Hello,

My ubuntu 14.04 VM isn't seeing the entire disk for some reason. If I go into the "virtual Machine Settings" and go to the disk, here's what it says:

Capacity

Current size: 3.9 GB

System free: 373.2 GB

Maximum size: 20 GB

But when I go into ubuntu and look in the system monitor, it says that I have a total of 4.2 GB, used 3.7GB and only have 207.5MB free.

This clearly isn't right. What's going on? This basically means my VM is unusable for all intents and purposes.

My host OS is Windows 10.

Thanks

I have a problem with Workstation 12.5 or 12.5.1 on my pc.

I installed a fresh installation of Windows 10 Pro x64 1607 on my Dell Optiplex 3010.

The installation of vmware workstation 12.5.1 terminated without problem but when I start the application I receive an error.

| vmui| I125: Msg_Post: Error

| vmui| I125: [msg.log.error.unrecoverable] VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vmui)

| vmui| I125+ Exception 0xc0000005 (access violation) has occurred.

| vmui| I125: [msg.panic.haveLog] A log file is available in "C:\Users\Popi\AppData\Local\Temp\vmware-Popi\vmware-ui-5624.log". 

| vmui| I125: [msg.panic.requestSupport.withoutLog] You can request support. 

| vmui| I125: [msg.panic.requestSupport.vmSupport.windowsOrLinux]

| vmui| I125+ To collect data to submit to VMware support, choose "Collect Support Data" from the Help menu.

| vmui| I125+ You can also run the "vm-support" script in the Workstation folder directly.

| vmui| I125: [msg.panic.response] We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.

| vmui| I125: ----------------------------------------

| vmui| W115: Exception caught; trying to exit app.

| vmui| I125: CDS: Clearing the credentials cache.

| vmui| I125: CDS: Clearing the credentials cache.

| vmui| I125: WORKER: asyncOps=0 maxActiveOps=0 maxPending=0 maxCompleted=0

| vmui| I125: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "C:\Users\Popi\AppData\Roaming\VMware\inventory.vmls": Unknown error 2 (0x2).

| vmui| I125: FILE: FileDeletionRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\Users\Popi\AppData\Roaming\VMware\inventory.vmls~): Unknown error 2 (0x2) (2)

| vmui| W115: CnxMgr::~CnxMgr(): Pending connection to localhost

| vmui| I125: Exited abnormally.

I didn't have this problem with old version 12.1.1.

Could you help me?

Thanks

Is there a way to push application shortcuts on the client desktop upon first login ?

To cklick on every application avaliable and select create shortcut on desktop is cumbersome for users. I know that I can manually crate icons trough GPO but this is less than ideal.

With the new version of vrealize operations manager, what is the most efficient way to get a total of transactions per second (Iops) for The storage traffic of  The sum of all virtual machines in my environment?

Hello I have multiple DVS in my vcenter. Depending on the datacenter of a VM, I want to attach that VM's interfaces to one of the DVS.

$OAK =  get-view (get-VDSwitch -Name "OAK")

$OAK.Portgroup | %{Get-View -Id $_ } | %{

$hash.add($_.Name,$_.Key)

}

PowerCLI C:\> $dc = Get-Datacenter -vm A1-T1-9-d10-1

PowerCLI C:\> $dc.name

OAK

PowerCLI C:\>

I want to access $OAK based on the $dc.name (something like 'eval \$($dc.name)' in shell ?)  i,e the value of a variable is another variable and how to dereference it ?

Ah ok. Security groups are not supported in VDS mode.

Thanks Richardson; I think I can make either of those options work. I wonder, though, what VMware best practice is? I still haven't found other reference to this yet in the docs...you'd think this would be the scenario every time somebody created a VSAN, and therefore there'd be some official documentation about it!

Check inside the guest using fdisk or gdisk.
Both tools will very likely tell you that you have a disk with a size of 20Gb.
Probably you will have a 4gb partition /dev/sda1 plus a small swap partition of maybe 200 MB.
Either create a new partition using the free space or expand the / - partition.

Ok, looks like both Richardson and myself are correct. I finally found the documentation (it's dated 2014). Pages 54-57 of this document explain it, so I'm imagining this is VMware's "official" stand on the matter.

The choices they present are:

1. As I mentioned, create a vsan on one host from the CLI and install the vCenter environment on it, and then spin up the other hosts and extend the VSAN.

2. As Richardson mentioned, use local storage on the first host to spin up the vCenter environment, then spin up the other hosts, create a vsan, migrate the vCenter servers to the vsan, and then clean up the first host and then add it to the cluster.

Ok, guess my question is answered!

