During Horizon View upgrades it's recommend to ensure that there are no pending Composer operations. Is there a way to see any pending operations so they can be paused or cancelled (e.g. a scheduled recompose set to run on user log off)?

Issue: When I try to run 3-4 VMs on VMware Workstation, then connect remotely via TeamViewer to that PC with those VMs on it running, in a few seconds (under 1-2 minutes), the local PC - the one with VMware not installed or running on it - will invariably BSOD.

I contacted TeamViewer tech support on this, but they were unable to help, what they suggested did not help any. Is this a known issue?
Is it a VMware Workstation, or Windows 10 issue, please?

The BSOD code and system file that failed are:

Stop Code: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

What failed: win32kfull.sys

Can you do something to fix this? Or can Microsoft do it, and in what way should I report this to them, if so?

Please note I can provide the crash logs (minidump files) if necessary.

Thanks in advance for any comments or suggestions.

Hello,

I'm trying to fix an issue where my root ramdisk / Scatch/logs fills up after a few hows of uptime and esxi can no longer write to its log files.

Unfortunately the only datastore I have is the vsan datastore, and redirecting system logs to that datastore is not supported. I do have vsphere log insight setup but the local path is still {} /scratch/log

I have 3 servers in the vsan, but one of them fills up the root ramdisk much faster than the others. This is an Lenovo server whereas the others are HPE servers.

After spending a fair bit of time looking into this, trying to see if the IBM has a higher logging level than the others etc but I can't see why the Lenovo's logs grow so fast.

Here's what the logs currently look like:

root@MOX-ESXi1:/scratch/log] ls -lah -lS

total 29880

-rw-------    1 root     root       10.0M Mar 15 14:54 vsanmgmt.log

-rw-------    1 root     root        7.6M Mar 15 18:28 hostd.log

-rw-------    1 root     root        3.1M Mar 15 18:29 vsanvpd.log

-rw-------    1 root     root        1.9M Mar 15 18:30 vpxa.log

-rw-------    1 root     root        1.6M Mar 15 18:34 vsansystem.log

-rw-------    1 root     root      943.9K Mar 15 18:29 syslog.log

-rw-------    1 root     root      875.4K Mar 15 18:31 osfsd.log

-rw-------    1 root     root      744.3K Mar 15 18:28 rhttpproxy.log

-rw-------    1 root     root      651.6K Mar 15 17:58 cmmdsTimeMachineDump.log

-rw-------    1 root     root      650.4K Mar 15 18:32 vmkernel.log

-rw-------    1 root     root      312.0K Mar 15 18:17 fdm.log

-rw-------    1 root     root      211.5K Mar 15 18:35 hostd-probe.log

-rw-------    1 root     root      172.0K Mar 15 18:40 clomd.log

And here;s the ramdisks:

Ramdisk                   Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on

root                       32M       32M        0B 100% --

etc                        28M      396K       27M   1% --

opt                        32M        0B       32M   0% --

var                        48M      816K       47M   1% --

tmp                       256M       72K      255M   0% --

iofilters                  32M        0B       32M   0% --

hostdstats                803M        4M      798M   0% --

vsantraces                300M      153M      146M  51% --

The largest log file is vsanmgmt.log.

[root@MOX-ESXi1:/scratch/log] tail -f vsanmgmt.log

2018-03-15T14:53:37Z VSANMGMTSVC: WARNING vsanperfsvc[Thread-2] [VsanHealthUtil::log] Profiler:

2018-03-15T14:53:37Z VSANMGMTSVC: WARNING vsanperfsvc[Thread-2] [VsanHealthUtil::log]   VsanHealthHelpers.IsWitnessNode: 0.00s

2018-03-15T14:53:37Z VSANMGMTSVC: WARNING vsanperfsvc[Thread-2] [VsanHealthUtil::log]   LsomHealth.getHealthStats(): 0.05s

2018-03-15T14:53:37Z VSANMGMTSVC: WARNING vsanperfsvc[Thread-2] [VsanHealthUtil::log]   plog devices: 0.00s, 0.00s

2018-03-15T14:53:37Z VSANMGMTSVC: WARNING vsanperfsvc[Thread-2] [VsanHealthUtil::log]   get disks: 0.03s

2018-03-15T14:53:37Z VSANMGMTSVC: WARNING vsanperfsvc[Thread-2] [VsanHealthUtil::log]   QueryPhysicalHealth.loopfor allVsanDisks: 0.09s

