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VMware troubleshooting.pptx

thusithawork — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 10:26:12 GMT

vCphere Security VMUG Final.pptx

thusithawork — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 10:22:36 GMT

Why VMDK can be decompressed with 7z?

masahiro331 — Thu, 21 May 2020 15:14:14 GMT

I'm developing a tool to decompress vmdk with native golang,

but as far as I've read the VMDK specs, I don't think I can decompress with 7z. Please tell me why it can be unpacked in 7Z.

Remote PC Access for Shift Workers using VMware Horizon 7

rizwansebrahim — Sat, 09 May 2020 16:18:07 GMT

Hi Everybody ,

While working with one of the customer , I came across a use case in which customer wanted to have Remote PC access for Shift Workers . While discussing Internally , I found many of my colleagues also had the same query on how do we leverage VMware Horizon for Shift Workers.

Here is the small demo that I have uploaded that also demonstrates a quick configuration on how shift workers can be given access to Remote PC

Re: .vmdk file cannot be opened

dariusd — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 19:51:39 GMT

It won't visibly redirect you to the flat file. VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion will open the .vmdk file, will find the reference to the -flat.vmdk file, and will (internally and invisibly) open the -flat.vmdk file and use that. The virtual machine should then have access to the contents of the entire virtual hard disk.

If that is not what is happening, perhaps you have an incorrect or corrupt .vmdk file.

If you provide a bit more detail about what you see there, it would help me understand what is happening. For instance, do you get an error message immediately when you try to add the .vmdk file to the VM? Or does Workstation/Fusion allow you to add it to the VM but then it does not show up in the guest? Or does the guest simply not boot up after the hard disk is added?

Please stick to just adding the .vmdk file and not the -flat.vmdk file... that is what you need to do and we need to figure out why that is not working for you there. Trying to add the -flat.vmdk file directly is not going to succeed.

Thanks,

Darius

Re: .vmdk file cannot be opened

melihtozlu — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 19:23:54 GMT

Hello,

that, how you explain it, should acutally confirm my thoughts and also should solve the problem. But it isn't. Yes, you're right: the "normal" .vmdk file is pretty small (like I have explained above...) but it doesn't "redirects" me to the flat file.

Re: .vmdk file cannot be opened

dariusd — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:22:21 GMT

Usually the "normal" .vmdk file should be very small (1-2 kBytes). It contains a description of the layout of the virtual disk, and that will include a reference to the "-flat.vmdk". You should only need to add the "normal" .vmdk file to your virtual machine, and the resulting virtual hard disk will contain the 100GB of data from the "-flat.vmdk".

Hope this helps!

Darius

.vmdk file cannot be opened

melihtozlu — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 12:24:03 GMT

Hello,

I have moved from Virtualbox to VMware. My problem right now is that I don't want to create a new VM but instead move the system from VB to VMware. The system is saved as a .vmdk file. Thing is that I can add a new hard disk but apparently not a .vmdk file. I got 2 of them: "name of Virtualbox system".vmdk and "name of Virtualbox system"-flat.vmdk. It accepts the normal .vmdk file but unfortunately not the -flat.vmdk. The "flat" file is needed because that is the real VM file (since it's 100GB and that's the actual size of my system)

I do hope that someone can help me out. Thanks in advance!

Re: MAC did software update no windows now

a_p_ — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 19:22:52 GMT

Please start a new discussion with your issue at VMware Fusion® (for Mac)

Make sure that you provide some details, i.e. MacOS version, VMware Fusion version, ...

André

MAC did software update no windows now

lpruitt19 — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 18:06:59 GMT

MAC did software update now VMware windows log in screen won't load its just black..... It did this a year ago when i had a mac software update please help.

Blanks in the root password

RaulGlez — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 08:48:56 GMT

Hi,

I have a issue about the root password.

In the versions of VMWare ESXi 5.x servers, when changing the root user's password, I have entered blank spaces, the system has not given any errors, but from that moment, I could no longer log in with the root user, through of any tool. It always gives an invalid user error or password.

In the rest of the users, it admits the blanks and I can enter without problems.

With this, several questions arise:

- In the root user's password, is the white space changed by any symbol?

- Are blank spaces ignored?

- Is the password invalid and therefore the root user?

.....

What is the behavior of the system in this case?

Thank you

Re: vCenter Cluster HA Help

sjesse — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:44:35 GMT

Powering down an host will not test HA, as part of the power down procedure is to shutoff all vms, you need a host to be isolated from vcenter without shutting it off. The best way and safest way I'm aware of is to pull all the network cables from the host, but some some google searches will give you some other ideas like this older vmware article

VMware Knowledge Base

Re: vCenter Cluster HA Help

yonit2 — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:38:07 GMT

Hi ASAJM...Thank you for your response but I think I need to add more clarity to the issue we are currently experiencing. So I have two esxi hosts with 6 physical adapters (2 for mgt network, 2 for storage traffic and 2 was setup for vMotion) with 3 virtual switches respectively. I have a 5TB iSCSI datastore attached to each host and they are both configured to a cluster -> Datacenter -> vCenter (giving you a picture). I have a VM on the Master host and when I power that host down (to test the HA), everything goes offline (can't reach the vCenter, etc). Please I'll appreciate further help; anyone that has experienced this same issue?

Re: vCenter Cluster HA Help

asajm — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 22:20:24 GMT

Hi @yunit2

Check All host failed, how does HA respond? | Yellow Bricks

HA Virtual Machine Startup and Shutdown

vCenter Cluster HA Help

yonit2 — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 20:40:00 GMT

Please can some help with my vCenter 6.7 cluster HA that doesn't seem to be an issue with the configuration? I have done the configuration per the documentation, however when I power down the Master host, the VM does not get powered off and on to the available host. I'll appreciate any assistance as I am not sure what I am doing wrong or I am missing....thank you in advance.

VMworld 2019 US

michal198525 — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 05:24:27 GMT

VMworld 2019 US conference will take place from 25 to 29 August 2019 in San Francisco. VMworld US conferences are designed to show VMware’s new products and what VMware company’s goals are for the future.

http://cmichal.com/bez-kategorii/vmworld-2019-us/

Michał

i am getting error while booting up the VM ESXI 5.5.0 2068190.jpeg

Narendra001 — Fri, 31 May 2019 06:49:58 GMT

I am getting an error while booting up the VM ESXi 5.5.0 2068190, PCPU 0: No Heartbeat (2/2 IPIs received), DiskDump: Failed time out .

Purple diagnostic screen NetApp HCI VMWare ESXi 6.5

adaocosta — Wed, 22 May 2019 17:10:16 GMT

I got this screen and at crashed host.

Creating new switch

JinuV — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 06:51:51 GMT

Creating new virtual switch using powercli Get-VMHost vmhost | New-VirtualSwitch -Name VSA-iSCSI-vSwitch -Nic vmnic2,vmnic3

vROPs 7.0 - Cluster CPU contention is high

dhadhabeer — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:43:25 GMT

We have identified the cluster CPU contention is high and the workload shows always busy .

I have checked the ESXi hosts utilization , all the host CPU workload are below 50% .

Do you have any idea how to troubleshoot the cluster CPU contention further.