Привет.

Если VMware ESXi правильно установлена со всеми его drivers.
Вы должны увидеть настройки оборудования (hardware) в конфигурации виньетка.

пример :

удача.....

Hi every one,

Actually I am using  vSphere Data Protection 6.1.2 to back up our virtual machines and I am experiencing an issue with one VM. The job log begins at 21:30 and at 22:30

shows the first error.

2016-11-11T22:29:26.067+06:00 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:DISKLIB-LIB   : numIOs = 2950000 numMergedIOs = 0 numSplitIOs = 0

2016-11-11T22:30:04.974+06:00 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:DISKLIB-LIB   : numIOs = 3000000 numMergedIOs = 0 numSplitIOs = 0

2016-11-11T22:30:10.538+06:00 avvcbimage Info <40654>: isExitOK()=169

2016-11-11T22:30:10.538+06:00 avvcbimage Info <16022>: Cancel detected(externally cancelled by Administrator), isExitOK(0).

2016-11-11T22:30:10.538+06:00 avvcbimage Info <40654>: isExitOK()=169

2016-11-11T22:30:10.538+06:00 avvcbimage Info <16022>: Cancel detected(externally cancelled by Administrator), isExitOK(0).

2016-11-11T22:30:10.538+06:00 avvcbimage Info <9746>: bytes submitted was 197065048064

2016-11-11T22:30:10.540+06:00 avvcbimage Info <9772>: Starting graceful (staged) termination, MCS cancel (wrap-up stage)

2016-11-11T22:30:10.551+06:00 avvcbimage Info <19692>: Cancelled by MCS with timeout=0 sec

2016-11-11T22:30:10.635+06:00 avvcbimage Error <0000>: [IMG0010] pax_container::endfile(virtdisk-flat.vmdk,197065048064) returned problem:24

2016-11-11T22:30:10.638+06:00 avvcbimage Info <0000>: [IMG0010] pax_container::enddir returned problem:24

2016-11-11T22:30:10.638+06:00 avvcbimage Info <40654>: isExitOK()=169

2016-11-11T22:30:10.638+06:00 avvcbimage Info <16022>: Cancel detected(externally cancelled by Administrator), isExitOK(0).

2016-11-11T22:30:10.638+06:00 avvcbimage Info <12032>: backup ([Silverxxx] server-xxx/server-xxx_2.vmdk) terminated 307200.00 MB

2016-11-11T22:30:10.638+06:00 avvcbimage Info <40654>: isExitOK()=169

2016-11-11T22:30:10.638+06:00 avvcbimage Error <0000>: [IMG1003] Backup of [Silverxxx] server-xxx/server-xxx.vmdk failed

2016-11-11T22:30:10.650+06:00 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:VixDiskLib: VixDiskLib_Close: Close disk.

2016-11-11T22:30:16.162+06:00 avvcbimage Info <6688>: Process 15025 (/usr/local/avamarclient/bin/avtar) finished (code 163: externally cancelled)

2016-11-11T22:30:16.162+06:00 avvcbimage Warning <6690>: CTL workorder "Servers xxx-Servers xxx-1478925000009" non-zero exit status 'code 163: externally cancelled'

2016-11-11T22:30:26.464+06:00 avvcbimage Info <9679>: Virtual disk connection to '[Silverxxx] server-xxx/server-xxx_2.vmdk' has been closed

2016-11-11T22:30:26.464+06:00 avvcbimage Info <40654>: isExitOK()=169

2016-11-11T22:30:26.464+06:00 avvcbimage Info <16022>: Cancel detected(externally cancelled by Administrator), isExitOK(0).

2016-11-11T22:30:26.464+06:00 avvcbimage Info <16052>: Terminating backup of all remaining virtual disks

2016-11-11T22:30:26.464+06:00 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:VixDiskLib: VixDiskLib_Disconnect: Disconnect.

2016-11-11T22:30:26.487+06:00 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:VixDiskLib: VixDiskLib_Cleanup: Remove previous mount points and clean up .

2016-11-11T22:30:26.487+06:00 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:VixDiskLib: VixDiskLib_Connect: Establish connection.

2016-11-11T22:30:26.487+06:00 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:VixDiskLib: Resolve host.

2016-11-11T22:30:26.488+06:00 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:MemoryDbMappingsExpire: Expiring SSL ID mapping, hostname 192.168.0.xxx SSL ID 0d:d5:20:4d:8f:41:4c:f9:c5:ab:ff:2b:b0:e2:e7:18:dc:c7

2016-11-11T22:30:26.488+06:00 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:MemoryDbMappingsExpire: Expiring SSL ID mapping, hostname 192.168.1.xxx SSL ID 4e:89:f7:1d:b2:d4:81:96:b3:f4:04:20:56:a4:1d:ff:e4:a1

2016-11-11T22:30:26.703+06:00 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:VixDiskLib: VixDiskLib_Disconnect: Disconnect.

