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Hi   I was wondering if there is a way to set root account policy lockout so that if someone for example someone types it 5 times wrong root account will be disabled   Not looking for SSO configu... See more...
Hi   I was wondering if there is a way to set root account policy lockout so that if someone for example someone types it 5 times wrong root account will be disabled   Not looking for SSO configuration but most people will jump right away with SSO configuration   FOr example I try  to log in with root password into vCenter Server appliance will account be locked out or I can try as many times as I want and when I type it right it will let me in or root account will get locked out too and if there is policy that would set things if I try 5 times it will lock root account   Is there any setting like that 
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I am assuming this was never resolved? I am actually going thru the same issue. Trying to identify what the fix is.
You're welcome. Glad I could help out !
Marked correct for the reset from ESX console. Turned off didn't allow me to change the network config, but the reset did clear the network fields and allowed to choose the VM Network again. Thanks... See more...
Marked correct for the reset from ESX console. Turned off didn't allow me to change the network config, but the reset did clear the network fields and allowed to choose the VM Network again. Thanks again for the help!
This is what I see when I attempt to change (or add a new) nic: Addition or reconfiguration of network adapters attached to non-ephemeral distributed virtual port groups (dpg_storage) is not support... See more...
This is what I see when I attempt to change (or add a new) nic: Addition or reconfiguration of network adapters attached to non-ephemeral distributed virtual port groups (dpg_storage) is not supported.
I'll check out your edit first! We were posting and editing at the same time!   CHeers!  
Thanks! In the meantime, I was looking at this: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1008127 I don't understand the article though, its unclear what the example text should be; vmnic is which field exa... See more...
Thanks! In the meantime, I was looking at this: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1008127 I don't understand the article though, its unclear what the example text should be; vmnic is which field exactly from the list commands shown above. The examples they give are unrelated to the fields from list command. I hope that makes sense. Or perhaps those steps won't help me? What do you think?
You are somewhat stuck. Here is what I would do : Login to the ESXi server (not sure how many you have, I will assume one) that is running all these VMs and power them off. Next you will need a... See more...
You are somewhat stuck. Here is what I would do : Login to the ESXi server (not sure how many you have, I will assume one) that is running all these VMs and power them off. Next you will need access to the ESXi server console, via iDRAC or iLO or some other method Use F2 to get into troubleshooting mode, and then you can reset the networking on that host. Once reset reconfigure it using standard switches as you had before. Then you can login to the ESXi host, create the rest of your portgroups and move the VMs back to them, and power them on. This should get your VMs talking again. The part I am not 100% sure on is what vCenter will do since its going to think the host should still be attached to the dVS. I believe there is a way to force remove a "dead" server from the dVS then you can simply try again.   EDIT : On second thought, if you power them off from the ESXi console, you can move them back to a standard port group if you still have them created. You can't move dVS to Standard while powered on but you can when they are off
I made a f*p. Luckily, its in our development / test network. Colleagues laughed and wished me good luck ;). I created a new distributed vswitch with a new portgroup. I moved my vm's including vcent... See more...
I made a f*p. Luckily, its in our development / test network. Colleagues laughed and wished me good luck ;). I created a new distributed vswitch with a new portgroup. I moved my vm's including vcenter appliance before creating a new management network and vmkernel nic, so I lost access to vcenter and all the vm's lost their network connectivity. The new portgroup didn't have an uplink either. Can someone help me fix this? I reckon I need to access the virtual console on the vcenter, or perhaps esxcli? I tried in esx webui itself from the hypervisor host the vm's reside on, but I couldn't move anything to or from the dvswitch. Appreviate any help! Thanks!
@Mohaseen1703, I see there is Interoperability between vCenter server 7.0.U3o and ESXi version 7.0.U3n. PFA.  
Its. works, modified the JSON and the backup restore has sucefull, Thaks. you are my Hero
I have another vcsa with the same version, and it runs without problems.
Thanks for you Reply but i can't see any usable hint to get me forward. Is there no message vmware log where the problem is? 
Where i find the TXT Feature, it doesn't show up ? CPU AES-NI Enabled System Password Empty Confirm System Password Empty Setup Password Empty Confirm Setup Password Empty Password Status Unloc... See more...
Where i find the TXT Feature, it doesn't show up ? CPU AES-NI Enabled System Password Empty Confirm System Password Empty Setup Password Empty Confirm Setup Password Empty Password Status Unlocked SHA256 hash of the System password Empty Salt string appended to the System password prior to hash Empty SHA256 hash of the Setup password Empty Salt string appended to the Setup password prior to hash Empty TPM Security On TPM Information Type: 2.0 NTC TPM Firmware 7.2.2.0 TPM Hierarchy Enabled TPM Advanced Settings AMD DRTM Off Power Button Enabled AC Power Recovery Last AC Power Recovery Delay Immediate User Defined Delay (120s to 600s) 120 UEFI Variable Access Standard SMM Security Mitigation Disabled Secure Boot Disabled Secure Boot Policy Standard Secure Boot Mode Deployed Mode Authorize Device Firmware Disabled UEFI CA Certificate Scope Device Firmware and OS  
Same issue today when running Update baseline compliance check on vSphere 8.0.1 Would also like to know where to check VUM logs.  2023-11-02T12:36:00.611-04:00 error vpxd[06334] [Originator@687... See more...
