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Hello, I had the same issue. I issued a letsencrypt certificate for my vCenter and applied it. Afterwards I was able to add the vCenter. Cheers, Thomas
Disable CSM in the BIOS. Than it uses UEFI which works.
ESX 7 Update 3 does not boot on X570D4U-2L2T with fatal error: 10 (out of resource). Does someone have an idea?    
This issue was resolved after I restartet the samba domain controller due to a failed delegation error message during datacore installation. I don't really understand how administrator@vsphere.lo... See more...
This issue was resolved after I restartet the samba domain controller due to a failed delegation error message during datacore installation. I don't really understand how administrator@vsphere.local credentials hangs on the samba ad domains delegation. But somehow it apparently does. Now VMRC is working again.
Hello, when I try to open VMRC with a VM under vCenter 6.7d under Windows, I get prompted for credentials for the vCenter which I was previously not, if I specify them, it says wrong login and pa... See more...
Hello, when I try to open VMRC with a VM under vCenter 6.7d under Windows, I get prompted for credentials for the vCenter which I was previously not, if I specify them, it says wrong login and password and does not open the console. I tried chrome and internet explorer 11. See screenshot below. Any idea what is going wrong? The error message is "failed to connec to" and "cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password." Cheers, Thomas
Hello, thank you for the settings. They worked. I added the following settings. The attached vc.json does not even need the hostname specified. It uses the one configured in the system. The syste... See more...
Hello, thank you for the settings. They worked. I added the following settings. The attached vc.json does not even need the hostname specified. It uses the one configured in the system. The system has a static ip and is joined to an active directory previous to vCenter installation. "ceip": {              "ceip.enabled": false,      "ceip.acknowledged": true } Cheers, Thomas
Hello, I would like to install vCenter 6.7 for Windows unattened. For Version 6.0 and 6.5 this was possible using the following command line: start /wait \path\to\vCenter-Server\VMware-vCenter-... See more...
Hello, I would like to install vCenter 6.7 for Windows unattened. For Version 6.0 and 6.5 this was possible using the following command line: start /wait \path\to\vCenter-Server\VMware-vCenter-Server.exe /qr CUSTOM_SETTINGS=\path\to\vc.json Starting with Version 6.7 the installation fails because it complains about the CEIP settings. However they're nowhere documented and an inquiry to the VMware documentation team was fruitless. The error message I'm getting is: 2018-07-01 13:02:49.907+02:00| vcsInstUtil-8217866| E: VM_ValidateCeipValueForSilentInstall: Unable to get 'CEIP_SETTINGS' property: 1603 Has anybody figured out the missing option? Cheers, Thomas
I should have searched the documenation more throroughly: For all Windows reference machines: a. Download and extract setup\GugentZip.zip from the vCAC installation package into C:\ on the refere... See more...
I should have searched the documenation more throroughly: For all Windows reference machines: a. Download and extract setup\GugentZip.zip from the vCAC installation package into C:\ on the reference machine. This will produce the folder c:\VRMGuestAgent. Note: Do not change the name of the c:\VRMGuestAgent folder. b. In an elevated command prompt, run one of the following commands: (HTTP) winservice -i -h vcac_fqdn[:portnumber] (HTTPS) winservice -i -h vcac_fqdn[:portnumber -p ssl] Where vcac_fqdn is the fully qualified domain name of the vCAC server host, and the optional portnumber is the port number for the ProxyAgentService endpoint on that host. If you don’t specify a port number, vCAC assigns the default port number 80 (HTTP) or 443 (HTTPS) for the ProxyAgentService endpoint. The name of the Windows service is VCACGuestAgentService. The installation log VCACGuestAgentService.log can be found in c:\VRMGuestAgent.
Hello, we just installed vcac 5.2 and have trouble installing the guest agent under Windows 2012: The radio box for guest is missing. Please advice. Cheers,    Thomas
Hallo, so we still have the problem that the inventory collection takes 30 minutes while it should take no more than 2 minutes. The inventory consists of one Cluster, two ESX servers and 20 VMs. ... See more...
