Hello,

I was wondering if maybe someone came across similar issue and might offer an advise on how to troubleshoot it and resolve.  We are using Windows 1809 LTSC, Horizon 7.7, AppVolumes 2.16 and UEM 9.7 and vCenter 6.7 U2. So pretty much all the newest. Our storage is all flash based Pure, however it appears that the Instant clone takes roughly 5  minutes before it becomes available. It is in provisioning state for about 1 min 30 sec and then 3 mins 30 sec in customization state and then becomes available.

I opened a ticket with VMware on it and here is what we are seeing from the log:

2019-05-22 16:07:14 (3444) info CSvmgaService - (svgaservice.cpp, 397 ) shutting down the service

2019-05-22 16:11:54 (4268) debug Svmga:: setservicestatus - (svmga.cpp , 522) service stats set to 2

As you can see there is a 4  minute gap that would account for the long time before machine becomes available.

Next update from Vmware engineer is as follows:

Furthermore i discussed the case with my technical lead and he mentioned that it either could be some script or some program on VM itself which is causing it to reboot. As we are using clone prep so machine should not reboot however in your case its doing exactly the opposite.

The process C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\VMware\View Composer Guest Agent\vmware-svi-ga.exe (TESTIMRW5) has initiated the shutdown of computer TESTIMRW5 on behalf of user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM for the following reason: Operating System: Recovery (Planned)

Reason Code: 0x80020002

So the next suggestion is to build brand new image with plain windows, install vmtools and horizon agent only and provision pool. I did that and bam the instant clone only takes 30 seconds before it becomes available.

I don't really want to redo my images as it will be very time consuming and pretty sure will break other things so I was wondering if anyone might have any idea on how to resolve it?

Hi,

I'm having an intermittent issue when attaching Huawei mifi devices to my Windows 7 VM's
using Vmware Workstation 15.

Most of time it works fine and the mifi device appears and works with the vm, other times the vm
freezes and cannot be shutdown via the vmware workstation menu.

The only way I've been able to free up the vm again is to restart the host, which is a pain to do
several times a day as I have a host of apps and other vm's working fine.

I have several mifi devices and they all seem to work ok most of the time with the vm's, but
they've all caused the crash at some point. I've tried using different USB
Ports on the PC and a TPLINK USB hub - same intermittent issue.

What usually happens is thje mifi initially connects to the host pc, then I manually select the
connect to vm option. The driver starts installing in the vm, then it freezes.

After googling around it seems I just need to kill off the vmware-vmx.exe process. The
issue is I cannot seem to kill it! Nothing happens when using Task Manager -
just remains there. Tried elevated command prompt, trying to kill using PID an
name. Same with elevated powershell. I can end the Workstation tasks, but when
I relaunch the app, the vm is still running in
a frozen state.

So, I'd be really grateful if someone could help me troubleshoot and
resolve both or one of the following:

1. VM's are sometimes crashing when I attach the Huawei mifi devices
2. I cannot kill the vmware-vmx.exe without having to restart the host each time it happens

Host PC:

Windows 10 Pro

Asus  ROG STRIX X299

I9-9980XE

64GB Corsair Vengeance
DDR4 3000MHZ

Many thanks!

We have a an Airwatch environment in which the current Content Gateway is Windows based. It is our understanding that support for the Windows platform will be discontinued in October. We have been trying to setup the Unified Access Gateway to replace it using the Relay setup. In other words we have one UAG in our DMZ and one on the private side. We have decided to also use a load-balancer for this setup and we have a site name for the load balanced site. We also have the API server located in the DMZ. When we try to setup both UAG's (Gateway and Relay) we can usually get one of them to work but not the other. I can ping each NIC between the UAGs also between the API Server and the console server. Everything seems correct. Tried talking with VMware but they won't discuss it with us because they consider this a "new deployment" and so we would have to contract professional services. I don't know if anyone has any experience with setting this up or not but I am looking for any help you can provide. Thanks.

we recently buy a Dell R640 server with ESXi

and one Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720 dual port Gigabit Ethernet

and one Broadcom BCM57416 NetXtreme-E dual port 10GBASE-T

i create a Vswitch0 with the two gigabit ethernet card for management

i create a Vswitch1 with the two 10GBASE-T card for all virtuals machines (actually just one vm)

firmware ok, driver ok, ESXi version ok, linkspeed auto-negotiation enable

everything seems to be ok but i can't ping my only virtual machine

thx for your ideas

Is it possible to configurate a VMware VM inline mode in the vSwitch?

