Hello all,

I'm running VMware Fusion Professional 6.0.2 on a new MacBook Pro with Retina.  I run a Windows 7 VM, using a custom text size of 150%, in Fusion's Single Window mode at a resolution of 2796x1646.  For the most part (usually applications are the problem, not Windows), this looks great.

Here's where things go off the rails... if I connect an external monitor (which I do every morning when I get to the office), the custom text size of 150% makes the text so big on the external monitor it's useless.  I have to set Windows 7 text size to 100%, and then everything on the external monitor looks ok.  Once I leave the office, I have to change the custom text size back to 150% before using the VM on the Retina display.

Another serious issue I've found is when using Remote Desktop in Windows 7, on the Retina display with text size at 100%, the text in my Remote Desktop sessions is so small I can't read it.  Apparently I need to change the text size on the remote computers to 150%, and remember to change it back to 100% before I disconnect so my coworkers don't kill me.

I'm hoping there is a better workflow for all of this that I'm missing?  I imagine these issues would be pretty common.

Where can I locate a table with the meaning of beeps issued by VMware Player BIOS?

The KB article 1664 explaind how to disable beep, but I'd rather like to understand the reason because BIOS beeps...

Bye the way, a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM issues 1 long beep and 2 short beeps while booting, but boots normally.

Regards

marius

I'm using the script below and it seems to be changing the Preferred path to Fixed but it does not spread the LUNs across the 4 Paths. It always picks the same path. Could somebody please tell me what i'm doing wrong.The script does not error out.

# Retrieve ESX hosts in Cluster

$VMHosts = Get-Cluster $clusterName | Get-VMHost

# Run through this loop for each host in the cluster

foreach ($VMHost in $VMHosts)

{

  $luns = @($VMHost|get-scsilun -luntype disk| where-object {$_.ConsoleDeviceName -like "/vmfs/devices/disks/naa*"} | Sort-Object CanonicalName)

  $firstLUNPaths = Get-ScsiLunPath -ScsiLun $luns[0]

  $numPaths = $firstLUNPaths.Length

  $count = 0

  foreach ($lun in $luns)

  {

  if ($count -ge $numPaths)

  {

  $count = 0

  }

  $paths = @(Get-ScsiLunPath -ScsiLun $lun)

  $lun|Set-ScsiLun -MultipathPolicy Fixed -PreferredPath $paths[$count]

  $count += 1

  # Sleep for 30 seconds to prevent array saturation.

  Start-Sleep -Seconds 30

  }

}

Hi,

someone told  that vMware has bought vCommander from Embotics and is planning to promote is as a replacement of vCloud Director.

So in the future there will be no vCloud Director, only vCommander as vCloud 5.5 is the last version of vCloud Director.

Can someone shade some light on it if it is true or just a rumor?

Thanks in anticipation

Ashish

I upgraded my vCenter to 5.5 from 5.1 and it works except the Web Client has incorrect inventory data.  It is missing some VMs and has some ghost VMs that don't actually exist.  There aren't any error messages that suggest the server is malfunctioning.  The really strange thing is that when I connect with the vSphere Client on Windows, everything is correct there.  Also Veeam shows all the correct inventory when it connects to the vCenter server.  So its only the Web Client that is wrong.  Has anyone experienced this or have any ideas on how to force the Web Client to refresh?

edit: forgot to mention this is VCSA

Hello. I have recently completed a upgrade of vCenter from 5.0 > 5.1. I ran into some common teething problems with SSO but things look ok at the moment. I do have one problem that I'd really like to fix - when attempting to sort VMs in the vSphere client, I see the following error:

Unable to connect to web service to execute query. Verify that the 'VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices' service is running on https://vcenter_server_fqdn:10443 vim.fault.HttpFault

This is repeatable across multiple systems running the VI client. The Viclient log shows:

[viclient:SoapTran:P:43] 2013-07-01 10:25:30.193  Invoke 4283 Finish AcquireSessionTicket on SessionManager:SessionManager [vcenter_server_fqdn] - Serial:0.000, Server:001.425 [ERROR]

