I wish to setup a streched cluster with a witness appliance.

The host that hosts he witness appliance can be a free esxi hypervisor? Or it must be licensed? If yes, which kind of license do I need?

OK, I see you have 5 fault domains setup.  You may not need any fault domains and certainly not 5.  Fault domains are used for protecting against something like a rack failure.  Let's use your 5 hosts in 3 racks as an example.  2 racks have 2 hosts and the 3rd has 1 host.

You would setup 3 fault domains, 1 for each rack.  Each rack is going to get either data copy 1, data copy 2, or the witness.  Now you can lose an entire rack and still have the data accessible.

Cormac has a good post:  VSAN 6.0 Part 8 - Fault Domains - CormacHogan.com

Try no fault domains with an acceptable Failure to Tolerate.  With 5 hosts and plenty of storage, I would go with FTT = 2.  Thank you, Zach.

Good afternoon, from A closer look at the VSAN witness appliance - CormacHogan.com

Even better, there are no licenses needed with the witness appliance, as it comes preconfigured with a license. Of course, if you wish to use a physical host for the witness, you can do that too.

Hi Folks

Facing one issue with vSphere Replication 6 in my lab. I am able to configure replication on VM's but it immediately goes into "Not Active" status

My Lab Setup is as follows:

Primary Site:

1 vCenter Server (Embedded PSC + External SQL Server DB)

2 Esxi Hosts (6.0.0)

1 vSphere Replication Appliance v6

vCenter, Esxi and vSphere Replication are on my management network (192.168.109.0/32)

I have one openfiler appliance deployed and it is also on 192.168.109.X network. 2 LUN's created on openfiler and are presented to both my Esxi host in Primary site

DR Site:

1 vCenter Server (Embedded PSC + External SQL Server DB)

2 Esxi Hosts (6.0.0)

1 vSphere Replication Appliance v6

Again all are on management network 192.168.109.X

Openfiler have extra 2 LUN's that are only presented on my DR site. These LUN's are not visible on my Primary Site.

I observed logs on Esxi host and VR appliances and here are my observations:

I logined to my Esxi host where the VM on which I configured replication is residing. I checked for replication status there:

[root@optimus:~] vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | grep srv2k8-test

2      srv2k8-test   [iSCSI-1] srv2k8-test/srv2k8-test.vmx   windows7Server64Guest   vmx-11

[root@optimus:~] vim-cmd hbrsvc/vmreplica.getState 2

Retrieve VM running replication state:

The VM is configured for replication. Current replication state: Group: GID-6f5d0675-9e0c-44c8-9303-1a7eba5cb32c (generation=1096380173525088)

Group State: full sync (0% done: checksummed 0 bytes of 40 GB, transferred 0 bytes of 0 bytes)

DiskID RDID-fcf9bf2b-027c-4070-8e51-fda24fe6f1e1 State: full sync (checksummed 0 bytes of 40 GB, transferred 0 bytes of 0 bytes)

Checked hostd.log on same host:

[root@optimus:/var/log] tail -f hostd.log | grep -i Hbrsvc

2016-05-02T15:17:32.069Z info hostd[4FAC1B70] [Originator@6876 sub=Hbrsvc] Replicator: powerstate change VM: 2 Old: 1 New: 1

2016-05-02T15:19:26.074Z error hostd[4FB41B70] [Originator@6876 sub=Hbrsvc opID=8a4d7f2b-ce2d-435f-b0a5-eb9d5a12b790-HMS-34167-ee-8b-f531 user=vpxuser:com.vmware.vcHms] Failed to retrieve replication configuration for VM 2 (srv2k8-test): replication not enabled

2016-05-02T15:19:26.122Z info hostd[4FBC3B70] [Originator@6876 sub=Hbrsvc opID=d4cbf535 user=System] HbrReconfigureInterceptor checking HBR-enabled config for VM 2 (srv2k8-test)

