Hi all,
Quick question:
Do we fully support Google Authenticator as a form of authentication with IDM?
(I understand that we would need to add it as a Radius authentication method)
I wanted to know if we support it and also if there are any "gotchas" or catches with it.
Regards
Mark
For months now I've been struggling to use my Windows 10 VM on Vmware Fusion as it has been running dreadfully slow. I've updated Fusion in hope of a fix but no performance improvements so in desperation I searched "How to fix slow windows VMs on fusion" and I found this page on vmguru which fixed things https://www.vmguru.com/2017/02/how-to-fix-slow-windows-vms-on-vmware-fusion-8-x/
Edit: When I disconnected my Sabrent Sata to USB 3 adapter from my iMac’s usb port the VM disk speed increased dramatically. See what you have attached to your computer and try disconnecting them first. You might not need to do any of the following. My Windows 10 VM is very quick now.
In essence the fix is:
I changed the disk bus type to IDE, 2 processors, 3GB memory and under advanced in VM preferences enabled Hard disk buffering.
Then in Windows I changed the pagefile to a fixed size 4000MB. After this last setting my Windows VM rocketed in speed! Then after a while things slowed down again, so I increased the pagefile size to double my memory 6000MB and everything speeded up again. So, you might have to increase your pagefile size until you find an adequate setting.
I'm running Vmware Fusion 10.3 on MacOS Mojave.
Tweaking VMWare Fusion .vmx config file
Standard in Fusion is an E1000E network adapter will be added and installed to the VM as default network adapter. This will be visible in Windows as an Intel 82574L Gigabit Network Interface Card. It is an updated enhanced version of the E1000 network card.
Shutdown the VM. And edit the .vmx file. For editing the .vmx file please see How to correctly modify the .vmx file in VMware Fusion and edit the following line:
ethernet0.virtualDev = “e1000e” to ethernet0.virtualDev = “vmxnet3” this will activate the vmxnet3 driver with advanced options when you open the network adapter.
In the .vmx file you might end up with multiple entries for the hard drive if you change the bus types in the virtual machine settings look for duplicates such as
scsi0:0.filename = "image.vmdk" ,
sata0:0.filename = "image.vmdk",
ide0:0.filename = "image.vmdk".
Just keep the entries for the bus type you have chosen in settings.
An extract of my .vmx shows I have an iso connected to a virtual SATA drive and my hard disk connected to an IDE bus.
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsisas1068"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
sata0.present = "TRUE"
sata0:1.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
sata0:1.fileName = "/Users/Public/Software/Windows Software/Windows10Mar2018.iso"
sata0:1.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "Virtual Disk.vmdk"
ide0:0.redo = ""
ide0:0.virtualSSD = 1
scsi0:0.fileName = "Virtual Disk.vmdk"
sata0:0.fileName = "Virtual Disk.vmdk"
I deleted these entries that were created when I was trying out different VM settings and no longer valid as I'd settled on IDE as the bus type. The previous entries aren't automatically removed when you change bus type so as a precaution I removed them as they might slow down the VM as it tries to figure out which is the valid entry.
We will stay in the .vmx file and will add the following line to it
scsi0:0.virtualSSD = 1 or
sata0:0.virtualSSD = 1 or
ide0:0.virtualSSD = 1
depending on chosen interface this will speed up the disk access times even more. After making these changes in the .vmx file, save the .vmx file and boot up the VM.
Boot up time went from minutes to 17 seconds!
I have a quick question before we move forward with the migration of our appliance. hopefully someone can help us out!
it looks like during the migration process, you select a name for the new vcenter appliance.
so when we upgrade, will the fqdn change?
vcenter01.domain.com
After the upgrade will have a new fqdn of
vcenter02.domain.com
if so, we will need to make some firewall changes to accommodate the new appliance name.
as well as request new certificates
Thanks in advance!
We're currently running a Horizon View 7.3.2 environment using Cloud pod Architecture (2 pods), UEM 9.2.1, AppVolumes 2.13, Imprivata OneSign 5.4 SP2 HF7 and using Teradici LG Tera 2 zero clients (latest firmware 5.5.1) to connect to this environment.
