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Re: vCenter 6.7 Certificate Verification Failed

doppo — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 08:32:08 GMT

same here, can't manage to find solution on the web.

SSL certificate vCenter 6.7 Without FQDN

Zazaza7 — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 07:37:29 GMT

my vCenter doesn't have an FQDN, so when deploying I don't include any FQDN. once it finished deploying, the hostname by default will be "phaton-machine". Is it possible to add an SSL Certificate without using an FQDN?

vCenter 6.7 Certificate Verification Failed

Zazaza7 — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 07:26:42 GMT

Previously my vcenter was functioning normally, then an error appeared.

"[400] An error occured while sending an authenticationrequest to the vCenter Single Sign-On server - An error occured when processing the metadata during vCenter Single Sign-Onsetup - Failed to connect to VM ware Lookup service

Back to login screen https ://IPvCenter/lookupservice/sdk - SSL certificateverification failed"

I then checked my ssl certificate and the result is "Not Such File or Directory) (image 1). Then I tried regenerating the VMCA SSL certificate. certificate added successfully, but still unable to login to vCenter. error 503 Endpoint appears in login (image 2)

Re: Dont have access to download the concord images from Docker hub

scott28tt — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 09:06:27 GMT

Thread reported so moderators know it should be moved, since this has nothing to do with Skyline.

Dont have access to download the concord images from Docker hub

saptu1313 — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 08:37:14 GMT

Don't have access to download the concord images from the Docker hub, please let me know if there is a way to download

Format of OVA manifest file depending on OVF or VMX version?

MichaIng — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 02:36:26 GMT

Hey guys,

we try to generate an OVA appliance for VMware player/Fusion as well as ESXi/vSphere. We build the OVA manually, using an OVF based on an ovftool or ESXi export, a VMDK and a manifest (.mf) file with SHA1 hashes for the other two files, then adding those three into into a gzipped tarball with OVA ending.

Our first attempt was with an OVF generated via ovftool from a VMX that we successfully used on VMware player before. This OVA could be imported into VMware player successfully, but it failed to be imported to ESXi, directly or via vSphere, throwing an error about a mismatch between manifest file and content. The manifest file looked like this:

SHA1 (<name>.ovf) = <sha1>
SHA1 (<name>.vmdk) = <sha1>

We compared it with an export from ESXi and found the spaces around the filename parenthesis to be missing. Removing them from the one above, generated by ovftool, allowed the appliance to be imported in ESXi.

We then generated a new OVF with some tuned hardware settings based on an ESXi export, where the spaces were missing expectedly. It imports fine on ESXi and vSphere, but fails with the manifest mismatch error on VMware player. Interestingly, adding the spaces does not solve it. We tried to compare with another ovftool VMX conversion with newer VMX version, which then as well didn't contain those spaces anymore, but SHA256 hashes instead. Trying to use SHA256 hashes within the other appliance (of course with correct hashes for the two files, double checked), with or without spaces still failed.

This all makes me think that the exact format as well as the used hashing algorithm highly depends not only on the VMware product, but also on the used OVF and VMX version strings defined in the OVF file: The latter is defined within the OVF as well, e.g. via <vssd:VirtualSystemType>vmx-13</vssd:VirtualSystemType> which indicates hardware version 13.

Is there an overview of the exact expected/functional manifest file format and supported hashing algorithm for each project, depending on OVF version, VMX version?

Best regards,

Micha

Re: vSphere Management Appliance (vMA) and Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)

rudycapp — Thu, 27 May 2021 21:09:30 GMT

Ciao Fabio,

this is a very good news, I think exactly what I was looking for to manage our ESXi servers individually.

Thanks a lot for the info

Re: vSphere Management Appliance (vMA) and Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)

fabio1975 — Thu, 27 May 2021 09:10:57 GMT

Ciao

The connection between the Powerchute application, the ESXi host (or the vCenter) and the UPS takes place via the network (therefore the UPS must have the management network card installed, it is not always included in the UPS).

You can also manage individual ESXi nodes (I've always used it for managing infrastructures with vCenter) and communication takes place by creating users on ESXi with specific permissions (ssh is not necessary).

Re: vSphere Management Appliance (vMA) and Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)

rudycapp — Thu, 27 May 2021 08:47:01 GMT

Hello Fabio,

this is wonderful, can I ask you how did you connect your UPS to the ESXi server? Using an USB direct connection or the network card? It is required to enable the SSH protocol on the ESXi to get PowerChute working if I need to connect the UPS only to one ESXi server (without vCenter Server) ?

