Probably should have clarified. These disks are not the root volume and they were for one reason or another not configured for LVM. These were inherited so the why's of things are not known to me. Management's preference is to grow disks instead of adding new ones.
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Re: Oracle Linux disk grow failure
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Re: what vSAN License Includes?
Thanks BR!
It looks like VMWare has finally came to its senses but we aren't quite through the mess yet. In order to comply with VMWare licensing, we had been migrating all of our servers over to the new Vhosts while in the evaluation mode. So now we have all of our production servers on this cluster that is using VSAN + VDS. I'm crossing my fingers that there is a bug fix being worked on OR a way for an engineer to do some magic through the CLI to get this corrected. How disrupting and risky is it going to be to our VSAN Datastore to remove the VDS that our VSAN uses?
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TagCategory
Hi All,
I need to get TagCategory during VM creation. The request to create vm is fired from vcac. Then it executes a flow in VCO. I read VCO does not currently support Tag Category. Then started using powerCli cmdlets in VCO
The following is the script.
try{
var session = powerShellHost.openSession();
var sessionID = session.getSessionId()
System.getModule("com.vmware.library.powershell.generated").addPSSnapIn(powerShellHost,sessionID,"VMware.VimAutomation.Core",false,false,false,"","","") ;
var actionResult = System.getModule("com.vmware.library.powershell.generated").connectVIServer(powerShellHost,sessionID,"vcenterHost",443,null,null,"userid","Password",null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null) ;
var oSession = powerShellHost.getSession(sessionID);
var cmd = oSession.addCommandFromString('Get-TagCategory');
var res = System.getModule("com.vmware.library.powershell").invokeCommand(powerShellHost,sessionID) ;
System.log("Result of TagCategory:"+res.getXml());
}
catch(err){
System.log(err);
}
finally{
powerShellHost.closeSession(session.getSessionId());
}
addPSSnapIn takes long time. Is this normal?
connectVIServer method is called but actionResult is not used in the script. I have seen similar behavior in powercli example workflows. Is it required to connect.
invokeCommand sometimes throws out of memory. What is wrong in the script.
Is it possible to convert invokeComand return object into VCO object with ConvertTO method?
Thanks in advance.
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Re: vCAC 6.1 AD Searches not resolving groups, but users accounts are fine
I have logged a ticket with VMware I will get back to you when they get back to me. However I do think just pasting the fqdn of the group into the box does actually work correctly, as I have tested this.
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Re: Teradici releases APEX drivers for View 6.0.1
Now that I've read the release notes there is, once again, no support for the latest build of ESXi (2068190 - U2). Last time it took Teradici almost nine months to catch up to esx, so your guess is as good as mine as to how long this situation will last. You either run unsupported or wait.
/Rant
Imagine if Microsoft had to wait for another company to update RDP every time there was a Windows update or a new version, or have their customers run unsupported. That's exactly what's happening here. A key, CRITICAL element of your entire VDI stack is controlled by a third party with inadequate resources to keep up. VMware, you really need to address this.
Rant/
Geoff
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Re: VMWare Fusion 6 freezes up after Mavericks update
Thanks.
Next time I'll try the ctrl-option-f key combination to break out. I tried ctr-option-esc.. that didn't work.
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Re: Host serial no and HBA information
Can Some one correct me on the below script.