2016-11-11T22:30:26.703+06:00 avvcbimage Info <9672>: Disconnected from VM

2016-11-11T22:30:26.703+06:00 avvcbimage Info <8701>: Closing pax stream

2016-11-11T22:30:26.730+06:00 avvcbimage Info <40645>: getActiveTaskCount prior to snapshot removal: CreateSnapshot=0 RemoveSnapshot=0 ImageTask=0 otherTask=0

2016-11-11T22:30:26.740+06:00 avvcbimage Info <41147>: no active snapshot removal tasks for vm moref 'vm-169'

2016-11-11T22:30:26.740+06:00 avvcbimage Info <14642>: Deleting the snapshot 'VDP-14789250258070daefa9130627093324fe5670a559235298f8', moref 'snapshot-1352'

2016-11-11T22:30:26.740+06:00 avvcbimage Info <0000>: SnapshotManager: deletesnapshot, snapshot-1352

2016-11-11T22:30:26.740+06:00 avvcbimage Info <0000>: SnapshotManager: POST to /snapshotmanager/snapshot/snapshot-1352/action/delete, payload({

  "maxAttempts": -1})

2016-11-11T22:30:27.133+06:00 avvcbimage Info <0000>: AvSnapMgr::postData Succeeded

2016-11-11T22:30:27.133+06:00 avvcbimage Info <0000>: POST: curl_easy_getinfo - passed. HTTPCode: 202

2016-11-11T22:30:27.133+06:00 avvcbimage Info <0000>: AvSnapMgr::postData Succeeded

2016-11-11T22:30:27.133+06:00 avvcbimage Info <0000>: avSnapMgr::deleteSnapshot returned: HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted

Location: https://127.0.0.1:8543/snapshotmanager/task/task-8813

Content-Length: 0

Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 05:30:27 GMT

Connection: close

Server: Avamar

...

...

...

2016-11-11T21:30:46.003+06:00 avtar Info <5946>: File system character encoding is UTF-8.

2016-11-11T21:30:46.003+06:00 avtar Info <5588>: - Creating process lock file "/usr/local/avamarclient/var/VmImage7_avtar.lck", pid=15025

2016-11-11T21:30:46.004+06:00 avtar Info <8940>: Starting back up at 2016-11-11 21:30:46 MST as "root" on "dpxxx" (4 CPUs) [7.2.180-98]

2016-11-11T21:30:46.004+06:00 avtar Info <5731>: Not using include/exclude list

2016-11-11T21:30:46.004+06:00 avtar Info <8474>: - Log file path: Servers xxx-1478925000009-8070daefa9130627093324fe5670a559235298f8-3016-vmimagew_avtar.log

2016-11-11T21:30:46.004+06:00 avtar Info <6555>: Initializing connection

2016-11-11T21:30:46.004+06:00 avtar Info <5552>: Connecting to Avamar Server (dpxxx.xxx.corp)

2016-11-11T21:30:46.004+06:00 avtar Info <5554>: Connecting to one node in each datacenter

2016-11-11T21:30:46.040+06:00 avtar Info <5993>: - Connect: Connected to 192.168.1.160:29000, Priv=0, SSL Cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384

2016-11-11T21:30:46.075+06:00 avtar Info <5993>: - Datacenter 0 has 1 nodes: Connected to 192.168.1.160:29000, Priv=0, SSL Cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384

2016-11-11T21:30:46.080+06:00 avtar Info <5581>: Logging in on connection 0 with Session Ticket

2016-11-11T21:30:46.080+06:00 avtar Info <5582>: Avamar Server login successful

2016-11-11T21:30:46.080+06:00 avtar Info <5018>: - Session ID: 0

2016-11-11T21:30:46.083+06:00 avtar Info <10632>: Using Client-ID='8070daefa9130627093324fe5670a559235298f8'

2016-11-11T21:30:46.083+06:00 avtar Info <5550>: Successfully logged into Avamar Server [7.2.80-98] (Compression enabled)

2016-11-11T21:30:46.083+06:00 avtar Info <7562>: Back up of stdin on server "dpxxx.xxx.corp" for /vcxxx.xxx.corp/VirtualMachines/server-xxx_UB0KAkp4C8r7ismoqsJ0pw

2016-11-11T21:30:46.096+06:00 avtar Info <5586>: Loading cache files from /usr/local/avamarclient/var

2016-11-11T21:30:46.096+06:00 avtar Info <5769>: Filecache is disabled.

