I saw his script. But it just seemed overkill for what I wanted to do. I was hoping for an easier route than all that code. But if that’s what I have to do, I’ll do that.
I will I’ll give the Move-VM a shot. That seems much easier.
Thank you!
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Re: Cross vCenter Clone
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Re: App Stack updates
VMware support told me to use the built in appstack update process to accomplish this (same as if you were updating an appstack with new software version etc.) They told me it automatically replaces those with the latest version during this process. I haven't tested yet.
IMO the only way to fully bring an application up to date is to re-build it from scratch. For example the 2.10 snapvol.cfg may or may not have had certain exclusions in that version, so files you want might not have been captures, and files you don't want may not have been excluded. Not going to fix that without a complete re-capture.
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vco 7.4 maven repository unavailable
After deploying vra7.4, with vco up and running, maven cannot access the archetype xml file.
I get the following diagnostic:
Caused by: org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connect to kdvra:8281 [kdvra/10.128.225.40] failed: Connection refused (Connection refused)
How can I go about determining the root cause of this?
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Re: App Stack updates
That is a great point about capturing or not capturing certain files. I would require for one to do the entire process over again.
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Re: When installing ESXi, how can I partition the disk before installation
So, would it be better if I scrub the existing (new) installation of the lab and go out and buy a 120GB USB stick, plug it into the BRIX and then install ESXi on that?
I would assume that I could then use the USB stick to hold the virtual ESXi hosts vmdks then when I install vCenter server, I can then use the installed 240GB SSD as the shared storage for the ESXi hosts?
My goal is to use the BRIX as the platform which houses 3 ESXi hosts (which will be created as virtual machines). i will then install vCenter server on one of the hosts, create a virtual cluster and add the ESXi hosts to that cluster, thus achieving a VMware clustered test lab. I hope to then add the SSD to the hosts as shared storage. Will this work?
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Re: ESXi 6.5 u2 does not recognize Intel 82573 NICs
Martin,
Thank you for the hint.
I have tried to create custom images for ESXi 6.7 with the drivers you suggested by following the steps in your tutorial. However I get the following error:
PS C:\Users\Davide Vanzo\Downloads> Add-EsxSoftwareDepot ixgbe-4.4.1-2159203-3848296.zip
Add-EsxSoftwareDepot : Could not download from depot at zip:C:\Users\Davide
Vanzo\Downloads\ixgbe-4.4.1-2159203-3848596.zip?index.xml, skipping (('zip:C:\\Users\\Davide
Vanzo\\Downloads\\ixgbe-4.4.1-2159203-3848596.zip?index.xml', '', 'Error extracting index.xml from C:\\Users\\Davide
Vanzo\\Downloads\\ixgbe-4.4.1-2159203-3848596.zip: "There is no item named \'index.xml\' in the archive"'))
At line:1 char:1
+ Add-EsxSoftwareDepot .\ixgbe-4.4.1-2159203-3848596.zip
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ReadError: (System.String[]:String[]) [Add-EsxSoftwareDepot], Exception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ConnectDepotError,VMware.ImageBuilder.Commands.AddDepot
Suggestions?
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Re: WS 14.1.3 Locks up. See my (DickHinSC) 14.1.2 Locks up thread where comments continue
See how Juxxi describes this problem in my post VMWare Workstation 14.1.2 build-8497320, locks up.
