Hi all,

We have an RDS farm to allow some external staff to connect in, via a UAG to a few apps. For some reason the service stopped working, and now when we try to connect inbound from the internet, users see a black screen and the request times out. Connecting from the LAN it works fine.

The UAG seems fine (no authentication issue and desktop list populates in the horizon client). The error logs on the client machine (from appdata and \VDM folder) show a mix of errors as below (grouped).

We've tried using different protocol (in its working state PCoIP was the display protocol on the host), recovering the farm, restarting services, upgrading vmware tools etc to no avail.

Any suggestions on these? A google suggests that there's an AD issue looking up the computer account, and yes, I've read the vmware KB https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2083784 - any other ideas!!??

2020-04-07T14:15:52.958+00:00 ERROR (453C) [WinCDK] PartnerAppMgr::ChannelAddRef : No shared memory channel. Horizon client service may be down.

2020-04-07T14:15:34.064+00:00 ERROR (453C) [WinCDK] USBDevices::FreeEnumData : CdkViewUsb failed to free enumeration. The reason is 'ViewUsbStatus_BadHandle'. The broker is 'smartext.uk.thalesgroup.com'. The desktop is 'CalculatorTest'.

2020-04-07T14:15:52.201+00:00 ERROR (453C) [libcdk] CdkClientInfo_GetMachineDistinguishedName: GetComputerObjectNameW failed with code: 0x00000547.

2020-04-07T14:15:52.201+00:00 ERROR (453C) [libcdk] CdkClientInfo_GetLoggedOnFQDN: GetUserNameEx failed with code: 0x00000534.

020-04-07T14:15:10.956+01:00 ERROR (4C54-9B38) <NodeManagerWatcher> [vmware-remotemks] Failed to initiate shared memory over RPC, server initiate failed.  1722 (The RPC server is unavailable.)

2020-04-07T14:15:10.956+01:00 WARN  (4C54-9B38) <NodeManagerWatcher> [vmware-remotemks] CORE::SharedMemChannel::Connect(): Channel (null) (0x0000000000000000): SharedMem Connect to SessionClient FAILED: RPC initiated sharedmem connect failed, reason=hostUnreachable

2020-04-07T14:15:11.456+01:00 ERROR (4C54-99A4) <39332> [vmware-remotemks] HccChannelPlugin::ChannelAddRef: No shared memory channel. Horizon client service may be down.

2020-04-07T14:15:11.456+01:00 ERROR (4C54-99A4) <39332> [vmware-remotemks] HccChannelPlugin::GetControllerMessageQueues: ChannelAddRef failed!

2020-04-07T14:15:11.956+01:00 ERROR (4C54-99A4) <39332> [vmware-remotemks] HccChannelPlugin::ChannelAddRef: No shared memory channel. Horizon client service may be down.

2020-04-07T14:15:11.956+01:00 ERROR (4C54-99A4) <39332> [vmware-remotemks] HccChannelPlugin::SendToAllControllers: ChannelAddRef failed!

2020-04-07T14:13:02.362+01:00 ERROR (7348-6F1C) <28444> [vmware-remotemks] HccChannelPlugin::ChannelAddRef: No shared memory channel. Horizon client service may be down.

2020-04-07T14:13:02.362+01:00 ERROR (7348-6F1C) <28444> [vmware-remotemks] HccChannelPlugin::GetControllerMessageQueues: ChannelAddRef failed!

2020-04-07T14:13:02.862+01:00 ERROR (7348-6F1C) <28444> [vmware-remotemks] HccChannelPlugin::ChannelAddRef: No shared memory channel. Horizon client service may be down.

Hi,

I am trying to install a custom xubuntu ova to esxi 6.7 but I am getting an error with different browsers. Error says;

Unknown error

There was an error creating the import specification from the OVF file.

Failed to deploy VM: [missing message value]

In the meanwhile vmkernel.log says;

2020-04-09T07:36:15.598Z cpu30:2181803 opID=14f2d7af)UserDump: 3110: hostd-worker: Dumping cartel 2181705 (from world 2181803) to file /var/core/hostd-zdump.003 ...

2020-04-09T07:36:34.346Z cpu34:2181803 opID=14f2d7af)UserDump: 3258: hostd-worker: Userworld(hostd-worker) coredump complete.

2020-04-09T07:36:34.945Z cpu2:2097364)WARNING: ntg3: Ntg3SetWolState:1010: vmnic4:WOL currently disabled in NVRAM. Please change WOL setting in NVRAM through NIC mgmt software and reboot.

