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You know what is even the worst thing... Is that VMware states to be a cloud company. Right now I am working from home as overwork with YT music and a VPN connection on to a customer. Try to use ... See more...
You know what is even the worst thing... Is that VMware states to be a cloud company. Right now I am working from home as overwork with YT music and a VPN connection on to a customer. Try to use the Webclient with an RDP session and uplink! So much fun! It's like a online game with a latency of 200+! Then I try the normal client over VPN! NO FUCKING LAG!!! Really.. They just want M$FT to take us over.
I must agree. The webclient is soo shitty that I do not upgrade my VM's to machine version 10. I think this is not the way VMware wants it. It is soo fucking slow that I even like Hyper-V manager... See more...
I must agree. The webclient is soo shitty that I do not upgrade my VM's to machine version 10. I think this is not the way VMware wants it. It is soo fucking slow that I even like Hyper-V manager more... Damn you VMware! You really do not want more moneys!
I have created an support ticket. It is closed now and not solved. This was the official answer: Hello Michel, I have asked our Engineering team, if we can workaround the limitations of o... See more...
I have created an support ticket. It is closed now and not solved. This was the official answer: Hello Michel, I have asked our Engineering team, if we can workaround the limitations of our VC, so you can use syspreped VM as a template. This is the answer from Engineering team: "I believe this issue is about the licensing limitations enforced by Microsoft (which BTW works differently on different versions of Windows and sometimes even between the Service Packs).  VC doesn't have an option to run the KMS activation. Thus, the template must always have RearmsCount > 0. The new OGC framework will have enough flexibility to resolve this by allowing the user to tweak the "sysprep" Script to use something like SkipRearm or add any custom steps like "register with KMS". My recommendation for this bug is "won't fix". Michel, I'm afraid in this situation we cannot do now anything more for you, but your issue will be addressed in  next generation OGC framework. -- So VMware said it is not supported to use an syspreped template anymore. That it worked before was a coincedence and they say a sysprepped template is not needed when using the customization. This is true if you do not use a domain joined template. In my case it was a sysprepped Citrix Server XenApp 6.5 2008 R2. Because it was domain joined I need to sysprep it otherwise XenApp and the Domain would not like the machine very much (machine sid is the same then for all rolled out machines). VMware says this is "working as intended".... Fact is that they refuse to see it as a bug. It is in my eyes because the VMXNET3 card is not visible when you sysprep a machine and use customization. If I sysprep a domain joined vmxnet3 vm it works perfect without customization but fails with it.... But maybe it will be fixed it the next vCenter Update.
I have the same issue. Also the latest vCenter Appliance. Everything seems to work and only the  "Asset Properties History Service", VMware Profile-Driven Storage Service and "VMware vCenter Stor... See more...
I have the same issue. Also the latest vCenter Appliance. Everything seems to work and only the  "Asset Properties History Service", VMware Profile-Driven Storage Service and "VMware vCenter Storage Monitoring Service" have this issue. Seems a bug in the software then if more people have it. Please send the solution here if you get one. Saves me from making another SR :smileysilly:.
Same issue here with 2012 r2 customization. This is the second customer I experience issues. At the first the rolled out template was corrupt and we made a call at microsoft. They were unable to ... See more...