On each pod, we're running 1x vCenter 6.5, 1x SQL Entreprise 2012 AlwaysOn, 2x VCS, 2x AppVolumes Managers, 1x OneSign appliance.
For now we have 4 pools in production, using global entitlements and around 150-200 concurrent sessions. Our goal is to have 1400 concurrent sessions running by the end of the year.
We never had these issues I'm about to describe below when we were running a single environment without CPA.
1) Session balancing: Most sessions in our environment end up on our 2nd pod. We could have 80 sessions on the 2nd pod and 15 sessions on the first one (and some of these sessions are double sessions, another issue). Since we didn't have any load balancers, we bought 2x Kemp LB and we're currently testing this. We hope this will resolve this issue.
2) Double sessions: Even though our environment is configured for a user to only have 1 session per user per pool, a user could end with 2 sessions, one on each pod. The user would log on to a machine, disconnect and come back later on to connect to a new machine on the other pod, while its first session is disconnected on the first pod. Could this be related to not having a load balancer or is this something else? In the last months, we opened tickets with VMware to make sure our configurations with CPA and VCS were configured correctly and apparently they are.
Anyone else experiencing these kind of issues in a CPA environment?
Olá pessoal,
Estamos virtualizando alguns servidores em nossa empresa, mas estou com algumas duvidas com relação com a alocação de processamento para as VM's
Senário:
Nosso host possui 2 processadores de 6 núcleos físicos cadas totalizando 12 físicos e 24 virtais, em resumo 2 Intel Xeon E52420, 64 GB de RAM e ESXI 6.7 Standard. Precisamos levantar neste host 2 VM's, uma para o ERP e outra para o Banco de Dados.
Como estou iniciando no VMWares, me deparei com a seguinte duvida:
Posso alocar 24 vCPU's para a maquina A e 24 vCPU's para a maquina B? ou devo alocar uma quantidade x para cada maquina no qual somadas seria igual a 24?
vcenter 6, build 6855219, ESXi 6.0.0 build 7967664
Host profile failed on one out of 16 hosts in the same cluster.
Unexpected error checking compliance: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'config'
Hi,
As a first step should I upgrade the firmware for the network cards, HBA's etc.. by using the manufacturer bootable ISO via idrac/iLO ?
Do I need to backup any configuration for the host before using VUM to upgrade the host? How will the configuration be re-applied on the new ESXi version?
Let me know if you have any good references that lists the above process in detail.
Thanks
Good Afternoon,
I was wondering if anybody else has seen this... I have a Windows 7 PC where the mouse works in the Horizon Client, but, the keyboard does not. We have tried compatibility modes, different keyboards, different USB slots, different users, reinstalling/uninstalling the Horizon Client... I'm stumped!
New Supermicro Vmware vSAN Environment, when we perform any NVMe removal/addition we trigger a VMware purple screen issue, this is quite common to happen when you do not enable Intel VMD feature on NVMe drive technologies (because it’s like removing memory from the CPU in “hot” without having support for it). However, we know that Intel VMD technology feature has been enabled on our Supermicro server (BIOS) for all PStack/PCI-Switches and NVMe drives.
Please note that:
During our purplescreen troubleshooting that happened every time we triggered a Hot-Plug event (for capacity drive), we encountered the following error:
2018-10-12T18:12:26.307Z cpu27:79194)@BlueScreen: #PF Exception 14 in world 79194:isdct IP 0x418037e024f5 addr 0x430ae01c50e6
PTEs:0x800000010080c023;0x800000808e2b0063;0x800000012661b063;0x0;
2018-10-12T18:12:26.307Z cpu27:79194)Code start: 0x418037400000 VMK uptime: 0:00:36:26.986
2018-10-12T18:12:26.307Z cpu27:79194)0x43932ad1b890:[0x418037e024f5]nvme_MgmtAdminCmds@(intel-nvme-vmd)#<None>+0x3d stack: 0x418037e03be0
We decided to remove the isdct being reported during fails, once done we proceeded to remove/add multiple NVMe drives and no purple screen happened. We decided to install ISDCT again and the purple screen started happening again, we then removed the ISDCT and the purple screen was not experienced again, we even proceeded by hot-plug 8 disks at the same time and no purple screen happened again.
