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Re: Alarm management with C# in .Net

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Are we saying that the API does not provide the functionality?


Re: Changing a Virtual Machine's name

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Deepak, this is the Fusion forum - one of the hosted products, not ESXi.

Re: Changing a Virtual Machine's name

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Hi,

 

You can rename the vmx filename without issues.

 

You'll just have to reregister the VM in the library again and remember to answer the question "did you copy or move the VM" with "Move" as copy will change the virtual hardware ID's and mess up things in your guest in this case.

 

As for the .vmdk filenames, leave them as is!

Yes they can be renamed if needed, but you have to use vmware-vdiskmanager to rename them, do NOT rename these in finder as your VM will stop working.

If however you insist on renaming them then:

 

First commit ALL snapshots.

 

use vmware-vdiskmanager -n as in:

vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -n sourceName.vmdk destinationName.vmdk

see:

Vmware-vdiskmanager - VI-Toolkit

 

That keeps your vmdk intact, but that's not enough yet.

 

You will also have to edit your .vmx file by hand and adjust all occurences of the original vmdk name into the new name.

 

Oh and do take a backup before you do any of the above.

You could do so using the application Vimalin in my sig or by copying the whole bundle while the VM has been shut down. Vimalin OTOH can take a backup of the VM when it is running.

 

Hope this helps,

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Wil

Re: Horizon 7 Instant Clones get trust relationship issue after Recover process

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We had major issues with this until we upgraded everything to Horizon View 7.0.3 from 7.0.2.  Now we don't see the issue except occasionally when we first create an instant clone pool.  This is a replication timing issue which causes the serviceprincipalname attribute on the computer object in the AD to not be fully populated.  You can actually fix it manually by editing this attribute by hand (or script) but obviously that isn't really a solution.  Funny thing though is we have two separate environments with 2 different domains for prod and dev and we only saw the issue in one of the domains.

Re: Changing a Virtual Machine's name

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Thank you Wila. Wading through the ESXi and ESX KB instructions made me glad I'm using Fusion.

 

I did find Fusion KB 1015695 which used Settings>General to change the name but warned "The virtual machine bundle and files will still bear the virtual machine's original name. These files are referenced by the virtual machine settings and should not be renamed." Is "virtual machine bundle" another name for the .vmwarevm file in the Virtual Machines folder?

Re: Where can I download Workstation 8 to run RH7.2 Enigma

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Hi Wil
I have spend the last 2 hours trying to acchieve what you suggested.
So far the best results was a 8 colour 640x480 screen - but that was stable !!!
I tried all obscure settings that came to my mind - including trying vHW 5, 6 ,8, 10 and 12 with various guestOS parameters.
Unfortunately I messed up the stable config while trying to reconfigure it - the commandline tool Xconfigurator is unusable in 640x480 and without nano I was not even able to enable ssh.
I give up for now - I guess I still have an old Redhat 7.2 VM somewhere that was created in the good old days - maybe that one still works - in case I find it ;-)

Re: New VROPS Rest Notification Plugin

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Ok thanks for letting me know. I will sort it out this weekend on my lab and test it before I post it again.

 

No need for logs, I should be able to sort it out on mine

 

Cheers

vMan

Re: VROPs monitor IOP per vmdk

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Yes the metric will be per SCSI I'D under VirtualDisk


Re: VSAN and shutting down all hosts in a stack

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As a follow up, I heard back from VMWare. All they could tell me was:

 

"There should be a small resync providing that all the hosts are up before the VMs and that when you shut the environment down, it was healthy.  We should expect a small resync but not a full rebuild."

 

So, once again, this forum was more useful than paid support. :-/ Thanks again Bob and GreatWhiteTec!

Re: Changing a Virtual Machine's name

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My bad. Thank you for pointing that out.

Re: Changing a Virtual Machine's name

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Hehe, the ESXi part is a bit different, but it has quite a few things that are similar or the same.

 

Yes, the bundle name is the term used for filename part that is before the .vmwarevm file extension.

 

So if you have a virtual machine folder that is called "MacOS 10.11.vmwarevm" then the whole folder with contents is referred to as a bundle.

However as the .vmwarevm file extension is hidden by default, with the bundle name is most often meant "MacOS 10.11".

 

If you want to rename the folder name, do the following:

In Fusion Library, from the context menu select "Delete", it will ask you if you want to "Move to trash, Cancel or Keep file"

With "file" they mean bundle and if you select "Keep file" you're fine.

By removing the VM from the library you don't end up with a non function VM in the list that has a confusing name.

 

Then you can rename the folder, rename the .vmx and from "File -> Open" you can select the renamed vmx in the renamed folder.

 

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Wil

Re: Where can I download Workstation 8 to run RH7.2 Enigma

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Ulli,

 

Joy, sounds like fun. Unfortunately I do not have the time for reproducing the problem at the moment.