2018-03-15T14:53:37Z VSANMGMTSVC: WARNING vsanperfsvc[Thread-2] [VsanHealthUtil::log]   impl.QueryDiskRebalanceStatus: 0.00s, 0.00s, 0.00s, 0.00s, 0.00s, 0.00s, 0.00s

2018-03-15T14:53:37Z VSANMGMTSVC: WARNING vsanperfsvc[Thread-2] [VsanHealthUtil::log]   impl._QueryPhysicalDiskHealthSummary: 0.14s

2018-03-15T14:53:37Z VSANMGMTSVC: WARNING vsanperfsvc[Thread-2] [VsanHealthUtil::log]   maxComps: 0.00s

2018-03-15T14:53:37Z VSANMGMTSVC: WARNING vsanperfsvc[Thread-2] [VsanHealthUtil::log]   QueryPhysicalHealth.GetLocalVsanSystem: 0.01s

If I compare this to one of the HP servers who's logs are tiny in comparison, the output is basically the same:

[root@MOX-ESXi2:/tmp/scratch/log]  tail vsanmgmt.log

2018-03-15T18:54:19Z VSANMGMTSVC: WARNING vsanperfsvc[43fc0038-2882-11e8] [VsanHealthUtil::log]   cls.ManipulateControllersWithStressOptions: 0.00s

2018-03-15T18:54:19Z VSANMGMTSVC: WARNING vsanperfsvc[43fc0038-2882-11e8] [VsanHealthUtil::log]   cls._LookupDriverVersion: 0.00s, 0.00s, 0.00s, 0.00s

2018-03-15T18:54:19Z VSANMGMTSVC: WARNING vsanperfsvc[43fc0038-2882-11e8] [VsanHealthUtil::log]   cls._LookupControllerQueueDepth: 0.00s, 0.00s, 0.00s, 0.00s

2018-03-15T18:54:19Z VSANMGMTSVC: WARNING vsanperfsvc[43fc0038-2882-11e8] [VsanHealthUtil::log]   Get storage-core-path, core-adapter, hardware-pci, system-version: 0.03s

2018-03-15T18:54:19Z VSANMGMTSVC: WARNING vsanperfsvc[43fc0038-2882-11e8] [VsanHealthUtil::log]   cls.checkDiskMode: 0.00s, 0.00s, 0.00s, 0.00s

2018-03-15T18:54:19Z VSANMGMTSVC: WARNING vsanperfsvc[43fc0038-2882-11e8] [VsanHealthUtil::log] Profiler:

2018-03-15T18:54:19Z VSANMGMTSVC: WARNING vsanperfsvc[43fc0038-2882-11e8] [VsanHealthUtil::log]   GetHclInfo.ConnectToLocalHosted: 0.01s

2018-03-15T18:54:19Z VSANMGMTSVC: WARNING vsanperfsvc[43fc0038-2882-11e8] [VsanHealthUtil::log]   impl.GetHclInfo: 1.19s

2018-03-15T18:54:19Z VSANMGMTSVC: WARNING vsanperfsvc[43fc0038-2882-11e8] [VsanHealthUtil::log]   invoke-method:ServiceInstance:RetrieveContent: 0.01s

2018-03-15T18:54:19Z VSANMGMTSVC: INFO vsanperfsvc[Thread-12] [PyVmomiServer::log_message] ('127.0.0.1', 45342) - - "POST /vsan HTTP/1.1" 200 -

Any ideas??

Olá pessoal!

Sou iniciante em VMWare, coloquei mais 4HD's para criar mais algumas outras maquinas na empresa onde trabalho. (somente pra testar mesmo)

Mas não consigo colocar ou melhor, não sei onde troca o estado no HD's que coloquei.

Segue imagem como amostra.

  Hi All,

I'll start off by saying Hello everyone!

I have a major issue currently with vCenter Upgrade v5.1 to 6.5 (Windows Server).
I will list the steps and issues taken with the what is remaining!

