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Greetings to all the colleagues of the forum. My question to the community is the following: I have a created machine (Thin hard drive) whose "provisioned storage" is 700 GB. The "Used storage" is 740.96 GB. On the other hand, if I look from within the S.O. installed, in this case Windows2019server, the disk is 700 GB and there is 72 GB of free space. How is it possible that there is more space in "Used storage" than in "provisioned storage" and instead we have 10% of the OS disk free, on the Windows virtual machine ? I attach screenshots. Thanks for your response in advance.            

I'm an Aria / vROps newbie and have an instance of Aria 8.12.1 (21952151) enterprise with the VMware Horizon Management Pack. We did some performance tests and I'm now working on reporting the outcomes. While I was on holiday last week the clocks here in the UK went forward by one hour, bringing the UK back into step with UTC. Now when I configure one of my Dashboards to the time of one of the tests we performed there is no data, if I change the Dashboard time to 1 hour earlier the data is available. Tests performed this week aren't affected. Is there an easy way to fix this so that I don't have to change the Dashboard times to adjust for the time change please? It looks the NTP server is configured...   The VM is configured to sync using VMware Tools... Preferences look like this...   Thanks in advance, Greg

Is there any method for export the ESXi / vSphere network configure? (Not use Distributed Switches) I need detail of the network configure such as vSwitch, Port group, VMKernel NICs, Services... As I need replace around 20 servers to around 10 servers. Any Bros can help me?

I have a ESXi(192.168.0.11) not responding from vCenter(192.168.0.2), but guest vm worked fine. Try vCenter reconnected ESXi......failed, so I login DCUI and Test Management Network and type in vCenter ip, it shows "OK".  But when I change to Shell mode and ping vCenter ip, it failed.  (( I don't understand how difference between these operation, they both ping same ip, didn't they? ))  I try ping gateway(192.168.0.253) and Google DNS(8.8.8.8), it got response.  I have login vCenter via SSH and ping ESXi, it works.  I have restart hostd, vpxa and management network then reconnect from vCenter, but still failed.  Could anyone help me?

Hello all, I like to use a 10G NIC adapter for both the ESXi host and VDS concurrently. When I switch on the adapter on the host it will be gone on this host in VDS. When I try to get the NIC in VDS back, it works fine but the host lost these. Is it possible to use an NIC adapter for both at all?

I have some questions about VPU on the VM guest such as : If we need VM with 8 cores, it's better to assign '2 cores with 4 sockets' or '8 core with 1 socket'? Which option will get best performance of both configuration? If we have application based on sockets count, when i choose  2 cores with 4 socket this mean i need only 4 license and if i select 8 core with 1 sockets this mean i only need 1 license? ON the baremetal server we can see there are L3 cache on the CPU, but on every VM why we can't see the L3 cache?

I have 3 Clusters, 1st cluster contains 10 exsi hosts, 2nd cluster contains 3 esxi hosts and 3rd cluster only have one esxi host. I want to migrate some VMs on 1st cluster to 3rd cluster, when i navigate to the hosts under 'select a computer resource' i can see the esxi host under 3rd cluster and the compatibility checks is succeesded. But if i navigate to Cluster under 'select a computer resource' i can't see the 3rd cluster. Anyone know why? I can't see the 3rd cluster when migrate the VM due this cluster only contain one esxi host?