2016-05-02T15:19:27.212Z info hostd[4FE01B70] [Originator@6876 sub=Hbrsvc] Event: 8 refers to non-existent group (id=GID-e8000f35-c563-459f-a86d-e8112edd503d)

2016-05-02T15:19:27.212Z error hostd[4FE01B70] [Originator@6876 sub=Hbrsvc] Processing event failed: vmodl.fault.SystemError

2016-05-02T15:19:27.212Z info hostd[4FE01B70] [Originator@6876 sub=Hbrsvc] Event: 7 refers to non-existent disk (id=RDID-fddfd7c3-a142-4d15-ae80-04bfdcddb87b)

2016-05-02T15:19:27.212Z error hostd[4FE01B70] [Originator@6876 sub=Hbrsvc] Processing event failed: vmodl.fault.SystemError

2016-05-02T15:19:27.223Z info hostd[4FAC1B70] [Originator@6876 sub=Hbrsvc] Replicator: powerstate change VM: 2 Old: 1 New: 1

2016-05-02T15:19:27.264Z info hostd[4FAC1B70] [Originator@6876 sub=Hbrsvc] Replicator: PowerOn -> PowerOn transition for VM: (id=2) srv2k8-test

2016-05-02T15:19:27.264Z info hostd[4FAC1B70] [Originator@6876 sub=Hbrsvc] Replicator: Poweron for VM: (id=2) srv2k8-test

2016-05-02T15:19:27.268Z info hostd[4FAC1B70] [Originator@6876 sub=Hbrsvc] Configuring disk (deviceKey=2000)

2016-05-02T15:19:27.269Z info hostd[4FAC1B70] [Originator@6876 sub=Hbrsvc] ReplicationGroup added disk (groupID=GID-e8000f35-c563-459f-a86d-e8112edd503d) (diskID=RDID-fddfd7c3-a142-4d15-ae80-04bfdcddb87b)

2016-05-02T15:19:27.272Z info hostd[4FAC1B70] [Originator@6876 sub=Hbrsvc] ReplicatedDisk extracted state: sync (pauseFlag=0 needFullSync=0 attachAction=full sync) (diskID=RDID-fddfd7c3-a142-4d15-ae80-04bfdcddb87b) (groupID=GID-e8000f35-c563-459f-a86d-e8112edd503d) (lastOpID=0)

2016-05-02T15:19:27.272Z info hostd[4FAC1B70] [Originator@6876 sub=Hbrsvc] ReplicatedDisk: Extract state succeeded (diskID=RDID-fddfd7c3-a142-4d15-ae80-04bfdcddb87b) (vmID=2) (groupID=GID-e8000f35-c563-459f-a86d-e8112edd503d) (state=full sync)

2016-05-02T15:19:27.273Z info hostd[4FAC1B70] [Originator@6876 sub=Hbrsvc] ReplicationGroup initialized replication successfully (state=full sync) (groupID=GID-e8000f35-c563-459f-a86d-e8112edd503d)

VMkernel.log was bitching about connectivity to vrs server(192.168.109.32) at DR site:

[root@optimus:/var/log] tail -f vmkernel.log | grep -i Hbr

2016-05-02T15:19:27.155Z cpu0:273523)Hbr: 1236: Disk reads back unmapped blocks as zeroes (diskID=RDID-fddfd7c3-a142-4d15-ae80-04bfdcddb87b)

2016-05-02T15:19:27.156Z cpu0:273523)WARNING: Hbr: 160: Failed to open persistent state file hbr-persistent-state-RDID-fddfd7c3-a142-4d15-ae80-04bfdcddb87b.psf: Not found

2016-05-02T15:19:27.212Z cpu1:273523)WARNING: Hbr: 810: Persistent state (diskID=RDID-fddfd7c3-a142-4d15-ae80-04bfdcddb87b) is invalid, resyncing

2016-05-02T15:19:27.212Z cpu1:273523)Hbr: 1389: Attached Hbr filter (diskID=RDID-fddfd7c3-a142-4d15-ae80-04bfdcddb87b, Size=42949672960) Proto: lwd State: sync DiskCnt: 1 AttachCnt: 1 WID: 273518 CID: 4272766891 Comp: Y ExtSz: 8k