2020-04-09T07:36:34.952Z cpu2:2097364)WARNING: ntg3: Ntg3SetWolState:1010: vmnic5:WOL currently disabled in NVRAM. Please change WOL setting in NVRAM through NIC mgmt software and reboot.

2020-04-09T07:36:34.959Z cpu2:2097364)WARNING: ntg3: Ntg3SetWolState:1010: vmnic6:WOL currently disabled in NVRAM. Please change WOL setting in NVRAM through NIC mgmt software and reboot.

2020-04-09T07:36:34.966Z cpu10:2097364)WARNING: ntg3: Ntg3SetWolState:1010: vmnic7:WOL currently disabled in NVRAM. Please change WOL setting in NVRAM through NIC mgmt software and reboot.

2020-04-09T07:36:35.917Z cpu55:2181903)Config: 703: "SIOControlFlag2" = 0, Old Value: 0, (Status: 0x0)

2020-04-09T07:36:42.349Z cpu48:2181903)Config: 703: "VMOverheadGrowthLimit" = 4294967295, Old Value: 4294967295, (Status: 0x0)

When I checked NIC settings WOL really looks like disabled but this VM has no relation with these interfaces. Also a core file occures each time I try to import the file under /var/core. 

Same ova file works in VirtualBox without any problem. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

Basically what I am trying to achieve is to stop users from copying files from the vdi to USB or their local workstation drives which are attaching in drive redirection. How can I do this?

users are using floating pool vdis.

Hi All,

Please see my configuration below. I have started both the services in the guest and when accessing the service using host ip and port, it is simply not forwarded to the guest. What is wrong?

Regards

White

Hi Guys,

I have a UCS server running ESXi 6.7.0. For whatever reason, my VMNIC2-5 will not physically come up. I have tried to SSH'n in to the box and shutting them down and restarting, but they remain down. I am currently plugged in to VNIC 2, from there in to my 9300 - as you can see, the port is down/down.

Is there anything else I can try?

Thanks.

Hey Folks,

I'm trying to set up a UAG (3.9.1) for my users. In our environment we use smart cards, so I am attempting to configure X.509 and it is failing. If the UAG is configured with Username/Password it works fine.

I have a cert from external CA in "crt" format. Following the UAG Guide and setting up SAML, I am trying to convert the cert to one line PEM format and I dont know if I am doing this correctly.

The doc says:

If your certificate is in PKCS#12 (.p12 or .pfx) format, or after the certificate is converted to PKCS#12 format, use openssl to convert the certificate to .pem files.

For example, if the name of the certificate is mycaservercert.pfx, use the following commands to convert the certificate:

Folks,

Am running VMware® Workstation 15 Pro (15.5.2 build-15785246) on Windows 10, 64-bit  (Build 18363) 10.0.18363. Recently i deployed a Fedora 31 workstation VM on top of it with 2 Cpu and 4GB of RAM with a 30GB Preallocaed disk. it's the only guest active on this host at a time and i have couple of windows guest which is in powered off state and i don't use those guest for several months.

For the past couple of days i notice a sudden freeze of my Fedora guest and leave me to do force poweroff. There is no heavy Disk I/O on windows hosts.

Here are my host and guest details

Host

Hardware: HP Elitebook 840G4

Host CPU : i5-7200U, with 2 Cores and 4 Logical processor

RAM: 16GB

Disk: Samsumg SSD 850 EVO 1 TB

Guest Details

[paps@paps ~] $ cat /etc/redhat-release

Fedora release 31 (Thirty One)

[paps@paps ~] $ uname -i

x86_64

[paps@paps ~] $ uname -a

Linux paps.myfedora31.internal 5.5.11-200.fc31.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 23 17:32:43 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[paps@paps ~] $ rpm -qa |grep vm-tools

open-vm-tools-desktop-11.0.5-2.fc31.x86_64

open-vm-tools-11.0.5-2.fc31.x86_64

[paps@paps ~] $ free  -g

              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available

Mem:              3           2           0           0           1           1

Swap:             0           0           0

[paps@paps ~] $ cat /proc/cpuinfo |egrep 'processor|model name'

processor : 0

model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz

processor : 1

model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz

[paps@paps ~] $ rpm -qa |grep vm-tools

open-vm-tools-desktop-11.0.5-2.fc31.x86_64

open-vm-tools-11.0.5-2.fc31.x86_64

[paps@paps ~] $

Am more of linux and kvm guy and new to the world of Windows and Vwmare WS. Any hint where to start to troubleshoot this?

