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Re: Could not complete network copy for file - Template deployment

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Just to make sure we're dealing with a PowerCLI issue, and not a more general vSpshere issue, can you create a VM from that template via the Web Client?

Re: Replacing a failed capacity device.

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Hello Jonathan,

 

Is the disk gone from the disk-group?

Via Web-Client: Cluster > Configure(assuming 6.5, it is 'Manage' in 6.0) > vSAN > Disk Management

Via SSH to host that the Disk-group is mounted on:

#esxcli vsan storage list

 

If it is gone and rebooting the host doesn't cause ANY VMs to become inaccessible or go offline then powering the host down and replacing the disk should be okay but I can't be sure of how it will rebuild (see next point).

 

Otherwise looks like you will have to evacuate the entire disk-group that this failed disk is located on to do this in a more clean way due to the fact that Dedupe+Compression works on a per disk-group basis:

 

How to Manage Disks in a Cluster with Deduplication and Compression

■ You cannot remove a single disk from a disk group. You must remove the entire disk group to make modifications.

https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-65/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.virtualsan.doc%2FGUID-3D2D80CC-444E-454E-9B8B-25C3F620EFED.html

 

Any chance you could PM me the SR number? (I work there )

 

Bob

 

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Re: Properly load PowerCLI SnapIn or Module

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With 6.5R1 it became a lot easier, you can try

 

Get-Module-NameVMware*-ListAvailable|Import-Module

 

guest vm unable to access physical cd drive from esxi 6.0 web host

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We are using esxi 6.0 and when we run the VM it does not connect to the physical cd drive of the host.

 

We have tried every option, tested the cd in a desktop to see if it would boot, and it will not connect.

 

We found some docs that pointed us to a summary tab or hardware panel and push a button for the cd drive but we are unable to find a panel with these names or to find a cd drive button anywhere.

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

Thaks

Re: Could not complete network copy for file - Template deployment

Re: Replacing a failed capacity device.

Re: Could not complete network copy for file - Template deployment

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Then I would suggest you open a SR for this issue, looks indeed like a bug to me.


Re: Could not complete network copy for file - Template deployment

Problem - Error in registering service in café host

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Hello guys! How are you?

 

I am trying to put a vRA server in Usage Meter 3.5 and during the process I am receiving the follow message:

 

Error in registering service in café host <vRA Appliance Hostname>: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: certificate must not be null.

 

I search everywhere, but did not find any answer.

Has anyone ever had this problem?

 

Thank you very much!!

Horizon View 7.0.2

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Environment:

Horizon View 7.0.2 Cloud Pod with two Pods (A and B)

4 Connection servers for each pod load balanced with a pair of F-5’s with internal connections as LTM and external going through F5 APM)

Floating Linked Clones

Pool is set for 2-hour time out

End user devices are Teradici Zero Clients (Tera 2 laptops and desktops with a few Tera 1 devices) with Imprivata SSO.

Persona Management with minimal retention.  This are floating machines and we try to store just enough information so that the logon times are sped up.

 

Issue:

We have a handful of machines that from time to time remain in session state connected for days at a time and the user is not connected to them. There is no pattern and its purely luck of the draw as to what machine/user will have the issue out of a 1000 VM’s in the pool.   Restarting the View Agent corrects the problem and displays the correct “last session” time for the user.   This is what was done on the first to VM’s in the screenshot.   I completely understand that it might be my image but at the moment it cannot be rebuilt due to a lack of manpower.   The Teradici and VMware logs have nothing useful pertaining to the session. Any ideas?

 

 

 

 

Problems with upgrade from ESXi 5.1 to 5.5

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We have the Essentials licenses. I upgraded the vCenter appliance to 5.5 and installed Upgrade Manager. Upgrade Manager and vCenter are all on different hosts than the one I first tried to upgrade. This host is on an IBM System x3650 M3. I was unable to find an IBM ISO for 5.5 U3, so I used the VMware ISO with the assurance from the documentation that the IBM stuff that was already installed would migrate from 5.1 to 5.5.

 

When I did the upgrade with Upgrade Manager, I did not check the box to ensure success by uninstalling 3rd party stuff. My thought was that it might uninstall the IBM stuff I wanted to keep. I manually powered off the VMs before starting. The upgrade got to 25% and then it said the host was disconnected. After waiting some time, I gave up and physically went to the host (located in a different building but not too far away, fortunately). I arrived in time to see it finish booting up. It said version 5.5.

