Cannot retrieve file from Windows Server 2003 sp 2 guest.
My native machine is Windows 10 running VMWare Player 15. I restored a Windows Server 2003 Acronis backup to a VM. I cannot get the VM to recognize any USB's, cannot connect to the internet, and...
View ArticleTyping lag with Tesla T4 card on Windows 10
Is anyone getting performance lag typing into Word or Excel or into this very page for example after enabling the graphics card?For example this VM I am using to enter this question has a lag when I...
View ArticleHorizon View - USB Check Scanner
We are attempting to implement USB check scanners in our VDI environment, and having significant issues. I was hoping anyone that has implemented this in an environment like ours may have some helpful...
View ArticleHow do you configure certificate based authentication with the ESXi vSphere API?
I am setting up a custom monitoring system (must use open source solution). I have a Python script that queries an ESXi instance (directly, not via vCenter or vRa) using the ESXi's implementation of...
View ArticleNSX T : 2.5 : NSX-T Data Center Service Insertion Service Chaining: Network...
Are there any svm samples or documentation available for new Network Monitoring service in NSX T 2.5?The sample available in the portal seems to be related to FW uscases only....
View ArticleLooking for example output from an HBA
I am testing with PowerCLI to verify some information for developing some possible scripts. I was hoping that someone with an ESXi connection to Fiber HBA can execute the below command and post the...
View ArticleVcHostFirewallRuleDirection Object Creation
I am trying to create a new ESXi host firewall rule and am trying to define a VcHostFirewallRuleDirection object by using the following:var firewallRuleDirection = new VcHostFirewallRuleDirection();I...
View Articlerecompile after powercli upgrade
We have a process that need powercli.vSphere was upgrade to 6.7 making us to upgrade to powercli 6.5 from 5.5.after application upgrade, what else would i need to do, recompile?Visual Studio is...
View ArticleUnmount and remount all datstores performance
Is there anyway to improve the speed for this. I'm using the unmount and mount functions from the below script. I'm trying to create something that will unmount all attached datastores revert each of...
View ArticlevCenter Server 6.7 Update 3 Installation Interrupted
I am trying to install VMware vCenter Server 6.7U3 on Windows Server 2012 R2 and it gets to the end and throws an error that the installation was interrupted. Anyone have any ideas or seen this before?
View ArticleUnderstanding vSAN Configuration Types
Hi, I read that we can have multiple vSAN scenarios, from the default with FTT1 and with other types of FTT (n) which includes RAID5 / 6. Once the vSAN is configured the first time it is FFT1 standard,...
View ArticleHow to move ESXI and vCenter to a new disk
Good afternoon All, I will be upgrading from vCenter 5.5 to vCenter 6.5 in the near future. Currently we have ESXI/vCenter on the same disk. We have 10 other disks with all of our VMs. The issue is the...
View ArticleUnable to use Snapshots or perform a backup on virtual machines configured...
Hi team. Is possible to backup two DB servers that share the same disk (is configured with disk Independent/Persistent) in vmware 6.0.I use for to backup the Data Protector without problems with vmware...
View ArticleBlack Screen with Fusion 7 and Catalina Beta
Does fusion 7 work with Catalina OS i've reinstalled and it still doesn't show up in the screen recording section of privacy. I can see the windows desktop till i start it out of suspended mode then...
View ArticleAppVolumes 2.17 - Unable to update AppStacks
Hi, After the upgrade I've been experiencing the inability to perform updates on existing appstack.AppStacks have been created on 2.17 but update doesn't start the provisioning workflow. Tested with...
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Power CLI Script to Adjust vCPU and vMEM of Specific VM's
I am using a script I found in this forum to take a .CSV input file of specific VM's with recommendations of the "correct" number of vCPU's and vMEM according to a vRops rightsizing report. The numbers...
View ArticleCustomer's vCloud VMs aren't rebooting properly after updates, vCloud...
I have an issue I'm trying to solve for a customer, (vCloud Director 5.6.5) but haven't been able to figure out what to do with it yet. It goes like this: 1. Customer's admin runs Windows updates and...
View ArticleRansomware and VMFS
We are running ESXi Version 6 and the primary datastore is iSCSI located on a Synology 1517+ as RAID 1The vSphere reported all VMs as unknown although the iSCSI datastores were still connected.We...
View ArticleAlternative to using Persona Management
We recently upgraded to Horizon View 7.6. We are having hit an miss issues with Persona, is there an alternative other than using Persona Management?
View ArticleBridged Network Adapter doesn't work Workstation
Hi, I have VMware Workstation 15 Pro on Windows 10 Host. I have a few Linux and Windows VM's. Recently, my VM's with Bridged adapters won't connect to the Internet. NAT works fine. All NAT VM's connect...
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