  The problem happened when I was trying to install stage 2. It ended up at 53% every time I try. It says : A problem occurred while - Starting Service Account Management Service... Encountered an internal error. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/vmware/site-packages/cis/cisreglib.py", line 249, in securityctx_modifier yield File "/usr/lib/vmware/site-packages/cis/cisreglib.py", line 588, in _doLogin ds_sessionmgr.LoginBySamlToken() File "/usr/lib/vmware/site-packages/pyVmomi/VmomiSupport.py", line 556, in <lambda> self.f(*(self.args + (obj,) + args), **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/vmware/site-packages/pyVmomi/VmomiSupport.py", line 368, in _InvokeMethod return self._stub.InvokeMethod(self, info, args) File "/usr/lib/vmware/site-packages/pyVmomi/SoapAdapter.py", line 1481, in InvokeMethod raise obj # pylint: disable-msg=E0702 pyVmomi.VmomiSupport.vmodl.fault.SecurityError: (vmodl.fault.SecurityError) { dynamicType = <unset>, dynamicProperty = (vmodl.DynamicProperty) [], msg = '', faultCause = <unset>, faultMessage = (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) [] } During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/vmidentity/firstboot/svcaccountmgmt-firstboot.py", line 64, in registerSvcAccountMgmtWithLookupService dynVars=dynVars) File "/usr/lib/vmware-cm/bin/cloudvmcisreg.py", line 710, in cloudvm_sso_cm_register serviceId = do_lsauthz_operation(cisreg_opts_dict) File "/usr/lib/vmware/site-packages/cis/cisreglib.py", line 1149, in do_lsauthz_operation authz_client.load_privs(privs_obj_list) File "/usr/lib/vmware/site-packages/cis/cisreglib.py", line 667, in load_privs self._authz_intservice.AddOrUpdatePrivileges(priv_obj_list) File "/usr/lib/vmware/site-packages/pyVmomi/VmomiSupport.py", line 556, in <lambda> self.f(*(self.args + (obj,) + args), **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/vmware/site-packages/pyVmomi/VmomiSupport.py", line 368, in _InvokeMethod return self._stub.InvokeMethod(self, info, args) File "/usr/lib/vmware/site-packages/pyVmomi/SoapAdapter.py", line 1710, in InvokeMethod self._CallLoginMethod() File "/usr/lib/vmware/site-packages/pyVmomi/SoapAdapter.py", line 1771, in _CallLoginMethod self.loginMethod(self.soapStub) File "/usr/lib/vmware/site-packages/cis/cisreglib.py", line 588, in _doLogin ds_sessionmgr.LoginBySamlToken() File "/usr/lib/python3.7/contextlib.py", line 161, in __exit__ raise RuntimeError("generator didn't stop after throw()") RuntimeError: generator didn't stop after throw() During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/vmidentity/firstboot/svcaccountmgmt-firstboot.py", line 116, in main svcAccountMgmtFb.firstbootAction() File "/usr/lib/vmidentity/firstboot/svcaccountmgmt-firstboot.py", line 43, in firstbootAction self.startService() File "/usr/lib/vmidentity/firstboot/svcaccountmgmt-firstboot.py", line 38, in startService self.registerSvcAccountMgmtWithLookupService() File "/usr/lib/vmidentity/firstboot/svcaccountmgmt-firstboot.py", line 73, in registerSvcAccountMgmtWithLookupService traceback.format_exc()))) File "/usr/lib/vmware/site-packages/cis/l10n.py", line 75, in localizedString l10nMsg = L10nMessage(msgMeta, args) File "/usr/lib/vmware/site-packages/cis/msgL10n.py", line 214, in __init__ raise ValueError("Invalid L10nMessage metadata %s", msgMeta) ValueError: ('Invalid L10nMessage metadata %s', (<cis.msgL10n.MessageMetadata object at 0x7ff75273ffd0>,)) Resolution: This is an unrecoverable error, please retry install. If you encounter this error again, please search for these symptoms in the VMware Knowledge Base for any known issues and possible resolutions. If none can be found, collect a support bundle and open a support request.    

Just checked the explanation about storage in the ESXi world, as shown here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-esxi-upgrade/GUID-A36810F4-00EC-4EA8-A242-2A0DBBF56731.html However, I got a doubt which is, is it possible to know the specific devices' identifier/name without using ESXi? The reason why this question emerge is due to a scenario: if using scripted ESXi installation on a new server that requires specifying a new disk for installation, then the administrator will need to know the identifier/name beforehand so that the script-writing can be completed. In order to obtain that disk's identifier/name, using an ESXi installer or existing ESXi server seemed to be a requirement. Any ideas?

Hi guys, I want to replace my datastore names in vROPS. My company is a private cloud and give a service to subordinate companies and I must give them billing report. In report I want to define disk type based on datastore names for example datastores that name of them contain vSAN shows disk type SSD and if names contain 10k shows HDD to my customer's VM in vROPS report. I think I can assign custom attribute to my VMs but there's a problem, if I migrate vm from vSAN datastore to 10K datastore custom attribute of VM is not changed. I don't know is it possible to do it by using Supermetric or other features of vROPS so I decided to ask my question here. I will appreciate if you help me to do that. Best Regards.