Hello,

I am creating a menu driven function that will display all of VMs attached to a security tag. All of that works, the only issue I have is when the VMs display the security tag is not displaying.

function VM-Tag

{

cls

$v = Get-NsxSecurityTag | select name

$menu = for ($i = 0; $i -lt $v.Count; $i += 2)

{

  $obj = [ordered]@{

   Odd = "$($i+1). $($v[$i].Name)"

   }

   if ($v[$i + 1])

   {

   $obj.Add('Even', "$($i+2). $($v[$i+1].Name)")   }

  New-Object PSObject -Property $obj

}

$menu | Format-Table -HideTableHeaders

$choice = Read-Host -Prompt "Select Section (1..$($v.Count))"

$VMS = Get-NsxSecurityTagAssignment -SecurityTag (Get-NsxSecurityTag $v[$choice - 1].name)

cls

$VMS | FT

}

I am getting this for a display:

SecurityTag VirtualMachine

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

securityTag G46PALATOWER004

securityTag G46PAL0011    

securityTag G46PAL0012    

securityTag G46PAL0013    

securityTag G46PAL0014

I was hoping that the "security tag" would be my selection from the menu.

So:

SecurityTag VirtualMachine

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

APP-TAG      G46PALATOWER004

APP-TAG     G46PAL0011    

APP-TAG      G46PAL0012    

APP-TAG      G46PAL0013    

APP-TAG      G46PAL0014

What am I missing?

I finished upgrading my existing dual 6.5 vcsa with dual external psc environment ( 1 vcsa and 1 psc at each of 2 sites). to the latest 6.7U2 build 31100 ( i think that is what it was)

We wanted to do the convergence in the web client.

I always get an error about

cannot get payload, please check documentation about specifying a repository or mount the iso.

this is open to the internet but it made no difference if i mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom with the iso or not.

Any ideas??

its not super critical as everything is working but i want to get this collapsed.

Hello,

I am struggling to get VCSA6.5 deployed, It has stuck at "Installing RPM..."

I have already checked the following-

1. DNS Host A and PTR record created for VCSA appliance.

2. Checked and verified lockdown mode is disabled.

3, ESXi is running on Eval Version.

4. Firewall ports 443,22,902,903 (TCP) and 902,903 UDP is allowed.

Any other suggestions, please.

Thanks,

Jatin

Hi Guys,

I currently have my prod vCenter running on another vCenter as a VM.  I want to take it off and move it to different hardware (one that it manages) and setup HA on it.

I've tried to move it a couple of times using VMWare converter but both times it fails.  It seems to boot up and I can log in but after a few mins it just craps out.  Its easy to revert back as i can simply power up the VCSA that i converted from.  The vCenter is running on a ephermal port on the Distrubuted switch.

I get error 503 when trying to log in,

I was going to try a new approach  setup a shared datastore between the 2vcenters  migrate vcenter to that and unregister it.

then while vcenter is down, i connect directly to the one of the hosts that the downed vcenter is managing and register it there and boot it up.

I think that should, work, although i thought using vmware converter would have also worked.  I read somewhere that maybe it should be running in a stardard vswitch, but when i spoke to vmware tech support he said running on an epermal port should be fine.

any help appreciated.

I'm building a master image for my new Horizon 7.9 deployment with Dell Wyse P25 Firmware 6.4; however I have not made it too far.

I have just built a fresh AGM OEM/Standalone 1809 1.0.4 Windows 10 VMware VM.  I have only loaded the Active Client v 7.1.0.244 and my CAC reader I'm using is SCR3310. I have 2 CAC readers, one built into my laptop and the SCR3310 connected to a USB port.  I'm using the VMware Remote Console to try and log into the machine with my Administrative CAC; however I get an error telling me "No valid certificates were found on this smart card.  Please try another smart card or contact your administrator." If I use my normal DoD CAC it reads those cards with no issues.

Here are some steps I have done to try and trouble shoot the issue.

- Launch VMRC

- Connect CAC reader from VMRC

- Insert my Admin CAC

- Then I get the error.

- When I log in locally to the machine:

- I see the CAC reader in device manager

- I insert the CAC and it shows up in device manager

- Open ActivClient, it sees the CAC reader

- It starts to scan my card, it scan's then it disconnects the card reader and card from device manager and I get a Windows Box telling me to connect a card reader.  The reader is still connected in VMRC, but not in Windows device manager.

If I use RDP I can get in fine with my Admin CAC.

I have not loaded the View client as of yet, because I need to be able to log in with my Admin CAC.

After I upgraded my 2 MBP to 10.14.6, all of the Windows VMs became extremely slow and stuck at the login screen...

The VMs are set to use TPM, I don't know if it's relevant.

Anyone came across the same situation?

Now I cannot continue my work...really frustrating...

