I need to put a host into maintenance mode in my ESXi 6.7 U3 cluster. All the VMs migrated off of it just fine...except one, which consistently hangs at 21% and then fails.

The error stack in the task says:

• vMotion migration [169412107:6390396849079088667] failed writing stream completion: Timeout.
• Migration to host <10.25.6.18> failed with error Timeout (195887137).
• vMotion migration [169412107:6390396849079088667] (16-77102179162616) failed to receive 4940/4940 bytes from the remote host <10.25.6.11>: Timeout.
• Failed waiting for data. Error 195887137. Timeout.

And the reason in the relevant event is:

• The virtual machine did not migrate. This condition can occur if vMotion IPs are not configured, the source and destination hosts are not accessible, and so on. Action: Check the reason in the event message to find the cause of the failure. Ensure that the vMotion IPs are configured on source and destination hosts, the hosts are accessible, and so on.

However, this is red herring because, as I said, all the other VMs were able to vMotion without issue.

Looking at the hardware, the only thing unusual I see is that it uses IDE disks, not virtual SCSI, but that shouldn't prevent vMotion, should it?

Any ideas how I can troubleshoot this? Unfortunately, I'm finding nothing useful online from that error stack info because all the advice pertains to when vMotion as a whole doesn't work on a host, which isn't relevant here.

I am getting an error when trying to use Visual Studio 2019 community version on our VM/appstacks.

I am able to run VS2019 on our physical machines without having this issue.  This is after a fresh install.

Windows 10 x64 1909

View agent 7.12 & vcenter 7

Appvol agent 2.18.4

I did use the VMware OSOT which disabled NCSI.  I re-enabled that and set the reg keys in HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\NetworkConnectivityStatusIndicator back to 0.  I thought maybe the issue with Windows thinking it had no internet access was the issue but even with the taskbar icon showing Connect & Internet Access now I still get the same error when trying to update the visual studio license.

I can sign in fine and it recognizes my account, but trying to "update license" always results in the same error "We could download a license, check internet connection and proxy settings"

Has anyone else had this or similar issue?  Is there some other network setting I may need to re-enabled that was turned off using the OSOT?

I have not tried to install it on a fresh plain base image yet but that will be next on the list for tomorrow.

Apologies for the newb question .

We are on 2.18 atm.

We are moving from LTSB/C to Enterprise - thus we are recreating every Layer / appstack in 4.1 .

In order to consolidate and limit # of attached drives we have AppStacks that combine multiple programs into one Layer .

For example .

an "Everyone" appstack... this has 4 apps.. Chrome - PDF xchange - financial app etc. 

EVeryone in the Co gets this .. hence the name .

Now to bring that to 4.x .

My question is :

Can i not HAve One Application called EVeryone .. and assign Different Multiple PAckages to said Application ?

Using 'Current' doesnt work..as it appears to me i can only have one Current PAckage in an Application ( which MAKES SENSE of course ) .

I tried 'Assignment Type 'Package'... that Assigns our AD group for this to just ONE package . 

I want one Application to dish out 4 Different PAckages .. ( e.g. Chrome / PDF software ..etc. ) .

Is there no way to do that ?

Also the question is would anyone WANT to do that ?...

In 2.18 we created one Appstack and installed 4 items in that one app stack .

Appears in 4.x we might have to create One Application.. One Package.. and install all 4 apps in said package ?

I presume EAch Package appears to be a separate VMDK..

Thus could one say you could never Have Two Packages in an Application assigned at the same time ?

Sorry for the newb questions .

thanks much .

Hi friends,

I've got a small problem.

When ever users that are signed in via Horizon to my Windows Terminal Server their desktop icons are being reset. After they sign out and back-in.

Auto arrange icons is off.

I am pretty sure it has something to do with resolution changing.

Anyone got an idea?

Thanks in Advance!

Horizon 7.11 - Windows 10 1909 - Linked Clone Pool

One of our applications on our Horizon desktops is being cut off from viewing it fully. It is not for everyone but for some Mac Laptop users with a resolution of 1440 x 900. 

