Good Morning,
After power-trip i turn on the machine i found out that one of the VM show in the VSphere was missing.
This is what i found out, on the datatstore all data in virtual machine file is went missing, i do check with CLI on the specify virtual machine file in return sh: getcwd: Input/output error
Please advice what i can do
Thanks in advanced.
Cannot defragment Vmware Fusion virtual disk from Windows 10 on Mac mini (late 2012) with Apple Fusion Drive 1 TB.
I want to defragment Windows Pro 10 Anniversary v1607 (Build 14393.0) 64-bit on VMware Fusion 8.1.1 (3771013) on Mac OS X 10.11.6 (15G31) El Cap itan, to later on reduce its size, since I had to increase its size from 15 GB to 30 GB in order to update from Windows Pro 10 (Build 10240) 64-bit into Windows Pro 10 Anniversary v1607 (Build 14393.0) 64-bit and extra space was needed to mount the Windows 10 ".iso" installer with PowerISO (Windows did not mount it) and run Setup.exe to install, which required copying contents into temporary directory to install.
1. First I tried to reduce disk size via "Virtual Machine - Settings - Removable Devices - Hard Disk (SCSI)", yet it shows "Invalid disk size. Disk size must be between 30,00 and 8192,00 GB". I understand that is because the disk is fragmented and must be defragmented first, as explained at
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Defragmenting, shrinking, and cleaning up VMware Fusion virtual machine disks (1001934)
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2. So, I tried Windows 10 "Optimize Drives" ("Defragment and Optimize Drives") which recognizes VMware Fusion virtual disk as solid-state drive (which I think is not correct, since it is an Apple Fusion Drive made of SSD + HD), yet it shows "Optimization not available". Both "Analyze" and "Optimize" buttons are dimmed.
3. Additionally, when trying to defragment via Windows 10 "PowerShell", as described in
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Optimize and Defrag Drives in Windows 10
How to Optimize and Defragment Drives in Windows 10
4. To Automatically TRIM or Defrag Drive for what is Proper
http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/8933-optimize-defrag-drives-windows-10-a.html
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it shows:
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Windows PowerShell
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PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Optimize-Volume -DriveLetter C -Verbose
VERBOSE: Invoking retrim on (C:)...
VERBOSE: Retrim: 100% complete.
Optimize-Volume : The volume optimization operation requested is not supported by the hardware backing the volume.
Activity ID: {...}
At line:1 char:1
+ Optimize-Volume -DriveLetter C -Verbose
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (StorageWMI:ROOT/Microsoft/...age/MSFT_Volume) [Optimize-Volume], CimExcep
tion
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : StorageWMI 43022,Optimize-Volume
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>
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How to fix it? Thanks.
I'm trying to convert a running linux vm to a vmware workstation vm.
I found out that i need a ESX Host. I installed a ESX Server.
While trying to connect to the ESX Host (from the VMware Converter) at the Step Target System (VMware Infrastructure-Server) I get an "SSL Exception: Unexpected EOF" error.
I tried already disableing SSL for the converter worker process.
Is there another way to convert a running linux vm to a vmware workstation vm?
If not, how can i fix the SSL error?
Regards
Christof
Hello,
I have a vcenter with two nic
nic 1: 192.168.1.100/24 gateway 192.168.1.1
nic 2: 192.168.2.1/24 no gateway
ESXI Hosts are on different subnets, all routed. They are managed by 192.168.1.100.
Now want them to be managed by 192.168.2.1 (I will not route 192.168.1.0/24).
I changed the DNS to point to the new ip, put 192.168.2.1 in ManagedIP.
Hosts refuse to use 192.168.2.1 and continue to use 192.168.1.100 even if I remove/add them of vcenter.
Do you have any clue ?
Hallo all,
I have successfuly performed a backups of 20+ VMs using VDP. The VM's are installed in a SAN. When I try to perform a restore of individual files (flr method), I get the message: "The VMDK filename is not valid or present. Verify that the proxy was correctly registered using the supported method in the documentation".
I would like to note that I was able to do this, only after I changed the time and date on the VDP I am unable to restore an individual file. In another forum site I read about checking and changing proxy information in an administration console, but it's not really clear where I should do that. Does anyone have an idea about this? This is the information I am refferring to:
go to administration
edit each proxy
Datastores tab - do the select all again or unselect all and pick just the ones you want
Groups tab - do the select all again
ok
Thank you,
Andre
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.
Hi all,
Happy to be back on vSphere Web Client development again. In our solution we have helpful links to actions for users on the getting started pages. Some actions are not available to Read Only users. How do I hide those actions in actionDisplayInfos?
I am testing AppVolume3.0 on my Lab and Trying to deploy vSphere Client to Physical Workstation. so I have installed AppVolume agent on my physical machine, and I have capture the vsphere client as appstack but I does know what to do next to make it work ?
I've seen this question asked already, but no clear response yet. We are looking to use Office 365 with Office 2016 and App Volumes. Is there support for this version in 2.11? If not, when can I expect it?
Thanks!
Has anyone created an complete appstack using office 2016. I can get it to work with 32bit but it needs 5 minutes or so to reconfigure every time. I tried the older fix I found where you delete the office setup controller setup msi but that caused more issues. If I let it finish it activates properly and is fine until the user logs out and the virtual machine is recreated. Its works fine with our RDS server since they are persistent, but in a non persistent desktop I can't find a way around.
vmrun snapshot just sits there like nothing happed. theres no indication in the gui either.
you can quit out of it with ctlr-c, and find that it did make the snapshot.
listSnapshots, deleteSnapshot, and revertToSnapshot all work as expected.
making the snapshot from the gui also works as expected.
vmware fusion 8.1.1
macos 10.11.6
I have an WMWare bundle on my local hard drive of my MacBook Pro:
Windows 7 x64.vmwarevm (70GB)
I needed to enlarge the disk size of the bundle.