 

Then I opened the vSphere client and saw that it was still disconnected. So I connected directly to the host instead of the vCenter appliance. It connected, but there were no VMs listed. I had to manually import them back in from the datastore. This worked for the ones locally stored, but some of them were on shared storage that is usually connected via iSCSI. At this point I realized that the host configuration that was appearing was from years ago, when I had different virtual network switches and no iSCSI. I changed things as necessary to get the local VMs working, and then realized I could import the ones on shared storage into another host and run them from there at least temporarily. That worked fine (I did have to tell vCenter they had been "moved" rather than "copied") and all the vital VMs were up.

 

I'm struggling to get iSCSI working. I'm configuring it the same way it is on my other hosts, but for some reason in the details under Storage Adapters, it's showing that I'm connected to the enclosure rather than to the disks.

 

vSwitchUSB0 (vusb0) that appears automatically on all my other hosts no longer exists on this one. vusb0 does still show under Network Adapters, but I don't have the option to recreate the switch. Do I need this?

 

Also, I don't know how many patches may still need to be applied to 5.5 U3. Upgrade Manager is still listing the newly upgraded host as being out of compliance with patches going back to 5.0.

 

I'm also a little worried about updating the other hosts, because I don't think things went normally with this one and I'm not quite sure what I should have done differently (would not checking the box have caused the problems I described?). I am thinking the next time I probably just want to be onsite and put the CD in to upgrade.

iSCSI MPIO network setup - how many NICs do I need?

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Hello, I'm setting up a FreeNAS box on our network with iSCSI to store backups and other data. My question is about how to configure networking on ESXi.

 

According to Freenas docs and forum discussions, each Freenas interface needs to be on a separate subnet. The vmware iscsi mpio doc states "Enabling multipathing removes the ability to route to storage. The storage and the VMkernel port must have an IP address in the same network".

 

Here's what I have for iSCSI interfaces on all my storage devices:

FreeNAS storage - 4x1GB Intel NICs

Cisco NAS storage - 2x1GB NICs

IBM SAN storage - 2x1GB NICs

Backup server - 4x1GB Intel NICs (Vmware 5.5 vm running Veeam)

 

We have 2 Cisco 3560G switches, and all interfaces are divided up evenly between the 2 switches for redundancy.

 

So if I understand this correctly, if I want to use MPIO and be able to access all 3 of my storage devices above, my backup server needs to have 8 NICs? I was hoping connections to the various storage devices would be able to share NICs, and route traffic between VLANs which reside on the same switch. But if I follow the Freenas best practice and each NIC is on a separate VLAN, then it's impossible to connect everything unless I add more NICs. Am I right in that assumption?

 

Thanks much in advance!

SRM 6.1 vs Stretched Cluster (vMSC)

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Hello,

 

A while ago were decided to use SRM for our disaster recovery tool for about 25 vms.  We use a mix of vSphere Replication and Array base replication (Currently using Asyncronous IP replication with a storwize v5000 and an older v7000).  It's been working well for us but the topic of stretched cluster keeps coming back in our internal discussions mostly to be able to balance workload from our main site to our recovery site.  After upgrading everything to version 6, I am now able to move VMs from one vCenter to another but I have to move storage also...  It works well, but the it would be great if we could simply use a standard vMotion and use the replicated storage instead.

 

We've recently acquired 2 new v7000 with hyperswap which offers syncronous replication.  I was told by IBM that in order to move workloads between our 2 sites, I have to eliminate one vCenter thus get rid of SRM.  This redbook also suggest a one vCenter topology.

 

From what I read in this SRM Whitepaper for version 6.1, I can have best of both worlds by configuring SRM with stretched storage.

 

I was wondering if some of you have configured SRM with stretched storage.  I'm curious to know how I could present the same volume to 2 vCenters.

 

Thank you!

Add vCenter 6.5 Identity Source via PowerCLI or Command line

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Is anyone aware of anyway to add a AD as LDAP Identity source inside vCenter 6.5? I have found articles related to 6.0 but those utils don't seem to exist in 6.5. Also I haven't had any luck finding a way to script a service to start as automatic (i.e. Auto Deploy & ImageBuilder) so any help would be appreciated.