2016-05-02T15:20:42.161Z cpu0:348601)WARNING: Hbr: 549: Connection failed to 192.168.109.32 (groupID=GID-e8000f35-c563-459f-a86d-e8112edd503d): Timeout

2016-05-02T15:20:42.161Z cpu0:348601)WARNING: Hbr: 4573: Failed to establish connection to [192.168.109.32]:31031(groupID=GID-e8000f35-c563-459f-a86d-e8112edd503d): Timeout

I checked connectivity from host to vr appliance

[root@optimus:/var/log] ping vrs02

PING vrs02 (192.168.109.32): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 192.168.109.32: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.469 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.109.32: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.723 ms

--- vrs02 ping statistics ---

2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max = 0.469/0.596/0.723 ms

[root@optimus:/var/log] nc -z 192.168.109.32 31031

Connection to 192.168.109.32 31031 port [tcp/*] succeeded!

Below error I observed in hbrsrv.log on VR appliance that is deployed on my DR site:

2016-05-02T20:56:06.994+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D99226700] [Originator@6876 sub=Host] Heartbeat handler detected dead connection for host: host-19

2016-05-02T20:56:06.994+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D99226700] [Originator@6876 sub=Main] HbrError stack:

2016-05-02T20:56:06.994+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D99226700] [Originator@6876 sub=Main]    [0] Exception Vmacore::InvalidStateException: No connection (host=host-19)

2016-05-02T20:56:06.994+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D99226700] [Originator@6876 sub=Main]    [1] Failed to get time (host=host-19)

2016-05-02T20:56:06.994+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D99226700] [Originator@6876 sub=Main]    [2] Ignored error.

2016-05-02T20:56:06.994+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D99226700] [Originator@6876 sub=Main] HbrError stack:

2016-05-02T20:56:06.994+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D99226700] [Originator@6876 sub=Main]    [0] Database object not found

2016-05-02T20:56:06.994+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D99226700] [Originator@6876 sub=Main]    [1] Looking up global key in the database guestinfo.hbr.hbrsrv-certificate-revoked/guestinfo-cache

2016-05-02T20:56:06.994+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D99226700] [Originator@6876 sub=Main]    [2] Couldn't read cached value for key guestinfo.hbr.hbrsrv-certificate-revoked

2016-05-02T20:56:06.994+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D99226700] [Originator@6876 sub=Main]    [3] Ignored error.

2016-05-02T20:58:07.016+05:30 error hbrsrv[7F0D99226700] [Originator@6876 sub=HostAgentConnection] Connection failed to host host-19 (192.168.107.12): Operation timed out

2016-05-02T20:58:07.016+05:30 verbose hbrsrv[7F0D99226700] [Originator@6876 sub=vmomi.soapStub[2763]] Resetting stub adapter for server <cs p:00007f0d9002f0a0, TCP:192.168.107.12:80> : Closed

2016-05-02T20:58:07.016+05:30 verbose hbrsrv[7F0D99226700] [Originator@6876 sub=PropertyProvider] RecordOp ASSIGN: lastError, Hbr.Replica.Host.host-19. Applied change to temp map.

2016-05-02T20:58:07.016+05:30 error hbrsrv[7F0D9BEEF760] [Originator@6876 sub=HttpConnectionPool-002758] [ConnectComplete] Connect failed to <cs p:00007f0d9002f0a0, TCP:192.168.107.12:80>; cnx: (null), error: N7Vmacore9ExceptionE(Operation was canceled)

I re-registered my VR appliance to vCenter at DR site and observed following in hbrsrv.log

2016-05-02T21:01:19.144+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D9BE6B700] [Originator@6876 sub=Main opID=hs-7477b629]    [3] Ignored error.