2016-11-11T21:30:46.096+06:00 avtar Info <8650>: Opening hash cache file '/usr/local/avamarclient/var/VmImage7_p_cache.dat'

2016-11-11T21:30:48.097+06:00 avtar Info <5573>: - Loaded hash cache file (25,166,368 bytes)

2016-11-11T21:30:48.218+06:00 avtar Info <6426>: Done loading cache files

2016-11-11T21:30:48.219+06:00 avtar Warning <18692>: Changed streamformat-out to none since raw format is only for DDR use

2016-11-11T21:30:48.219+06:00 avtar Info <6995>: Parsing 'pax' stream format from stdin

2016-11-11T21:30:48.219+06:00 avtar Info <10818>: Backstream creating root backstreamdir object

2016-11-11T21:30:48.219+06:00 avtar Info <8648>: Directory elements will be sorted: No

2016-11-11T21:30:48.219+06:00 avtar Info <8649>: Sub-file change blocks enabled: No

2016-11-11T21:45:47.229+06:00 avtar Info <8688>: Status 2016-11-11 21:45:47, 9 files, 84.77 GB (9 files, 87.32 MB, 0.10% new) 393MB  81% CPU  91026768896 input bytes, (1 open files) VMFiles/2/virtdisk-flat.vmdk

2016-11-11T22:00:49.034+06:00 avtar Info <8688>: Status 2016-11-11 22:00:49, 12 files, 192.7 GB (12 files, 88.32 MB, 0.04% new) 393MB  93% CPU  206948698112 input bytes, (1 open files) VMFiles/3/virtdisk-flat.vmdk

2016-11-11T22:13:08.645+06:00 avtar Info <5286>: 2016-11-11 22:13:08 MST: Increasing size of hash cache from 1048576 to 2097152 elements (adding 25,165,824 bytes).

2016-11-11T22:13:09.139+06:00 avtar Info <5069>: - Writing cache file "/usr/local/avamarclient/var/VmImage7_p_cache.dat"

2016-11-11T22:13:09.385+06:00 avtar Info <5546>: Cache update complete /usr/local/avamarclient/var/VmImage7_p_cache.dat (48.0 MiB of 618 MiB max)

2016-11-11T22:13:09.385+06:00 avtar Info <5122>: 2016-11-11 22:13:09 MST: Cache resize complete.

2016-11-11T22:15:50.037+06:00 avtar Info <8688>: Status 2016-11-11 22:15:50, 12 files, 260.0 GB (12 files, 88.33 MB, 0.03% new) 417MB  92% CPU  279142500352 input bytes, (1 open files) VMFiles/3/virtdisk-flat.vmdk

2016-11-11T22:30:10.584+06:00 avtar Info <7061>: Canceled by '3016-vmimagew' - exiting...

2016-11-11T22:30:10.620+06:00 avtar Info <9772>: Starting graceful (staged) termination, cancel request (wrap-up stage)

2016-11-11T22:30:15.703+06:00 [avtar]  ERROR: <0001> backstreamdir::childdone error merging history stream data during phase_do_hidden while processing directory 'VMFiles/3'

2016-11-11T22:30:15.764+06:00 [avtar]  ERROR: <0001> backstreamdir::childdone error merging history stream data during phase_do_hidden while processing directory 'VMFiles'

2016-11-11T22:30:15.833+06:00 avtar Info <7202>: Backup CANCELED, wrapping-up session with Server

2016-11-11T22:30:15.972+06:00 [avtar]  ERROR: <0001> backstreamdir::childdone error merging history stream data during phase_do_hidden while processing directory ''

2016-11-11T22:30:16.028+06:00 avtar Info <7238>: Stream complete: 347,389,067,264 bytes read from stream

2016-11-11T22:30:16.029+06:00 avtar Info <5157>: PARTIAL Backup #51 timestamp 2016-11-11 22:30:16, 15 files, 5 directories, 323.5 GB (15 files, 88.66 MB, 0.03% new)

2016-11-11T22:30:16.029+06:00 avtar Info <7539>: Label "Servidores Pruebas-Servidores Pruebas-1478925000009", scheduled to expire after 11/18/16 (2016-11-19 05:30:16 UTC), daily backup, backup type: level0_full

2016-11-11T22:30:16.029+06:00 avtar Info <6083>: Backed-up 323.5 GB in 59.50 minutes: 326 GB/hour (15 files/hour)

