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VMware support pointed me to this - Broadcom Emulex End of Life HBA models not detected with 14.0.x.x drivers Which is confusing because the document says "end of life" yet I see a big Y next to sup... See more...
VMware support pointed me to this - Broadcom Emulex End of Life HBA models not detected with 14.0.x.x drivers Which is confusing because the document says "end of life" yet I see a big Y next to supported for my HBA and 7.0 U3 Can anyone guide me on how best to remove the newer driver from the non-critical baseline so I don't have to reinstall the driver each time I patch?
When looking at the "Issues" section of vSphere Replication/SRM I see a number of old issues from previous replications that were removed (admittedly many from VMs deleted before properly being remov... See more...
When looking at the "Issues" section of vSphere Replication/SRM I see a number of old issues from previous replications that were removed (admittedly many from VMs deleted before properly being removed from replication). These are NOT active replications showing up in the replication list as failed. I cannot clear this list. I can select each of the "Issues" but there is no actions menu. Right clicking says "No Actions Available".  How do I clear this list?
This can be done through a series of scripts that directly modify the vRA DB - provided by VMware Support. We went through the same thing and had to move a couple hundred deployments due to organ... See more...
This can be done through a series of scripts that directly modify the vRA DB - provided by VMware Support. We went through the same thing and had to move a couple hundred deployments due to organizational change. We couldn't believe this wasn't just "baked in" either. Good luck.
The message board portlet is in an embedded, sandboxed,  iframe.  I'd like to point the message board at a simple URL containing HTML links for end users to click for help and support. The sandbo... See more...
The message board portlet is in an embedded, sandboxed,  iframe.  I'd like to point the message board at a simple URL containing HTML links for end users to click for help and support. The sandbox blocks the ability to open these links in a new browser window outside of vRA. Anyone have any thoughts or ideas on a workaround?
Was there ever a fix to this?  I seem to be having the same problem with 6.1... the alarms do not exist (and yes I am looking at alarm definitions in the web client, at the vcenter server level).... See more...
Was there ever a fix to this?  I seem to be having the same problem with 6.1... the alarms do not exist (and yes I am looking at alarm definitions in the web client, at the vcenter server level)...
Fair enough.... this is the route we were looking. Thanks for confirming! 
Hello everyone, Is there an easy way to disable vsantraced on all hypervisors in a vCenter, using powercli? VMware KB: Unmounting a datastore used for Host Cache on ESXi 5.5 fails with the er... See more...
Hello everyone, Is there an easy way to disable vsantraced on all hypervisors in a vCenter, using powercli? VMware KB: Unmounting a datastore used for Host Cache on ESXi 5.5 fails with the error: Cannot unmount volume &l… http://www.running-system.com/unmounting-a-datastore-fails-with-an-error-because-of-vsan-traces/ We are not using VSAN, but running into issues during array migrations due to datastores that cannot be unmounted. Logging into each ESXH host via SSH would be pretty painful.
Hey Luc, Any other ideas? I am completely stuck
FWIW - the account gets created fine... the issues are all with assigning the role.
OK I tried this, but got a new error...  "The specified role is from a different server". Then I modified the line "New-VIpermission -Entity $esx" to be "-Entity $srv" and got the same error I... See more...
OK I tried this, but got a new error...  "The specified role is from a different server". Then I modified the line "New-VIpermission -Entity $esx" to be "-Entity $srv" and got the same error I was getting previously. Thanks for your help, I'll keep troubleshooting.
Hey Luc, Yeah, I had caught the esx vs esxc thing, no worries. I was set for multiple default servers, but a change to single produces the same errors.
Hi, When i modify this script to run against a single host (ie. set the $esx variable to a single host and eliminate the for loop) it works fine... When I run it against my vCenter, with the ... See more...