1. On a low level production environment, we have a server 2008 r2 physical box with vcenter 5.1 installed. This needed to be upgraded to version 6.5 so all esxi hosts could be upgraded to 6.5 as well.

     a. First, i downloaded vcenter server v6.0.

     b. backed up sql jobs and databases of vcenter 5.x

     c. ran the autorun as administrator and it went through the pre reqs fine and said to start upgrade after entering the sso password.

     d. started uninstalling vcenter 5.x automatically and when it came to installing vcenter 6 - it failed with the below pictures

     e. I searched for a while but could not resolve and most importantly there was no vcenter on the physical server anymore!

     f. decided to install vcenter server 6.5

     h. started the install - autorun - and it came up showing options to setup as a new intsall so i selected this and it asked for new site name and sso password - entered the details as before

     i. vcenter 6.5 installed all the way through and said successful.

     j. when loading the url to access the new vcenter (https://vcenter1.domain.co.uk) - it said page could not be displayed - this url was the same as vcenter 5.1

     k. i tried the IP address and it would not work - i then tried https://localhost - this loaded but when clicking the flash link - it would go to the original url above and do some sso and fail - blank page

     l. installed the vsphere client but could not access - came up with sso errors in the logs

     m. the error pointed to SSO - certificate - again after hours trying to resolve - no luck

     n. I then ended up following kb articles manually removing all vcenter data from the server (uninstalling all parts from control panel) but i left the sql instances installed.

     o. there was no option to remove the SSO

     p. i removed all program files / program data folders / registry links that were required to be removed - rebooted server.

I have now removed all folders / instances off the server but i really could do with installing v6.5 server vcenter but how to proceed?

When i installed vcenter 6.5 - although it wasn't working, i tried to manually deregister the server using the following commands but there was no visibal evidence that sso was installed on the server (file directories were not the same - no sso folders - no sso components)

cmsso-util unregister --node-pnid Platform_Services_Controller_System_Name --username administrator@your_domain_name --passwd vCenter_Single_Sign_On_password

cmsso-util unregister --node-pnid vCenter_Server_System_Name --username administrator@your_domain_name --passwd vCenter_Single_Sign_On_password

I was getting errors that it was failing to remove.

I believe i have to recreate the SSO certificates using the cert manager tool but when i try to reset the certificates, it does not accept the SSO password that i used to setup vcenter 6.5 with username administrator@vsphere.local - very strange.

Currently i have

     1. Backup of the vcenter 5.1 sql database that i require to import in the new vcenter 6.5

     2. removed all vcenter off the physical server including registry links and program data / program files folders

     3. rebooted server

     4. logged onto our other vcenter (vcsa) but there is no other nodes linking to this https://vcenter1.domain.co.uk vcenter appliance

Going Forwad

1. how do i proceed in succesfully installing vcenter server 6.5 with the same URL as the original vcenter https://vcenter1.domain.co.uk ?

2. how do i force / manually remove the SSO from the server?

I thought of installing server2016 on a hyper v > installing vcenter6.5 server on the hyper v machine and then accessing bash and again running the commands - will this resolve the issue?

All help would be really appreciated.

Thank You

Finally VMware  released tool to check VMware Maximum's .This is very helpful for everyone who loves and working on VMware environment . Until prior to this tool we always searching for VMware configuration maximums document and now this tool  made our life easier.

About  Tool

This tool is a web based tool  , you can access it from wed address http://configmax.vmware.com/ complete information is accessible thorough this page . By using this tool we can avoid search of each time for the any configuration information  and  keeping offline data on excel sheet or as pdf .

Also this tool allow us to compare the different vSphere versions configuration maximums and export the data to excel sheet . This is really helpful to understand the enhancement across versions and plan for VMware Infrastructure upgrade .

Supported VMware Versions

This tool contains vSphere 6.0, 6.5, and 6.5 Update1 configuration maximums details .

How to Access and Use the  Tool

Open the Web Browser and bowse the URL http://configmax.vmware.com/

Click on Get Started

Choose the Product and Version from the left pane .

Default it will be selected All Maximums or You can Choose the required Component and Click on View Limits

Compare Configuration Maximums

Click the Compare Limits button at the top of the page

Select the Product and vSphere version from Left pane

Choose the Target vShere Versions  from drop-down menu.

Click the Compare button.

New Page will be Appear with Result and You can export the data to excel sheet

What's Next

We can except the tool will come with New Features , More Products  which will be very usable for VMware Customers and Engineers .

We can see there is Login Option and that is only For VMware Employee . If this option available for Customers and they should get the  Configuration Maximum and Upgrade path of their subscription will be very useful  .

http://vmarena.com/vmware-configuration-maximums-tool/

VMware Configuration Maximums Tool - VMARENA

We have some applications local installed on the golden image (win7 x64):

- VLC

- Office 2010

- ERP

We are using appvolumes 2.12.2.13 on our system to publish specified apps.

Now we realized a problem:

If a user want to open a document/file from the ERP system in VLC or Outlook (using a specified CMD command) its not possible if the "Cloud Volumes" Service is enabled wherever a appstack is attached or not.