Vmomi.Fault.SystemError: vim.fault.HttpFault

   at VirtualInfrastructure.ManagedObject.InvokeMethod(MethodName, Object[])

   at Vmomi.SessionManager.AcquireSessionTicket(String)

   at VmomiSupport.Services.AuthenticationTicketSource.Next()

   at VMware.VimServices.Query.Impl.LoginByTicketQueryCommand.CreateWebQuery()

   at VMware.VimServices.Query.Impl.WebCommandBase.Execute()

   at VMware.VimServices.Query.QueryServiceBase.Login()

   at VMware.VimServices.Query.Impl.QueryCommandBase.PreProcess()

   at VMware.VimServices.Query.Impl.WebCommandBase.Execute()

   at VMware.VimServices.Query.QueryServiceImpl.ExecuteQuery(QueryWebCommand)

   at VMware.VimServices.Query.QueryServiceImpl.Query(String, Int32, LanguageId)

   at VMware.VimServices.Search.Impl.Utils.NewResults(ResultsInternal)

   at VMware.VimServices.Search.ResultsImpl.RetrievePage(Nullable`1)

   at VMware.VimServices.Search.FilterOrderObjectSetProviderImpl`1.GetObjectSet()

   at VirtualInfrastructure.ObjectSetPoller`1.DoPoll()

   at VirtualInfrastructure.ObjectSetPoller`1.<Poll>b__2(Object)

...

   at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallback(Object)

[viclient:SoapMsg :P:43] 2013-07-01 10:25:30.193  RMI Request Vmomi.SessionManager.AcquireSessionTicket - 4283

<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">

  <soap:Header>

    <operationID>4C83B7E2-000010BB</operationID>

  </soap:Header>

  <soap:Body>

    <AcquireSessionTicket xmlns="urn:internalvim25">

      <_this xsi:type="ManagedObjectReference" type="SessionManager" serverGuid="3089D6D0-307C-4B0D-8BD8-94606298C034">SessionManager</_this>

      <serviceKey>1b27d894-3e47-4431-9d7b-c8cb2fd457aa/VIMWEBSVC</serviceKey>

    </AcquireSessionTicket>

  </soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope>

Method Invocation Error Vmomi.SessionManager.AcquireSessionTicket - 4283

Message: vim.fault.HttpFault

Server XML:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

  <soapenv:Body>

    <soapenv:Fault>

      <faultcode>ServerFaultCode</faultcode>

      <faultstring>vim.fault.HttpFault</faultstring>

      <detail>

        <HttpFaultFault xmlns="urn:internalvim25" xsi:type="SystemError">

          <reason>Invalid fault</reason>

        </HttpFaultFault>

      </detail>

    </soapenv:Fault>

  </soapenv:Body>

</soapenv:Envelope>

[viclient:Error   :P:43] 2013-07-01 10:25:30.193  RMI Error Vmomi.SessionManager.AcquireSessionTicket - 4283

<Error type="Vmomi.Fault.SystemError">

  <Message>vim.fault.HttpFault</Message>

  <DetailedMessage>vim.fault.HttpFault

</DetailedMessage>

  <Reason>Invalid fault</Reason>

</Error>

[viclient:Error   :M: 4] 2013-07-01 10:25:30.193  System.Exception: Unable to connect to web services to execute query.

Verify that the 'VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices' service is running on https://vcenter_server_fqdn:10443

   at VMware.VimServices.Search.FilterOrderObjectSetProviderImpl`1.GetObjectSet()

   at VirtualInfrastructure.ObjectSetPoller`1.DoPoll()

Vmomi.Fault.SystemError: vim.fault.HttpFault

   at VirtualInfrastructure.Soap.SoapServiceWrapper.DoInvokeSync(ManagedObject mo, MethodName methodName, Object[] parameters, Int32 timeoutSecs)

   at VirtualInfrastructure.Soap.SoapTransport.VirtualInfrastructure.Transport.InvokeMethod(ManagedObject mo, MethodName methodName, Object[] pars)

   at VirtualInfrastructure.ManagedObject.InvokeMethod(MethodName methodName, Object[] pars)

   at Vmomi.SessionManager.AcquireSessionTicket(String serviceKey)

   at VmomiSupport.Services.AuthenticationTicketSource.Next()

   at VMware.VimServices.Query.Impl.LoginByTicketQueryCommand.CreateWebQuery()

   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

[        :ShowErr :M: 4] 2013-07-01 10:25:30.240  Error: Unable to connect to web services to execute query.

Verify that the 'VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices' service is running on https://vcenter_server_fqdn:10443

vim.fault.HttpFault

Stack Trace:

   at VirtualInfrastructure.Utils.Log.Trace(String, String, TraceType)

   at VpxClientCommon.Util.Dialogs.Trace(String, String, String, TraceType)

   at VpxClientCommon.Util.Dialogs.ShowError(IWin32Window, String, String)

   at VpxClientCommon.ListViewData.OnDisplayMessage()

   at VMware.CustomControls.ListViewEx.DoDisplayMessage()

   at VMware.CustomControls.ListViewEx.WndProc(Message&)

...

   at System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run()

Any thoughts/suggestions would be gratefully received

Hello,

I have an application that I captured using ThinApp Capture 5.  The application has been deployed to several desktops and seems to be working correctly, except for one feature.  This particular application has an option to edit text objects in Microsoft Word and save those text objects back into the application (I'm not talking about .docx files here).  When this ThinApp'd application tries to launch MS Word, it is getting an error that it is unable to find MS Word on the desktop.  MS Office 2010 is installed in the base image of the linked clone desktop.