—————20190727————-

I’m updating this for convenient reference.

Status: This issue has not been solved yet.

Many users encountered this issue which leads to completely unusable of VMs.

And we got some replies from Fusion developers, you could help developers identify issues by replying your hardware models/is disk encrypted or have the VM encrypted etc.

We have some reports that some users found out that if set the memory of VM to 2G could help.

Re: VM became extremely slow after upgraded to macOS 10.14.6

If you don’t need to use much memory and can work with it, you might try set the memory to 2G, or maybe less than 4G is also okay?

Still we are waiting for an official solution.

------------20190809--------------------------

Thanks to ksc

Re: VM became extremely slow after upgraded to macOS 10.14.6

I updated to Fusion 11.1.1, confirmed that I can login to the system, and desktop shows normally.

As ksc says, it is a workaround which I'm not quite sure if I can trust it to do my work in it....

At least, I'm able to get my works out and change to other options now.

I'll mark this issue as resolved for now, but keep the [Workaround Released] tag in the subject.

Looks like it would take quite some time for a real fix, I'll keep an eye on this.

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Anyone have a script that will give me the hostname, datastore name, path and ip number in a one liner kind of thing

I know I can do get-vmhost | get-datastore  etc

but I need it to show the hostname as well, doing get-vmhost | select name | get-datastore 

returns an error -

Can anyone help.

Thanks.

Jason.

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We have five ESXi hosts (VMware 6.7u1) cluster with vCenter 6.7 u1. We have run this configuration for about one year without problems.

Now it is not possible to migrate VMs to two of these five hosts by using vMotion. We get the error message: "The vMotion failed because the destination host did not receive data from the source host on the vMotion network.." when we try to migrate VMs to these two ESXi hosts.

We have a dedicated 40Gb/s NIC in every ESXi host for vMotion and all five ESXi hosts are configured with a VMkernel adapter and added the the same vMotion distributed switch with uplink..

The vMotion NICs on these servers are all on-line/connected in vCenter.

I have done the following:

• Replaced the NICs and fiber kabels
• Checked if there are any IP-conflics.
• Rebooted the two ESXi hosts
• Disabled and Enabled the switch-ports in th Mellanox switch.
• Deleted and reinstalled the VMkernel adapter on these two ESXi hosts and added these two ESXi hosts back to the vMotion distributed switch again.

I have also tested the VMkernel connectivity by using #vmkping from Putty.

From the two ESXi hosts I can ping the  local VMkernal vMotion IP-address, but cannot reach the other ESXi hosts vMotion IP-addresses by using vmkping.

I am looking forward to hear from you to find a solution to solve this vMotion problem.

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

Audun

Hi!

I have updated Windows 10.1903 with fixed Sandbox.

Installed have VMware Workstation 15.

Hyper-V incl. hypervisor and all components are removed/disabled.

I tried to run Sandbox, but it outputs only error message "No hypervisor found".

I want to ask if it means Hyper-V hypervisor and if can VMware work together - without enabling/disabling between.

Is it possible?

Thank you for replies.

Miro

Hello,

I am trying to figure out how to have some specs of a VM returned within the catalog item request for the end user to view before the end user inputs additional catalog information. This will allow the end user to make a more informed decision before inputting additional catalog information. 

Examples:

    - End user selects a Catalog Item to Increase Disk Size -> End user selects VM from within Catalog Item Request -> End user is able to view returned current disk names and disk sizes of VM in Catalog Item Request before selecting how much space to increase by

    - End user selects a Catalog Item to Increase vCPU  -> End user selects VM from within Catalog Item Request -> End user is able to view returned current vCPU of VM in Catalog Request before selecting how much space to increase by

I have tried Data Binding, and Predefined List of Elements in the Presentation tab in Orchestrator, but I am not able to get values to return to the vRA Catalog. I have also attempted to create a custom action but still am not getting proper returns.

Has anyone come across this issue or have completed any similar tasks?

I upgraded from vCenter 6.0 for Windows to VCSA 6.7 U1 and cannot get the SMTP notifications working.

Every treads I found about that kind of issue are for 6.5 or older and the solutions provided dont work.

In vSphere > Manage > General > Mail > Mail server,  I tried both fqdn and IP address without success

I found this command to test mail from the appliance in SSH

echo "subject: sendmail test" | sendmail -v name@cie.com

Not shure how to understand the output...

I do see the errors (in red) witch normaly point to a misconfiguration on the mail server side but my Exchange server has a properly configured receive connector

name@cie.com... Connecting to 192.168.168.97. via relay...

