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vSphere Replication Question

May 29, 2015, 6:50 am
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HI,

 

I have question about vSphere Replication. I configured replication but before final recovery I would like to find out when I do manual "Sync Now"

should I shut down the server to prevent any more data from coming or server has to be powered up but all services on have to be stopped.

 

Last time when I performed this action I was never able to do final sync. Then I was told that when I do Sync Now virtual machine has to be powered on.

 

On some forums I am finding information that when I do sync now virtual machine can be shut down

 

What would be the right answer

 

I tried once Sync Now when virtual machine was powered off and it was going for long time although machine was very small. I was told that sync will never finish since machine is down

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VMware reports "File not found," but it exists

May 28, 2015, 8:07 am
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I'm using Workstation 10.0.5, and I get this error now and then: "File not found: xyz.vmdk."  When I navigate to the file, the message repeats. Sometimes, I can reverse this error by returning to a snapshot, but that won't work in all cases.  I'd like to find some permanent fix for this so that I can avoid it in the future.  I attached the vmdk and vmx.  I do know that the VM has been copied/moved between a few volumes.  Thanks. 

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Upgrade View from 5.3.0 to 6.1?

May 20, 2015, 9:23 am
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I was reading the upgrade notes for 6.1 and I was confused if I needed to upgrade to 5.3.3 BEFORE going to 6.1 or if I can go straight to 6.1 from 5.3.0?  I am thinking the latter but I wanted to be sure before I gave it a go.  Anyone else done this upgrade recently?

 

Thanks in advance

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Thinapps vs RDS apps, Horizon 6.1

May 29, 2015, 10:14 am
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I am new to application pools and had a question regarding thinapps vs RDS.  I have a variety of thinapps already made, can I expose these out via an application pool?  Or are the application pools only for use with RDS?  If I can expose thinapps, wouldn't they work better than RDS application since they are containerized and don't have to go back to a server, like RDS apps do?  Seems like everything is pointing towards using RDS in the documentation but I was wondering if I could publish my thinapps as well.

 

I also know that there is a horizon workspaces client, is this the way to expose thinapps?  SO, only RDS applications can be exposed via the Horizon View Client and all thinapps need to be done with workspaces using the workspaces client?

 

Thanks in advance

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Working with TAGs

May 29, 2015, 6:44 am
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I have been using PS for a while but have never done any scripting other than downloading them and changing the parameters.  I am trying to make a script to show VMs that have TAGs assigned from a specific category and to show any servers that do not have a tags from this category assigned.  Then output to a csv.  I have a script using arrays.  Having never done something like this I am confused.

 

The script gives me the category and tag assigned to the servers but does not write the VM names so if they do not have a tag I do not see it.

 

How can I get this to write the name of $VM in the csv?

 

 

 

 

#Start

 

$temp = $null

$vms = $null

 

$vms = Get-VM -Location (Get-Datacenter DR | Get-Folder 'DomainControllers.')

 

foreach ($vm in $vms)

 

{

 

$temp += ,( Get-VM $vm.Name | Get-TagAssignment -Category "DC_servers" | `

 

Select Name,Tag,Entity )

 

}

 

$path = $temp | `

 

Export-Csv -Delimiter ';' -NoTypeInformation -Force -Path 'c:\Script\TAGs.csv'



Thanks,

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REST API: Query for object based on name instead of objectId

May 11, 2015, 3:20 pm
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Please correct me if I'm wrong...

 

Right now I have to query anything and everything by the objectId. The issue is that I don't know what that is. I know the name. So, for example, If I know the objectId of an edge device named "myrouter" is "edge-1", then I can do:

 

     https://nsxmgr/api/4.0/edges/edge-1

 

Awesome! Now I get the entire config. But let's say I don't know the edgeId. Because why would I? I would, however, know its name because that's why I name things. In many other API's all I would have to do is something like this:

 

     https://nsxmgr/api/4.0/edges?name=myrouter

 

The only way I know of to do this today is to fetch ALL of the edges with the following:

 

     https://nsxmgr/api/4.0/edges

 

This returns every single edge in the scope! Then I have to do something like (in powershell):

 

     $router_exist = (Select-Xml-Xml$script:edges-XPath"//edgeSummary[name=`"$esr_name`"]").Node

     if ($router_exist) {

          $router_id = $router_exist.objectId

     }


This isn't just for edges...its for every object available. Is it not possible to query based on an attribute?


Thanks,

Daniel

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Fibre Channel path problems

May 29, 2015, 8:50 am
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I have a new architecture installed and before we go live, I have time to play.