2016-05-02T21:01:19.144+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D9BE6B700] [Originator@6876 sub=HostAgentConnection opID=hs-7477b629] Host host-16: retrying address 192.168.109.11

2016-05-02T21:01:19.157+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D9BE6B700] [Originator@6876 sub=HostAgentConnection opID=hs-7477b629] Detected host API version '6.0' for host host-16

2016-05-02T21:01:19.157+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D9BE6B700] [Originator@6876 sub=HostAgentConnection opID=hs-7477b629] Using NFC manager API version '3.0' on host host-16

2016-05-02T21:01:19.159+05:30 verbose hbrsrv[7F0D9BE6B700] [Originator@6876 sub=HostAgentConnection opID=hs-7477b629] Logging in to host-16 (192.168.109.11) using SSL thumbprint.

2016-05-02T21:01:19.160+05:30 verbose hbrsrv[7F0D9BE6B700] [Originator@6876 sub=HttpConnectionPool-002761 opID=hs-7477b629] HttpConnectionPoolImpl created. maxPoolConnections = 1; idleTimeout = 900000000; maxOpenConnections = 1; maxConnectionAge = 0

2016-05-02T21:01:19.248+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D99267700] [Originator@6876 sub=ThreadPool] Thread enlisted

2016-05-02T21:01:19.259+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D9BE6B700] [Originator@6876 sub=PropertyCollector opID=hs-7477b629] Registered storage system filter for host host-16 filterId session[5247bc77-a125-f0cb-d788-250bf8e2c6da]52f7564b-d873-c6d8-0150-557c2347e131

2016-05-02T21:01:19.261+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D9BE6B700] [Originator@6876 sub=PropertyCollector opID=hs-7477b629] Registered datastore filter for host host-16 filterId session[5247bc77-a125-f0cb-d788-250bf8e2c6da]52b732c5-a319-3d11-8f22-182d9bec5ad2

2016-05-02T21:01:19.262+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D9BE6B700] [Originator@6876 sub=PropertyCollector opID=hs-7477b629] Registered runtimeInfo filter for host host-16 filterId session[5247bc77-a125-f0cb-d788-250bf8e2c6da]52d97732-75fa-f9c9-60f8-17c9cc4c1c76

2016-05-02T21:01:19.262+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D9BE6B700] [Originator@6876 sub=HostAgentConnection opID=hs-7477b629] Established connection to host host-16 (<cs p:00007f0d8c00b580, TCP:192.168.109.11:80>)

2016-05-02T21:01:19.262+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D9BE6B700] [Originator@6876 sub=StorageManager opID=hs-7477b629] Host (host-16) exists in database. Modified.

2016-05-02T21:01:19.263+05:30 verbose hbrsrv[7F0D9BE6B700] [Originator@6876 sub=PropertyProvider opID=hs-7477b629] RecordOp ASSIGN: enabledHostsList["Hbr.Replica.Host.host-16"], HbrStorageManager. Applied change to temp map.

2016-05-02T21:01:19.284+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D99226700] [Originator@6876 sub=Host] DatastorePropertyCallback for host: host-16 moId: session[5247bc77-a125-f0cb-d788-250bf8e2c6da]52b732c5-a319-3d11-8f22-182d9bec5ad2 Fault:

2016-05-02T21:01:19.284+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D9BE6B700] [Originator@6876 sub=Host] DatastorePropertyCallback for host: host-16 moId: session[5247bc77-a125-f0cb-d788-250bf8e2c6da]52f7564b-d873-c6d8-0150-557c2347e131 Fault:

2016-05-02T21:01:19.297+05:30 info hbrsrv[7F0D9BDA8700] [Originator@6876 sub=Host] DatastorePropertyCallback for host: host-16 moId: session[5247bc77-a125-f0cb-d788-250bf8e2c6da]52d97732-75fa-f9c9-60f8-17c9cc4c1c76 Fault:

2016-05-02T21:01:19.302+05:30 verbose hbrsrv[7F0D992A8700] [Originator@6876 sub=Host opID=hs-7477b629] Host: host-16 Datastore: /vmfs/volumes/572092d5-c899500d-d529-00505603b85f -> 572092d5-c899500d-d529-00505603b85f (name datastore1) accessible true