First i was thinking i could make some changes in the snapvol.cfg, but if no appstack is connected the error also occurs. It worked with the old version of appvolumes 2.12.

if i stop the "cloud volumes" service all commands working fine.

Any ideas how to fix this issue?

After deleting snapshots or consolidating VMs the datastore does not reclaim data. vCenter version 6.5.0.14100 Build Number 7801515, VMware ESXi 6.5.0, 7388607, VMFS 6. Before removing snapshots and consolidating a VM I had 10.71 TB free on the datastore after the removal I had 9 TB, so during the snapshot removal I have lost over 1 TB of space.  I do have a VMware support ticket open as well but I wanted to see if anyone else has experienced this and if so what is the solution. (I have a vSphere 6.0 VMFS 5 environment that does not have this issue.)

Hi friends,

We have following 2 Vsphere environment,

Existing ESXI version - 5.5 AND 6.0
vCenter version          - vCenter Server 5.5 GA (build 1312298)

                                   - vCenter Server 6.0 Update 1 (build 3018524)

Here are the following licenses,

VMware vSphere 5 Standard Essential plus (unlimited cores per CPU) 4CPU
vCenter Server 5 Essentials -  1 instance

VMware vSphere 6 Standard (unlimited cores per CPU) 4CPU
vCenter Server 6 Standard - 1 instance

Can I update this environment to Vsphere 6.5 with no cost within the support periods?

The existing licenses are for 2 for 6.0 but didn't upgrade the 1 vsphere which is still 5.5 (expired 10-29-2016). Can we upgrade to the 5.5 and 6.0 to

vsphere 6.5 with no cost since we have vmware support until 2-20-2019

Thanks,

Jocelyn

We have a number of users in a pool and everyone has redirection enabled but a couple users.  They get the message that redirection is not available for this desktop.  What causes one or two users to not have it available when their setup is identical t the next person??  This is happening for a couple of pools.  One instant clone and one linked clone.    Any help or suggestions are welcome.  Thanks

Dear Team,

Daily we have to deploy 100+ VMs, Just wanted to know how we can automate the process.

We have already created 2 customization, one will be used for windows and other for Linux, If we are deploying Linux VM through script so it should select existing LINUX customization and for Windows it should select existing Windows Customization.

Sript should ask below details

-VMname or it should take it from notepad/csv file

-We will keep ip details in notepad/csv file so it should assign ips to new VM from that file

-ClusterName where we have to deploy a VM

-DatastoreName where to deploy a VM.

After entering above input VM deployment task should start. if we have this type of script handy then any1 can deploy VMs independently.

Thanks in Advance.

regards

Mohammed Ahmed

We ran into this issue last year where some print jobs when printed would shift all characters one position forward like a Caesar Cipher. For instance A's would become B's, 1's would become 2's, G's would become H's etc. The fix for this was posted in KB2099984 where it instructed to set the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ThinPrint\TPView\EnableLegacyFonts DWORD to 1. We have had that in place for quite some time with no issues, however just recently it has started to happen again, even with the regkey still implemented on the host machine.

This appears to happen inside of IE when printing the PDF, and when opening directly with Reader/Acrobat. I opened the PDF in Chrome and it printed the characters properly. This also only appears to be certain PDF's, the one I am troubleshooting is a PDF form that is being exported out of a web application. The workaround I have right now is to print the PDF as an image since that bypasses any font dependencies or conversions or open the PDF in Chrome and print that way.

Horizon Client 4.7.0

AppVol 2.13.3.12

UEM 9.3.0.804

VMware Tools 10.1.10.6082533

Horizon Agent 7.3.2

Is anyone else seeing this issue show up again? I am not seeing anything in the thinprint.log indicating any issue as the print job is technically successful, just characters are skewed.

UPDATE:

Worked with support and they are aware of the issue and the Engineering team has assigned a Problem Report number to the issue and will be fixed in a later Client update which has no ETA as of yet. Another workaround was to downgrade to the 4.6.1 client.

Thank you for your response.

The issue was reported by only few users, so currently we don't have an KB article or public forum regarding this.

2059196 is the internal Problem Report number on which our Engineering team worked internally with the concerned team to get the issue resolved. We have also linked your Support Request # to the internal Problem Report number# 2059196.

Our Engineering team has acknowledged and taken ownership of the problem and have made that issue to be resolved in a future release/version of VMware Horizon Client. Currently there is no ETA as to the release date, or which product version the fix will be in. We'll keep you updated once the fix is available.