We noticed that the Horizon desktop scaling is set to 175%. Obviously changing the scaling back to 100% or closer, would most likely fix the issue but the display scaling is locked and says

"Some settings re managed by your system administrator. A custom scale factor is set." I cannot figure out where that custom scale factor is set. Not on the master image where it is is 100% and a custom scale factor is not set. So it must somewhere in VMware settings. In the Horizon client options selecting or de-selecting Allow Display Scaling has no effect. By default our clients Display are set to All Monitors, but changing to Full Screen does not seem to change scaling. On the master image Video card settings we have Specify Custom Settings in order to select 2 displays. 3D is not enabled. I also tried placing this setting back to Automatic and recomposing but it had not effect. When researching this I discovered quite a few complaints bout "A custom scale factor is set" but it was not VDI, just normal Windows machines. Help!

Looking for a little help.

I have workstation 16 pro on a kali linux host.  I have windows 7,8.1,XP, and 10 as VMs.  None of the VMs have internet. 

I have tried bridge and nat.  Restarted the VMs and Host.

On the host I have ran vmware-network --status

It shows NAT and DHCP as not enabled and not started.

I try running vmware-network --start and Nat and DHCP fail to start.

I collected the log and sent a support for help but was told kali isn't supported.  If there is any information I can provide, I would appreciate any assistance.

Thanks!

Hello Experts ,

I have some questions about our Migration from 5.5 to 6.5 .we will replace  our virtuel datacenter equipements with new ones .

our Vcenter 5.5  is in our old domain x.local and the new one will be in our new domain y.com.

our ESXi 5.5 are not joined to the Domain .the authentication is locally and they use the DNS of our old domain x.local

before migrating to 6.5 with new Domain y.com , i would migrate our Vcenter 5.5 from x.local to y.com

Could you tel me the steps please ? i'm afraid if there will an impact to our VMS

Regards

ラボ環境や検証環境だと、用意したNTPサーバーとESXi/VCSAが同期してくれないことがしばしばあると思います。

多くの場合はちょっとした設定の追加で解決できることが多いので、今回はその方法についてご説明します。

NTPサーバとの疎通確認

何はともあれ、まずはNTP側との疎通と動作確認が必要です。

以下のコマンドを実行してください。

※ESXiにはntpdateコマンドはないのでスキップしてください。

/sbin/ntpdate -b -u <ntp server ip>

/sbin/ntpdate -d <ntp server ip>

上のコマンドはNTPサーバと同期するコマンドです。NTPデーモンは時間がずれすぎている同期してくれないので、まずはこのコマンドで強制的に時間を合わせます。

下のコマンドはntpサーバの正常動作を確認するコマンドです。

このコマンドが失敗するようでは疎通やNTPサーバ側の問題ですのでそちらをご確認ください。

NTPサーバとの同期に時間がかかっている可能性

NTPサーバとの同期は一時間くらいかかることもあります。

その場合はiburstというオプションを付与することで初期同期までの時間を短縮できます。

/etc/ntp.conf内の外部NTPサーバのIPアドレスの後ろにiburstを追加することで設定可能です。

以下のような感じです。

##

    48  server <ntp server ip> iburst

    49  trustedkey

##

上記の設定があることで何十分も同期を待たずに済みます。

実施後は/etc/init.d/ntpd restart でサービスを再起動してください。

なお、NTPサーバとしてインターネット上の公開NTPサーバを指定している場合はiburstは利用しないか、利用可能かどうかをサーバの管理者にお尋ねください。

社内のNTPサーバの場合はほぼほぼ問題ないとは思いますが、確認しておいた方が無難です。

NTPサーバからの時刻が信頼されていない可能性

iburst設定後や、十分な時間が経過した後でも同期しない場合は、NTPサーバからの情報をNTP Clientが信頼していない場合があります。

VCSAの場合

# /usr/sbin/ntpdc -c 'showpeer <ntp ip address>'

remote <ntp ip address>, local <ntp ip address>

hmode client, pmode unspec, stratum 2, precision -6

leap 00, refid [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx], rootdistance 0.03125, rootdispersion 8.30737