Problem is I'm not getting to play much because the LUNs I'm creating on the NetApp store are not being 'seen' on my ESXi hosts

The ESXi sees the FC adapters fine:

 

~ # esxcli storage core adapter list

HBA Name  Driver       Link State  UID                                   Description

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

vmhba0    hpsa         link-n/a    sas.500143803358d420                  (0:3:0.0) Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array P440ar

vmhba1    lpfc         link-up     fc.2000ecb1d7ffa274:1000ecb1d7ffa274  (0:5:0.0) Emulex Corporation Emulex LPe16000 16Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Adapter

vmhba2    lpfc         link-up     fc.2000ecb1d7ffa275:1000ecb1d7ffa275  (0:5:0.1) Emulex Corporation Emulex LPe16000 16Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Adapter

vmhba3    lpfc         link-up     fc.2000ecb1d7ff92dc:1000ecb1d7ff92dc  (0:11:0.0) Emulex Corporation Emulex LPe16000 16Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Adapter

vmhba4    lpfc         link-up     fc.2000ecb1d7ff92dd:1000ecb1d7ff92dd  (0:11:0.1) Emulex Corporation Emulex LPe16000 16Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Adapter

vmhba32   usb-storage  link-n/a    usb.vmhba32                           () USB

 

 

...but when I look for paths I only get a return on the USB HBA!!!!

 

~ # esxcli storage core path list

usb.vmhba32-usb.0:0-mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0

   UID: usb.vmhba32-usb.0:0-mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0

   Runtime Name: vmhba32:C0:T0:L0

   Device: mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0

   Device Display Name: Local USB Direct-Access (mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0)

   Adapter: vmhba32

   Channel: 0

   Target: 0

   LUN: 0

   Plugin: NMP

   State: active

   Transport: usb

   Adapter Identifier: usb.vmhba32

   Target Identifier: usb.0:0

   Adapter Transport Details: Unavailable or path is unclaimed

   Target Transport Details: Unavailable or path is unclaimed

   Maximum IO Size: 122880

 

What on earth is going on? Surely I should see an entry for each FC HBA in that last command even if there were no paths?

The LUN is configured fine, and I've even disabled zoning on my Brocade FC switch pair.

 

Any help appreciated.

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Initial install at Recovery Site

May 29, 2015, 8:02 am
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Hi All,

I've read the insallation guide for SRM 5.5 and see that it talks about having a virtual centre server setup at both sites.  I understand this but what I cannot find \ figure out is if I need to install the whole Virtual Centre suite at the Recovery site- vCenter Server, Inventory Service (on separate or shared server), Web Client, and Single Sign-On.

 

Which of these services, if any, can be shared with the related service at the protected site?  Or is it recommended to have 2 separate managed infrastructures whether I employ Active - Active or not in which case I have 2 complete vCenter Deployments?

 

Call me simple but I'd love a diag with detail if anyone knows of one.

 

thanks,

Gabe 

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Horizon View Client with alerting about EVR.dll on Windows 8.1 Enterprise.

May 29, 2015, 11:15 am
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Hi all,

 

I'm using VMware Horizon Client version 3.3.0 build-2507564 on my Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise N. The client works properly but it's showing an error/alert about EVR.dll. Please see below:

horizon-view-client-error.png

Does anyone know what could be causing it?

 

Thanks in advance,

Davi Garcia

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Host is unavailable for checking compliance.

March 25, 2013, 7:20 am
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Hey guys, I'm having a little issue with some new ESXi 5.1 hosts I recently stood up.

 

We have a cluster built in vCenter 5.1 that is made up of 8 hosts. All are Cisco B200 M3s. 4 of which were recently stood up. I am having problems with these new 4 in that they will not fully accept the host profile that is attached to the cluster level for these hosts. The host profile that is built for this cluster is really just to apply the network configuration to new hosts added to this cluster. Unfortunately, for these new hosts it says it has applied this Host Profile but none of the network configurations are being applied and they are being shown as noncompliant with a reason of "Host is unavailable for checking compliance."  Thanks for any assistance.

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Will the company I work for have one less Microsoft Windows Volume license every time I copy and re-activate a Windows virtual computer

May 29, 2015, 11:39 am
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I run my virtual off of an external hard drive. When I take the hard drive home and run the virtual from my home computer Windows automatically re-activates itself. The company I work for has a fixed number of licenses and I worry every time I take my virtual home it will use one up. Is this something I need to worry about? If so, is there a way to prevent it? We are using MAK licenses if that makes a difference.I use to just get the activation message when copying a virtual, now I get it every time I run the virtual from my home computer.

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11 VMDKs Attached to vCSA 6.0

May 29, 2015, 10:38 am
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Has anyone found an explanation for what each VMDK is used for in vCSA 6.0?

 

I upgraded (migrated) my 5.5 to 6.0 and was alarmed by the large number of VMDKs and their random sizes.  I spoke with VMware and they assured me that this number of VMDKs is expected, but they could not tell me where to find documentation on the purpose of each disk.  Any thoughts/links?  Thanks!

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Need Advice

May 29, 2015, 12:01 pm
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We have tried to consolidate servers. 5 down to 1.

 

We have a:

HP DL380 G5

2-CPU's 4 cores each

2- 400GB Datastore (40GB free on each) SAS 10k drives

32 GB RAM

 

We have a total of 15 machines running on this server.  They are a mix of Linux and Windows machines.

