Hello

I am trying to install AppVolumes Manager 4.0.1 on a Windows 2019 Server. I am receiving an error stating the following.

Error generating self signed certificate

See log/generate_cert.log for details

in the generate_cert.log the only error I see is the following...

#### Create log folders

#### Generating nginx server ssl certificate

rake aborted!

Errno::EACCES: Permission denied @ rb_sysopen - C:/Program Files (x86)/CloudVolumes/Manager/nginx/conf/appvol_self_vmware.com.key

C:/Program Files (x86)/CloudVolumes/Manager/lib/certificate_generator.rb:72:in `initialize'

C:/Program Files (x86)/CloudVolumes/Manager/lib/certificate_generator.rb:72:in `open'

C:/Program Files (x86)/CloudVolumes/Manager/lib/certificate_generator.rb:72:in `save_certificate'

C:/Program Files (x86)/CloudVolumes/Manager/lib/certificate_generator.rb:37:in `generate'

C:/Program Files (x86)/CloudVolumes/Manager/lib/tasks/cert.rake:31:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

C:/Program Files (x86)/CloudVolumes/Manager/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/gems/rake-12.3.3/exe/rake:27:in `<top (required)>'

Tasks: TOP => cert:generate_server_cert

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

I, [2020-05-13T10:08:30.043507 #6276]  INFO -- : Generating certificate for HostName: hostname.######.org

I, [2020-05-13T10:08:30.043652 #6276]  INFO -- : Issued to: /C=US/ST=California/L=Palo-alto/O=VMware Inc./CN=hostname.######.org/OU=AppVolumes

#### Generating powershell ssl certificate

rake aborted!

Errno::EACCES: Permission denied @ rb_sysopen - C:/Program Files (x86)/CloudVolumes/Manager/config/CVPowershell.key

C:/Program Files (x86)/CloudVolumes/Manager/lib/certificate_generator.rb:72:in `initialize'

C:/Program Files (x86)/CloudVolumes/Manager/lib/certificate_generator.rb:72:in `open'

C:/Program Files (x86)/CloudVolumes/Manager/lib/certificate_generator.rb:72:in `save_certificate'

C:/Program Files (x86)/CloudVolumes/Manager/lib/certificate_generator.rb:37:in `generate'

C:/Program Files (x86)/CloudVolumes/Manager/lib/tasks/cert.rake:54:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

C:/Program Files (x86)/CloudVolumes/Manager/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/gems/rake-12.3.3/exe/rake:27:in `<top (required)>'

Tasks: TOP => cert:generate_powershell_cert

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

I, [2020-05-13T10:08:34.882653 #7044]  INFO -- : Generating certificate for HostName: hostname.######.org

I, [2020-05-13T10:08:34.882773 #7044]  INFO -- : Issued to: /C=US/ST=California/L=Palo-alto/O=VMware Inc./CN=hostname.######.org/OU=AppVolumes

(hostname.######.org was substituted for the actual hostname)

I am using a domain user in the host\administrators group on the local machine. I have tried launching it from an elevated command prompt with the same result

Any insight would be helpful

We recently had a power outage and upon restore of power and start of ESXi (6.5) a number of VM's now show as inaccessible in vSphere Client:

When I SSH into the server and list the volumes I do not see that particular volume anywhere.  All of the disks are active as per usual.

I am stuck at this point.  Not quite sure where to go since I can't even find the volume for the particular VM's as listed in the vSphere Client.

From a regular PC, if open a .WAV file on Windows 10, it will launch Windows Media Player, and the file automatically plays back.

If I look at task manager with the command line column showing, I see

If I launch the same from a non-persistent desktop, media player launches, but the file does not start playing.

In DEM, I have the following set for WAV extension type

This doesn't seem to work.  Are there any suggestions on how to set up a file type association or WAV file so it automatically launches, opens and plays a .WAV file when it is double clicked or opened for Outlook?

Replication appliance 8.1, vcenter 6.0 (I Think). This was working OK last week, which was the last time I looked at the replication status.

In Vcenter, Site Recovery status says "OK".

When I click on "OPEN Site Recovery", it attempts to load the next web page where you can configure the replications, but just spins and keeps trying to reload.  Was able to get a screenshot with some rerros that maybe look like tomcat stuff:

app.notification.title.error

401-ok

response with status: 401 OK for URL:

https://100.1.0.15/dr/requestHandlers/getTelemetryStatus?(the rest is cut off)

and two for getAvalableServices

Sometimes those show, sometimes they don't.  The page just keeps cycling like that.

Also, if I right click on a VM that is currently replicated and click on configure replication, a box pops up and then goes away...Nothing every comes up.

