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VMware Workstation 12 Player guest-to-guest network communication (IP address configuration)

May 15, 2017, 1:04 pm
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I am using WMware Workstation Player 12. I am trying to configure my lab servers to communicate with each other. One has the DHCP/DNS role installed and needs a static ip. The other will be a client which will receive the IP addresses. I need to cofigure the client with the static IP from the server but cannot get the two guest servers to communicate with each other. They are both on the same subnet. I have tried disabling the firewalls and allowing ICMP. The guest cannot ping each other. They can ping the host,  but the host cannot ping the guests.

 

I have tried all variation of the network settings. My questions are; will WMware Workstation Player allow guest-to-guest communication? If so, does anyone have any ideas on the configuration?

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Re: MTU Check warning

May 15, 2017, 12:57 pm
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Interesting, I have just like you seen this on more than one C-series installation. Thanks for the input!

Is there a way to disable the MTU check now? Pretty sure there wasn't when I created this thread.

 

Edit: Here's how to disable certain health checks:

How to silence VMware vSAN Health Checks | Virten.net

 

//A

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Re: App Volumes 2.12 to 2.12.1 Upgrade Procedure

May 15, 2017, 1:07 pm
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The reason you need to do this is because otherwise the manager has no knowledge of what happens with users that log off while the Appvolumes manager is not available.

We have 2 Appvolumes managers behind an F5 and thus we upgraded them one by one. No need to remove all active attachments.

 

When using the upgrade to 2.12.1 it doesn't ask you to remove the appstacks. We did a rebuild of the database (had some obsolete records due to upgrade from 2.6 to 2.9) so we installed it freshly. My guess is that you don't need to detach all appstacks when upgrading from 2.12 to 2.12.1 because the manager is always active.

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Re: VMware Workstation 12 Player guest-to-guest network communication (IP address configuration)

May 15, 2017, 1:11 pm
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Welcome to the Community,

 

it will certainly allow guest-to-guest communication, otherwise one couldn't setup a test environment like the one you are trying to setup.

Please provide some more details about your setup, i.e. VM configuration (Host-Only, NAT, Bridged), and the IP addresses/subnet masks you are using for the VMs.

Which Host operating system do you use, and did you try (in case of Windows) to start VMware Player "As Administrator" to see whether this makes a difference?

 

 

André

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How can I manage multiple Virtual Centers from one interface without Linked Mode

May 15, 2017, 1:20 pm
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How can I manage multiple Virtual Centers from one interface without Linked Mode?  Like back in the Virtual Center Administrator Portal days?  We seem to have a Virtual Center Sprawl issue. Horizon View? ....... you need a separate VC.  VxRail? ...... another VC.  Vblock? ...... another VC.  Our DR site? .... another VC.   With VxRail and Vblock, they won't even let us use Linked Mode or a shared PSC or anything like that.

 

I was wondering if there's some over-arching web interface that could manage them all.  Even a third party solution. When a tech needs to do something with a VM through VC, they've got to guess which VC they need to connect to.  It's kind of a pain.

 

Just basic functionality really.  Reboot VM, get a console, etc.  I don't need to patch hosts or do snapshots.

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Re: Client integration plugin issue with Chrome 57

May 15, 2017, 1:21 pm
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It looks like there's nobody listening on that port on my machine. The vmware-localhost entries are already in the hosts file, though. For now I can, through a convoluted work around, use IE11 to access the few features that absolutely require the plugin.

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Re: Guest OS (Sierra) cannot connect VPN L2TP - bridged connection and OSX host

May 15, 2017, 1:27 pm
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It is set for Bridged. I had a VMware specialist remote into my host OS and try several different settings and etc without success. His comment was it works on his so it should work on mine and gave up as to why it was not working.

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Re: MTU Check warning

May 15, 2017, 1:30 pm
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The easier option to disable the MTU check is just to modify the Health Check options on the network switch.

 

Enabling vSphere Distributed Switch health check in the vSphere Web Client (2032878) | VMware KB

 

To enable or disable vSphere Distributed Switch health check in the vSphere Web Client:

  1. Browse to a vSphere distributed switch in the vSphere Web Client.
  2. Click the Manage tab.
  3. Click Settings and then click Health check.
  4. To enable or disable health check, click Edit.
  5. Select from the dropdown to enable or disable health check options.

