Maybe test out importing\exporting the registry keys you specified ?
Re: Saving Manually Created Printers
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Re: How to create an App Layer containing Adobe CC Suite
I just came across this while researching: http://aggroworld.org/2015/03/10/citrix-adobe-cs6/
The adobe application manager doesn't apply in our case but the creative cloud desktop app does the same thing.
It sounds like using the AdobeSerialization.exe tool to re-serialize after applying the app layer might do the trick.
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Re: Practice test and quick notes
One thing I'll also add, I believe that the 6.5 design test doesn't include the visio diagram style questions. I had never made a design diagram like that prior to studying for this test and it coincidentally happened that I was asked to create one of these for work just a few days ago. Instead of being totally unprepared like I by all rights probably should have been I instead managed to put together a diagram that I was quite proud of. It is probably a major relief for test takers and even the VMware test writers that these types of questions won't be used anymore, but I'll say that because they were required for the 6.0 test I learned what is probably going to be a very valuable skill which I wouldn't have attained otherwise.
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Re: Permission destruction?
Hi Michaelphines,
Sad to hear that there are still people bumping into this issue.
I don't think the old version of Fusion matters, but this should not happen anymore with a current version of VMware Fusion.
At the least the story from VMware has been that they believe that the issue has been eradicated in current versions of Fusion.
So the real question is what version of Fusion did you install?
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Wil
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Re: VMware Fusion 10.0.1 macOS High Sierra --> Unable to edit Network Settings
Hi,
Thanks for the screen shot, that helps understanding the issue.
Assuming you have VMware Fusion Pro where you can edit networks (which it seems you have as you have some custom networks) then the problem is that you are trying to edit the
network configuration from within the VM instead of from the menu -> VMware Fusion -> Preferences -> Network.
The screen looks similar, but offers editing of the network details instead of just selecting it.
Note that you have to click the lock to unlock the settings so that you can edit them.
Hope this helps,
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Wil
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Re: VMware Player unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)
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Install vCenter Server Appliance bare metal
Pretty self-explanatory, but I'll try my best to improve the question: since basically vCenter Server needs an OS to run and that's some version of Linux, VMware's Photon I believe, why not eliminate the hypervisor layer to have it get the most of its dedicated host -- I just found the perfect vCenter for my scenario, an old Mac mini. I have two other dedicated hosts to only one VM and a big server with hundreds of gigs of ram where all the rest of the VMs live so I don't need to perform vMotions, I do need however, vCenter to interface with those features not available an ESXi host alone.
If I'm missing something please tell me, I'm virtually new to virtualizing -- heh--sorry, had to -- I think it's the bes the best way. Besides, the processor on the Mac mini would force me to downgrade the EVC mode to the Penryn generation, it is that old, for my vCenter it's actually perfect, though.
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Re: Install vCenter Server Appliance bare metal
vCenter on Linux (vCSA) comes as an appliance which cannot be installed on bare metal. Besides that, it makes little sense to do so because of the flexibility you would lose in the process.
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Re: upgrading from Esxi 4.0
Highly recommended to NOT do an upgrade from this version. Best to install new provided the hardware and firmware support it.
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Re: Install vCenter Server Appliance bare metal
The only use I can think of is if if I need to move vCenter out of the host; but I guess you're right--I was just looking at the host on vCenter and it's truly nothing the overhead it imposes. I'll just not add it to the main cluster. Thanks!
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Re: Install vCenter Server Appliance bare metal
It sounds like you're running a lab with a host that is just enough host to run the single VM. So it's understandable that you would want to try to maximize the use of resources in this way. As a general rule, the vSphere product is engineered mostly for production environments. Obviously, labs account for a large portion of the product install base, but even in lab scenarios a lot of customers use the infrastructure to host workloads for other end-customers (engineers, devs, etc.). In these cases, an outage still causes disruption and therefore it's usually important for labs to be resilient.
So, for that reason, the current best practice guidance is to virtualize the vCenter server and let it manage its own host that is virtualizing it. Way way back, this was not necessarily the case, and the only build option was Windows, so a lot of people did dedicate hardware to this task. But one of the main reasons to put vCenter in the environment as a VM is to let the infrastructure bring the same resiliency benefits to the hosting infrastructure as it does to the end-user virtual machine workloads. It's also generally a best practice to separate the hosting infrastructure on to a 3+ host cluster separate from workloads, although it is not necessary and a lot of users don't do this for lack of resources.