Hallo, so we still have the problem that the inventory collection takes 30 minutes while it should take no more than 2 minutes. The inventory consists of one Cluster, two ESX servers and 20 VMs. We did a man in the middle attack between the vCenter and the agent and looked at the traffic. What we can see that the inventory collection consts of one long TCP connection, the agent issues soap calls and the calls are immediatly ansswer, but sometimes the agent waits upto _1 minute_ to issue the next soap call. I assume that this is the symptom. Also when I compare the throughput flow graph of a installation that works with the one that does not, I can see that the one that does not work bursts and than sleeps while the one that works has a constant flow of throughput. We tried to reinstall the vcac server with the same image as the environment where it works, but still have the problem. We also added the hosts entries to the vcac server, no change. We tried to use sysinternals process explorer to monitor the agent, but the only thing we can see here that the delta between writing to the .config file and thread exit is 6 seconds instead of a fraction of a second. So next we try to install vcac without joining the active directory and reinstall a new vcenter and see if the poblem persists. The debug log shows nothing because there is only logged when the inventory location starts, finishes and is propagated to the vcac server. Cheers,    Thomas We opened a SR: 13330063105
Hello, I tried to provision Windows Server 2012 using vcac using vCenter. Clonening works, guest customization is kicked off, but often the VM hangs, so it needs a manual reboot. This documented ... See more...
Hello, I tried to provision Windows Server 2012 using vcac using vCenter. Clonening works, guest customization is kicked off, but often the VM hangs, so it needs a manual reboot. This documented in the kb articles 2048394 and 20373666. However Windows Server 2012 is not a supported guest os according to the vcac matrix. I also noticed that is possible to install the guest agent, but it doesn't call in. So I wonder when Windows server 2012 will be fully supported and if there is a way to get the guest agent running? Cheers,     Thomas
Hello, after leaving the system alone for two hours, the system recovered. My analysis is: I should have not interfered with the data collection and should have waited. Why it takes 22 mintues to... See more...
Hello, after leaving the system alone for two hours, the system recovered. My analysis is: I should have not interfered with the data collection and should have waited. Why it takes 22 mintues to collect the data is not clear however after letting system sitting there for two hours it recovered and started the data collection. Now everything is up and running again. Cheers,     Thomas
Hello, we started a inventory discovery task for a vcenter. This task finished once according to the log file before. The first run took 20 minutes. Today I started the discovery task again but t... See more...
Hello, we started a inventory discovery task for a vcenter. This task finished once according to the log file before. The first run took 20 minutes. Today I started the discovery task again but thought it took to long so I restarted the agent. That resulted in the discovery task never finishing. According to ManagerService.Exe.config configuration file inventory discovery timeout should be 2 hours. So I waited two hours but the discovery task is still 'in progress'. I assume that I caused this problem, by acting to quickly instead of waiting. However we restarted the whole system multiple times, tried to change the inventory discovery timeout and also moved away the state Workitems.bin file in tmp directory of the agent. Please advice how to recover from the problem. Cheers, Thomas
Hello Matt, just had the very same problem. Thank you for reporting and posting the solution of it. Cheers,       Thomas
Hello, I just had the same problem you had with vcloud director 1.5 and vShield Manager 5.0. The root cause was that I used the wrong license without the vpn/load balancer functionality. I resolv... See more...
Hello, I just had the same problem you had with vcloud director 1.5 and vShield Manager 5.0. The root cause was that I used the wrong license without the vpn/load balancer functionality. I resolved the issue by applying the right license and right clicked on the vcloud director network and said 'Reset Network'. Afterwards the problem was gone. Cheers,         Thomas
Hello, I installed a fresh debian lenny vm, imported it into a catalog and created a new vapp with two lenny vms. When I start the vApp most of the time, one of the VMs doesn't come up with the ... See more...
Hello, I installed a fresh debian lenny vm, imported it into a catalog and created a new vapp with two lenny vms. When I start the vApp most of the time, one of the VMs doesn't come up with the following error message: Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Boot with apic=debug and send a report. Then try booting with the 'noapic' option but the other one boots. But both come from the exact same image. When using squeeze VMs it works but the boot process of both VMs take ages. I used the vSphere Perl API to extract the VM configuration of the inventory and attached them in case an engineer is reading this. Also a screenshot. Thomas
Had the same problem. From the vShield quick start guide: 1 From a vSphere Client host that is connected to a vCenter Server system, select Home > Licensing. 2 For the report view, select Ass... See more...
Had the same problem. From the vShield quick start guide: 1 From a vSphere Client host that is connected to a vCenter Server system, select Home > Licensing. 2 For the report view, select Asset. 3 Right‐click a vShield asset and select Change license key. 4 Select Assign a new license key and click Enter Key. 5 Enter the license key, enter an optional label for the key, and click OK. 6 Click OK. 7 Repeat these steps for each vShield component for which you have a license.
Hello, is it planned to provide shallow clones (instead of coping the VMs disk just using a snapshot and a golden master)? Btw. what is the difference between importing a VM when setting the gol... See more...
Hello, is it planned to provide shallow clones (instead of coping the VMs disk just using a snapshot and a golden master)? Btw. what is the difference between importing a VM when setting the golden master checkbox? Thomas