and gracefully shuts down the server if needed. My question is this:

 

Can the APC Powerchute software be installed on the individual virtual servers to monitor the UPS connection and gracefully shutdown those virtual servers if needed?

 

Thank you for your time.

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VMware vCOPs for SAP HANA Overview Presentation

July 28, 2014, 11:18 am
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Connect / Disconnect VM nic via vCO?

July 28, 2014, 8:25 am
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This seems like it would be a pretty basic operation, but when browsing through the out of box  workflows and actions, I don't see an obvious way to do this.  I need to automate disconnecting, connecting, and setting 'connect on start' for vm nic's in vco.  Is there an easy way to do this, or must I script this either via javascript or powershell?  I

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SSO fails to start after upgrading to vCenter 5.1 Update 2

January 18, 2014, 5:40 pm
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After trying to update the vCenter server from V5.1 U1 to U2 the SSO service fails to start. The following information is registered in the event log with event id 7031:

The vCenter Single Sign On service terminated unexpectedly.  It has done this 1 time(s).  The following corrective action will be taken in 60000 milliseconds: Restart the service.

 

No log files are being created / updated when the service is trying to start.

 

Anyone had had a similar experience with the SSO service or hints on what to look for?

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Workstation 10.0.3 and Centos 7 Guest Tools

July 16, 2014, 2:28 pm
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Hi;

 

   I've been trying to set up a Centos 7 Linux Guest running under a Windows 7 64-Bit Host. I'm having issues trying to install the VMware tools in the guest.

 

A) I had to uninstall the packages for 'open-vm-tools'. Maybe that's par for the course.

 

B) I can't install the file shared folder component. I get the compile errors seen below. This is

     with the current kernel 3.10.0-123.4.2.el7.x86_64.

 

and

 

C) I get a warning that says:

 

         "The vmxnet driver is no longer supported on kernels 3.3 and greater. Please

           upgrade to a newer virtual NIC. (e.g., vmxnet3 or e1000e)"

 

     Looking at the .vmx file it appears that 'e1000' is currently present. I haven't figured out

     how  to 'upgrade' this. I didn't see any obvious options in the GUI, but maybe I just

     missed it.

 

  Any help would be appreciated.

 

  The compile error for item B) above is:

 

"In file included from /tmp/modconfig-ituPdX/vmhgfs-only/inode.c:36:0:

/tmp/modconfig-ituPdX/vmhgfs-only/inode.c: In function ‘HgfsPermission’:

/tmp/modconfig-ituPdX/vmhgfs-only/./shared/compat_dcache.h:57:38: error: ‘struct dentry’ has no member named ‘d_count’

#define compat_d_count(dentry) dentry->d_count

                                      ^

/tmp/modconfig-ituPdX/vmhgfs-only/inode.c:1904:23: note: in expansion of macro ‘compat_d_count’

          int dcount = compat_d_count(dentry);

                       ^

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ituPdX/vmhgfs-only/cpNameLite.o

make[2]: *** [/tmp/modconfig-ituPdX/vmhgfs-only/inode.o] Error 1

make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/modconfig-ituPdX/vmhgfs-only] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-123.4.2.el7.x86_64'

make: *** [vmhgfs.ko] Error 2

make: Leaving directory `/tmp/modconfig-ituPdX/vmhgfs-only'  "

 

  Thanks;

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Is there a way to write a script to check if any of the VMs have an iso image mounted?

July 28, 2014, 8:40 am
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I'm new to this and I was just wondering if there was a script I could run to automatically check if any of the VMs I created still have the install iso mounted?  The reason I ask is because I want to make sure once the OS is installed the iso is disconnected and I don't want to go through all machines to check if the image is no longer in the virtual drive.

 

Thanks!

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Windows 2008 Enterprise x32 with > 4GB RAM not fully compatible?

July 28, 2014, 12:11 pm
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I have some Windows 2008 Enterprise x32 SP2 term servers with 20GB of RAM.  There were running on ESXi 5.1 with VM version 4.  I migrated them to a ESXi 5.5u1 (1892794) host, and updated them to VM version 10.  I also updated vmtools, changed the NIC to vmxnet3, and the SCSI to paravirtual.

 

Everything worked fine.

 

Until the number of users on the term servers began to climb above 4 or 5.  Once that happens, everything goes to pot.  The system stops responding RDP requests, file errors, read errors, bizarre application errors with explorer, you name it.  The OS is completely hosed.  The eventlog -- assuming it will open -- reports nothing of note.

 

A hard-reboot fixes it.  Until more than 4 or 5 people log in and the cycle repeats.

 

I have other servers with this image running on ESXi 5.5u1.  But they're still VM version 4.  I'm thinking VM version 10 is not fully compatible with this 32-bit OS with > 4GB of RAM.

 

Anyone else seen anything like this?

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