ppoll 6, hpoll 6, keyid 0, version 4, association 57089

reach 001, unreach 1, flash 0x0400, boffset 0.00400, ttl/mode 0

timer 0s, flags config, bclient

reference time:      dc0bbd00.3f21a2e7  Tue, Dec 27 2016  1:00:00.246

originate timestamp: dc0c6b35.c3fed202  Tue, Dec 27 2016 13:23:17.765

receive timestamp:   dc0c6b35.c3d4dc75  Tue, Dec 27 2016 13:23:17.764

transmit timestamp:  dc0c6b35.c3bfd0d1  Tue, Dec 27 2016 13:23:17.764

filter delay:  0.00032  0.00032  0.00000  0.00000

               0.00000  0.00000  0.00000  0.00000

filter offset: 0.000801 0.000480 0.000000 0.000000

               0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000

filter order:  0        1        2        3

               4        5        6        7

offset 0.000801, delay 0.00032, error bound 1.98726, filter error 0.01791

ESXiの場合

# /usr/sbin/ntpq -classoc

ind assid status  conf reach auth condition  last_event cnt

===========================================================

  1 63674  961a   yes   yes  none  sys.peer    sys_peer  1

 

# /usr/sbin/ntpq -c "rv 63674"    <<<< rv xxxx のIDは↑のコマンドのassidで確認

associd=63674 status=961a conf, reach, sel_sys.peer, 1 event, sys_peer,

srcadr=ntp-sv1.cpsd.local, srcport=123, dstadr=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, dstport=123,

leap=00, stratum=4, precision=-25, rootdelay=350.113, rootdisp=94.040,

refid=10.30.48.37,

reftime=e2b64f76.e5a956e2  Mon, Jul 13 2020  3:11:50.897,

rec=e2b650cc.9a6cec7e  Mon, Jul 13 2020  3:17:32.603, reach=377,

unreach=0, hmode=3, pmode=4, hpoll=10, ppoll=10, headway=0, flash=00 ok,

keyid=0, offset=3.212, delay=0.700, dispersion=19.482, jitter=0.630,

xleave=0.039,

filtdelay=     0.74    0.70    0.74    0.68    0.69    0.73    0.76    0.79,

filtoffset=    3.37    3.21    2.94    2.99    2.91    2.83    2.40    1.89,

filtdisp=      0.00   16.02   32.31   48.08   64.13   79.52   95.43  111.65

このコマンド出力中で注目すべきところは太字で強調したflash のところです。

flashの値は簡単にいえばエラーコードみたいなものです。

上の例ではVCSAは0x400 となっており、ESXiでは00 (0x0000)となっています。

flashの値の意味についてはntpのソースコードのヘッダファイルに説明があります。

#### ヘッダファイル引用
+++++ include/ntp.h
/*                                                                                                                    
* Define flasher bits (tests 1 through 11 in packet procedure)                                                       
* These reveal the state at the last grumble from the peer and are                                                   
* most handy for diagnosing problems, even if not strictly a state                                                   
* variable in the spec. These are recorded in the peer structure.                                                    
*                                                                                                                    
* Packet errors                                                                                                      
*/
#define TEST1           0X0001  /* duplicate packet */
#define TEST2           0x0002  /* bogus packet */
#define TEST3           0x0004  /* protocol unsynchronized */
#define TEST4           0x0008  /* access denied */
#define TEST5           0x0010  /* authentication error */
#define TEST6           0x0020  /* bad synch or stratum */
#define TEST7           0x0040  /* bad header data */
#define TEST8           0x0080  /* autokey error */
#define TEST9           0x0100  /* crypto error */
#define PKT_TEST_MASK   (TEST1 | TEST2 | TEST3 | TEST4 | TEST5 |\
                        TEST6 | TEST7 | TEST8 | TEST9)
/*                                                                                                                    
* Peer errors                                                                                                        
*/
#define TEST10          0x0200  /* peer bad synch or stratum */
#define TEST11          0x0400  /* peer distance exceeded */
#define TEST12          0x0800  /* peer synchronization loop */
#define TEST13          0x1000  /* peer unreacable */

#define PEER_TEST_MASK  (TEST10 | TEST11 | TEST12 | TEST13)
####

上記のように定められています。
今回の場合は flash 0x400なので、
TEST11のpeer distance exceededに該当することが分かります。
（多くの場合はこれが原因と思います・・・）
これは要するに同期先のNTPサーバまでの距離が遠いということです。
（距離が遠いと信頼性が下がりますからね。違ったら御免なさい）

デフォルトで許容されるホップ数がいくつなのかは不明ですが、
とりあえず増やしてあげれば解決する理屈です。
なのでホップ数を30まで増やすためにtosコマンドを/etc/ntp.confに追記しましょう。
まとめるとこんな感じです。