2016-05-02T21:01:19.306+05:30 verbose hbrsrv[7F0D992A8700] [Originator@6876 sub=Host opID=hs-7477b629] Host: host-16 Datastore: /vmfs/volumes/5721b6d6-b14beba1-5a12-00505603b862 -> 5721b6d6-b14beba1-5a12-00505603b862 (name iSCSI-3) accessible true

2016-05-02T21:01:19.309+05:30 verbose hbrsrv[7F0D992A8700] [Originator@6876 sub=Host opID=hs-7477b629] Host: host-16 Datastore: /vmfs/volumes/5721b6ef-bab376f2-61ef-00505603b862 -> 5721b6ef-bab376f2-61ef-00505603b862 (name iSCSI-4) accessible true

2016-05-02T21:01:19.337+05:30 verbose hbrsrv[7F0D9BD67700] [Originator@6876 sub=Host opID=hs-7477b629] Host: host-16 Datastore: /vmfs/volumes/572092d5-c899500d-d529-00505603b85f -> 572092d5-c899500d-d529-00505603b85f (name datastore1) accessible true

2016-05-02T21:01:19.340+05:30 verbose hbrsrv[7F0D9BD67700] [Originator@6876 sub=Host opID=hs-7477b629] Host: host-16 Datastore: /vmfs/volumes/5721b6d6-b14beba1-5a12-00505603b862 -> 5721b6d6-b14beba1-5a12-00505603b862 (name iSCSI-3) accessible true

2016-05-02T21:01:19.343+05:30 verbose hbrsrv[7F0D9BD67700] [Originator@6876 sub=Host opID=hs-7477b629] Host: host-16 Datastore: /vmfs/volumes/5721b6ef-bab376f2-61ef-00505603b862 -> 5721b6ef-bab376f2-61ef-00505603b862 (name iSCSI-4) accessible true

2016-05-02T21:01:19.370+05:30 verbose hbrsrv[7F0D9BEAC700] [Originator@6876 sub=Host opID=hs-7477b629] Host: host-16 Datastore:

2016-05-02T21:01:19.458+05:30 verbose hbrsrv[7F0D9BDA8700] [Originator@6876 sub=StorageMap] Host host-16 removed from datastore 5721b6ef-bab376f2-61ef-00505603b862

2016-05-02T21:01:19.458+05:30 verbose hbrsrv[7F0D9BDA8700] [Originator@6876 sub=StorageMap] Host host-16 added for datastore 5721b6ef-bab376f2-61ef-00505603b862

2016-05-02T21:01:19.458+05:30 verbose hbrsrv[7F0D9BDA8700] [Originator@6876 sub=StorageMap] Datastore 572092d5-c899500d-d529-00505603b85f is not in connectionMap. Ignored for computing singleHostDsMap.

2016-05-02T21:01:19.458+05:30 verbose hbrsrv[7F0D9BDA8700] [Originator@6876 sub=StorageMap] Datastore 5721b6d6-b14beba1-5a12-00505603b862 is not in connectionMap. Ignored for computing singleHostDsMap.

I am not able to figure out whats wrong in my lab

Please compress/zip the VM's *.vmx, *.vmsd, as well as the latest vmware*.log file, and attach the zip archive to a reply post.

Do you have other VMs running on the host? In this case please ensure that the .vmdk file has not been attached to one of them for whatever reason.

André

Yes, this is clear but my question is releated to the physical ESXi that hosts the witness appliance, does it need a license?

how do I enter my vrops license key for horizon?

I got 2 license keys

VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Adapter and VMware vRealize Operations Manager for Horizon

Estoy usando ESXi en un HP Microserver con la imagen descargada desde la web de HP. Me indica que me quedan 50 días de evaluación. Una vez que pase este periodo, que funcionalidad tendrá mi esxi???? Podré crear más máquinas, me seguirá funcionando con normalidad lo ya configurado??