This led us to think that Intel SSD Datacenter Tool 3.0.14 might be the root cause of the purple screens while Hot-Plug. We enabled Intel SSD DC Tool logging mode and replicated the purple screen issue, however we didn’t find more detail at this level.
Intel released a new Intel Datacenter Tool about 1 week ago, they’re addressing “Miscellaneous Bugs”, however new release 3.0.15 was released only for Windows/Linux systems and it seems that Intel will release it for VMware soon, it’s more likely that they will fix this issue in that version, however we haven’t found any official note about this problem.
As for the moment, if we remove isdct hot plug works great and purple screen does not happen, however as you know this utility is very important for accessing relevant NVMe drive information/sensor and other maintenance/reporting tasks.
Does anyone else is experiencing this issue? We're troubleshooting with Supermicro, however this does seem to be an issue related with intel SSD DC Tool/VMware environment, something that we wouldn't expect considering that isdct is just a tool. Intel NVMe drivers seem to be doing their work with no problems.
I'll appreciate your help.
Mario Herrera
Guys,
I'm aware it is an unsupported hardware. Only saw t520 and up on the support list, but is anyone using it on ESXi 6.5? If so, what drivers were installed on the ESXi server?
Thanks in advance,
Al
I have recently purchased an hp Proliant ML110 Gen 10 and installed Esxi 6.7 hp custom image. All installed okay however when logging into the web client I am unable to see any storage to create a datastore, its says no devices with free space. I have 2 x HPE midline 4tb sata model number 801888-b21. When booting the server I am able to see the storage and create an array but can not see the drives in vsphere web app.
I downloaded the smart array drivers and used vmware Power Cli to create a custom ISO image which installed fine but still I could not see the storage when trying to create a data store
Can anybody suggest why I am unable to see the storage and create a datastore please.
I downloaded the Windows 10 1809 and Server 2019 ISOs the day they became available so I can start working on my templates.
I built the templates with EFI, paravirtual for the C drive and vmxnet3 adapter. I've been using this combo for other versions of windows 10/8/7and windows server 2008r2/2012r2/1016 without issue.
So far Windows 2019 (with desktop experience) seems to be ok at least for a basic vm and guest customization. Haven't tried anything else yet.
Windows 10 1809 on the other hand is very, very slow to reboot after the initial install or even just rebooting after making some changes post install. After installing the OS it took 10-15 minutes for the initial windows setup stuff (user, security settings, etc) to appear . I tried a VM set to BIOS and it seemed faster but was still quite slow. Server 2019 and other versions of windows 10 have no issue.
The hosts are esxi 6.5 and 6.7.
I haven't had a chance to try every combo of BIOS/EFI/vmxnet3/e1000e/paravirtual/lsi sas to see if one is the cause of the issue but was wondering if anyone else had noticed any issues or if it was just me?
Thanks
Hello,
I'm trying to disable time sync on a VM in Workstation 14. I've added the following entries to the .vmx file:
tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.continue = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.restore = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.resume.disk = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.shrink = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.tools.startup = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.tools.enable = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.resume.host = "FALSE"
as directed in this article: VMware Knowledge Base
However, when I start the VM the .vmx file is re-written and those entries are changed/deleted.
What starts out as:
.encoding = "windows-1252"
displayName = "Windows 10 x64 Clean"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "14"
mks.enable3d = "TRUE"
pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge4.functions = "8"
pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge5.functions = "8"
pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge6.functions = "8"
pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge7.functions = "8"
vmci0.present = "TRUE"
hpet0.present = "TRUE"
usb.vbluetooth.startConnected = "TRUE"
firmware = "efi"
sensor.location = "pass-through"
guestOS = "windows9-64"
nvram = "Windows 10 x64 Planswift.nvram"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
powerType.powerOff = "soft"
powerType.powerOn = "soft"
powerType.suspend = "soft"
powerType.reset = "soft"
tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.continue = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.restore = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.resume.disk = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.shrink = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.tools.startup = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.tools.enable = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.resume.host = "FALSE"
sound.autoDetect = "TRUE"
sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio"
sound.fileName = "-1"
etc...