Hi ,

I am new to the Vsphere ( v5.5). I have to assign the IP to the VM / vApp from the IP Pool. I have created the IP pool and assigned to the Vapp (with Transient/ Fixed ) but still I did not get the IP from the IP pool.  Shouldn't IP pool behave like a DHCP server in that it automatically assigns IP addresses automatically to the VMs in the Vapp.  Any one could you help me? Below is the overview of what I tried.

1) Create a vApp and move the VM to the vApp

2) Create a new network bridged with vmnic0

3) Create a new vlan 'vlan 10' and configure the new network to use vlan 10

4) Set up IP pool

5) Configure IP allocation policy in vApp - Transient

6) Enable vApp options in VM settings and then finally change the IP allocation policy on the VM.

Thanks,

Vidhya

Hi All,

Can anyone here please assist me with the powershell script if possible to list the VM information like the following format or in CSV format is OK:

SCSI (0:0) VM Hard Disk 1 [R5D23] PRODFSCLUS01-VM/PRODFSCLUS01-VM.vmdk - Windows C: drive - 60 GB

SCSI (1:1) VM Hard Disk 2 [NAS-D76] PRODFSCLUS01-VM/PRODFSCLUS01-VM.vmdk - Windows Q: drive - 1 GB

SCSI (1:2) VM Hard Disk 3 [NAS-D23] PRODFSCLUS01-VM/PRODFSCLUS01-VM.vmdk - Windows G: drive - 1.77 TB

SCSI (1:3) VM Hard Disk 4 [R5D52] PRODFSCLUS01-VM/PRODFSCLUS01-VM.vmdk - Windows H: drive - 1.77 GB

SCSI (1:4) VM Hard Disk 5 [NAS-D19] PRODFSCLUS01-VM/PRODFSCLUS01-VM.vmdk - Windows T: drive - 60 GB

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

We're having an issue to renew the VPP token from legacy VPP System to Apple Business Manager system.

The dedicated account we were using with VPP Legacy has been transferred to Apple Business Manager program.

Our UEM was set for years with the legacy VPP and we are trying to set the new ABM token except that when trying to renew the New ABM token (Under Settings > Apps & Books > My Server Tokens > Download the one corresponding to the location) then it is rejected when tried to be renewed with the following error message  in UEM : "Save Failed : Uploaded sToken is not the renewed version of the old sToken".

The deadline to renew the token was April 6th, so we decided to renew old legacy token with the "new" legacy token downloaded from ABM.

This worked and gave us 3 more weeks to find a nice conclusion on that.

Any token taken either from this dedicated account or from another Content Manager rights account will be denied by UEM with the same error message.

It seems that we will have to clear the token and renew it.

The only app which we have deployed so far in VPP is Intelligent Hub, which is also distributed to the same devices from Public Apps.

So even if we clear the token, and reimport a new one, we should not have any impact on our devices.

Did somebody face the same kind of issues ? Any help would be great.

Thanks,

Anton

Bonjour,

J'ai mis à jour récemment mon Vcenter Server en version 6.7.

J'ai pu mettre à jour tous les ESX en version 6.7 ainsi que quelques VM.

Par contre, pour Vcenter Server, la VM apparait en version ESXi 5.5 and later (VM version 10)

Y'a-t-il un moyen de la mettre en derniere version Hardware 14 ?

Merci d'avance !

The Docker container within the appliance cannot start becasue the admin password is expired.  I tried some tips to change it,  but it failed.  Seems the package needs to be replaced on the download site.

Hello,

I am trying to learn about vCentre and generally how it works.  To this end I thought I would work through an installation procedure.  So, using 6.5 I went about installing it.

I have a physical server on to which I’ve installed Windows Server 2012.  I’ve setup a domain and then have attempted to install the software.

I reach the bit where it asks for ESXi host or vCenter Serer name, I put into the this my new domain which I’ve created.  For credentials I’ve added the details of the administrator of the physical machine.

When I click next I see an error which states ‘Failed to get an SSL thumbprint of the target server certificate’

Any idea how I can resolve this please?

I am using the vCenter Server Appliance Installer.

I have VMware Workstation 15 Player installed on Windows 10 (64-bit).  When I attempt to launch (double click) on C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Player\vmnetcfg.exe, a window pops up with the following error:

"The procedure entry point could not be located in the dynamic link library C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Player\vmnetcfg.exe."

Note that vmplayer.exe launches just fine from the same folder.

Also, the license is loaded and Help About displays the produce status as Licensed.

TIA!

Lenny

Hello,

We have a discover of virtual machine state on vCenter configured each 15 minutes in vRA.