He buscando por Google pero no me termina de quedar claro y no me gustaría quedarme colgado cuando acabe la evaluación.

Gracias

In the capacity view for a 4 hosts cluster with compression disabled  I see:

space used physically written 68.70 GB

space used VM overreserved 32 GB

space USED TOTAL 100.70 GB

In the same view for the same cluster with the same VMs deployed I see:

sapce USED TOTAL 91,47GB

space USED BEFORE COMPRESSION 120GB

SAVING 29.36GB

The question is: why the space used before is 120GB when it really was 100GB?

I have also a second question but for that I've created a specific discussion.

Hola,

podrás crear, encender y apagar máquinas virtuales, la limitación de la licencia ESXi son muchas en cuanto a funcionalidades como alta disponibilidad, vMotion, Storage vMotion etc.

Si tu servidor tiene tan solo un CPU, no tendrás problemas, se pondrá en versión gratuita con las limitaciones ya mencionadas.

Un saludo.

To add your  vRealize Operations for Horizon license key, select  Administration> Licensing in the  vRealize Operations Manager user interface and add your license key to  VMware Horizon Solution on the  License Keys tab

Please see for detailed process to add Horizon license key.

vRealize Operations Manager 6.0.1 Documentation Center

vRealize Operations Manager 6.0.1 Documentation Center

Hi

I created an ISO of Windows 10 Enterprise build 14332 64 bit using the Install.esd file using this procedure:

[code]
1) robocopy <Primary_partition_letter>:\$Windows.~BT\Sources "<esd_File_Path>" Install.esd

2) move "<esd_File_Path>\Install.esd" "<esd_File_Path>\Install_build_14332.esd"

3) Dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:"<esd_File_Path>\Install_build_14332.esd"

4) Dism /Apply-Image /ImageFile:"<esd_File_Path>\Install_build_14332.esd" /Index:1 /ApplyDir:"<Windows_Files_Path>" /Verify /CheckIntegrity

5) Dism /Export-Image /SourceImageFile
:"<esd_File_Path>\Install_build_14332.esd" /SourceIndex
:2 /DestinationImageFile
:"<Windows_Files_Path>\sources\boot.wim" /Compress:max /CheckIntegrity

6) Dism /Export-image /SourceImageFile:"<esd_File_Path>\Install_build_14332.esd" /SourceIndex:3 /DestinationImageFile:"<Windows_Files_Path>\sources\boot.wim" /Compress:max /Bootable /CheckIntegrity

7) Dism /Export-image /SourceImageFile:"<esd_File_Path>\Install_build_14332.esd" /SourceIndex:4 /DestinationImageFile:"<Windows_Files_Path>\sources\install.esd" /Compress:Recovery /CheckIntegrity

8) del "<esd_File_Path>\Install_build_14332.esd"

9) oscdimg -o -u2 -udfver102 -l"<Label_Name>" -tmm/dd/yyyy,hh:mm:ss -bootdata:2#p0,e,b"<Windows_Files_Path>\boot\etfsboot.com"#pEF,e,b"<Windows_Files_Path>\efi\microsoft\boot\efisys.bin" <Windows_Files_Path>" "<iso_Path>\<iso_Name>.iso"

10) pushd "<Windows_Files_Path>" && ( rd /S /Q "<Windows_Files_Path>" 2>nul & popd )

11) rd /Q "<Windows_Files_Path>"
[/code]

So I tried to install it on a VM (EFI) of VMware Workstation Pro 12.1.0 Build 3272444 but during the installation second phase, the EVENT_TRACING_FATAL_ERROR error appears. Why?

Thanks

Bye

Hi,

I changed my workflow to read from a file as you have suggested, and it works when I print the list to the console (System.log)

But my problem, as it was in my previous version, is that the the list of group does not appear for the user when I use a user interaction object.

The user interaction call an action which read from the file.

When the box appears, the field is empty.

I attached again the new workflow, maybe you will find my error.