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Get-VMHost |select name,@{Name='Hardware Serial Number';Expression={
if($_.VMHost.ExtensionData.Manufacturer.Type -like "*Cisco*","*IBM*","*HP*") {$_.ExtensionData.Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo.IdentifierValue[-3]}}}
else {
Get-View -id $_.VMHost.ExtensionData.Manufacturer.Type -like "*Dell","*Sun*" {$_.ExtensionData.Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo.IdentifierValue[-1]}}
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Esx 4.1 on drive flash usb, hang randoms
hello,
My Esx 4.1 installs on usb flash drive and keeps crashing, not daily but with a week beween each crash
my hardware: HP Proliant DL380p gen8
Sep 8 12:27:03 vmkernel: 105:20:41:56.977 cpu1:4516)usb storage warning (1023 throttled) on vmhba32 (SCSI cmd MODE_SENSE): clearing endpoint halt for pipe 0xc0010480
Sep 8 12:27:03 vmkernel: usb storage message on vmhba32: Bulk data transfer result 0x0
Sep 8 12:27:03 vmkernel: usb storage message on vmhba32: scsi cmd done, result=0x0
Sep 8 12:27:03 vmkernel: usb storage message on vmhba32: Bulk command transfer result=0
Sep 9 01:43:02 vmkernel: 106:09:57:54.835 cpu5:4516)usb storage warning (1023 throttled) on vmhba32 (SCSI cmd MODE_SENSE): clearing endpoint halt for pipe 0xc0010480
Sep 9 01:43:02 vmkernel: usb storage message on vmhba32: Bulk data transfer result 0x0
Sep 9 01:43:02 vmkernel: usb storage message on vmhba32: scsi cmd done, result=0x0
Sep 9 01:43:02 vmkernel: usb storage message on vmhba32: Bulk command transfer result=0
Sep 9 15:01:02 vmkernel: 106:23:15:52.634 cpu4:4516)usb storage warning (1023 throttled) on vmhba32 (SCSI cmd MODE_SENSE): clearing endpoint halt for pipe 0xc0010480
Please can anyone suggest me a simple method of fix that matter?
Any idea?
Thanks
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Providing Encrypted virtual disks in multi-tenant enviorment
I need to provide each customer encrypted virtual disks in a virtual environment. I don't want to have to dedicate an entire datastore to each customer requiring encryption.
Is this possible?
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Re: Oracle Linux disk grow failure
Probably should have clarified. These disks are not the root volume and they were for one reason or another not configured for LVM
In that case it should make things even easier, provided you want to grow the last partition of the disk. Please post the output of the commands I requested to make things clear.
Assuming you have a normal MBR and not a GPT partition layout, basically you should just need to unmount the filesystem, re-create the partition with the same starting sector, expand the filesystem with resize2fs and then re-mount the filesystem again. There are tons of tutorials describing this in detail out on the web.
With this method should be no changing UUIDs involved whatsoever.
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Login failed due to invalid credentials for one or more vCenter Server systems
I am able to login using AD credentials on both production and DR.
From production vcenter I can see both vcenter servers fine. But when I log into the DR vcenter I get:
Login failed due to invalid credentials for one or more vCenter Server systems
Also, when I click on the Prodcution vcenter from the DR webpshere I get an error message saying:
You have no priveledges to view this object or it does not exist.
Periodically, when logged into the websphere from DR I would receive a
pop error:
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Re: VMware Horizon View client and high DPI screens
When using the View client to connect to a Windows 7 session from a high-dpi device like a Surface Pro 3, the fonts and icons in the remote session are so tiny that the session is nearly unusable. If you attempt to resize the screen, the View agent just changes the remote sessions resolution to match.
In Microsoft's RPD client if I enable Smart Sizing, (on by default on high-dpi devices) and then resize the screen, it scales everything up. Much more useful on high-dpi screens.
To give you an idea of how bad it, my desktop icons in a Windows 7 session are less than 1/3 of an inch tall, and the font is about 1/10th of an inch.
I attempted to change the font scaling in the VM, but when connected via View, those settings are grayed out.
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Re: vlans unreachable problem
Did some thinking on your switch settings the other night as well.
It appears your switches are like HP's where you can have a pvid/access mode port(meaning untag traffic hits this port and the switch places the pvid VLAN on it) and also tag a vlan on this as well.
For instance:
port 1:
pvid 100
tag 200
fastforward
In this case if anything plugged into this port would get VLAN 100, however if this port see's a packet come into this port with a VLAN tag of 200 it will route it accordingly. I know some switches allow this and it bugs me, but its an option.