Same issue today when running Update baseline compliance check on vSphere 8.0.1 Would also like to know where to check VUM logs.  2023-11-02T12:36:00.611-04:00 error vpxd[06334] [Originator@6876 sub=Default opID=1af4207b] [VpxLRO] -- ERROR lro-6892054 -- 525c07bb-81d3-888f-3734-5741e5c176cb(52f4f985-079c-f718-0ba8-b2eeffa66e1a) -- EsxHostAdvSettings-58 -- vim.option.OptionManager.queryView: :vim.fault.InvalidName --> Result: --> (vim.fault.InvalidName) { --> faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null, --> faultMessage = <unset>, --> name = "UserVars.PXEBootEnabled", --> entity = <unset> --> msg = "Received SOAP response fault from [<<io_obj p:0x00007fb940858c98, h:67, <UNIX ''>, <UNIX '/var/run/envoy-hgw/hgw-pipe'>>, /hgw/host-58/vpxa>]: queryView --> Received SOAP response fault from [<<io_obj p:0x000000ae001516d8, h:26, <TCP '127.0.0.1 : 26382'>, <TCP '127.0.0.1 : 8307'>>, /sdk>]: queryView --> 'UserVars.PXEBootEnabled' is invalid or exceeds the maximum number of characters permitted." --> } --> Args: --> --> Arg name: --> "UserVars.PXEBootEnabled" 2023-11-02T12:36:00.649-04:00 error vpxd[06140] [Originator@6876 sub=Default opID=98c126a] [VpxLRO] -- ERROR lro-6892056 -- 525c07bb-81d3-888f-3734-5741e5c176cb(52f4f985-079c-f718-0ba8-b2eeffa66e1a) -- EsxHostAdvSettings-58 -- vim.option.OptionManager.queryView: :vim.fault.InvalidName --> Result: --> (vim.fault.InvalidName) { --> faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null, --> faultMessage = <unset>, --> name = "UserVars.ImageCachedSystem", --> entity = <unset> --> msg = "Received SOAP response fault from [<<io_obj p:0x00007fb9684225a8, h:36, <UNIX ''>, <UNIX '/var/run/envoy-hgw/hgw-pipe'>>, /hgw/host-58/vpxa>]: queryView --> Received SOAP response fault from [<<io_obj p:0x000000adff823368, h:19, <TCP '127.0.0.1 : 56146'>, <TCP '127.0.0.1 : 8307'>>, /sdk>]: queryView --> 'UserVars.ImageCachedSystem' is invalid or exceeds the maximum number of characters permitted." --> } --> Args: --> --> Arg name: --> "UserVars.ImageCachedSystem"
Cleary, you didn't actually read the blog post ... it mentions nothing about checking all VMs. Please give it another read as the answer or your question is literally explained there.  Furthermore,... See more...
Cleary, you didn't actually read the blog post ... it mentions nothing about checking all VMs. Please give it another read as the answer or your question is literally explained there.  Furthermore, its EXACTLY these types of use cases where Automation and the use of vSphere API is meant to help to search for various types of information and does not impact your workloads, especially when you look for specific things rather than returning the full VM configuration. 
Hi    I am migrating virtual machines from one vCenter to another and it is going good however after update i dont have option where vCenter asks me which host you want to boot this virtual machine... See more...
Hi    I am migrating virtual machines from one vCenter to another and it is going good however after update i dont have option where vCenter asks me which host you want to boot this virtual machine from but it automatically picks up the host that it likes   We have DRS on manual mode but still when we power on virtual machine after migration then this vm is booted on host that vcenter decides but we dont have say which host to boot to.   I know affinity rule can be done but this is tedious task for every virtual machine we move we have to update the list not to run on particular host Any way that after machine powers on it would ask which host you want to boot this vm
I saw this but this means visit every single virtual machine that would be too much there are more than 5000 vms
I think you may have posted this in the wrong forum. This forum is for VMware Fusion, not vSphere Client. I’ve asked a moderator to move it to a more appropriate forum. 
Hi @hamidsattarrana , It looks to me more of browser cache related issue. Did we try to perform same action from any different browser? Also, Login to SSH of ESXi host and try below: df -h esxcf... See more...
Hi @hamidsattarrana , It looks to me more of browser cache related issue. Did we try to perform same action from any different browser? Also, Login to SSH of ESXi host and try below: df -h esxcfg-scsidevs -l https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1014953 Above KB article has some commandlets to explore more onto storage side.