I would like to know if it's possible to make an update of specific machine state with vRO to update machine state in vRA UI.

Thx for your feedback.

hi friends,

i have problem with Linux images in Vmware openstack, they cant get metadata such as ( key or password ).

i have this problem with ubuntu 18 and CentOS 8 too . but after searching i can find some solution for that and change my Flavor metadata for them becuase they didnt accept vmware as a openstack vendor.

but i need all distribute of Linux in my environment and i cant add Debian 10 or Fedora 31 in my site.

how can i handle it ??

VCSA 6.7.0.42200 with 50+ hosts 6.7U3

Yesterday i uploaded the april-patches (ESXi670-202004001) into the software depot for autodeploy

this morning the vami reports "Imagebuilder service health with warnings" - running out of available disk space

looking on space utililization of the vcsa it reports :

Filesystem                                Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/mapper/imagebuilder_vg-imagebuilder  9.8G  2.9G  6.3G  32% /storage/imagebuilder

/dev/mapper/autodeploy_vg-autodeploy      9.8G  3.8G  5.5G  41% /storage/autodeploy

why is the warning threshold so low? theres enough storage available

I can't login to my vsphere, while trying to login I found this error:

503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http20NamedPipeServiceSpecE:0x7fa14405d5a0] _serverNamespace = / _isRedirect = false _pipeName =/var/run/vmware/vpxd-webserver-pipe).

Previously there was a disk-full issue, this is resolved now.

Tried to change the Password too.

service-control --status --all
service-control --stop vspherewebclientsvc
service-control --start vspherewebclientsvc

Hi,

Does any one know how I can get all ESXi Hosts within a vCenter that are in Maintenance Mode using Python SDK ?

Using the below Code I'm able to print out all the ESXi Servers. but not able to figure out only to print out the ESXi that are currently in Maintenance Mode

I have a need to add virtual SCSI controllers and virtual disks to those controllers at time of deployment for CloneWorkflow based blueprints and being able to specify the SPBM (Storage Policy Based Management) to those virtual disks.

While doing my research I noticed that some of our blueprints where virtual disks were added would have "machine.properties" properties like so:

      VirtualMachine.Disk0.DeviceID : SCSI (0:0)

      VirtualMachine.Disk0.ExternalID : <id>

      VirtualMachine.Disk0.IsClone : true

      VirtualMachine.Disk0.IsFixed : False

      VirtualMachine.Disk0.Label : Hard disk 1

      VirtualMachine.Disk0.Name : Hard disk 1

      VirtualMachine.Disk0.Size : 100

      VirtualMachine.Disk0.Storage : <storage name>

      VirtualMachine.Disk0.Storage.Cluster.ExternalReferenceId : <storage id>

      VirtualMachine.Disk0.Storage.Cluster.Name : <name of storage>

      VirtualMachine.Disk1.DeviceID : SCSI (0:1)

      VirtualMachine.Disk1.ExternalID : <id>

      VirtualMachine.Disk1.IsClone : false

      VirtualMachine.Disk1.IsFixed : False

      VirtualMachine.Disk1.Label : Hard disk 2

      VirtualMachine.Disk1.Letter : /dev/sdb

      VirtualMachine.Disk1.Name : Hard disk 2

      VirtualMachine.Disk1.Size : 2

      VirtualMachine.Disk1.Storage : <storage name>

      VirtualMachine.Disk1.Storage.Cluster.ExternalReferenceId : <storage id>

The blueprint editor does not allow you to specify the virtual SCSI controller, hence all additional virtual disks are bound the the first/default controller in the template.

(1) Is it possible to change the value of "VirtualMachine.DiskN.DeviceID" to specify a virtual SCSI controller other than zero, e.g. (1:0), and have that controller created automatically? Obviously there would need to be additional properties to specify the type of controller, etc.

(2) If yes then what was the approach? Was it a matter of adding the properties to the blueprint? Part of the reason for asking is that the documentation on this family of properties (Custom Properties V) doesn't mention "VirtualMachine.DiskN.DeviceID". Is there another source of information for "VirtualMachine.DiskN.DeviceID"?

(3) Is there an easy/more direct way of specifying the vSphere SPBM policy or is custom coding the only solution? The "VirtualMachine.DiskN.Storage*" properties (Custom Properties V) refer to vRA storage reservation policies not vSphere SPBM.

(4) Also, the documentation doesn't explain "VirtualMachine.DiskN.Size" other than as a reference for the explanation of "VirtualMachine.Admin.TotalDiskUsage". Any other sources of information for this property?

Thanks in advance.