    The options include:
    • VLAN and MTU: Reports the status of distributed uplink ports and VLAN ranges
    • Teaming and Failover: Checks for any configuration mismatch between ESXi and the physical switch used in the teaming policy.
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Re: MTU Check warning

May 15, 2017, 1:33 pm
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The problem there is that you cannot disable the MTU check separately from the VLAN check

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Creating a friendly name for vRA web portal

May 15, 2017, 1:45 pm
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I have a vRA deployment implemented at my company. Everything is running and appears to be set up all correctly.

The appliance, and therefore the URL, currently reflects my company's machine naming convention.

I would like to have a more friendly name presented to my users. Rather than https://servername.mycompany.net/vcac/org/abc, I would like it to show https://selfservice.mycompany.net.

I created a CNAME in DNS. When I browse to selfservice, it does point me at servername, but the URL ultimately comes back as https://servername.mycompany.net instead of https://selfservice.mycompany.net/ . Does something need to be configured on the appliance to have vRA respond as the alias, rather than the hostname?

 

Thank you.

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Re: UEM and writable volumes(UIA+profile)

May 15, 2017, 11:59 am
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Hi @vmsysadmin201110141,

 

What kind of issues are you experiencing? Do you believe you're missing profile settings for applications that are configured/profiled? Are you using the UEM Application Profiler --> http://pubs.vmware.com/uem-91/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/user-environment-manager91-app-profiler.pdf ?

 

You can also have a look at some existing profile templates created by VMware and the community --> VMware User Environment Manager .

 

Just curious to hear what the exact issues are and if there's anything I can help you with.

 

I use App Volumes and UEM successfully at various customers. The whole idea of using UEM is to have flexibility and speed for your users by managing the profile (settings). I do agree that it takes time to profile all the necessary application/environment settings, but see it as an investment that results in happy users having speedy logons/logoffs.

 

I am not sure about the question regarding writable volumes and if it is supported.

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Re: Can vMotion and Management(HA heartbeat) Network cross subnets(i.e. routed network) ?

May 15, 2017, 1:40 pm
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Short answer: Yes

Better question: Why is it setup like that?

 

I've done this before temporarily as I was moving my VMs between old and new hardware/versions and had absolutely no problem doing so for the week I had it configured. I am pretty sure that the best practice is to have vCenter on the same subnet as your Hosts/Clusters. The main selling point of vCenter is Fault Tolerance, and every millisecond counts. Are you going to deploy a virtual router in this scenario, or are you relying on physical devices?

 

Please read:

http://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/techpaper/vsan-sql-dvdstore-perf-white-paper.pdf

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Re: vSphere Web Client SUCKs so bad that my experience managing and supporting VMware has turn to SH**!

May 15, 2017, 1:50 pm
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Hi Labsy2,

 

Need some clarification:

 

1) Is this referring to (what we internally call) "aggregation nodes" or "rollup nodes", when large number of VMs are rolled up into a single line?  This threshold was increased from a way too low 20 to 100 VMs in vSphere 6.0, so that should be occuring less.  This is a user-controllable setting you can tweak in webclient.properties as well: VSphere Web Client - Wikibooks, open books for an open world

 

In the new HTML5 based vSphere Client we have not implemented this.  We are keeping an eye on performance to see whether a solution is needed at all.

 

If you're referring to something else please let me know.  A screenshot would be helpful.  Also I'm not sure what you're referring to for "MORE XY", can you clarify that?

 

2) We have made changes to the datastore browser in the new vSphere Client.  If you've tried that one we're very interested to hear if those changes offer sufficient improvement, or not.  6.5.0b: First vSphere Client (HTML5) update in vSphere 6.5.0b! - VMware vSphere Blog or the Fling: vSphere HTML5 Web Client

 

3) I believe the removal was due to scaling issues, but we do have it on our plate to investigate how we can bring these types of views back.  Can you tell us how many vSwitches you have in your environment in total?

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Re: vSphere Web Client SUCKs so bad that my experience managing and supporting VMware has turn to SH**!

May 15, 2017, 2:03 pm
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Hi franktroeger,

 

Our primary goal right now is to make the new HTML5 based vSphere Client the only client you will need for accessing vCenter to manage your environment.

 

1) Can you elaborate on this use case "scsi identifiers and wwns", and whether this was the only reason you were using vCenter Maps?

 

2) How often are you downloading an entire folder?  In vSphere Client we have a 'select all files' button which should make this easy.  We will look into bringing 'Download Folder' back.

