I have my ESXi 6.0 server back up. Do you still want me to try the import on that server?
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Re: Converter failing with: The operation experienced a network error
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Re: Force Delete Network Profiles ?
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Re: Timed out while waiting for Event Broker response
We fixed this issue with help of VMware support team!
Thanks,
Shan
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RDM won't store with VM
I have 4 LUNs presented to my host and 1 VM that is mapping them as RDMs. Now I can't store the RDM with the virtual machine the option is greyed out and only wants to select local disk on the ESXi host. The only difference is the other LUNs are 2TB capacity not 2.24TB.
Does anyone have any suggestions in what I might be able to do to map the other LUNs?
Thanks!
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Re: Script to clean up datastores
Hey dude, I think we are missing the Remove-VmwFile function is not attached.
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Re: Cannot add or modify Security Group rules in VIO 3.0
VDS only
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How to remove unrecoverable failed host from VSAN cluster?
I feel like I've researched this before and never found a solution. I know about the `esxcli vsan cluster leave` command, but that only works if you have access to the host. What if you have a entirely dead machine that you need to force out of a cluster? Is there a process for that?
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Re: RDM won't store with VM
This is a DR site and I just realized the VMFS was version 3, so after upgrading it to 5 it works as expected.
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Re: Can i change VSAN storage policy live while VMs are still running?
Take a look here: VSAN Part 10 - Changing VM Storage Policy on-the-fly - CormacHogan.com
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Re: Cannot open the disk or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Have tried deleting the snapshots and pointing the VM to those files?
ServerName_1.vmdk
ServerName_4.vmdk
ServerName_5.vmdk
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Mixed 1GB & 10GB SAN Configuration
Due to budget constraints we are forced to do a step upgrade of our SAN infrastructure that supports our vSphere 6 environment. We have just purchased a new host that has 4 x 10GB Ethernet cards as well as purchased additional 10GB cards to upgrade another existing host to 4 x 10GB Ethernet. We have also purchased 2 Netgear 10GB X5716T switches to replace our old 1GB switches. We are planning to upgrade our existing HP P2000 MSA with 4 x 1GB to a P2040 version with 2 x 10GB, however that is not going to happen this budget cycle. My question relates to the fact that we will be operating in a mix 1GB and 10GB environment for the time being. After spending a few hours researching this I have not come across an article that describes our scenario and I have some concerns.
Here is what our current environment (after the upgrades) looks like:
6 x HP Hosts (Two hosts with 4 x 10GB NICs & the other four hosts have only 1GB NICs)
2 X Netgear 10GB X5716T switch
1 X HP MSA P2000 Gen3 with dual controllers each containing 4 x 1GB NICs
We have configured two NICs per host in separate vSwitchs that handle the iSCSI traffic. One NIC connecting the host to first switch and the other to the 2nd switch. Our plan is to utilize 2 of the new 10GB NICs in each of the upgraded hosts for iSCSI traffic. Thus we would implement a mixed environment of both 1GB and 10GB connections. I assume all the overhead will be on the switch in dealing with traffic coming from 10GB hosts to 10GB switch then getting choked down to 1GB going to the MSA.
Would this scenario cause any unforeseen issues? Will it work at all?
Thanks in advance for any insight anyone can provide.
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Re: Disconnecting and reconnecting network cable. Connection is lost until VMware is restarted
Did you really try the batch I recommended ?
The name "vmnetbridge" is not a service name as you would find in services.msc for example but you should find it in registry as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\VMnetBridge.
If vmnetbridge is not present in your installation brdged network would have never worked.
So please open a cmd and enter "net start vmnetbridge"
You should get a reply like one of these:
- access is denied
- the service name is invalid
- the service has been started successfully
- the service is already running
If you get "access denied" try again with a cmd launched as administrator
Ulli
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Re: Strange error deploying using OScustomizationspec
Try the script below. The main thing I changed was moving the "ChangeSID" to the New-OSCustomizationSpec Params. You don't have to set the "Type" for the OSC as it defaults to "nonPersistent" and is saved in your current powershell session.
I added the hashtables as I believe it's easier to read and manage, just personal preference I guess.