Other reasons to virtualize workloads that are big enough to consume entire hosts (these do exist and a lot of customers have them) are:
- Consistency - the same environment applies to all workloads; the same management tools can be used across all
- Portability - the VM can be ported to many different environments or locations without imaging software
- Mobility - the VM can be migrated to another host in the event of a host hardware failure with little to no recovery effort, especially if it's moved proactively before the failure occurs. Shared storage is necessary for this
- Abstraction from hardware - removes the dependency on the hardware that happens when loading an OS on baremetal
Not all of those apply in a small lab environment, but those are reasons people try to virtualize everything and why the vendor delivers the vCenter appliance the way they do. Unfortunately, there are no installable bits for Linux platforms, only for Windows. I would expect the Windows edition to go away in some future version. The move to the virtual appliance was made in order appease Linux users who hate Windows, customers who want to avoid Windows licensing fees (as well as SQL Server/Oracle licensing), and to simplify the deployment as much as possible.
I would recommend to just virtualize it for these reasons. The ESXi host itself doesn't induce much overhead. It's up to you whether to still use the host or to just put it in the general population with the rest of the VMs, but I wouldn't bother trying to cluster that machine.
I would also recommend having some shared storage available in case you do decide you want to vMotion something off of its dedicated host. It could just be swing space on an NFS server hosted as a VM on the large server. This could give you an exit strategy to vacate one of those other hosts in case the need arises.
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Unable to compact VMs... Help!
Hi all,
I currently run a Linux (Ubuntu) host, with multiple VMs running on Workstation 12.5.7. As a precautionary measure, I also keep "staging" versions of my Windows VMs, to make sure installs are viable (work OK) before trying on the main VM (which I keep as clean as possible). For each staging machine, I made a snapshot of a clean install so that if (when) it became too messed up from installing/uninstalling stuff I could restore it to a clean state. This last weekend, after having installed several gigs of stuff, I restored it to the snapshot. I was thinking that I would get the space back that was used by the installed programs... I was wrong. All attempts at compacting the VM after the restore tell me that the compact was successful, but the disk never shrinks back to it's original size (on the host HD, I mean). What am I missing? Thanks!
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Re: How to create an App Layer containing Adobe CC Suite
So one of the tests we performed to confirm that Mirage's inability to capture the Adobe licensing info was to apply the pre-packaged Adobe serialization tool. Once you have re-serialize the deployed app layer, Adobe apps would start to work again. But the whole point of an app layer is to be able to deploy a fully functional application so this may be a good work around for some but unfortunately will not work in our shop.
We also attempted to capture in a separate app layer the changes that the serialization tool makes to no avail. When we deploy the adobe suite app layer followed by the app layer from running the serialization tool we end up with the same result as deploying the first app layer - we are only able to run one application once and immediately stops working if you attempt to re-run any app.
We have an open ticket with VMware over a week old but we'll keep you posted if we can find a solution. Please let us know if you you find additional leads.
Regards!
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Re: ESXi drops / loses VMFS-partition
Hi,
I have exactly the same problem with my ASRock beebox with Intel 600p NVMe SSD. everytime I found its SSD "0-byte" and I was forced to reboot esxi.
I have tried firmware upgrade for Intel 600p SSD but no help.
Have you find any solution about this issue?
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Re: Install vCenter Server Appliance bare metal
Thank you for your answer,
I am running a lab, well-sort of, but I do have plenty of resources memory-wise on what it was at the beginning a single huge host, later in time I offloaded a couple of VM to small individual hosts to leverage their CPUs. Earlier today I tried the same with the vCenter Server itself to do precisely what you mention, maximize resources but I'm finding out it's really negligible ESXi's on the host.
When I first decided to start virtualizing servers I tried first using Windows Server because I was going to "save" on licensing but it was nightmare dealing with Hyper-V especially having zero experience with anything more complicated than Mac OS X Server and my only virtualization background being a random VirtualBox install at 4am; on the other hand the same week I took the vSphere trial I signed up but sometimes I still think I'm on WindowsServer-time, I keep thinking bulk for some reason. I probably wouldn't even be renting the vCenter Appliance if ESXI was capable of working with VM templates and wouldn't even care about templates if Windows wasn't so prone to failure.
Thanks again!