## /etc/ntp.conf

    48  server <ntp ip address > iburst  <<<< iburst 追記
    49  trustedkey
    50
    51  tos maxdist 30        <<<< 追記

##

この設定をすれば、少なくともflash 0x400の問題は解消できるはずです。

0x400以外の問題については別の対応が必要になると思います。

また、flash codeが正常 （0x00）なのに同期してくれない場合は、messagesログなどにntp デーモンのエラーが吐かれているかもしれませんので確認されることをお勧めします。

（補足）NTPサーバがWindwos OSの場合

WindowsサーバをNTPサーバとして構築している場合、デフォルトの設定では同期可能なNTPサーバとしてみなされない場合があります。

おそらく多くの場合はLocalClockDispersion の設定によるものと思われますので、この値が0になっているかを確認されることをお勧めいたします。

関連ドキュメント

Dell EMC KB

VxRail: How to troubleshoot NTP issue in VxRail cluster | Dell US

NTPDのパラメタ

Miscellaneous Commands and Options

I am following the link below on vSAN 2. It is using the back-to-back direct connection for vmotion and vSAN in the design.  I am wondering whether I can use our physical switches for vMotion, because I was to perform a cross-site vMotion.

vSAN 2 Node Guide | VMware

How to set Goal in life and Why it is important to set Goal. What is the change comes in life by setting Goal. Today you will get the answer to every question.

Have you ever traveled When you travel somewhere, you have to take a ticket to where you have to go. If you go to the ticket counter and the ticket receptionist asks you where you want to go and you will say "nowhere", will you be able to go anywhere?

Similarly, if we want to get something in our life or to reach a destination, then we must first set up a goal of our life.

Why It is Important to Set a Goal in Life:

Have you ever got a house built? Or ever seen a house being built? When we build a house, complete planning has to be done to get it built. If we do not do planning, then the structure of the house will become crooked.

The same thing applies to life too. If we do not plan about our life or do not set Goal, then our life will also become like a house without a proper structure. When we set goals in life, we know where we have to reach after a certain time and what we have to face to get there.

Psychology also says that people who have goals in their lives have the great enthusiasm in their lives and they are also more intelligent. People who have no goal in life, their lives are very boring and tasteless, they do not have any happiness in their lives and they always complain about their lives and blame others or their luck.

Read the full article here https://poemluv.com/how-to-set-goal-of-life/

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Know How you can Achieve Anything with Power of Belief !!

[How to Be Successful ] – [3 Amazing LAWS OF SUCCESS]

3 Tips to be Successful in Life -[Your Attitude is Everything ]

How to Achieve Goals-[Has Giving up Become Your Habit?]

Hi there,

I am a beginner ESXi user and really need help with this. I did quite a lot of searching regarding this issue but unfortunately could not find a solution.

Here's my situation:

1. I am using ESXi 6.5.

2. I need to create a Windows 7 x64 VM with more than 2TB disk space --> So I need to use GPT partition --> So I need to use EFI boot method. MBR(BIOS) is not an option for me.

3. I customized the VM to boot with EFI and when I booted from the Windows installer ISO, this is what comes up:

–> EFI VMware virtual SCSI Hard Drive (0.0)… unsuccessful.

–>EFI VMware Virtual SATA CDROM Drive (1.0)… unsuccessful.

–> EFI Network…

>>Start PXE over IPv4.

4. My datastore type is VMFS6

Please tell me how to solve this problem.

Thanks in advance.

How to set Goal in life and Why it is important to set Goal. What is the change comes in life by setting Goal. Today you will get the answer to every question.

Have you ever traveled When you travel somewhere, you have to take a ticket to where you have to go. If you go to the ticket counter and the ticket receptionist asks you where you want to go and you will say "nowhere", will you be able to go anywhere?

Similarly, if we want to get something in our life or to reach a destination, then we must first set up a goal of our life.

What is Goal?

Before setting the goal, let us know what the goal means. A goal is a predetermined task that a person tries to complete within a certain time frame. Different people set different goals in their life according to their wish, for example, if someone wants to become a cricketer, a singer a dancer or an artist.

Why It is Important to Set a Goal in Life:

Have you ever got a house built? Or ever seen a house being built? When we build a house, complete planning has to be done to get it built. If we do not do planning, then the structure of the house will become crooked.

The same thing applies to life too. If we do not plan about our life or do not set Goal, then our life will also become like a house without a proper structure. When we set goals in life, we know where we have to reach after a certain time and what we have to face to get there.