Same issue here with 2012 r2 customization. This is the second customer I experience issues. At the first the rolled out template was corrupt and we made a call at microsoft. They were unable to determine what was wrong with the server and decided we should reinstall our domain controller and exchange 2013 server..Strange part was I rolled out 3 servers from the same template and 2 were bad and 1 was good (according to Microsoft). Now the second customer I cannot even get it working with customization. Customer 1: vCenter appliance 5.5 update B / ESXi 5.5 HP Version Customer 2: vCenter Server 5.5 Update B / ESXi 5.5 HP Version Guestcust.log: [2014-01-30T12:03:15  INFO] GuestCustUtil invoked. [2014-01-30T12:03:15  INFO] Params: customize -sealparam "/quiet /generalize /oobe /reboot" -nics 4000 -schedulenativeunobfusc [2014-01-30T12:03:15 DEBUG] Registry value 'CustomRescheduleFlags' is not set. Returning default value: 0 [2014-01-30T12:03:15  INFO] Checking for Windows Sysprep Respecialize operation. [2014-01-30T12:03:15 DEBUG] Sysprep process is not running. [2014-01-30T12:03:15  INFO] Windows Sysprep Respecialize operation was not detected. [2014-01-30T12:03:15 DEBUG] Customization in progress set to 1 at 2014-Jan-30 12:03:15 [2014-01-30T12:03:15 DEBUG] Rpci: Sending request='deployPkg.update.state 4 0 C:\Windows\TEMP\vmware-imc\guestcust.log' [2014-01-30T12:03:15 DEBUG] Rpci: Sent request='deployPkg.update.state 4 0 C:\Windows\TEMP\vmware-imc\guestcust.log', reply='', len=0, status=1 [2014-01-30T12:03:15 DEBUG] Successfully opened key SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\ [2014-01-30T12:03:15 DEBUG] Size of reg_multi_sz 27. [2014-01-30T12:03:15 DEBUG] Read multi_sz value from registry autocheck autochk /q /v *, size 27. [2014-01-30T12:03:15 DEBUG] string value from registry autocheck autochk /q /v *. [2014-01-30T12:03:15 DEBUG] Returning 1 elements [2014-01-30T12:03:15 DEBUG] Got BootExecute from session mgr. [2014-01-30T12:03:15 DEBUG] Native App sysprepDecrypter.exe, arguments '' [2014-01-30T12:03:15 DEBUG] Copied file sysprepDecrypter.exe to C:\Windows\system32\sysprepDecrypter.exe [2014-01-30T12:03:15 DEBUG] Updated boot execute value. [2014-01-30T12:03:15 DEBUG] Successfully created/opened key SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.\Guest Customization\ [2014-01-30T12:03:15 DEBUG] New boot execute: [2014-01-30T12:03:15 DEBUG] autocheck autochk /q /v * [2014-01-30T12:03:15 DEBUG] sysprepDecrypter.exe [2014-01-30T12:03:15 DEBUG] System Drive: C: [2014-01-30T12:03:15 DEBUG] Moving directory 'sysprep' to 'C:' [2014-01-30T12:03:16 DEBUG] select * from win32_networkadapter where Manufacturer != 'Microsoft' and ServiceName != 'VMnetAdapter' and  manufacturer is not null and MACAddress is not null [2014-01-30T12:03:16 DEBUG] Found 0 objects. Pointer 0. return code -2147217398(0x8004100a) [2014-01-30T12:03:16 DEBUG] Rpci: Sending request='deployPkg.update.state 4 101 C:\Windows\TEMP\vmware-imc\guestcust.log@WinMgmt : ' [2014-01-30T12:03:16 DEBUG] Rpci: Sent request='deployPkg.update.state 4 101 C:\Windows\TEMP\vmware-imc\guestcust.log@WinMgmt : ', reply='', len=0, status=1 [2014-01-30T12:03:16 ERROR] error number 8004100a, WinMgmt : [2014-01-30T12:03:16  INFO] GuestCustUtil exiting. The setupact.log is clean and the setuperr.log is clear (0 kb). An other interesting part is when I deploy "vm from template" the VMXNET3 NIC is not connected (turned of in vm) while it is connected in the Template itself (i checked with edit settings). Seems VMware is making a few mistakes in this one. Please fix it as I have a project running and want to roll out a template cause of memory sharing etc! -- [2014-01-30T12:03:16 DEBUG] select * from win32_networkadapter where Manufacturer != 'Microsoft' and ServiceName != 'VMnetAdapter' and  manufacturer is not null and MACAddress is not null [2014-01-30T12:03:16 DEBUG] Found 0 objects. Pointer 0. return code -2147217398(0x8004100a) This is where it goes wrong. It does not see a NIC... I think it is important in a server ;-).