Becomes:
.encoding = "windows-1252"
displayName = "Windows 10 x64 Planswift"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "14"
mks.enable3d = "TRUE"
pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge4.functions = "8"
pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge5.functions = "8"
pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge6.functions = "8"
pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge7.functions = "8"
vmci0.present = "TRUE"
hpet0.present = "TRUE"
usb.vbluetooth.startConnected = "TRUE"
firmware = "efi"
sensor.location = "pass-through"
guestOS = "windows9-64"
nvram = "Windows 10 x64 Planswift.nvram"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
powerType.powerOff = "soft"
powerType.powerOn = "soft"
powerType.suspend = "soft"
powerType.reset = "soft"
tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.continue = FALSE
time.synchronize.restore = FALSE
time.synchronize.resume.disk = FALSE
time.synchronize.shrink = FALSE
time.synchronize.tools.startup = FALSE
sound.autoDetect = "TRUE"
sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio"
sound.fileName = "-1"
etc...
Six of the entries are preserved, although the lower five had their quotes removed, and 2 of the entries are deleted altogether.
Is there a better way of doing this, or am I missing something?
Evaluating ESXi 6.7 under a free license. A few fixes in the 6.7.1 Update 1 released yesterday are desirable. But I can't find any way to download and apply the update. When I log into my VMware account to download the patch update it says that it is not available based on my license. Are patch updates not available to free license evaluators? Or is there some other way to do this?
Thanks,
/m
The license for the esxi host expired, which caused the disconnection. I did disable vmotion. But when I tried to reconnect to vcenter, I still got the message saying that I need to remove vsphere motion and vcenter agent for vmware host. What did I miss?
Would you please advise! Thank you!
The autoconnection of USB devices is no longer working in VMware 15 for me.
In the config file there is a record:
usb.autoConnect.device0 = "path:1/3/0/1 autoclean:1" - Is this setting deprecated in version 15
but in the log file I see
USB: Skiping autoconnect in WS, using askconnect
In the log file from version 14 there was a record that the connection was successful.
Cofig file is the same, no changes.
Can anyone help or try if the autoconnect works in your case.
Hello,
I have vCenter 6.0 build 3634794 deployed. Can someone help me with logging into the VCSA GUI ?
Also how to install VUM on linux based VCSA
Hello!
Between security policies or distributed firewall rules, what would be the recommended one to use? I get the feeling that for repetitive rules such as access to infrastructure services (AD, DNS) it would be better to use Security Policies that can be applied to different Security Groups. But when i think about an Application with distinct requirements it would be better to create the rules in Distributed Firewall, as those rules would only apply to a few VMs.
Should i just choose one way and go for it? What is the recommendation?
Thanks!!
Hi!
I'm trying to find a way to run "Reconfigure" action in the vRO to change network portgroup for my machine (and script some stuff-related changes in my environment, of course). It seems easy with other actions (like snapshots, power on/off" but not with this one. I figure out to get "Form", but when I tried vCACCAFERequestsHelper.getRequestFormForResourceAction(Reconfigure) i got "Form" i know nothing to do with It is wrapped LiteralMap/lang.Iterable bla-bla...
var fields = vCACCAFERequestsHelper.getFormKeys(form) ----- Fields = provider-MachineName,provider-machineId,provider-operationId
So, anybody knows the right direction to crack this quest?
daphnissov - you are the expert with this "dark magic" - would appreciate any thoughts/help!
VMware Workstation 14 Playerで作成した仮想マシン(WindowsXP)を起動すると、勝手に画面が縮む現象が出ます。
解決方法を知っている方がいれば教えてください。お願いします。
※以下のハードコピー参照。
※当現象が出たパソコンは「HP EliteDesk 800 G3」です。。