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I have a vm that I am trying to migrate to another set of hosts via HCX. That particular vm has several hard disks\vmdk's that have decimal points with their sizes   see picture.  my questions are: has anyone ever changed a drive with a decimal point in it to a whole number? has anyone ever had any impact to the vm?  is it just rounding up to the next whole number and hit apply? (like i have done a billion times before) Or do I have to extend the disk as well for it to be recognized in HCX as no longer a decimal point?     I feel I should be able to round up to the next whole number or what is applicable and hit apply, however, it never hurts to check with others

hello all.  I found this article Change from Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA... - VMware Technology Network VMTN and it makes sense, however, i wanted to verify if i had to remove IWA first and then add LDAPS or can i have IWA still in place, add LDAPS, then remove IWA?    In essences, what is the best process you are fining in your experiences?

we are looking at joining our existing infrastructure with vcdr and vmc on aws.  the question that has my org stumped is the routing for the vpn / connection and it goes like this:  if we expose a subnet to the vpn and vmc on aws, lets say 192.168.10.0/24 and have 6 vm's on that subnet, can 3 be powered on and function on prem and can 3 vm's be powered on and functioning on vmc on AWS at the same time?    a second way of asking this question is  does the can you split a subnet,  lets say 192.168.10.0/24,  where half the subnet can live in AWS and the other half live on prem, as well as the gateway for the subnet, live on prem, without extending the on prem network into AWS?

old sql (2016 os ) sql01 and sql02 SQL version      2016 ( don't know patch version) scsi controllers for sql 2 (paravirtual)  sql drives          8   5.04 tb in size    new sql (2019 os) sql03 and sql04 SQL version                  2019 scsi controllers for sql  3 (all paravirtual) sql drives                      8  size to be determined after the move   We have an existing cluster in sql always on availability mode that we are upgrading to version 2019 from 2016  Operating system.  SQL 2016 is on the existing serves and SQL2019 will be on the new servers.  What i want to find out is if the servers(all 4) are powered off, and I remove/ detach the existing vmdk's from the old vm's and reattach the vmdk's to the new vm's, what should we expect to see when power on the new vm's?   NOTE:  i have moved vmdk's from and older os to a newer os (windows 2008 to later) and not had issues.  but SQL was not on those drives, NOTE:  we have a 4 hour window to accomplish this cutover and a back up and restore would be at least 6 based on previous attempts, never mind the other pre and post configuration items that need to be done  on the new servers.  I ask this as there have been some permission issues on the drives that have had to be addressed in the past when the old drives are attached to the new server. thoughts?

Recently, one of my other vcenter admins(with out ill intent) added an account to vcenter global permissions as read only However, that account was already in the global permissions but in an ad group with administrator access. Apparently this caused some conflicts in permissions and some of our applications didn't work correctly because of the conflict.  To that end, I am wanting to look for a script or tool to notify a group of users that a new user or permission has been changed.  I know netwrix does something like this but i think that is more focused on vm's more than vcenter changes.     Thoughts?

Good day.  I am asking for opinions in regarding how to do a packet capture inside a virtual distributed switch.  we have an application that is running on physical hardware and a 1gb network with out very much latency.  the decision was made to take this app virtual so that we could take advantage of our 10gb network and newer hardware.  To that end, we are experiencing a lot of latency on the new virtual environment and the question is arising as to what is going on in the virtual distributed switch as the network team isnt able to view inside it.  We do have vRealize Network insight but not enough licenses at this time nor the switches set up correctly to utilize vRealize Network Insight yet.    any thoughts would be appreciated. 

good morning.  my org just upgraded me to windows 10.  Yay!  however, i am not able to install powercli on powershell.  i have downloaded the package and extracted same and put it in my modules folder.   i have followed this article https://aventistech.com/install-powercli-10-on-windows-10/ Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned #Install NuGet Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -RequiredVersion 2.8.5.201 -Force  (this was successful) Save-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI -Path C:\Temp\PowerCLI PackageManagement\Save-Package : No match was found for the specified search criteria and module name 'VMware.PowerCLI'. Try Get-PSRepository to see all available registered module repositories. At C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\PowerShellGet\1.0.0.1\PSModule.psm1:1598 char:21 +             $null = PackageManagement\Save-Package @PSBoundParameters +                     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (Microsoft.Power...ets.SavePackage:SavePackage) [Save-Package], Exception     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NoMatchFoundForCriteria,Microsoft.PowerShell.PackageManagement.Cmdlets.SavePackage Install-Module Vmware.PowerCLI -Force PackageManagement\Install-Package : No match was found for the specified search criteria and module name 'Vmware.PowerCLI'. Try Get-PSRepository to see all available registered module repositories. At C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\PowerShellGet\1.0.0.1\PSModule.psm1:1809 char:21 + ...          $null = PackageManagement\Install-Package @PSBoundParameters +                      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (Microsoft.Power....InstallPackage:InstallPackage) [Install-Package], Exception     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NoMatchFoundForCriteria,Microsoft.PowerShell.PackageManagement.Cmdlets.InstallPackage PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-PSRepository WARNING: Unable to find module repositories. PS C:\Windows\system32>  $PSVersionTable.PSVersion Major  Minor  Build  Revision -----  -----  -----  -------- 5      1      16299  98   PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-PackageProvider -ListAvailable Name                     Version          DynamicOptions                                                                                                   ----                     -------          --------------                                                                                                   msi                      3.0.0.0          AdditionalArguments                                                                                              msu                      3.0.0.0                                                                                                                           nuget                    2.8.5.201                                                                                                                         NuGet                    2.8.5.208        Destination, ExcludeVersion, Scope, SkipDependencies, Headers, FilterOnTag, Contains, AllowPrereleaseVersions,... PowerShellGet            1.0.0.1          PackageManagementProvider, Type, Scope, AllowClobber, SkipPublisherCheck, InstallUpdate, NoPathUpdate, Filter,... Programs                 3.0.0.0          IncludeWindowsInstaller, IncludeSystemComponent                                                                  thoughts?

I have a test environment and the short of it is that the migration went ok no real major issue.  The bosses dont really want to do this without knowing 'everything' that could go wrong in advance.  i was interested in seeing if anyone had anything pop up as an issue.