Re: How to find original CPU

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No, nothing going back that far.

Re: vCAC IaaS web component upgrade v.6.2.2 to v.6.2.5 failure - File DynamicOps.ManagementModel.dll not found

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Update:  We were able to get this resolved with a VMware vRA support engineer. Needed to re-register assemblies into SQL DB in order for installer to un-register and upgrade them.  Most likely occurred from mutliple install attempts that had failed for other reasons, but left these asemblies as already registered and the installation didn't like that.  Ran following commands:

 

"C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\RepoUtil.exe" Assembly-List

 

"C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\RepoUtil.exe" model-sqlupdate -f DynamicOps.ManagementModel.dll -v -s vmmip-h4vrod01.lm.lmig.com -d vcac

 

/****** Script for SelectTopNRows command from SSMS  ******/

SELECT TOP 1000 [Id]

      ,[FullyQualifiedName]

      ,[FileName]

      ,[Content]

  FROM [vCAC].[DynamicOps.RepositoryModel].[Assemblies]

 

RepoUtil.exe Model-Install -f DynamicOps.ManagementModel.dll -s "vmmip-h4vrod01.lm.lmig.com" -d "vcac" -c "ManagementModelSecurityConfig.xml" -v

RepoUtil.exe Model-Install -f DynamicOps.AmazonWSModel.dll -s "vmmip-h4vrod01.lm.lmig.com" -d "vcac" -c "AmazonWSModelSecurityConfig.xml" -v

RepoUtil.exe Model-Install -f DynamicOps.UcsModel.dll -s "vmmip-h4vrod01.lm.lmig.com" -d "vcac" -c "UcsModelSecurityConfig.xml" -v

RepoUtil.exe Model-Install -f DynamicOps.ScvmmModel.dll -s "vmmip-h4vrod01.lm.lmig.com" -d "vcac" -c "ScvmmModelSecurityConfig.xml" -v

RepoUtil.exe Model-Install -f DynamicOps.VMWareModel.dll -s "vmmip-h4vrod01.lm.lmig.com" -d "vcac" -c "VMWareModelSecurityConfig.xml" -v

RepoUtil.exe Model-Install -f DynamicOps.VCNSModel.dll -s "vmmip-h4vrod01.lm.lmig.com" -d "vcac" -c "VCNSModelSecurityConfig.xml" -v

RepoUtil.exe Model-Install -f DynamicOps.WorkQueueModel.dll -s "vmmip-h4vrod01.lm.lmig.com" -d "vcac" -c "WorkQueueModelSecurityConfig.xml" -v

RepoUtil.exe Model-Install -f DynamicOps.OpenstackModel.dll -s "vmmip-h4vrod01.lm.lmig.com" -d "vcac" -c "OpenstackModelSecurityConfig.xml" -v

RepoUtil.exe Model-Install -f DynamicOps.ReportsModel.dll -s "vmmip-h4vrod01.lm.lmig.com" -d "vcac" -c "ReportsModelSecurityConfig.xml" -v

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Re: vSan disk errors when migrate

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Looks like that recommendation is only for all flash, I´m running hybrid. From the blog:

 

I’ve deployed or am going to deploy a Hybrid vSAN cluster.  Am I impacted?

No, the revised sizing guidelines are applicable only to All Flash

Hybrid will continue to use 1:10 caching to usable capacity ratio

Re: Simple & Low Cost BackUp & Data Recovery ?

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I think I found a solution to backing up the VMWare virtual servers.  How can I backup all the VMWare Host itself or at least the configuration?  (No backing up the VMs just the Host itself)

 

Are there any straightforward simple solutions for this?

ImageBuilder to apply 5.5 U3_Patch10

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I currently have a working auto deploy solution and custom image based on Cisco UCS platform drivers etc. I need to apply the vib updates from Patch 10.

 

Using ImageBuilder to update a custom profile.

 

I know using i.e. add-EsxSoftwarePackage -ImageProfile ESXi55U3_P10_ver4 -SoftwarePackage ????? allows me to add specific vibs i.e. new Cisco drivers etc.

 

How do I update the custom image with all of the ESXi base and other updated vibs and dependencies at once. Can I?  Can i simply state the added software depot zip?

That one step seems to be missing from many of the communities I have searched.

 

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