Psychology also says that people who have goals in their lives have the great enthusiasm in their lives and they are also more intelligent. People who have no goal in life, their lives are very boring and tasteless, they do not have any happiness in their lives and they always complain about their lives and blame others or their luck.

What to Do While Setting a Goal:

Friends, when we build a house, we plan everything where the bedroom should be, where should the kitchen be and in this way we prepare a complete map of the house and then decide how to decorate it. Similarly, while setting goals in our life, we also have to think a lot about various things. Let's see how we should set goals in our life.

Ask yourself some questions:

It is necessary to have a conversation with yourself before setting a goal. In this conversation, you have to ask yourself some questions such as what is the thing that you want to achieve within a set time period. And how long will it take to get that thing and what strategy has to be made, what challenges will come and how to deal with them. All these questions we have to ask ourselves before setting goals.

Create a road map:

The roadmap tells you what you need to do to reach a defined goal and what things you have to face. And you will also have to make a backup plan and if one of your plans fails, then you can switch to another plan. The roadmap will guide you to reach your goal. To create a roadmap, you can take help of someone who has already achieved the goal you want to achieve.

That person will tell you what the person did and what the challenges came to meet that goal and how he / she achieved that goal and you can also make your roadmap by following the same path. You can also take help of internet to create a roadmap.

Create weekly targets:

Small goals help you to reach big goals. If you make small weekly goals, then you will be able to achieve your big goals easily by the prescribed time period. And by setting goals every week, also make sure to observe your performance, for this you can take the help of weekly reports.

Follow the roadmap as much as possible:

The more you follow the roadmap, the greater your chances of being successful. To follow the roadmap successfully, you will have to put your 100% and this will be your biggest test.

Check your performance regularly:

Merely creating a road map and setting targets is not enough. We also have to observe and analyze the work we are doing regularly, which we can do by creating weekly reports. By making weekly reports, we can see if we are following the roadmap and if not, where there is a shortage, how can that deficiency be removed?

Celebrate your Little Achievements:

You can celebrate your small successes, such as giving a treat or a small party to yourself or family or to a best friend. By doing all this, you thicken yourself to achieve more and other people also thicken you.

Read more such articles here: https://poemluv.com/

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[How to Be Successful ] – [3 Amazing LAWS OF SUCCESS]

3 Tips to be Successful in Life -[Your Attitude is Everything ]

How to Achieve Goals-[Has Giving up Become Your Habit?]

Can you change port 443 for connection to the uag? I change it in the horizon server?

Hi there,

windows 10 pro + VMware workstation 16 pro.

My laptop is connected to our corp network through VPN. After I successfully create a linux vm (CentOS 8), I need it have corp network IP so other people in my team can have access (ssh, etc) to it.

How can I achieve it?

Now I use NAT, and vm IP address is something like 192.168.217.128, which is not what we need.

thanks a lot!

I am a complete newbe to this stuff. I would rate myself somewhat literate in technical stuff.

This is what I want to do.

I have a legacy computer. The hardware is dieing. It will run for a while and then just freeze.  No BSOD, it just freezes. Will do this randomly. even running in safe mode. Not application program dependent. It will happen running a program or just idling. Time between failures can range from under 15 mins to over a day and a half.

The machine runs Vista. Have we stopped laughing yet? But there are a couple of legacy programs that I can't move to a different machine and were registered to this particular machine.

What I would like to do is install the VMWare Player 16 on a different computer running win7. I would then mount the drive out of the Vista machine in this computer. I would then run the VMWare Converter on the partition that is the C: drive from the Vista machine to get an image which I could the run with the VMWare Player.

Have I got this right? Any gotchas that stand out?

Are the revs of the two programs appropriate to the OSs I am running?

Will there be an issue with the Vista drive being in a different computer?

I have run some thing like this (I think) with the microsoft virtual machine running XP on win7. Is this close to the same thing?

Thanks in advance or any help or direction.

Hank

we use nic ixgben 1.7.1.16 driver on esxi 6.7 u3 host but vmware says we must use ixgbe version 4.4.1 driver.  How do I install this new driver, do I need to delete the old driver. how should the steps be

thanks

Is there any way to manage the App volumes using powershell .

1. ASsigning / unassigning a group of users.

PLease help

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