Can anyone explain to me why the ThinApp'd application is unable to correctly find and launch the MS Word executable?

Thanks,

ThinAppNeophyte

Hi,

I'm using a NTFS partition (which has no drive letter) which I've mounted into a directory.

It's a 100GB partition on a SSD drive and it's mounted into the following folder:

D:\Users\Highend\Downloads

When I capture an application inside a clean VM (Hyper-V) and copy it to the physical

machine afterwards, the application is unable to write to this specific folder...

The build environment for this application contains an additional folder "%drive_D%

with an ##Attribute.ini file with this content:

[Isolation]

DirectoryIsolationMode=Merged

The application can write to:

D:\Users\Highend

flawlessly and interestingly to

D:\Users\Highend\Downloads\Test

as well.

But trying to write to

D:\Users\Highend\Downloads (the moun point itself)

results in an error message.

Sie verfügen nicht über die Berechtigungen zum Speichern in diesem Pfad.

Wenden Sie sich an den Administrator, um diese Berechtigung zu erhalten.

Englisch:

You don't have the permissions to save in this path.

Contact the administrator to get this permission.

Is there any way to configure ThinApp (v5.0.0-1391583) to let the app have

access to this mount point folder?

Regards,

Highend

Hello,

I have a question:

Recently we upgraded a number of virtual servers from Windows 2003 to 2012. Actually, in each case we installed a new VM, detached the data disks from the old 2003 VM and attached it then to the new 2012 VM. Of course, this way the VMDK file remains in the folder of the old VM. When I then delete the old VM, the new one has its folder with its normal config files and the VMDK where the OS is installed and the data VMDK remains in the folder of the old VM which is empty otherwise.

At some suitable occasion (reboot for Windows updates) I would like to shutdown the new VM and physically move the data VMDK to the new VM's private folder and then restart it.

Unfortunately, when I do so with the datastore browser of the vSphere client, then it acuatlly copies the VMDK to the new folder and then deletes it from the old folder.

Since it is a substantial amount of data (several hundred GB), I would like to avoid this, of course.

I have not found a "GUI" method of really _moving_ a VMDK from one folder to another folder within the same datastore without copying it.

I can SSH into an ESXi host that has access to the datastore and then use "mv" on the shell level. This seemed to work fine with some small test VM(s).

But is it safe to do it this way? Is there some other (official) way?

Thanks for sharing your insight or opinion!

Kai-Uwe

Hi,

We have replication between two data-centers set-up for a couple of VMs.  We'd like to be able to see the

status of their replication in Nagios (maybe also stand-up alerting?), rather than having to rely on the vSphere

web client to check these manually.

I've been browsing the website & doco for the last couple of hours without much luck.

Is there an API (preferably python/perl, as we're a Linux shop) that will let me interrogate the state of

replication? Maybe an SNMP MIB? Linux command line tools I can run remotely?

Cheers,

Andrej

For some reason I am unable to manage my esxi 5 server from outside the management subnet. I have 3 vlans configured. 1 for iscsi storage, 2 is default and the 3rd is for all my VMs. I have intervlan routing configured properly and can hit other systems on the management subnet from outside the management vlan but not the esxi server? Any ideas to help troubleshooting

Last week VMware released a tool aimed towards fixing an issue with uploads not completing for specific endpoints. The tool is available under the public link:

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=MIRAGE-430-TOOLS&productId=322

The download includes a short article describing the problem and its fix. It also describes how you can know the problem exist in a specific system; as it may happen quite frequently, it is recommended to check if this is relevant for your deployment.

Hello

vCenter 5.0 with 7 ESX servers.

When i plug my USB 2.0 network card to any ESX server i can see it on that ESX server:

~ # lsusb

Bus 02 Device 04: ID 0b95:772b ASIX Electronics Corp.

Then i configure my VM from vCenter:

- add usb controller (marked as present, used for USB 1.1 and 2.0)

- add usb xHCI controller (marked as present, used for USB 1.1 and 2.0 and 3.0)

- add usb device and select my ASIX card (marked as present)

But in my VM (Gentoo linux) nothing is detected. No logs for any USB activity. I can see only:

#lsusb

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0e0f:0002 VMware, Inc. Virtual USB Hub

If i take that USB card and connect to my laptop (with identical Gentoo linux configuration) the card is properly detected.