220 mail.domain.local Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:01:36 -0500

>>> EHLO VCENTER.domain.local

250-mail.domain.local Hello [192.168.168.201]

250-SIZE 41943040

250-PIPELINING

250-DSN

250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES

250-STARTTLS

250-AUTH

250-8BITMIME

250-BINARYMIME

250 CHUNKING

>>> STARTTLS

220 2.0.0 SMTP server ready

>>> EHLO VCENTER.domain.local

250-mail.domain.local Hello [192.168.168.201]

250-SIZE 41943040

250-PIPELINING

250-DSN

250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES

250-AUTH

250-8BITMIME

250-BINARYMIME

250 CHUNKING

>>> MAIL From:<root@VCENTER.domain.local> SIZE=23

250 2.1.0 Sender OK

>>> RCPT To:<name@cie.com>

>>> DATA

550 5.7.1 Unable to relay

503 5.5.2 Need rcpt command

>>> RSET

250 2.0.0 Resetting

root... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...

220 VCENTER.domain.local ESMTP Sendmail 8.15.2/8.15.2; Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:01:54 -0500

>>> EHLO VCENTER.domain.local

250-VCENTER.domain.local Hello VCENTER.domain.local [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you

250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES

250-PIPELINING

250-EXPN

250-VERB

250-8BITMIME

250-SIZE

250-DSN

250-ETRN

250-AUTH GSSAPI CRAM-MD5

250-STARTTLS

250-DELIVERBY

250 HELP

>>> VERB

250 2.0.0 Verbose mode

>>> STARTTLS

220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS

>>> EHLO VCENTER.domain.local

250-VCENTER.domain.local Hello VCENTER.domain.local [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you

250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES

250-PIPELINING

250-EXPN

250-VERB

250-8BITMIME

250-SIZE

250-DSN

250-ETRN

250-AUTH GSSAPI CRAM-MD5

250-DELIVERBY

250 HELP

>>> VERB

250 2.0.0 Verbose mode

>>> MAIL From:<> SIZE=1047

250 2.1.0 <>... Sender ok

>>> RCPT To:<root@VCENTER.domain.local>

>>> DATA

250 2.1.5 <root@VCENTER.domain.locall>... Recipient ok

354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself

>>> .

050 <root@VCENTER.domain.local>... Connecting to local...

050 <root@VCENTER.domain.local>... Sent

250 2.0.0 wBDK1sHg037546 Message accepted for delivery

root... Sent (wBDK1sHg037546 Message accepted for delivery)

Closing connection to [127.0.0.1]

>>> QUIT

221 2.0.0 VCENTER.domain.local closing connection

Closing connection to 192.168.168.97.

>>> QUIT

221 2.0.0 Service closing transmission channel

You have new mail in /var/mail/root

Any help woud be appreciated

I am running a 2018 Mac mini (i7, 16gb ram, 512gb SSD) with the latest version of MacOS and I am virtualizing Windows 10 which is on 1903 with the latest version of VMWare Fusion 11.

To start, there are no performance issues, my issue is strictly a graphical issue and it is exclusive to the Unity Mode, in Single or Full Screen Mode everything is just peachy.

In Unity Mode I am seeing some graphics issues whenever I drag a window across the screen. For example, lets say I have the calculator app open in Windows 10 using Unity Mode and I drag the window from the left side of my screen to the right side of my screen, the movement of the dragging is anything but smooth. It looks like animations and frames are dropping and moving the window looks jaggy and jerky but nothing is hanging and as soon as I stop dragging the window everything is fine. It’s strictly a graphical issue with Windows 10. I also see it in the animations when I minimize an Windows 10 program, except here I only sometimes see it. It appears to be random to me. And this only occurs with Windows 10 programs, with MacOS programs everything is smooth as one would expect.

I’ve tried reinstalling VMWare tools, changing cores to 1, 2, and 3, increasing VRAM from 1gb to 2gb, turning off 3D acceleration, and I see no changes.

Is this expected behavior? Or what would be the fix?

In the effort to make logons faster and the Win10 Start menu quicker to launch, I implemented a mandatory profile on Win10 1803.   After implementation, logons were a little faster and the start menu went from taking 30 seconds to launch to launching instantaneously.  Although I like the result of the instantaneous start menu, the user's changes to the start menu is no longer being saved.  If I disable the mandatory profile within AD for a user, the UEM brings back the user start menu changes.     My question is:   Is there a way I can use both the mandatory profile and the UEM and allow user changes to be saved in the start menu? 

Thanks
Rob

For some reason, I'm not getting the prompts that let me get to the bios or pick a boot device.  I get a quick "Attempting to startup from:" messages and then get thrown to the "Boot Manager" for some reason.  Is there a setting I'm missing?