 

3) " ALUA Path information "Active" " how often do you need to refer to this information, and what do you use the information for?

 

4) We are trying to work on improving the webconsole (aka. WebMKS, HTML5 console).  In the meantime have you tried VMRC and does it improve the situation?

 

5) What version of VC is this on?  Incorrect inventory status should have improved significantly in 6.5 vs 6.0, with the removal of Inventory Service.

 

6) I will pass this onto the Permissions and Licensing groups.

 

7) If this occurs again please paste a screenshot here.  Have you submitted a support ticket for this?

 

8) I don't think I understand the statement.  Did you expect to get a permissions error and did not, then after logout/login it worked as expected?

 

9) Are you referring to the new vSphere Client at /ui in 6.5?  And are you referring to the "Administration -> Access Control -> Global Permissions" view, or another view?  Again, a screenshot here would be helpful too.

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Huge File System Overhead with vSAN 6.6

May 15, 2017, 2:10 pm
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Hi everyone,

 

we're currently demoing vSAN 6.6 on an all-flash setup. After the upgrade to vSAN 6.6, we have noticed a huge increase in file system overhead.

With dedup & compression enabled, the file system overhead is about 1.7 TB for a 16TB vSAN.Bildschirmfoto 2017-05-15 um 20.45.41.png

 

With dedup & compression disabled, the file system overhead is still about 200GB:

Bildschirmfoto 2017-05-15 um 23.03.51.png

Please note that both of these are empty, newly created vSAN datastores containing neither VMs any other objects. In previous releases I've seen file system overhead in the range of a couple of megabytes to maybe a few gigabytes, which also matches the screenshots in the official vSAN 6.6 documentation displaying 11.34 GB file system overhead for a 15TB array.

 

Is there an explanation for that strange behavior?

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Re: VMware Workstation 12 Player guest-to-guest network communication (IP address configuration)

May 15, 2017, 2:11 pm
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I have used the default NAT setup. It assigned the IP address using the 192.168.130.X addresses. To my understanding, the host is acting as the virtual switch performing the NAT and allows the guests to connect to the internet but everything is isolated from other devices on the network. Again, on the same network, the guests can ping the hosts but not each other. Host cannot ping guests.

 

With the Host-only configuration, the IP addresses are using the 192.168.206.x network. again the same results as above, except the guests cannot reach the internet.

 

I am not using the bridged setting because, to my understanding, this will share the network connection with the host, which will place it on the host network

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Re: Excluding system services for Windows 10 1607 with random names

May 15, 2017, 2:11 pm
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Yes, I believe that an upgrade to AppVols 2.12.1 includes those exclusions. The duplicate services are no longer being saved to the writables.

 

We did have to write a PS script to loop through the registry and delete existing services that had already accrued on people's writables. This was a better solution for us than deleting and recreating the writables.

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Update DNS Servers on vROps Nodes

May 15, 2017, 2:13 pm
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Hello,

 

I'm looking for a way to leverage PowerCLI to update DNS Servers on multiple vROps nodes.

 

I understand we would need to do this manually. Please correct if I missed anything in the below steps, However I'm looking for a way to do this through PowerCLI.

1. SSH to the node using root

2. cd /opt/vmware/share/vami/

3. /opt/vmware/share/vami/ # ./vami_dns

Output: current DNS Servers configured

4. /opt/vmware/share/vami/ # ./vami_set_dns DNSIP1 DNSIP2

Output: DNS Server Settings Updated

5. Validate: /opt/vmware/share/vami/ # /vami_dns

Check the output, must show new DNS Servers.

 

Regards,

Uman

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Re: autostart VM from ESXI 6.5 web client

May 15, 2017, 2:19 pm
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Hi Yves

 

Guess you're looking about this steps:

 

1) On the left panel choose "Host and Cluster"

2) select the host with your Vms you want automatically power on

3) On the right panel click on "Configure"

4) Then on the "Virtual Machine" menù choose "VM Startup/Shutdown"

5) And then click on "Edit" to configure your VMs to auto startup and or shutdown

 

5Steps.png

Hope this can help you

 

Enjoy whit VmWare

 

Maurizio

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Re: Service 'VMware CAF Management Agent Service' fails to start

May 15, 2017, 2:36 pm
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Reset Windows was my last resort, it fixed the issue.

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