I have attempted to connect with chrome, IE, and Firefox.  The result is the same.

I have restarted the services on the replication appliance, and restarted the entire appliance.  Nothing changes.

I think replication may still be working, as time stamps have changed on the files of the replicated servers. I'd rebuild the whole thing (only three servers to replicate), but I cannot remove the existing replications, as I cannot access the replication configuration.

Not sure where to go from here.

Is anyone able to lend some advice?

I am new to Docker and am wondering about this particular scenario:

I want to run Docker containers within a VMWare Windows 10 session. I have searched for that scenario and come up either empty or with respondents who wish to change the OP's world view by telling them "You're doing it wrong, change your methodology to this..." whatever "this" might happen to be. Or worse, asking "why do you want to do it that way? Do it this way instead...". In all cases the respondents failed to fully understand the OP's original question, which amounts to: "Can I run Docker for Windows within a Windows 10 VMWare virtual session and, if so, how?".

I understand the difference between Docker and VMWare, that's not the issue. I've been a VMWare user since their version 3 so I get how it works and what it provides. Am I a VMWare guru? Nope, that's part of the charm of VMWare - usually it "just works" and I don't have to care about the machinery beneath. In the course of my learning, I see that, properly configured, Docker is exactly the same - it "just works" - awesome!

I am a developer, I use Visual Studio (VS) as my dev environment. Microsoft has gone to great lengths to make VS work with Docker. Marvelous! Love it! BUT, the presumption by Microsoft is that VS is running on the host machine or, and I haven't tried this yet, running under their hypervisor. Never used hypervisor. When it first came out there were *way* too many problems with it and again, VMWare just worked. Never saw a reason to move off the VMWare platform and doing so now would be a major change for me, one I would very much like to avoid.

My situation is this. Because I travel a great deal I rotate between my own personal machine at home, a company desktop machine and a laptop when traveling, usually issued by DevOps whenever I have to go offsite so the laptop isn't "mine" it's whatever happens to be available at the time. Changing that scenario is way above my pay-grade, company policy is something I cannot affect.

My solution up to this point has been to use VMWare to create a session, keep the session on a portable SSD drive and simply ensure that I have either VMWare Player or Workstation available to me, company DevOps has yielded that much as I'm not affecting their "host" machine configuration. It then becomes a simple matter to tune my development environment to suit me with all the additional bells and whistles and custom configurations and other goodies I might desire. Since its my environment with strictly controlled access to the corporate network as designated and configured by company DevOps, they don't care what's on my session so I avoid all sorts of political red tape if I wish to try a new version of Windows (yep, even Windows updates come through them, we had to fight a major battle to get them to allow us Windows 10, 2004 and wsl 2!), try a new tool, install a new version of VS (updates to which come out now about every two weeks!), etc.

In short, by using VMWare sessions, my dev environment is exactly what I want it to be, totally under my control as I am the admin on the session and thus able to control group policy, etc. and...it's PORTABLE! *Easily* portable! I plug in the drive and viola! back to work and it matters not one whit which machine I might be working on!

Here is the kicker: We finally get to move to .NET Core and all the goodies associated with it and our C-level management has finally acknowledged the existence of Docker so now we get to play. Trouble is, when I went to install Docker for Windows into my Windows 10, 2004 with all updates, WSL2 enabled with both Debian and Alpine session running on the latest version of VMWare for Windows with full VMWare Tools installed, I receive the following error message:

"System.InvalidOperationException: Failed to deploy distro docker-desktop to ...\AppData\Local\Docker\wsl\distro: exit code: -1 stdout: Please enable Virtual Machine Platform WIndows feature and ensure virtualization is enabled in the BIOS."

I checked and both "Virtual Machine Platform" and "Containers" are enabled in "Windows Features" for both the session and the host machine and virtualization is turned on for the host machine and that's about as far as I can go - there is no "virtualization" setting in the VMWare BIOS for the session. I even took the risk and turned on hyper-v for the session (haven't tried that for the host yet, am waiting for a response here before I take that plunge despite the articles on MS and VMWare working together to make that "just work".

So, finally, the question is this: Is there a method of making Docker for Windows Desktop work within a VMWare session running Windows 10, 2004 with wsl 2 such that I might take advantage of all the goodies provided by Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code for Docker and, if so, will someone please provide the link to the instructions for configuring my environment, virtual or otherwise?

Hi,

I can Sync Virtual App Collections successful before yesterday,

but , "Resource_Sync_dry_run_failed" occurs and I can not execute Sync.

do you know why ?

There isn't any system changes.

We're really struggling to get a good experience out of Horizon view for video conferences.  (Horizon 7.x  on Windows 10 VMs, using PCOIP across the Internet with Windows Horizon Clients). 