2016-11-11T22:30:16.031+06:00 avtar Info <7883>: Finished at 2016-11-11 22:30:16 MST, Elapsed time: 0000h:59m:30s

2016-11-11T22:30:16.075+06:00 avtar Info <6149>: Error summary: 3 errors: 1(3)

2016-11-11T22:30:16.075+06:00 avtar Info <8468>: Sending wrapup message to parent

2016-11-11T22:30:16.077+06:00 avtar Info <5314>: Command failed (3 errors, 1 warning, exit code 10013: externally cancelled)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

----- END avtar log 2016-11-11 22:30:16 MST  (1 warning, 3 erros, 0 fatal errors)

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When I google the error message It always shows something related to the backup duration more than a day but in this case it only takes 2 hours.

Regards,

Hi!

Just registered to ask a simple question

I have some old code laying around which extracts some vm-information using vb.net (vimclient) and puts this data to another database. Works fine for years.

Now my boss asks me to get an info about the used operating system on the guest machines. No problem, got that already (sorry, old vb-code):

--snip--

.GuestOS = vm.Summary.Guest.GuestFullName

                    If vm.Summary.Guest.GuestFullName = "" Then .GuestOS = vm.Config.GuestFullName

--snip--

This works fine til 'Windows Server 2008' or 'Windows 10'. These Operating Systems are reported, but it's 'Edition', e.g. Professional or Enterprise is missing.

So, this is the output of my VM: 'Microsoft Windows 10 (64-Bit)' But it is Windows 10 Enterprise. Same with Windows Server 2008 or 2012.

Question is how to get that edition from vmware? Im using vimclient v5.5. Maybe I should use v6.x? but don't think it will help?!

Thanks for your support!

Regards,

Jan

Привет.

У вас есть Windows 2008R2 Standard или Enterprise?

В Windows 2008R2 Standard может работать только 4 CPU независимо от того,кто установил 5 или больше CPU

удача.....

Hi Tracy,

I can confirm that after installing the 12.5.1 update for Workstation Pro that the 7za.exe is now showing as version 16.02. This version is not vulnerable to the issues I mentioned in this thread.

Many thanks for your excellent work on having this update include this fix. Have a great day

Hi!

I am also experiencing the same on my end.

Were you able to fix this issue? If yes, how did you fix it?

Thanks.

Currently we have thin clients which are domain joined and when the user log in it is then automatically logged into virtual desktop.

Is it possible to configure Horizon client in a way that when you do logout from VDI that you are also logged out from TC ? And similar if user locks VDI trough start menu that the client also locks ?

What is otherwise the best option to configure Windows thin clients to work seamlessly with horizon and without any local desktop ? Especially when users are using ctr-alt-del key combination or doing lock/logoff. Zero clients are really nice here and give you the best local desktop experience, but they lack on other areas.

Tnx

Thank you, i would try it by having both ESXi 5.0 and ESXi 6.0 hosts in my Vcenter environment.

I have a datastore I want to create from multiple source luns. Each of the luns is from an SSD storage array, using 6G speed, which allos up to 600MB/sec per lun throughput.

When I try to create the datastore, it seems to concatenate the luns together rather than striping them for improved performance.

The application needs to support 2GB/sec, meaning I need to create a stripe accross 8 of these luns in order to achieve that performance, however, the datastore doesn't seem to allow striping.

Is there a way to fix this so that I can get the necessary performance throughput?

Hello,

Please i have a problem to do a vMotion from host "Rack" (ESXI 5.0, VM version 8, VMFS 5.54) to LAME BLASE server (ESXI 6.0, VM version 11, VMFS 5.61). I added the Rack host to the vCenter and tried to migrate a VM test but got the error message:

The virtual machine requires hardware features that are unsupported or disabled on the target host: """""""""""""* General incompatibilities "
If possible, use a cluster with Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) enabled; see KB article 1003212.
CPUID details: incompatibility at level 0x1 register 'ecx'.
Host bits: 0110:0010:1101:1000:0011:0010:0000:0011
Required: x000:x01x:10x1:1xx0:xx10:xx1x:xx0x:xx11

It seems incompatible VM hardware, as solution we need to download and install the right VM harware to perform the migration, i'm investigate this issue.

It was a CPU problem version, i enabled the EVC by adding the source host to a new cluster with EVC enabled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSfzafr1ndA an now i don't have the above error message but another error message:

You cannot change the virtual machine's storage placement and its execution host at the same time on this "Source" host 'xxx.yyy.zzz.www'.

I tried to do only storage vMotion or resource vMotion but i see only the source host not the destination host !

Can someone helps me please !

Regards. 

Thank you, i will try with using it now.