$templateName = "testtemplate"
$vmhostName = "esxiserver"
$sid = $true
$IpMode = "UseStaticIP"
$IpAddress = "192.168.1.2"
$SubnetMask = "255.255.255.0"
$Dns = "192.168.1.4"
$DefaultGateway = "192.168.1.3"
Connect-VIServer 192.168.1.1
# 1. Create a simple customizations spec
$custSpecParms = @{
FullName = "Dude"
OSType = "Windows"
OrgName = "SomeBusiness"
Domain = "domain.ad"
DomainUsername = "user"
DomainPassword = "password"
ChangeSID = $sid
}
$custSpec = New-OSCustomizationSpec -OSCustomizationSpec @custSpecParms
# 2. Modify the default network customization settings
$custNicParms = @{
IpMode = $IpMode
IpAddress = $IpAddress
SubnetMask = $SubnetMask
Dns = $Dns
DefaultGateway = $DefaultGateway
}
$custSpec | Get-OSCustomizationNicMapping | Set-OSCustomizationNicMapping @custNicParms
# 3. Deploy a VM from a template using the newly created customization:
$template = Get-Template -Name $templateName
$vmHost = Get-VMHost -Name $vmhostName
New-VM -Name nbstemp001 -Template $template -VMHost $vmHost -OSCustomizationSpec $custSpec
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Thinapp using middleware tools on VM
I'm running into an issue where a home-grown application cannot access the middleware tools in order to connect to a database at user login. The middleware tools are IBM CICS Transaction Gateway.
I currently have my isolation mode set at "Merged", typically, I use "Write Copy"
The file(s) for CTG are installed correctly. A fat client install of the home-grown application on the same VM functions w/o issues.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Running Win7/64
Built on Thinapp 4.7.3 / Win7/64 bit
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Re: sync take ages to complete, found issue, found temp solution
> can *.vmem not be sync to disk when it is in memory?
No
mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"
that parameter tells WS not to use a vmem-file that is stored on disk. Instead it allocates that file in RAM + swapfile.
When you suspend the VM WS transfers the content of the vmem inside RAM to a permanent file on disk. This will probably uses even more time than you needed without the mainmemfile parameter.
To speed up wakeup of a suspended VM the only thing you ca´n do is to reduce the amount of RAM for the VM.
I noticed that in most cases powering down the VM is faster than using Suspend.
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Replicate between 5.x and 6.x
Hi
we are in the progress of moving a lot of VM's from a vSphere 5.5 environment to a vSphere 6 environment and we want to have this done with the least amount of downtime. We have looked at vSphere Replication to manage this job, but then the question come:
has anybody tried this ??
IS it possible to Replicate between 5.x and 6.x ??
AS fare as I have read we will not be able to use compression but is that the only thing ?
Looking forward to hear if it's possible.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Kim
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Re: Restarting Management Agents
Hi Ben,
I'm trying to understand what exactly is the impact to VMs when you select "Restart Management Network"?
Thanks,
Amir
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Re: How to migrate N1k DVS to VDS?
Also, make sure you already have any portgroups/VLANs setup on the vDS so that when you migrate VM networking, everything will stay online. I like to migrate one nic to the vDS first, then migrate the vmkernel for management and then proceed with other vmkernel adapters and VM networking and then bring the other physical network adapter over to the vDS.
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Re: Anybody got a clever way of NOT monitoring a guest vm volume
You'll want to disable the symptom that applies to ALL instantiations and re-create symptoms to every mount point other that D:. It's a pain, but you symptom criteria can either be for all instantiation or ONE instantiation. If you want to exclude one instantiation, you need to specify every instantiation OTHER than the one you want to include. There are a number of VMTN threads on the specific steps.
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Re: Is vRealize Operations for monitoring virtual machines and Services
1-yes 2-no, it also does capacity planning and automated remediation and workload placement. 3-everything vCenter monitors, but that's just vCenter data sources. We can ingest data from other sources as well, such as storage, server hardware, etc, which build hierarchies and topologies within vR Ops to allow correlation of events, alerting, etc. 4-it can monitor physical servers as well, by virtue of EPO agents and/or ingesting data from another 3rd party management pack or middleware solution.
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