 

We are having speed issues transferring file from machine to machine and application latency issues on some of the machines.

 

I just balanced out the system on each datastore to have them equally assigned to help speed up thing.  (No Luck)

 

Can anyone please give me some advice to go back to the owners to show what we should do to speed the systems up?

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Curious Storage Profiles Error in vCenter Client

September 4, 2014, 4:35 am
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After an upgrade of vCenter and ESXi from 5.1 U1 to 5.5 U1, when using the 'traditional' 5.5 C# vCenter Client, my existing pre-upgrade Storage Profiles now show as "Noncompliant" for the "vm home" component of a VM, with the reason of "Capability Mismatch" given. However, Hard disks continue to show "Complaint" as normal and expected.

 

Recreating and reassigning the Storage Profiles for datastores and VM's fails to resolve the issue. Restarting the Profile Driven Storage Service has also failed to have an impact.

 

Storage Profiles all show as Compliant when using the Web Client, and all seems to function perfectly fine when using that interface.

 

Is it possible that there is a compatibility issue when using the C# Client as opposed to the Web Client when managing Storage Profiles?

 

 

Edit: I have also implemented VMware KB: Profile Driven Storage service fails to start after upgrading to vCenter Server 5.5 though it has had no effect on the Storage Profiles issue in the C# Client. Elsewhere there is the suggestion that the Inventory Service should also be run in the same authentication context as the vCenter Server Service, which I may try.

 

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Evo Rail Lab

May 15, 2015, 9:50 pm
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How think about the lab HOL-SDC-1428: VMware EVO: RAIL Introduction?

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Can't log in to my SocialCast app on an iPad!!

May 22, 2015, 4:54 am
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I am currently unable to log in to my SocialCast app on my iPad. I have successfully changed my community URL and keep getting stuck on the log in page once I have inputted my email and password.

 

So far I have deleted the app and re downloaded it in the hope that this will fix the issue- it has not!!

 

I have been trying this for several weeks and cannot get this to work!

 

Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Can you please help me get rid of the annoying "to release input, press ctrl-alt" popup balloons?

January 26, 2012, 11:00 am
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Using VMWare Workstation 8.0.1 build-528992

Host OS is Windows 7

Guest OS is CentOs

Working in full-screen mode

 

Hey all,

 

For some reason, these stupid hint balloons keep popping up when I'm in full screen mode.  They either say "to release input, press ctrl-alt" or "To direct input to this virtual machine type ctrl-g".

 

I have "Enable All Hints" and "Show Enabled Hints" unchecked, and I have this line in my .VMX file :

hints.hideAll = "TRUE"

 

Could you please help me get rid of these popup balloons?  They keep popping up and I can't make them stay away.  It's really annoying.  And looking back in the help forums, it looks like this has been a problem for years.  What's the deal here?

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Importing Web Feeds / RSS

May 21, 2015, 10:03 pm
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Hi

 

A group of about 10 colleagues is actively blogging on their own website and we're importing their RSS feed into SocialCast. I frequently get remarks from them, that the import has stopped. How can I troubleshoot this? Are there logs that tell me why the import failed?

When I check their URL, I get a nice XML response as expected.

When I open their import settings in the SocialCast web feed and then save that feed again, it starts working again.

 

Regards

Gabrie

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Need help with using SRM with 2 sites with HP DL360p G8 servers and direct connected MSA 2040 iSCSI SAN

May 29, 2015, 9:10 am
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We have deployed VMware 5.5 U1 in 2 sites on HP DL360p G8 servers with direct connected MSA 2040 iSCSI SANs.  The intent is to use HP Remote Snap enabled replication, with SRM 5.8 to manage the recovery and reprotect.  We've installed the hardware, networked the iSCSI, installed vmware, installed the SRM and SRA, configured the remote SANs and setup volume replication.  That all works as expected.

 

When we run a test recovery, that is successful. When we run a real Recovery, we get error messages and find additional information in the sra log file that indicates an incomplete command, referencing unidentified initiators.  Volumes and VMs are left in a transient state and it is a mess to cleanup.  It appears the the command.pl file in the installed vsa version 5.8.0.24 does not properly detect that the volumes were Default mapped and builds the command using the Explicit mapping format.  That fails as there are no values for the referenced initiators.  We made a minor edit to the command.pl file to not include initiators, and that allowed the Recovery operation to complete successfully.  Reprotect fails miserably and we are past the range of being able to troubleshoot this further.

 

Has anyone ever setup vmware SRM with MSA2040 array based replication and been successful with the Recovery and Reprotect operations.  Since the MSA2000 uses the same SRA, so that configuration should be a valid comparable.  As a side note, we setup vmware replication and can run recovery and reprotect successfully.  The 15 minute replication cycle is not acceptable for this particular application, so we need to figure out array replication.

 

Any advice welcome.

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Summary tab displaying MAC addr instead of IP addr

May 29, 2015, 12:55 pm
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I need the Ip address of VM, ifconfig shows only the mac address as well as the summary tab.  What should I do?

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