We're waiting for some sort of reply/fix from @VMware
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Re: Action return being "converted" to object
Ok so I found one issues with my script and something bizarre with VRO. So the issue with the script was I had an array of objects. So clearly that would never work. After fixing that up I still ran into the same issue. I finally found the fix but have no explanation for it. My VRO version is 7.4.0.8071781
So my original code looked like this:
var switchSpec = new VcHostVirtualSwitchSpec(); var loabBalPolicy = "loadbalance_srcid" switchSpec.numPorts = 1024; switchSpec.mtu = mtu; switchSpec.bridge = new VcHostVirtualSwitchBondBridge(); switchSpec.bridge.nicDevice = NetworkData;
What I tried to do at first was :
var switchSpec = new VcHostVirtualSwitchSpec();
var loabBalPolicy = "loadbalance_srcid"
switchSpec.numPorts = 1024;
switchSpec.mtu = mtu;
switchSpec.bridge = new VcHostVirtualSwitchBondBridge();
var vmnics = new Array();
for(var i = 0 ; i < NetworkData.length; i++) {
vmnics.push(NetworkData[i].Device)
}
switchSpec.bridge.nicDevice = vmnics
This kept failing with a strange error -> Unable to set property 'nicDevice' on object VcHostVirtualSwitchBondBridge : org.mozilla.javascript.UniqueTag
So in the end I had to use the code below:
var switchSpec = new VcHostVirtualSwitchSpec();
var loabBalPolicy = "loadbalance_srcid"
switchSpec.numPorts = 1024;
switchSpec.mtu = mtu;
switchSpec.bridge = new VcHostVirtualSwitchBondBridge();
var vmnics = [];
for(var i = 0 ; i < NetworkData.length; i++) {
vmnics.push(NetworkData[i].Device)
}
switchSpec.bridge.nicDevice = vmnics
The difference is I am now declaring my array using square braces. To the best of my knowledge both ways of declaring an array should be the same ??
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Removing bootcamp partition after creating VM with Fusion
Hello,
I have created a virtual machine off of my bootcamp drive, and noticed that the virtual machine takes up about the same amount of space on my mac partition, as the size of the partition I have allocated to running Windows through bootcamp. Does this mean a copy has been made and I am free to remove the bootcamp partion without it affecting the virtual machine? I never boot up directly into bootcamp, and I could use the hard drive space. Thanks.
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Re: When installing ESXi, how can I partition the disk before installation
My goal is to use the BRIX as the platform which houses 3 ESXi hosts (which will be created as virtual machines).
Let me just save you some time here since I've worked with these systems. What you're wanting to do, although it makes perfect sense, is really, really not going to work well. That BRIX system is a miniaturized PC, like the Intel NUC platform. As a result of that compact form factor, the CPUs used within have to drastic reign it in to the tune of only about 15W TDP. Even though you get 4 cores, they're very tuned down. Now you're sharing that with a parent ESXi host plus others in nested mode (each of which requires 2 cores to install). The results are going to just plain suck, I'm sorry to say.
It's much more common and far more performant to have 3 BRIX/NUCs and run a lab on that (i.e., non-nested) and, while this obviously costs more, it'll at least run half-way decent.
In short, what you want--even if you achieve it--is going to run terrible and will result in a lab which isn't capable of much at all and in which performance across the board will be abysmal. Save yourself some hassle and either upsize to a full workstation tower, or plan to buy multiple miniature systems to cluster for a complete lab setup.
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Re: The system cannot find the file specified.
André,
if making an extra set of bin files will help in any way, I am ready!
Please see the attached.
Thanks!
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Re: When installing ESXi, how can I partition the disk before installation
Thank you for your reply Daphissov. The reason I am setting this up on a BRIX is that I am replicating the hardware setup from a training video from LinkedIn where the traininer, Brandon Neill, shows how to setup ESXi on the BRIX then how to create the virtual ESXi hosts.
So, to get back on track, I will retry the installation this time installing the ESXi OS on a USB drive and hopefully use the SSD as a shared datastore.
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Re: Removing bootcamp partition after creating VM with Fusion
How did you create it? Did you use the converter, or did you just virtualize the platform in place?
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VMware won't install :( - adwaita and murrine are missing! / Linux Mint (Cinnamon-Tara)
Hi all,
I am trying to install VMware Workstation.
More specifically:
VMware Workstation 14.1.3 Player for Linux 64-bit.
I downloaded this file: VMware-VIX-1.17.0-6661328.x86_64.bundle
Right after it printed "VMware Installer...done." it also printed some errors. I guess this explains why I don't see the actual application anywhere.
Code:
(vmware-installer.py:4868): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Mint-Y/gtk-2.0/main.rc:1085: error: unexpected identifier `direction', expected character `}'
(vmware-installer.py:4868): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",
I already tried this code for the first error, without avail:
sudo apt install gnome-themes-standard
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For the 2nd error, I checked Synaptic, and found a package called:
"gtk-engines-murrine", version: 0.98.2-2ubuntu1 (latest version),
description: "cairo-based gtk+-2.0 theme engine"
Any ideas?
Thanks guys!