We've got RTAV going with PCOIP (not extending mic or camera via USB)  and that is making the video work reasonably well, but where we're really struggling is the audio.  We did use group policy setting "Configure the PCoIP session audio bandwidth limit" to increase audio receive quality as mentioned in KB 2045764.  And we found that going into the microphone properties for the RTAV device on the VM, we are able to increase the microphone sample rate to 16K, which helped a lot.  So we though we were all set.... but then realized the microphone resets to 8K on each reconnection.    We then found KB article 78402 which points out that by design for backwards compatibility, which really kind of killed my excitement.

The KB is kind of frustrating because the "expected behavior" explanation implies this isn't a big deal and won't change.   But this isn't just a question of the audio not sounding great… what we're finding is that the echo cancellation in video call software isn't working right with the 8K microphone stream, and so everyone on the calls is hearing echos and clicks from the RTAV participants.  These issues decreases dramatically when we turn it up to 16K.

Unfortunately, setting the rate change requires many clicks in Windows, and so isn't something we can ask end users to do for every call, so if we can't automate it, we can't use it. I've done some tracing with process monitor, etc, to try to track down what is changing when we manually move this to 16K, but it seems buried deep in the registry under instance specific GUIDS, and not something we can easily automate.

Does anyone know if VMware plans to allow us to control this with Group Policy at some point?  Or has anyone found a way to automate this?   I've even though about hitting windows API's via powershell, but that seems like a black hole too.

For now we've had to resort to suggesting users do their video conferences outside of Horizon, which I really hate to do because it becomes a slippery slope back to them wanting a full client locally.

VMware Update Manager (VUM) has an option to "Stage" patches to a Host.  This is supposed to copy patches to the Host ahead of time so that when you have your maintenance window you can install patches immediately without having to wait for them to be downloaded.

I have not had good luck with Staging patches. It seems like there are always some patches that do not get staged.  Worse, I think (but have not confirmed) that the Host re-downloads everything (even patches identified as "staged").

What causes patches to not get staged?  Maybe there are certain patches that cannot be staged -- if so is there a way for me to identify which patches cannot be staged ahead of time?

I am running vCSA 6.7.0.44100 (Build 16275304).

I'm looking for a very talented individual who can work well in a team to design, build and manage the following type of environments:

• vCenter 6.0 to 7.0
• NSX-V & NSX-T
• vCloud Director

I'm not looking for an administrator of these systems. You need to have the skills required to work with PowerCLI in the vCenter environment, know how to search the appropriate vSphere logs, understand what is listed in the logs and be able to act on the information.

Additional skills which would make the candidate more valuable to us would include:

• Cisco UCS Infrastructure build skills
• Cisco IMC Supervisor build skills
• Zerto DR build skills

The role can be either Melbourne or Sydney based. Salary will only be discussed after the application is accepted and formalised.

About the company:

The company is an Australian MSP which has a very large footprint in the Australian IT world. I can't mention who we are here, but once I receive your application and if I believe you will fit the position description, then I'll let you know more. You may then be contacted by the company's HR division to progress your application in a more official manner.

The reason why I am advertising here is that I can't seem to find the right candidate for this role due to my high expectations and I hope this widens the search!

Please forward your CVs to jobseeker@jdmils.com if you think you can add value to the above description.

Thanks

Julian.

Hi All

I've done a few on-prem upgrades in the past, and earlier this year we've finally moved to SAAS (thank goodness before all this COVID madness). Doing on-prem upgrades has always been a sweaty palm experience personally, all the communications for our business users about outage, pre-req checks, lining up network and server support just in case, testing etc etc.

We're currently 19.02 so need to get off it soon before September, looking at either 2004 or 2007. I've had a read through https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2960929?lang=en_US and it seems all pretty straightforward, schedule it in, then test after that. Seems too good to be true? We only have ACCs on prem, no other auxiliary devices like SEG, MAG, or CG.

Anyone else gone through the SAAS upgrade experience?

Hope you're all safe and well.

Regards

Charles

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2960929?lang=en_US

after upgrading my host from ubuntu 19.10 to 20.04, upon launching VMware Workstation Pro (which did work on 19.10) it says modules vmmon and vmnet need installing, so I select "Install", and then I see "unable to install alll modules... see log..." and in the log I see compile errors like "

/tmp/modconfig-BDBMLv/vmnet-only/userif.c:575:29: error: ‘skb_frag_t’  {aka ‘const struct bio_vec’} has no member named ‘page’;

/tmp/modconfig-BDBMLv/vmnet-only/userif.c:576:49: error: ‘skb_frag_t’  {aka ‘const struct bio_vec’} has no member named ‘page_offset’;

/tmp/modconfig-BDBMLv/vmmon-only/common/task.o: warning: objtool: .text: unexpected end of section

...

