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Hi, after updating to Workstation 17 Pro 17.5.0 build-22583795, I start to have the same issue, the keyboard stops responding, It did this 5 times in less than 3 hours. I applied @banackm first suggestion: (1) Power off the VM, and add the config option: keyboard.allowBothIRQs = FALSE And after that, the issue is gone. Don't want to jinx it, but 1 full day of working without the issue. Many thanks!!!! Cheers, Diego

@N3rdlicht  I've asked myself the same question at a customer a few months ago. I've tried numerous things to get rid of the Edge and Store icons at each logon but unfortunately nothing helped. I also had never seen this happening at other customers.  I first thought I fixed it by running the following command on the golden image:  Import-StartLayout layout2.xml -MountPath $env:SystemDrive\ Happy me, happy customer, until a few weeks later the icons suddenly appeared again. There had been updates on the GI but nothing related to that. We ran the command again and it was back OK for a few weeks until the appeared again.  The ultimate fix we've done was to add the command in our post-sync script, so it gets run on each VDI that is provisioned. It's been stable for a few months now. Although I still have no idea why they kept coming back in the first place. Our layout2.xml file looks like this (we forced Chrome and Explorer in the taskbar and some pinned shortcuts on the start menu: <LayoutModificationTemplate xmlns:defaultlayout="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/FullDefaultLayout" xmlns:start="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/StartLayout" xmlns:taskbar="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/TaskbarLayout" Version="1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/LayoutModification"> <LayoutOptions StartTileGroupCellWidth="6" /> <DefaultLayoutOverride> <StartLayoutCollection> <defaultlayout:StartLayout GroupCellWidth="6"> <start:Group Name=""> <start:DesktopApplicationTile Size="2x2" Column="2" Row="0" DesktopApplicationID="\\domain.local\SYSVOL\DOMAIN.LOCAL\scripts\VDI\EndSession\Fermer.vbs" /> <start:DesktopApplicationTile Size="2x2" Column="0" Row="0" DesktopApplicationID="\\domain.local\SYSVOL\DOMAIN.LOCAL\scripts\VDI\EndSession\Deconnexion.vbs" /> </start:Group> </defaultlayout:StartLayout> </StartLayoutCollection> </DefaultLayoutOverride> <CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection PinListPlacement="Replace"> <defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout> <taskbar:TaskbarPinList> <taskbar:DesktopApp DesktopApplicationID="Microsoft.Windows.Explorer" /> <taskbar:DesktopApp DesktopApplicationID="Chrome" /> </taskbar:TaskbarPinList> </defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout> </CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection> </LayoutModificationTemplate>

vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 can be downloaded from the Download Center after the product has been registered as eval https://customerconnect.vmware.com/en/evalcenter?p=free-esxi7 VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi ISO) image, 2023-07-06, 7.0U3n, 382.05 MB, iso

Thank you Fernando. The RAID looks good (see image)  This is encouraging, as I am hoping to restore the server with no data loss...  I am trying to organize my troubleshooting, so I will focus on healing the "degraded" state of the volumes as reported by ESXi. I did see one thread where someone solved this with esxcli ssh commands as specified here at https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Disks-degraded-in-ESXi/m-p/1404465#M134443 I am a little shy to run these commands out of the box, but I feel better now...I can do this!   Any insights appreciated! Thank you all! bobd 

Are the components you use supported ? https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/memory-and-storage/Intel-VROC-VMD-Supported-Configs.pdf https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000030310/memory-and-storage/datacenter-storage-solutions.html  

You wrote: But sharing (which didn't work in this VM before upgrading to 13.5) seems enabled on far too much, - so much so that I cant actually run windows explorer on the drive any more. Every instance I try to run gives me only the files on the host! In fact even the VM's desktop shows the files on the host's desktop! I have never seen this before?? Have you tried turning off sharing in the VM's properties then turning, disabling all shares, and then turning them on again one-by-one?

The fact that you work for a company that holds the partner level is a significant advantage for you, and you will save money. https://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/plan.cfm?plan=46328&ui=www_edu In my opinion, the best way is to use VMware Digital Learning (On-demand courses) with VMware Hands-on Labs for learning. https://www.vmware.com/it/learning/training/certification-special-offers-beta-classes.html

You can query these Advanced Settings with Get-AdvancedSetting. The following will set isolation.tools.autoInstall.disable to False, when it is set to True. Note that this will not add the setting when it isn't there (which shouldn't cause an issue for the AutoUpgrade setting). Get-VM -Name MyVM | Get-AdvancedSetting -Name isolation.tools.autoInstall.disable | where{$_.Value -eq 'True'} | Set-AdvancedSetting -Value False -Confirm:$false

This is really discouraging. I am facing the same issue. NAT is no longer working. Cannot ping the NAT gateway. If I go bridged is partially works. My VMs are can acess the internet but I can only ping the gateway using IPV6. This really stinks.