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Restoring a VM, ERROR: "" input file does not exists
I have set up ghettoVCB (Last modified: 2015_04_04_1) to backup a list of VMs on an ESXi 6.0 host, and scheduled the cron job, and this seems to work just fine. The last step to confirming it's working well is to restore a backup, (and preferably now while it's not critical if it doesn't work, as opposed to AFTER someone breaks something and we find out the restore didn't work!)
So I've got a datastore named "datastore1" with the VMs, including a file server called "fs1". I also have an NFS share mounted as datastore "vmbackup". Not big on originality, but simple. I created a file called "vms_to_restore" and placed it in the root of the "vmbackup" datastore. I created a file called "vms_to_restore". The contents of the file are this:
"/vmfs/volumes/vmbackup/fs1/fs1-2017-12-15_01-00-01;/vmfs/volumes/datastore1;3;fs1-2"
I run the following command from SSH in ESXI:
/opt/ghettovcb/bin/ghettoVCB-restore.sh –c /vmfs/volumes/vmbackup/vms_to_restore -d 1
And i get this response:
ERROR: "" input file does not exists
I have so far read through the restore script and it looks like it's not seeing the file parameter. I've tried deleting and recreating the file in the SSH shell. I've double-checked all my paths, hit tab to watch them autocomplete so I know I didn't mistype something. Can anyone point out what I'm obviously doing wrong?
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Critical vSAN Issue
Hello dear all,
We are trying to move 2TB of VMs from a nonVSAN node to a vSAN cluster.
We are trying to add a nonVSAN node with a fibre datastore attached to it to a 3node vSAN cluster, in order to SVmotion from the fibre to vSAN. The issue is that when we add the node to vSAN, a partition occurs in vSAN cluster, the vSAN gets in syncing mode, the vSAN datastore becomes 0.00TB in size and we cannot vMotion towards it. When we disconnect the nonVSAN server, everything is fixed. We have tried to add the nonVsan node to the same 3node cluster, to a new datacenter, to a new cluster and as a new host in the vCenter (different hierarchy options) without any luck...
All servers are running ESXI 6.0U3, VCSA 6.5.
Any information or idea regarding the issue would be highly appreciated,
Kind Regards
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Re: 初めてのWorkstationPro導入
こんにちは。
VMware Workstation Pro のインストール自体では、そんなに問題ないのではないかと思います。
Workstation Pro をどのように利用する想定か、どのような仮想マシンを起動させる想定か、
といった具体的な情報があると、何かさらにヒントが得られるかもしれません。
ただ、VMware Workstation は一般的には 各自のクライアントマシンにインストールして利用すると思うので、
もしサーバ用途として利用するなら、ESXi（ハイパーバイザ製品の方）を利用してもよいかもしれないと思いました。
インストールするマシンも Fujitsuサーバーのようですので・・・
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On-premise UAG as a reverse proxy with IDM for authentication
I am working to achieve following results.
- The UAG sits in DMZ and it is used as a reverse proxy for internal web application that is not directly visible from Internet - only through UAG reverse proxy
- While user connects from Internet to external address hosted by UAG, UAG before proxing user will ask IDM to authenticate user and if user authenticates himself UAG will proxy user to internal web application
- The internal application has its own authentication mechanism which is separate and not connected to IDM
I have read VMware Docs on (1, 2) as well as 3 threads in this forum dealing with UAG and IDM and still I am confused how to achieve the above.
Can anybody verify if it can be done with UAG/IDM pair and which steps should I take to accomlish this? Or advise if there is other, better way?
Just to clarify why I go that way: finally I want to have two factor auth provided by VMware Verify to access this internal app.
Thanks
Pawel
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error taking snapshot: unable to open the snapshot file
I am a noob to say the least and I have spent a few days trying to figure this out before coming to the community but I am at the point to where I think im just going to start all over again. I have the system at a good save point and want to take a snapshot but I cant. I experimented with snapshot when I fisrt started but I thought they were deleted. Again noob. I cant seem to find a topic relating to this particular error verbatim but found different answers for similar issues. Before I go and start changing file (of which I have no idea what they are doing) I thought I would see if anyone had any suggestions.
Edit: I see a couple dozen have vied trhis. Is it something so simple that its not worth you time or that im a stupid noob? or is there something im missing?
Edit: ok so cloning the disk and storing it in another location seem to have fixed this.
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