This looks to me like it's getting the wrong version of kernel headers and modules, even though I do have linux-headers-5.4.0-42-generic installed:

sudo apt install linux-headers-`uname -r`

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree      

Reading state information... Done

linux-headers-5.4.0-42-generic is already the newest version (5.4.0-42.46).

Where are the instructions to install vmmon and vmnet for ubuntu 20.04?    I found a KB article giving instructions for Fedora, but those don't work for ubuntu 20.04.

Thanks for your help...

UPDATE:

uninstalled existing vmware installation,  downloaded latest VMware-Workstation-Full-15.5.6-16341506.x86_64.bundle.  That installs without error.

Hi all,

Initially I had posted this question in the wrong forum.  Someone was kind enough to respond to my initial thread, which is here:

Horizon won't launch with Fedora 29

I'm trying to install VMWare Horizon on Fedora 29 and I can't figure out how to execute the instructions in the above post.  I copy/pasted the relevant part but so far, no good.  Is there any simple command I can use to remove crtbora?  How do I get it to run on Fedora?  It installed fine, I just can't get it to open.

Thanks in advance.

I just inherited an environment that is running vmware 6.5 with 5 hosts. It seems that vmotion is enabled in the environment and today I noticed that all of the VMs that were running on host1 have been vmotioned off to another host. I'm not terribly familiar with vmotion. I looked at the host and I don't see any reason why this would occur. Is there any logging available that could explain why all of these VMs would have vmotioned to another host like this?

Hi all

I have followed this guide successfully and been able to begin monitoring a number of SSL certs on our hosts which are visible to our vROps collectors; Checking SSL/TLS Certificate Validity Period using vRealize Operations and End Point Operations Agent - VMware Cloud Man…

I have ~200 hosts I want to monitor using this method, is there a way I can duplicate the script/script object in vROps so that I do not have to manually click through the GUI, recreating the script from scratch each time?

Thanks in advance

Hi there,

downloaded the remote console 11.2.0 and installed on a server 2012 R2 vm- I can use vcenter and the web console, but when i launch the remote console it says Address Unresolvable.  Tried uninstalling and reinstalling, tried chrome, firefox and IE.  Other stuff on the vm is viewable through this console, CPU, RAM, etc, but no display.  A different server with an older version of the remote console works.  I've tried googling this but nothing makes much sense - I can't mess with a plugin library on vcenter and reregister things on there.

TIA

seems i cant Download v6.0

i get an error "Unable to process your request. Please try again later."

does anyone have a direct link or a mirror ?

Hello All,

I am working for a consulting firm where I need to log in to a customer's virtual desktop using VMWare Horizon client. I have the client installed in my firm-provided desktop and my personal laptop. There is no company VPN installed in either of these devices and I am connecting to the virtual desktop from open internet using the customer-provided credentials and OTP. I was wondering if there is a way for the Horizon client administrator at the customer's systems to distinguish between sessions initiated from my firm-provided desktop and my personal laptop. Thank You!

Regards

Arjun

Hallo zusammen,

in meiner Umgebung: 1x ESXi, 6.7.0, 15160138 und ESXi, 7.0.0, 15843807 habe ich gerade ein

Problem mit den Netzwerkkarten meiner VMs.

Beim Anlegen neuer Server (Windows Server 2016 und 2019) meldet die Netzwerkkarte nach der Installation der VMware-Tools

"unidentified network". Zunächst dachte ich an ein Treiberproblem, da dieses Verhalten nur bei VMXNET3 NICs auftritt, E1000E laufen

ohne Probleme. Jetzt habe ich aber gesehen, wenn ich auf einer VM mit VMXNET3 eine weitere NIC hinzufüge geht die erste NIC auf "aktiv".

Da mir gerade die Ideen ausgehen und 2 Tage googlen auch nix gebracht hat, dachte ich vielleicht hat hier noch jemand eine Idee.

Danke im Voraus.

LG Sven

Hello

I'm using vRA 7.6.

The "Take a snapshot" action was added for the deployed VM.

I can't take a second snapshot after the first snapshot was created. Only actions that delete and revert snapshot are displayed.

Is there any solution?

Thank you !

hello

i have version 5.3 and enterprise license.

Data from vds ipfix correct send to proxy on udp port 2055 and proxy receive data.

inside vrni I can see the flow graphs of the VMs and all the counters of vnri report the incoming flows.

but in the menu tab: Plan & Assess -> Applications -> Discover not show tab "flows"

only show:   Tags ServiceNow Names Advanced

I can't understand not see "flows" tab

help me

thanks