VMware Workstation offers different types of networks. One of them is "NAT", which may be what you are looking for. If you configure a VM for NAT it will - assuming the VM uses DHCP - receive an IP address from the NAT (vmnet8 by default) network. This way the host can always access the VM without even being connected to an external network.
André
Hi everyone,
I'm new to VMware (running on my dad's Workstation 12) so bear with me. Here's my issue. I'm trying to make a VM of my Mac (2011 MacBook Air) run on my server computer (Windows 7 x64, Core i7, 20GB of RAM) at home. My aim is to get it up and running (essentially as a clone of my Mac Air) with iMessage in-tact, so I've lurked the web but can't find a method that works for me. I feel like I'm close but can't quite get to the finish line.
I made a bootable USB on my Mac from the latest MacOS Sierra (from the Apple Store) install file and installed Clover Bootloader alongside it. I took that USB to my VM station and set it up with the following:
Memory: 4 GB
Processors: 1
Hard Disk (SATA 0:2): Using physical drive (my bootable USB)
Hard Disk 2 (SATA 0:3): 60 GB dynamically allocated
Display: Maximum 1920 x 1080
General: Apple Mac OS X (macOS 10.12)
When I tried to boot the machine up, I was getting a vcpu-0 error, so I added smc.version = "0" to my VMX file.
Now it boots to my drive properly and displays a Clover boot menu like the following.
I can't select "Boot Clover from EFI" as it results in an error Not Found while LegacyBoot so if I Boot OS X Install by the first option, I get the apple logo on the screen followed by a weird boot sequence (there are six progress bars, as seen in the following).
After it finishes booting, I get this display (with the bars moving towards the left).
Obviously, the display options are wrong, right? I've tried with auto-detect, force 1920x1080 (the resolution of my Mac Air), unplugging my second monitor... I can interact with the display behind all those white (I can see the menu bar open up and use keyboard input to tab through unknown options) but it doesn't do me much good if I can't see it. Does anybody know how to fix this?
Thanks,
Jordan
Defrag is not recommended of a guest VM in a Virtual Machine.
Reference :
Disk Defragmentation best practice
Should I defrag my Guest OS? - VMware vSphere Blog
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Best Regards,
Deepak Koshal
CNE|CLA|CWMA|VCP4|VCP5|CCAH
Yes, extensive testing shows that Creators Update still not fully supported - at least 50% of the time VMWare Fusion see's no Boot Camp partition. I hope there's another update following soon to fix this properly.
We are using Software Defined Storage for the HCI • StarWind Virtual SAN ® Free for exactly same purposes that you've described. Didn't have any issues since implementation but plan to upgrade to commercial version (which isn't expensive at all) just because we need 24/7 support according to our internal SLAs.
Thanks for the feedback and your welcome
If you don't mind answering your original question as answered with my post it might give me some "street cred" on the forums.
Cheers
vMan
Need Complete log bundle.
Best Regards,
Deepak Koshal
CNE|CLA|CWMA|VCP4|VCP5|CCAH
Hi All,
I am unable to get the license expiration details as it shows blank
$LicenseManager= Get-view LicenseManager
$LicenseAssignmentManager= Get-View $LicenseManager.LicenseAssignmentManager
$LicenseAssignmentManager.GetType().GetMethod("QueryAssignedLicenses").Invoke($LicenseAssignmentManager,@($null)) |
Select EntityDisplayName,
@{N='Product';E={$_.Properties | where{$_.Key -eq 'ProductName'} | select -ExpandProperty Value}},
@{N='Product Version';E={$_.Properties | where{$_.Key -eq 'FileVersion'} | select -ExpandProperty Value}},
@{N='License';E={$_.AssignedLicense.LicenseKey}},
@{N='License Name';E={$_.AssignedLicense.Name}},
@{N='Used License';E={$_.Properties | where{$_.Key -eq 'EntityCost'} | select -ExpandProperty Value}},
@{N='Total';E={$_.AssignedLicense.Total}},
@{N='ExpirationDate';E={$_.Properties | where{$_.Key -eq 'expirationDate'} | select -ExpandProperty Value}}
#| Export-Csv c:\license_report.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
Hello,
As soon as you put a host in Maintenance Mode with the 'No Action' option, all of the components on its capacity drives will be marked Absent.
This process doesn't move any data as might occur with 'Ensure Accessibility' and provided you have shut down all VMs and all Objects/components are healthy then no data is being written to data Objects. Thus when the cluster wakes up (assuming you have all the networking correct) it will be in the same state as when all were placed in this state.
This would be the same whether you put these in this decom state for 1 minute, 1 hour or 1 week.
True, it is not often that this is done but I have assisted multiple customers with this in the past and the only time that I have seen issues was when the Network at new site was not configured correctly, so I am guessing my colleagues on vSAN-team will advise you the same.
Either way, take the obvious precautions of:
- Making sure all Objects are healthy.
- Backing-up everything before the move (preferably after VMs have been shut-down).
- Make sure the network configuration at the new site is correct.
Bob
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I think you might have posted in the wrong forum... this is vRops not vRA / vRO
Cheers
vMan
ciao,
same problem here.
windows 10 vm, upgraded to 1703, when trying to install wmware tools 10.1.7 i obtain the same error.
if i try to start the service manually, via services msc, i receive error that service did not start.
I've also increase the timeout to 60 sec but nothing.
tried version 10.1.5 ... same results.
the only option is to click cancel and the setup rollback all changes removing the service and, of curse, the vmware tools also.
i've tryed with sysinternals procmon to see if something goes wrong but I did not find anything useful.
is there some log file that can be read to see what is going wrong ?
please any help will be appreciated
thanks a lot
regards
marcello
virtualDD,
I do know the root account password of the ESXi host.
