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Hello everyone, I am currently stuck unable to boot one of our virtual machines running CentOS 6, it gives the following error: ========================================= mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Pid: 1, comm, init Tainted: G W --------------------- 2.6.32-504.el6.i686 # 1 Call Trace: [<c085f27c>] ? panic+0x6e/0x122 [<c0462911>] ? do_exit+0x741/0x758 [<c046295c>] ? do_group_exit+0x3c/0xa0 [<c04629d1>] ? sys_exit_group+0x11/0x20 [<c0409a5f>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28 ========================================== I've seen other mentions of running dmesg on various forums, however I have zero experience working with this version of linux and what little experience I do have is not sufficient for errors of this caliber. Currently I can enter the Grub 0.97 menu where I can enter a command line, edit commands before booting, or modify kernel arguments. However I cannot get any commands to work via the command line which leads me to believe that some other prerequisite needs to be met in order to actually work with the system. As noted in the title, this system was running fine just last week but now suddenly won't boot. The same VMware machine also runs a Windows VM which has no issues. Can anyone advise on things I can try from the GRUB menu? Or if there is some way I can interrupt the boot process to enter commands before this error occurs? Or maybe even something from the VSphere Client that can be run? Also I was not the tech who setup this system originally.  If things need to be reinstalled then I don't believe I have the skills or records to do so. Thank you for your time, if there is any additional information that would be helpful, please let me know.

Hello, Am trying to gather major vCenter inventory data with VMware PowerShell, but am not able to get Annotation part. This part should be added below in Add-member.... Below is my script: Clear-Host $vcs = @("vCenterFQDN") # FQDN of your vCenter server. $logFile = "C:\Temp\VMInventory.csv" # Where you want to save the CSV file $vcsCluster = "*" # Filters which cluster you want to pull VM stats from. $businessUnitName = "Element" # Name of Business Unit that the script is gathering stats for if($vcs -contains "vCenterFQDN"){ $vcs = Read-Host -Prompt "FQDN of vCenter Server" } $vcsCreds = Get-Credential -Message "vCenter Credentials" #$wmiCreds = Get-Credential -Message "WMI Credentials" Import-Module VMware.VimAutomation.Core Connect-VIServer $vcs -Credential $vcsCreds | Out-Null $vms = Get-Cluster -Name $vcsCluster | Get-VM $count = 0 $results = @() $Script:ProgressPreferenceOriginal = $ProgressPreference Clear-Host foreach($vm in $vms){ # Progress Bar setup $count++ $percentComplete = [math]::Round(($count / $vms.Count) * 100,1) Write-Progress -Activity "Collecting info on $($vm.Name)" -Status "$percentComplete% Complete" -PercentComplete $percentComplete # Store VM stat info in PSObject $object = New-Object PSObject Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name BusinessUnit -Value $businessUnitName Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Name -Value $vm.Name Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Domain -Value (($vm.Guest.Hostname.Split('.') | Select-Object -Skip 1) -join '.') Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Location -Value " " Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name IPAddress -Value ($vm.Guest.IPAddress -join ", ") Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Function -Value " " Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name PorV -Value "Virtual" Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name vCluster -Value ($vm | Get-Cluster).Name Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name vHost -Value $vm.VMHost Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Make -Value "N/A" Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Model -Value "N/A" Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name SerialNumber -Value "N/A" Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name CPU -Value $vm.NumCpu Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name vSocket -Value ($vm.NumCpu / $vm.CoresPerSocket) Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name CoreCount -Value $vm.CoresPerSocket Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name MemoryGB -Value $vm.MemoryGB Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name OperatingSystem -Value $vm.Guest.OSFullName Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name UsedSpaceGB -Value ([math]::Round($vm.UsedSpaceGB, 0)) Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name ProvisionedSpaceGB -Value ([math]::Round($vm.ProvisionedSpaceGB,0)) Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Environment -Value " " # Stores the PSObject containing VM stats in to an PSObject array $results += $object } # The Sort-Object is specifically set up so that the Export-Csv and Out-GridView do not truncate the properties of the individual PSObjects in # the array. $results | Out-GridView $results | Export-Csv -Path $logFile -NoTypeInformation Write-Host "Output saved to $logFile" Disconnect-VIServer -Server * -Confirm:$false -Force | Out-Null

Hello, In the Windows installer I am working on, if the user running the installation is not an admin user, I still need to run some actions with admin privileges, and some need to be run as the currently logged in user (non-admin). Currently, in version 1, I have put a manifest as require admin, so if the user is not an admin, there is a prompt that asks for admin approval. Then the whole installation is run as the admin user.  We discovered that this breaks the product, as the steps that should be done in the regular user context are done in the admin user context. I need to correct this for version 2. So, my thinking was to put the manifest as as invoker. Then if the user running the install is not an admin, pop up a message asking for an admin user credentials. Then run the actions that need admin privileges as the admin user, and leave the actions that need to be in regular user context to run as the regular user. I could not find in the documentation how to elevate a task (run program) on Windows, runas seems to be only for Unix. Can you help me with this? Thank you Claire

I had our VMware vSphere dev environment connected to AzureAD SSO using OpenID Connect.  It was working perfectly, I can see in the header it's getting VSPHERE-USERNAME populated with the samaccountname value.  VMware is configured with LDAPS to our domain, and the roles are populated with AD groups.  ADConnect is pushing the same data from on-prem in to AzureAD so I'm scratching my head a bit as to why this is stopped working. I'm loathe to deploy ADFS for this, as MS is at the very least de-emphasizing ADFS if not deprecating it out right, and pushing customers to PTH or PTA and using Azure Federation instead..  I would rather use our Azure App Proxy with IWA/Kerberos Constrained Delegation before I do ADFS.

Hi, I registered our vCenter (ver 7.0) to the vRealize Orchestrator (ver 8.6.0) and trying to delete old snapshot with the age of 3. when I run the workflow, I am getting below error: java.lang.RuntimeException: (vim.fault.InvalidLogin) { faultCause = null, faultMessage = null } (Workflow:Copy of Remove old snapshots / Check host and VC time (item14)#54824)   I checked Orchestrator, vCenter and ESXi NTP server, they are all sync, enabled and in UTC time zone. Do you know where should I check next?