Thanks

Rodolfo

Re: vSphere Management Appliance (vMA) and Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)

fabio1975 — Wed, 26 May 2021 15:04:45 GMT

CIao

No PowerChute network shutdown does not require the vMA, it interfaces directly with the vCenter and with ESXi. Requires a Windows VM or a physical windows server on which to install the package and communicates with the network with the UPS and with the VMware environment

PowerChute Network Shutdown v4.4.1 - VMware User Guide (schneider-electric.com)

Re: vSphere Management Appliance (vMA) and Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)

rudycapp — Wed, 26 May 2021 14:36:59 GMT

Hi Fabio,

APC PowerChute is a good solution, but unfortunately it uses VMware vMA.

Thanks

Re: vSphere Management Appliance (vMA) and Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)

fabio1975 — Wed, 26 May 2021 14:00:36 GMT

Ciao

I use APC UPS with PowerChute Network Shutdown

PowerChute Network Shutdown v4.3 (64-bit systems only) - APC USA

vSphere Management Appliance (vMA) and Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)

rudycapp — Wed, 26 May 2021 12:41:38 GMT

Hello everybody,

I have a problem regarding the choice of an UPS managing our ESXi servers.

All of them that I have seen, use the vMA to send network shutdown commands to the ESXi server and gracefully shutdown all virtual machines and then the ESXi itself.

For security reasons I cannot use the VMware vMA installed on the ESXi, and as well I cannot use SSH to send shutdown commands via scripts to the ESXi, also with a direct USB connection instead of a network connection.

It is a big problem, but has somebody experienced that problem and found a good UPS that doesn't use vMA or a working solution ?

Thanks in advance

Re: Browser Appliance

ChristopheDepre — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 18:11:53 GMT

A new version of the Browser Appliance has been released, featuring Firefox ESR 68.11 on CentOS 8.2 (64 bit) and including VMware Tools 10.3.21 (build 14772444). Since it no longer appears to listed in the VMware Marketplace, here is the direct link to download it: http://browser.shell.tor.hu/
The Adobe Flash installation script is no longer included, as the Adobe plugin is now deprecated.

The Browser Appliance 52.8 has also been updated to fix an issue with Firefox upgrades. Thanks to Michael Vincent for bringing the issue to our attention.

VMWare Health Analyzer appliance vulnerability

khparikh — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 18:52:44 GMT

We have built VMWare Health Analyzer appliance from image provided by VMWare. This appliance automates the collection of VMWare Inventory, configuration and utilization data.

Qualys Scan is reporting vulnerability with this appliance. Here is the detail; please help us remediate this issue.

HTTP Security Header Not Detected

X-Frame-Options or Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors HTTP Headers missing on port 8080.

GET / HTTP/1.1

Host: pvmhchka1.theocc.com:8080

Connection: Keep-Alive

HTTP/1.1 200

Accept-Ranges: bytes

ETag: W/"98-1553772262000"

Last-Modified: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 11:24:22 GMT

Content-Type: text/html

Content-Length: 98

Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2020 02:29:45 GMT

X-XSS-Protection HTTP Header missing on port 8080.

X-Content-Type-Options HTTP Header missing on port 8080.

Re: ESX deployment appliance v1.05

JasonHess — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 19:48:03 GMT

Did EDA disappear? The download links I find give 404 errors. How are people deploying ESX 6.x in large environments these days?

Re: Safe to remove VCSA?

a_p_ — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 08:08:34 GMT

VMs will not be affected from deleting the vCSA.

However, depending on which central functions are configured, you may need to be prepare the new instance before re-attaching the hosts to a new instance (e.g. distributed.switches, ...).

Although I think that you have this in mind, don't forget to reconfigure other things like backup, etc. after the setting up the new vCSA.

I assume that you don't have vSAN in use. In this case one needs to take a closer look at this.

André

Safe to remove VCSA?

lkomarci — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 07:16:55 GMT

Hey everyone,

is it safe to just delete vCSA from vSphere?

My vSphere Client works but the The vSphere web client doesn't work, the vCSA can't start inventory service, etc. So I would like to start from scratch. If I delete the vCSA straight from vSphere, there's no fear that this would cause issues with VMs, right? I just need to know that all the VMs will keep running with no interruptions.

Cheers

Re: Where are community's Virtual Appliances ?

daphnissov — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 23:30:08 GMT

I don't know of any such appliances hanging out there. If so, it certainly isn't a modern trend.

Re: Where are community's Virtual Appliances ?

rkr002 — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 22:49:59 GMT

OK, the Ultimate Deployment Appliance was created in 2006,

but the latest answer in its thread was on 2015-11-28,

not so long ago, I think.

However, my question concerning appliances is more general.

As I remember, on the Marketplace there were many interesting appliances created by users,

and some of them were really unique, for example an appliance named like "How net works"

created for educational purposes (probably it was a demo showing how the computer network is working).

Also, there were available virtual machines prepared for special needs,

minimized in size, containing many useful and preconfigured tools, etc.

The current Marketplace https://marketplace.vmware.com is named as VMware Solution Exchange,

and seems to be designed for VMware partners and not the community users.

So I wonder if there are still available any appliances created by the community users,

because the old URLs doesn't work.