Hi, When i modify this script to run against a single host (ie. set the $esx variable to a single host and eliminate the for loop) it works fine... When I run it against my vCenter, with the for loop... I get several errors: New-VIPermission : 11/14/2013 4:51:55 PM    New-VIPermission        One or more objects are specified by name. There is no server list explicitly specified, so an attempt was made to determine a single server by the  managed objects passed to the cmdlet as arguments. However the arguments come from more than one server which makes it impossible to unambiguously  select single server. +     New-VIPermission -Entity $esx -Principal $account -Role admin +     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     + CategoryInfo          : InvalidResult: (System.Collecti...1.VIConnection    ]:List`1) [New-VIPermission], ViServerConnectionException     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_ObnSelector_GetClientListFromCmdletParamete    rs_AmbiguousServer,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.Permission   Management.NewVIPermission New-VIPermission : 11/14/2013 4:51:56 PM    New-VIPermission        Value cannot be found for the mandatory parameter Role Disconnect-VIServer : Cannot bind parameter 'Server'. Cannot convert the "was my server name" value of type "VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Inventory.VMHostImpl" to type "VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Types.V1.VIServer". Here is the quick sample of what I am doing: connect-viserver myserver   foreach($esx in Get-VMHost){     Connect-VIServer -Server $esx -User root -Password mypw     $account = New-VMHostAccount -Id userhere -Password pwhere -UserAccount -GrantShellAccess     New-VIPermission -Entity $esx -Principal $account -Role admin     Disconnect-VIServer -Server $esx }
What actually grants the new user the local role of "administrator" ?
For every host in my vCenter inventory, I would like to create a new user "ops" and assign it with the role of "administrator". Effectively, I want to create an administrative alternative to the ... See more...
For every host in my vCenter inventory, I would like to create a new user "ops" and assign it with the role of "administrator". Effectively, I want to create an administrative alternative to the root account. Is this possible with PowerCLI?  Hosts are all ESXi 5.1
Does VMware Converter 5.1 in any way work with vSphere 5.5?
Nevermind, figured this out, simple! get-folder!
I am using powercli and get-vm to generate a list of VMs and configuration items. I  would like to somehow list what folder in vCenter a VM is in, and then sort the VMs by folder, and then by nam... See more...
I am using powercli and get-vm to generate a list of VMs and configuration items. I  would like to somehow list what folder in vCenter a VM is in, and then sort the VMs by folder, and then by name in ascending order. Is this possible? get-vm | Sort Name | % {     $vm = Get-View $_.ID     $vms = "" | Select-Object VMName, Hostname, IPAddress, OS, TotalCPU, TotalMemory, TotalNics, OverallCpuUsage, MemoryUsage, ToolsStatus, ToolsVersion     $vms.VMName = $vm.Name     $vms.Hostname = $vm.guest.hostname   $vms.IPAddress = $vm.guest.ipAddress   $vms.OS = $vm.guest.GuestID     $vms.TotalCPU = $vm.summary.config.numcpu     $vms.TotalMemory = $vm.summary.config.memorysizemb     $vms.TotalNics = $vm.summary.config.numEthernetCards   $vms.OverallCpuUsage = $vm.summary.quickStats.OverallCpuUsage     $vms.MemoryUsage = $vm.summary.quickStats.guestMemoryUsage     $vms.ToolsStatus = $vm.guest.toolsstatus     $vms.ToolsVersion = $vm.config.tools.toolsversion   $report2 += $vms }
Is there any official documentation on this? It seems silly to stand up a windows server just to run this very lightweigh service. I almost wonder why this just isn't another dedicated applian... See more...
Is there any official documentation on this? It seems silly to stand up a windows server just to run this very lightweigh service. I almost wonder why this just isn't another dedicated appliance that is part of the vapp. I have this running on my lab vcenter server right now wihtout issue. What are the downsides to doing this?
Where am I supposed to run the .exe? On my vcenter server? On my view connection server? The deployment guide is pretty poor for this.
I am just waiting for a few snapshots to age out (I can't delete the ones I have now) and then I will test this. Thanks for your help, much appreciated!!