On my Windows PC that runs vCLI, I created a local account (root) and it has the same password as the root account password on the ESXi host.
The Windows PC local root account is in the Administrators group.
Just to be on the safe side, as you suggested, I updated the Security on D:\Temp\Backups to allow the local group Everyone with Full\Modify\Read&Execute\List folder contents\Read\Write\.
I login to the Windows PC with the local root account.
Used the vicfg-cfgbackup.pl --server x.x.x.x -s D:\Temp\Backups command and I received the error message “Permission Denied”
Do you think it has something to do with Roles?
Is there a way I can check the role of root via vCLI?
Using the vSphere Client, Roles is greyed out when I check it via the vSphere Client. I think running the PERL script vicfg-user.pl should update the Roles.
While I understand a Role is different that passwd, passwd has root as Administrator.
Also, I am running ESXi v5.1. I want to upgrade. But, before I upgrade, I want to back up the existing config.
T.J.
Purple Screen of Death mean system came to halt or abnormal end. It could be partial or full system crash.
There Could Be several reason for this event to occur. Could be Due to Hardware issue or Software issue such as Machine Check Exception (MCE), PCPU Lockups, Failed to ack TLB invalidate, General Protection Fault, Page Fault, Spin Locks Lost Heartbeat and more.
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Best Regards,
Deepak Koshal
CNE|CLA|CWMA|VCP4|VCP5|CCAH
VCSA or vCenter 6.5 does have the dump collector. Please find the below documentation and I believe they are disabled by default.
VMware vSphere 6.5 Documentation Library
Thanks,
MS
After looking at the code, I think this is a gap in the VCD REST API. Worse, because the <Item> comes from OVF, this might not even be easily fixable (we have a similar problem for disks, where we have a custom attribute 'storageProfileHref' to point to the corresponding vCD storage profile). Getting this to work will require a code change in vCD.
In the mean time, you can use the solution you proposed: just attempt to eject the media ID for all media with the name "test_disk.iso", some will fail (which you can ignore), but one will work.
Kia Ora.
I'm about to perform a P2V exercise unfortunately also directed to vSphere 6.5. How did you get on with your project to vSphere 6.5 target? did it work? any gotchas or issues you ran into of importance?
My alternative if i have problems is to nest a combo vCenter6 + 1x ESXi6 VMs with NFS attached storage; vmconvert to those targets. unregister from vcenter 6 & re-register to vcenter 6.5 to launch. But i'll give it a go first.
cheers.
I have a windows host and a windows guest. I am using wsl, ubuntu bash on windows.
I have a shared folder in the host. Outside of wsl, I can access it in the guest. But in wsl, I cannot access it in guest. Note Wsl now supports shared folders:
How can I get this to work?
thanks.
I am dealing with a issue on my vSphere 6.5 server. After I use a Datastore ISO file and change the CD/DVD Drive 1 back to 'Host device, not connected at power on' the task Reconfig VM directly ends up with "Failed - The operation is not allowed in the current state". After this I can't manage the VM anymore through the webinterface, even the power on function is not working after this.
I have to unregister the VM and re-register it to power it on or edit the settings after this.
The problem is reproducible on my host and occurs with Windows and Linux guests. It happened on a fresh 6.5.0 installation and still is happening on ESXi-6.5.0-4564106
My host doesn't have a cdrom drive, maybe this has something to do with it.
Thanks for the suggestion.
I wanted to get inputs from vRO experts validating what I have observed.
>>>Out of curiosity, why do you need this?
I notice that if a user "vmuser" executes a workflow (say Create a simple virtual machine) from the vRO Client and if the vCenter is added using the super admin user account in vRO then vCenter Server sees the request being initiated by the service account i.e. the super admin user account that has full privileges on the vCenter Server. The "vmuser" has fewer privileges e.g. the default "Virtual machine user (sample) role. Is there a way to figure authorize/authenticate actual vRO user - the "vmuser" in this case that initiated the vRO workflow instead of the service account user used for adding vCenter Server to vRO. What if the vCenter Operations has to be authorized in the context of the "vmsuer" instead of the service account?
The lowest cost option would be vSphere Replication. This is included with vSphere Essentials Plus licensing and higher. Keep in mind that recovery will be a manual process (recovering each VM individually) and there won't be any way to non-disruptively test your recovery. You would need to purchase a vCenter for the recovery site as VR is dependent on VC so you wouldn't want to be using a single VC.
I'm not sure what you mean by Replication/HA as an option. In the context of vSphere Replication and HA are two very different solutions. vSphere Replication (VR) is a per VM, host level replication solution. HA is a cluster level solution primarily for recovering VMs after a host failure, unless used with stretched storage and vMSC it is not a DR solution. The two solutions do interoperate (a HA protected VM can be replicated).
You would need to license your hosts at the recovery site for this to work as the VR VMs and the vCenter will be running at the recovery site.
I don't believe that stretched cluster will be an option for you as I don't believe it is something that PowerVault supports. There is also the question of latency requirements (5ms RTT max) and cost (stretched solutions are usually a lot more expensive - other than vSAN). If you want a vSAN stretched cluster for this environment (assuming you meet the requirements) you would need a vSAN license, otherwise not.
Not sure what exactly you are asking about regarding windows licensing. You are possibly better off asking MS or posting it to a VMTN forum that discusses those types of questions.
I also want to point out that these are not your only options. If you aren't concerned about manual effort or recovery time you could always backup your VMs and replicate your backups to the recovery site. Depending on the backup solution this could require a minimum number of vSphere licenses (assuming they can be moved from protection to recovery when needed) and no VC license for the DR site. The RPO and RTO for this option would correspondingly be much higher than the other options.