I have a Windows 7 Pro host and a Windows 7 Pro guest and was on VMware Workstation 14.0.0 then upgraded to 14.1.1.  My host is a desktop Xeon X99 based workstation.  I also updated the vmware tools in the guest to the 10.2 as prompted.  I have three monitors and use all three for the guest.

I noticed, almost immediately that my mouse would sometimes 'jump' from the center monitor to the monitor to my left. There does not seem to be much rhyme nor reason but in a text  editor, UltraEdit, i noticed that when I pushed the Undo key multiple times in a row, 5-10 times, the cursor at first disappears and always jumps off the button.

I am using a Microsoft Mouse with the standard Windows mouse driver. I do not use the 'enhanced' VMware keyboard driver.

I saw a user with a laptop and a jumping mouse which appears attributed to a driver.  I also have an Windows XP guest which crashed immediately after starting it.

Beware of this release!  I am falling back to 14.0.0.

I keep getting the following error message during setup:

Error:STAF Ping machName = Failed

I am able to ping from the primeclient to the vmmark-test1 VM, and vice versus. I also updated /etc/hosts on both the primeclient and test VM. Both also reside on the same network.

Thoughts?

Hello there!

We've got an issue with the horizon web access on version 7.4 (client version 4.6). The web page has a valid https certificate assigned to it.

As I try to log in with firefox, everything works just fine and I can log onto my VDI desktop as I would expect it to.

But safari, chrome, opera and internet explorer are not working with this behaviour:

• Safari & internet explorer:
  I can log in there, but as I click on my desktop, the browser redirects me to the home page and I have to log in again.
• Chrome & opera:
  In chrome, I can enter my username and my password but then, it just stucks with a loading icon.

I tried to find something in the knowledgebase but I didn't find anything useful or anything that worked for us.

Do you have any idea what could cause this issue?

Thanks in advance!

Greetings,

Sandro

I have configured 4 Network Interfaces (Uplink1, Uplink2, DMZ, isolated)

Some older machines have a configuration like (in .vmx) that work fine with Uplink1 or Uplink2.

ethernet0.present = "true"

ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "false"

ethernet0.networkName = "Uplink1"

ethernet0.addressType = "generated"

ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"

ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:b9:5f:c6"

ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "32"

ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

I now try to add a new Machine, but can only assign DMZ or isolated as network adapters

ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet3"

ethernet0.networkName = "DMZ"

ethernet0.uptCompatibility = "TRUE"

ethernet0.present = "TRUE"

ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:62:cc:e1"

ethernet0.addressType = "generated"

ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "192"

ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"until now I have n

Webclient only shows DMZ and isolated as available adapters. If I manually edit ethernet0.networkName it does not work either.

Any ideas?

Best regards mauri76

If I close Fusion (after I've been using Windows XP VM for example), sometimes I lose bluetooth. It is lost entirely... bluetooth icon at the right side of my macbook's menu bar says "Bluetooth not available". It will not come back until I restart macos. This is Fusion Pro 10.0.1 on High Sierra supplemental update. It's a real nuissance because I use my macbook in clamshell mode with bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Can't use them without bluetooth.

We have Windows 10 and Windows 7 Desktops all running Horizon View Agent 7.4.0.  These are all instant clone desktops.  On first login the Windows 10 desktops usb redirection fails with the error USB redirection is not available for this desktop

If you then disconnect and reconnect after like 30 seconds of USB initializing (which is a long time compared to Windows 7) the USB devices will show up properly.

On  our Windows 7 desktops the USB redirection works properly every time and is much faster to initialize.

On Windows 10 Desktops our Thin Print printers are all "stacked".  For example if I have multiple printers attached I'll only see on via devices and printers, but if I then right click the printer all of the menu items have an arrow next to them and I can then choose the sub printers from that.  If I do this in Printers & Scanners I can click the print queue and choose manage where it then says

"This device has a few different functions.  Pick on to manage settings for that function."

The other "functions" are in fact the other printers.  While this works this isn't at all intuitive for the users.  Is there a way to get these printers separated out into their individual printers?

I am adding a new external PSC to vcenter - the gui installed completed OK.

Ran this to add the new PSC to vcenter

cmsso-util reconfigure --repoint-psc psc_fqdn_or_static_ip --username username --domain-name domain_name --passwd password [--dc-port port_number]

Now I am getting these errors

Stderr = Job for vmafdd.service failed because the control process exited with error code.

"systemctl status vmafdd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart",

            "localized": "An error occurred while starting service 'vmafdd'",

            "translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'"