 

640x480 is pretty unusable, even back then.

 

If I had the time and I was not able to get it to work like you tried, then it might be an idea to try a nested workstation 8?

See if it works there, although of course nesting adds its own intricacies.

 

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Wil

Re: VSAN and shutting down all hosts in a stack

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To be fair, I wouldn't understand the level of vSAN that I do without working providing those support services you speak of (alongside a lot of talented people!). But also consider that maybe you gave more detail here than your SR and/or had more back and forth to be specific about your concerns (and more than one vSANer to help).

 

If contacting support (VMware or otherwise) and the answers to your questions are not specific enough then just ask (and ask the right things), but really at the admin-level of vSAN the answer you got is correct.

 

Bob

Re: VVOL - Datastore does not satisfy required properties CPG

Re: VSAN cache tier help needed for two node cluster

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Hi Bob

 

Thanks for the reply!

 

Currently I am using 100GB of RAM out of the 128GB available (taking HA into account) so I think I am ok here.

 

Can you expand on what you mean by "no controllers"? The Supermicro servers I have can take up to 6 SATA drives, one M2 drive and there is a PCIe slot for another drive. I think you can have a maximum of 7 drives in total in these machines. Why would I need a controller at all? Can't I just plug the capacity drives into the hot swapable bays and plug the cache tier PCIe drive into the PCIe slot? Why do I need a controller?

 

Regarding the Witness, yes, I have a switch so the two nodes and Witness appliance can communicate with each other.


esxi 6.5 install root certificate for certificate chain

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I have a standalone ESXi 6.5 host with a generic installation.

The generic installation uses self-signed certificates, which give the typical "there is a problem with this certificate..." error message.

 

so for laughs and giggles, I want to replace the self-signed cert with an Active Directory Certificate Services cert.

(which is setup with offline root and online intermediate).

 

the host is not joined to active directory nor is managed by vcenter.

 

the basic steps to create a cert request, submit to ADCS, download cert, and install into ESXi is not too complicated.

however, the cert does not include the full certificate chain (root + intermediate + host), so I still get the "there is a problem with this certificate"

only now the error is "the certificate cannot be verified up to a trusted certificate authority".

 

generally, you solve this error message by either

1 - adding the certificate chain for the certificate authority into the host cert store, or

2 - ensure the intermediate CA is accessible to the host

 

existing documentation has lots of references to VMCA, but that is not installed on ESXi (I checked the file system just to be sure).

 

so, are there any ssh based instructions for adding the root cert and intermediate cert into the host certificate store?

Re: Permission denied when attempting to backup ESXi

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virtualDD,

 

No roles for a Standalone ESXi host. Understand.

 

Will you attach the kickstart script?

 

I am using Windows 10 Professional.

On my Windows 10 Professional PC, I created a local account and placed the local account in the Administrators group.

I made the password the same as the ESXi local account with the same name.

 

The firewall has been re-enabled.

 

I logged into the Windows 10 PC as the local account.

I opened a cmd prompt using the "Run As Administrator" and I issued the command

vicfg-user.pl --server x.x.x.x -l "ABCD" -p "changeme"

 

I do longer received the Permission Denied message.

 

I now receive :

Use of uninitialized value in string eq XYZ ...line 869.

Use of uninitialized value in string eq XYZ....line 873.

Use of uninitialized value in string eq XYZ....line 878.

Use of uninitialized value in string eq XYZ....line 882.

Use of uninitialized value in string eq XYZ....line 892.

 

Any help with the attached script would be appreciated.

 

Ok.  I'll look into upgrading with out backing up the ESXi host.

 

T.J.

Re: Where can I download Workstation 8 to run RH7.2 Enigma

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I assume that it will work in WS 12 using virtual hardware #5 - and then finetuning /etc/X11/XF86config.
Next time when I have some time to kill I install it inside WS 7 (still working on a very old laptop here) and then try to use that XF86config in the WS 12 VM.

Re: Changing a Virtual Machine's name

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I think I'm getting it. To successfully rename the Virtual Machine (i.e., the "bundle), I'd need to rename what precedes .vmwarevm, then show the package contents, find the single .vmx file amid the bunch of .vmdk and other files, and change the .vmx file to the same name as the .vmwarevm file.

 

Moreover, when File>Open looks into the Virtual Machine folder, I gather it doesn't scan the names in that folder but rather looks at the name assigned to the .vmx file inside each of the bundles. Interestingly, the icon for that .vmx file is the icon of the bundle in the VM folder while all the other icons are different. Inside the .vmx file there seems to be a cross reference to the other files which compose the VM and those file names thus don't need to be updated. And in exploring that, I found that the name which appears in the VM Library list does not have to match the name of the .vmwarevm file which that VM on the list will open.

 

Nothing is ever simple...

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