So I moved the file Windows 7 x64.vmwarevm to an external hard drive.
I rename the file to Windows 7 x64 ext.vmwarevm and enlarged the disk size to 100GB.
I am able to run Windows on the External hardrive from this VMWare file.
Yet, it is really slow, so I want to move this VMware file Windows 7 x64 ext.vmwarevm back to my local hard drive.
My local hard drive has 150GB of free space.
I get an error message from my computer when trying to copy the Windows 7 x64 ext.vmwarevm file to my local hard drive:
The item “Windows 7 x64 ext.vmwarevm” can’t be copied because there isn’t enough free space.
Do you know why I can’t copy the external file back to the local hard drive, I have 150GB of space free.
Thank you in advance for the help!
I have been developing a c# app and was using the VMWare.Vim DLL from PowerCLI 6.0. I updated my PowerCLI and now i am unable to connect to the vCenter. The connection now throws an error of "The underlying connection was closed: could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel". I never had this problem before i upgraded PowerCLI. Is there a way to disable checking the certificate?
Thanks
I am having a heck of a time trying to find documentation on how to use vMA to migrate a VM from one host to another. I'm not talking storage vMotion, just simply migrating a machine from one host to another on shared storage. Is it that this is not an option? I would expect that it is.
Using vMA 5.5 or 6.0, how do I move a VM from one host to another from the command line?
Thank you.
It's wonky (california term) but if I copy something to clipboard from a VM (Windows XP for example) and paste into the Windows 7 it seems the following happens;
NEW thing to copy between VM's
Step 1) Copy from E-mail (Windows XP vm)
Step 2) Paste into environment on Different VM (Windows 7)
Step 3) Copy from E-mail (Windows XP vm)
Step 4) Paste - still remembers the copy from Step 1 on Windows 7 "paste" - I then paste a SECOND time - and it's correct...
Step 5) Copy from E-mail (Windows XP vm)
Step 6) Paste - still remembers the copy from Step 1 on Windows 7 "paste" - I then paste a SECOND time - and it's correct...
essentially - Copy/Paste 1 <- stellar - pastes in under 20 seconds most efficient amazing paste of all time - no qualms etc...
Copy/Paste 2 - pastes the same thing I copied from the first time!! Second Paste = work-around
Is this a setting? New Feature?
Clue = I did have a boot sector go dead on my mac - and I'm currently using an external disk which I had to copy my VM's into when it started.
Hi
What is the maximum number of primary HA hosts in vSphere 6 and hows to see the list of primary nodes in HA cluster.
What is AAM in HA and hows is it different from Fault Domain
What is the command to restart HA agent in the esxi 6 host.
Where is location of HA logs in case of troubleshooting.
multiple PSCs within same SSO domain, how long can a PSC or 2 PSCs go down and still be to able to sync with rest of PSCs after they come back?
for example: my main DC has 2 PSCs, and my DR site has 2 PSC, how long can my 2 DR PSCs stay down while the PSCs at the main DC still up and running?
I have a VM running Windows 7, in Player 12, that has been working fine on Windows 10 until recently. All networking was working and stable. A week or so ago the anniversary update was installed, and today I tried using it with a bridged network for the first time.
Initially, no network available. Apparently VMNet0 got lost in the update. Ran the installer to do a repair, that part came back.
Now, I have a flaky bridged connection. A continuous ping to a device on my desk drops 1-3 out of every 10 packets (request timed out), the same ping on the host is rock solid (1-2ms continuous).
NAT connectivity is perfect. Switched to that, and the same ping is steady (1-2ms continuous). Back to bridged, and it is back to timeouts.
So far I have:
Disabled and then uninstalled my antivirus software. This is still uninstalled until I figure this out.
Completely uninstalled VMWare Player 12 (from the installer app), and reinstalled the latest version 12.1.1-3770994.
Changed the VMWare Network settings to only use my wired card, and disabled my wireless adapter completely from the host machine.
I can't find anything that helps. Has anyone else experienced this, or have any suggestions to fix it?
Thanks.
I have a Supermicro Server with two Intel Pro 1000/MT NICs onBoard that work great when I use the server as a physical WS2012r2 box and on ESXi 5.1u3.
Info on the NICs:
VID: 8086
Dev: 1079
The driver should be:
net-e1000 - 8.0.3.1-5vmw.600.0.0.2494585 - VMware - VMwareCertified - 2016-08-07 (listed by: esxcli software vib list)
The NICs don't show using: esxcli network nic list
I'm using a Dell Broadcom NIC until I can get these to work.
update:
The last time it worked the driver version was 8.0.3.1-3vmw. I'm going to try downgrading the driver back to the one from ESXi 5.1u3.
I downgraded to 8.0.3.1-2vmw for ESXi 5.1 and that didn't help. I will now upgrade to 8.0.3.1-3vmw for ESXi 5.1u3.
How can the version of the plugin actually used when browsing https://servername/ui on an ESXi 6.0u2 host be confirmed?
On win10 desktop VMware-ClientIntegrationPlugin-6.0.0.exe was installed and shows in programs & features but Firefox 48 addons >> plugins screen still only shows remote console & client integration plugin 4.0 from 2013.