Going back to what I said, and looking at your switch settings, it looks like you will either need to figure out how your NIC's in your blade map to the INT ports and then use the appropriate pvids, and not use VLAN's on your port groups
or
continue to use pvids and tag some of the ports required for the iSCSI network like I discussed at the top
or
switch the ports over to Trunk mode and pass only the VLAN's required then tag all your traffic from each port group. Aka MGMT VLAN 100, iSCSI VLAN 200
here is some links as well that may help:
Tag/Untag Ports on HP Switches - Spiceworks
http://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/6483/what-are-tagged-and-untagged-packets
anyhow hope this has helped
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Re: VCAC inbound mail I am confused about what user name and password it is looking for
can I make the outgoing and incoming the same address?
thanks so much !!!!!!!!!
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Три подсети и один ESXi. Как быть?
Помогите, всю голову сломал.
Есть ESXi 5.5. Наружу смотрит 5.208.xx.yy. Сеть видит, все работает.
Тут дают мне два IP из совершенно разных подсетей - 212.35.xx.yy и 37.192.xx.yy
Прописываю их на гостевые OS - ничего не работает. Они не видят сеть. Даже шлюз не пингуется...
Догадываюсь что надо как-то показать ESXi эти самые сети, но как не знаю. Переситал гору мануалов - но то ли смотрю не туда, то ли вижу не то...
Научите неразумного, пожалуйста, как это реализовать?
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Re: HP Proliant DL380e Gen8, HP OEM VMWare ESXi 5.5 Update 2 keeps crashing (PSOD)
Our server crashed again this morning...then once more upon restart. Then again this afternoon.
So I have no choice but try the hpvsa driver update which I just did. However, I don't know if it affected my throughput.
How did you test this?
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Datastore / Disk latency problems with HP ProLiant DL380 G7 - HP Smart Array P410i controller after SPP 2014.09.0 / hpsa-5.0.0.74 update
Hello,
we are currently investigating massive datastore and disk (mainly READ) latency problems on some of our HP ProLiant DL380 G7 with the P410i (BBWC) controller.
It all started after our regular half-year update cycle for ESXi 5.1 U2 to:
- ESXi510-201407001 (no problems)
- hp-esxi5.0uX-bundle-2.1.1-2 (no problems)
- hp-HPUtil-esxi5.0-bundle-2.1-15 (no problems)
- hpsa-5.0.0.74 (driver) & SPP2014.09.0 (- problems started)
It is not a permanent increase in read latency, but insted peaks occour which trigger alerts in Veeam. Datastore read latency rises from about 5 ms to 100 ms as soon as this happens, but after a few seconds everything is back to normal. Those particular datastores are RAID5 (but we've seen some alerts on RAID1 also), have read and write cache enabled and the most affected machines are those with the LOWEST 
usage.
We have some WinServer2012R2 RDP for a low number of Sessions (less than 5) - there is no noticeable delay upon working on these.
Maybe someone of you has experienced a similar behavior after applying the latest updates to HP ProLiant Servers. We don't have a clue on what to try next, a SPP rollback isn't possible, maybe the driver, but we've got to find the correct predecessor, since one of the older 2014 HPSA drivers leads to PSOD on the Host.
Best regards,
HZ
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Re: Datastore / Disk latency problems with HP ProLiant DL380 G7 - HP Smart Array P410i controller after SPP 2014.09.0 / hpsa-5.0.0.74 update
Hey,
Is it possible that the new driver shifted you read/write % on the raid controller, or maybe changed the write cache settings?
Boot up one of the hosts with HP's Offline Array Control Utility and check the RAID controller settings. You can also change your % here if your workload is more read. Back when we used to deploy a lot of HP servers for Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape systems I would change the RAID controller settings to 80% write 20% read as the backup server was doing 80% writing anyhow.
Hope this has helped
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Re: Проблема с установкой vmware tools
скрин в прикреплённом файле
машина выключена, пункты CONNECTED не активны
добавлял CD-ROM, тоже самое
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Re: VMWare ESXi 5.0 or higher need for a virtualized Video conferencing solution Help
Well, since 1 vCPU is mapped to 1 logical core, your 10 extra cores on the server just won't be used.
So you could run another VM on it 
I can't remote assist you, as we probably live in different time zones and I like my sleep
Tim
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