I'm very sorry for this basic question and I MUST be missing something obvious. I cannot get a terminating error located within a Try..Catch to be ignored and for processing to continue.   $ErrorActionPreference = "Ignore" Try { Write-Host "Try this...." Get-Item -Location "C:\Temp" -ErrorAction Ignore Write-Host "Error ignored" } Catch { Write-Host "Try-Catch activated" } Finally { Write-Host "Finally activated" }   Basically I want the terminating error "Get-Item -Location "C:\Temp" -ErrorAction Ignore" to be ignored and processing to continue. In my testing, the Catch block is always processed. My PS version: $PSVersionTable Name Value ---- ----- PSVersion 5.1.14393.6343 PSEdition Desktop PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...} BuildVersion 10.0.14393.6343 CLRVersion 4.0.30319.42000 WSManStackVersion 3.0 PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3 SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1

Hey everyone, i'm been playing around with aria operations and i'm trying to generate a view/report that will give me a list of all virtual appliances in the environment. Can't find a metric/property that would help with that. Any ideas? 

I am new to vmware. I am installing this on my Windows 10 Pro desktop, not a server. I am trying to install the vSphere Client to setup a Storage Gateway in AWS. I downloaded the VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi ISO) image and created a bootable USB. When booting from the USB I selected the ESXi-7.OU3n-21930508-standard Installer. It installs VMware ESXi 7.0.3, but when it comes to the end a modal pops up stating "No Network Adapters were detected. Either no network adapters are physically connected to the system, or a suitable driver could not be located. A third party driver may be required. Ensure that there is at least one network adapter physically connected to the system before attempting installation." My only option is to cancel the installation at this point. What steps can I take to resolve this issue? I have not installed any other vmware up to this point. Thanks in advance  

I'm looking for VMware 8 documentation that gives examples of Mongo being deployed in a VM and in a container via Tanzu.  I've not found much published in the last few months or so.  Any VMware technotes, weblinks or youtube videos would be much appreciated. Also what are the benefits versus disadvantages of MongDB in a VM versus a container? My apologies if I've cross posted to the wrong group. TIA

Hi VMware community, I'm building a setup of  VMware with  NVMe-oF and RoCE configuration for a customer, and I'm having some issues. I'm validating the configuration with Ubuntu 20.04 VMs, using PVRDMA or SR-IOV network adapters. I'm testing the VM performance using vdbench, and I'm not having any problems with 4k and 8k blocksizes. However, I'm starting to see packet loss for packet sizes over 8k. The I/O drop to zero for 3-4 seconds, then come back up, in intervals. Here are the details of my setup: VCenter version: 7.0.3 ESXi version: VMware ESXi, 7.0.3, 20842708 Server: Proliant DL 385 g10 NIC: Mellanox ConnectX-5 25Gb/s vdbench version: 50407 Storage: Huawei OceanStor Here is my vdbench configuration: host definition hd=default,vdbench=/home/adminctio/vdbench50407,user=root,shell=ssh hd=hd1,system=localhost test volume definition -- Single volume example - use higher thread count per volume for a low number of test volumes sd=default,openflags=o_direct sd=sd1,host=localhost,lun=/dev/nvme0n1 sd=sd2,host=localhost,lun=/dev/nvme0n2 sd=sd3,host=localhost,lun=/dev/nvme0n3 sd=sd4,host=localhost,lun=/dev/nvme0n4 test workload definition wd=wd1,sd=sd*,seekpct=100,rdpct=70,xfersize=32k test application run parameters rd=run1,wd=wd*,iorate=max,elapsed=60,interval=1,warmup=30,pause=60,threads=8   I think this might be a write cache issue. Has anyone else encountered a similar problem? Have you configured vdbench with additional parameters to avoid filling the cache? Thanks for any help. J.

Hello Everyone I am not able to set up any virutal hardware settings on my newly installed VMWARE VSphere environment. I get the following Error:   Error Loading Data {"data":"upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection failure, transport failure reason: delayed connect error: 111","skipErrorHandler":true} I was not able to find anything about it online, do you may know what I have to do here?   Thank you for your help. Kind regards,   Gabe

Hello all. I just upgraded my single ESXi server to v8 and my guests cannot talk to each other. Also, from another computer on the same network, I cannot get to the port 443 web console for one of my VMs. I've got a single NIC. Here are a few screenshots of my configuration. Thanks. In looking at these closely, I'm wondering of vmk0 is my problem but I'm not sure how to fix it.