I have tried also to connect that USB card to the same ESX server on which that VM is running - but the problems is the same.

I have also tried the same config but using vSphere directly on specific ESX server on which that VM is running (configuring ESX not vCenter). And again: i could add detected USB card but my VM does not see anything.

Why vCenter can not pass through that USB card to my VM ?

Thanks,

I have been trying to run ESXTOP in batch mode with little success. I run this command:

esxtop –b  –n 3600 > /tmp/results.csv

Collection starts and the results.csv file is made. I am trying to run this collection for 3600 seconds which is one hour. After a few minutes collection stops. When I open the csv file in Excel I only have about two minutes of collection and this error message

: VMEsxtop_ServerInitDiskGrpStats() failed

What am I doing wrong?

So I've been letting Operations Manager run for several months and now I'd like to remediate the Oversized VMs.  I see several VMs with 8GB or 16GB of memory, but vCOPS is recommending 1GB of memory.  Now, I could easily change the RAM via the VM settings, but this would lead to a heated discussion with the administrator of that application server.  Most of these VM settings were used because of "vendor requirements", but obviously vCOPS is reporting them as Oversized VMs.

One approach I thought of that would appear to meet "vendor requirements" is applying limits to each of these VMs.  This way, the operating system will still report 8GB or 16GB of memory, but in reality, I'm only allowing 1GB of usable memory.  My question is - if I apply limits, does vCOPS take those limits into consideration or does it only look at the VM settings?  My concern is that I start applying all these limits, but vCOPS is still reporting them as Oversized VMs.

Thanks in advance,

Tanya

Hello,

I am posting this to help somebody else to set up an ESXi Server with following hardware:

- Intel i7-4770

- Asus Z87-PRO

- Adaptec-6805E

To use on board I217-V Network Card and This particular RAID card, customized ISO will have to be created.

When installing, add "formatwithmbr" to the end of the command. Also, disable UEFI.

I will attach drivers to this post. Please feel free to drop me a message if you have any questions.

Cheers.

Hello All:

I am using VM Fusion 5 on OSX - have two VMs Windows 7 with Oracle 12 g installed and Ubuntu with WebLogic.

I need help to configure these two VMs - so they can communicate with each other as I would like to use Oracle DB in my Weblogic Application.

Please let me know

Regards,

hj

Hi - and a Happy New Year to all

We have a customer with a current ESXi 5.0 installation, possibly going to 5.1.  They are multi-site across a large geographical area with around 60 hosts in all, and each system on each site is self-contained and stand-alone - there are reasons for this - some sites run light-out and un-manned.  They run a Windows domain at each site and the domains do not interact.  If a WAN connection drops, the remote site has to be able to continue operations unaffected.

I have been tasked with retro-fitting vCenter into this system mainly because they want to use VUM, and like the idea of a single pane of glass.  They do NOT, however, like the idea that they need to have domain accounts to run vCenter and it's causing me a headache.  Unfortunately I can't discuss specifics of the system.  I don't believe they really understand vCenter.

So - I'm looking for advice.  Can I use linked-mode here?  I've never used it personally but understand the principles.  I think there is a strong argument to put the whole system in a forest but there's too many systems issues in the way.  Heartbeat has been discounted simply due to the sheer licensing costs.  I have put a single, stand-alone vCenter into a test system and added another site to it as a datacenter object to demo vCenter, and it works ok like that, however I'm not sure how that will work long-term and it will affect the ESXi licenses if they loose the WAN at a remote site, which worries me most.  It can take weeks to get an engineer out to them.

Has anyone tried a system like this before?  What would the best way to run vCenter be?  The system is already running so I have to be careful what I do.

Hello,

I am trying to implement heartbeat 6.5 in my 5.1upd1 environment and when it gets to the part of asking for the the SSO master password it keeps telling me it is incorrect but it absolutely is not incorrect.

I know that it is the password I inputted when I initially installed SSO and that is the one I am using for we use it for just about everything.

I tested it to ensure it was correct by running all of the rsautil commands in the utils folders that require the sso master password as well as the nfmasterssovalidate which also asks for the master password. All work.

There are no errors in any of my logs.

I would like to create a Shared VM directly from a local ISO rather than create the VM in My Computer and Manage->Share to move the VM  However I cannot seem to find a way to browse locally for an installation ISO as I can with virt-manager.  Either way I'll want to change the settings to point to the physical cdrom but this does not seem to be a problem.  It does not seem like I should have to manually enter a fully-qualified file name to do this rather simple task.

Am I missing something or is there time to make a suggestion before the next minor release of WS 10? I