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Identity Manager and Citrix Integration
Im setting up a lab deployment of Identity Manager (VMware Identity Manager™ 3.2.0.1 Build 8435214) on VSphere 6.5 and the Citrix Integration Broker has been giving me a few headaches.
I can successfully sync apps and entitlements with no issues from the Citrix XenApp 7.16 farm, and user can log into VIM and see their links to Citrix Published apps.
However when they click the link I get the error presented. "Error Launching Resource. Please Contact your IT Administrator" and the following exception is thrown in the IB log.
IntegrationBrokerLogger Information 1004 2018-09-18 14:39:57,255 (7) HznXenIntegrationBroker.API.RestServiceImpl - Get ICA file contents for AppName: Citrix.MPS.App.PalmyLab.PowerPoint 2013,webServerURL: https://myappsint.home.lab/Citrix/Myappsintweb, Username: Tony
IntegrationBrokerLogger Error 1002 2018-09-18 14:39:57,349 (7) HznXenIntegrationBroker.ApplicationException.ServiceErrorHandler - The 'Value'='<null>' part of the cookie is invalid. at System.Net.Cookie.VerifySetDefaults(CookieVariant variant, Uri uri, Boolean isLocalDomain, String localDomain, Boolean set_default, Boolean isThrow)
at System.Net.CookieContainer.Add(Uri uri, Cookie cookie)
at HznXenIntegrationBroker.Common.CitrixHelpers.GetResourceList(XenAppLaunchContext xenAppLaunchContext)
at HznXenIntegrationBroker.XenAppSDK.Storefront.StoreFrontXenappSDK.GenerateICAFileSF(String baseSFURL, UserPrincipal userPrincipal, String appName)
at HznXenIntegrationBroker.API.RestServiceImpl.getSSOICAFileSF(String webServerURL, UserPrincipal userPrincipal, String appName)
at SyncInvokegetSSOICAFileSF(Object , Object[] , Object[] )
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.SyncMethodInvoker.Invoke(Object instance, Object[] inputs, Object[]& outputs)
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.DispatchOperationRuntime.InvokeBegin(MessageRpc& rpc)
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage5(MessageRpc& rpc)
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage4(MessageRpc& rpc)
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage3(MessageRpc& rpc)
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage2(MessageRpc& rpc)
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage1(MessageRpc& rpc)
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.MessageRpc.Process(Boolean isOperationContextSet)
I've double and triple checked the IIS config and also reviewed VMWare troubleshooting guides and at a loss why this error is being thrown up.
The StoreFront server is v3.6.033 and XenApp farm is v7.16.
Any ideas?
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I messed up... I enabled UEFI Secure boot and now my Win 10 Image won't boot!
I'm, hoping someone can lead me to where I can recover. I was seeking better performance for a VM I have been using for quite some time. I shut it down, then went into the settings gave it 4 cores and boosted the memory. i then upped the disk size from 60 Gig to 100 Gig and pre-Allocated the disk space. Somewhere in all this I went to Advanced and selected "Enable UEFI Secure Boot" without reading the warning. Why? I have no idea. Here is the manner in which it boots now...
And then it changes over to this. It obviously can't find the Operating System...
Any ideas? I have went back on the settings and it doesn't seem to be able to go back in time. Another alternative is to get the image from my backup. But it would be nice if I don't have to do this.
Thank you...
Curtis Fisher
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Re: Removing bootcamp partition after creating VM with Fusion
I think I figured it out. I used the importer, which made a copy of the bootcamp OS, and explains why the vm is taking up so much space on the mac partition.
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SRM if will work on different Storage array, Netapp and Dell Compellent.
Hi, we're implementing SRM on existing infrastructure. Client has Storage Array on protected site using Netapp, then the recovery site will use Dell Compellent. Is SRM will work with different Brand of Storage?
Thank You
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Re: Does SRM support Single protected site with Two recovery sites?
For Shared Recovery and Shared Protection Sites model from the blog, is the main data center able to failover to branch office 1 as first priority and branch office 2 as second priority?
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Re: Remove Datastore Non-Distructively
You would need to do an unmount and then a detach for the datastore.
You can use my function from Test If The Datastore Can Be Unmounted to check if it can be unmounted.
And then you can use Alan's functions from Datastore Mount/Unmount Detach/Attach functions
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