Thanks!

Hello,

I've updated to 5.5.0u3 but same problem

Just to say that I resolved my problem by downgrading the version for ESX servers from version 5.5.0 u3 to 5.5.0.

Is it possible as hardware problem ?

Nevertheless, thank you.

Hi

I have recently installed & configured the Orchestrator Actions Adapter, 'Test Connection' worked ok, but although my 'Collection State' is 'Collecting' my 'Collection Status' says 'Error'.

Where is the best place to look for error details associated with this. There are a large number of log files (in vROPS), which I am going through, but no thing useful as yet (or is missed it)

Regards

vROPS Release 6.1.0

Tony

We took the plunge and updated from View 5.2 to Horizon 6.2 about 2 months ago. Initially, everything went fairly smoothly, the biggest issue was the new security that is enabled in v6.2. However, we've begun to realize that all is not well. We had a user who had a suspected malware incident, our standard plan is to rename their Persona folder, then copy anything they need over. However, while their new Persona folder was created, it's 100% empty, other than a .lck file. All we are trying to sync is their local appdata folder, as we use Windows Roaming Profiles for the rest of it. New staff members' Personas folders are always empty, and I've begun to suspect that nobody's has updated since we upgraded from 5.2 to 6.2.

I did file a ticket with VMware, however, we haven't made much progress. They did advise to roll the version of VMware tools from v10 to v9.4 under the vague pretense of 'known incompatibilities', which I did, but it didn't help.

After the move from Tools v10 to v9.4, there's actually more issues in the VMWVvp.txt log, generally stuff that looks like this:

[24418][05/03/2016 08:10:56:0128][RTOLogon!VMWQueryEA       ] No EAs Found: File: \Users\user

[24418][05/03/2016 08:10:56:0128][RTOLogon!PostCreate       ] Failed to update name in stream context for file \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Users\user\Videos (Cbd = FFFFFA800341A860, FileObject = FFFFFA8003D08070)

[24435][05/03/2016 08:10:56:0128][RTOLogon!RedirectFile     ] VMWGetFileInfo Failed: Process: svchost.exe, File: \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Users\user\Saved Games, 0xC0000034

[24435][05/03/2016 08:10:56:0128][RTOLogon!RTORetrieveOfflineFile] Retrieved User Identity: Path: \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Users\user\Saved Games

[24435][05/03/2016 08:10:56:0128][RTOLogon!RTORetrieveOfflineFile] Received FALSE From Service: 0x0, ulResult: 0x80070002

[24435][05/03/2016 08:10:56:0128][RTOLogon!RedirectFile     ] RTORetrieveOfflineFile Returned: Process: svchost.exe, Offline: 0, 0x80070002

[24446][05/03/2016 08:10:56:0128][RTOLogon!RedirectFile     ] VMWGetFileInfo Failed: Process: svchost.exe, File: \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Users\user\Saved Games, 0xC0000034

[24446][05/03/2016 08:10:56:0128][RTOLogon!RTORetrieveOfflineFile] Retrieved User Identity: Path: \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Users\user\Saved Games

[24446][05/03/2016 08:10:56:0128][RTOLogon!RTORetrieveOfflineFile] Received FALSE From Service: 0x0, ulResult: 0x80070002

[24446][05/03/2016 08:10:56:0128][RTOLogon!RedirectFile     ] RTORetrieveOfflineFile Returned: Process: svchost.exe, Offline: 0, 0x80070002

I don't see these strings in the logs that I have when we were running on v10.

The other thing I find strange is this line:

[0][05/03/2016 07:53:44:0234][CRedirectedFolders::Load  ] Failed Opening SOFTWARE\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Persona Management\Service\Redirected Folders, 0x80070002

I've confirmed there is no 'Persona Management' key in the VMware VDM key in the registry.

Any help is greatly appreciated. I've attached the complete log.

No error messages, I get the typical "Started customization of VM..." but the guest never reboots or goes through a sysprep operation nor does vsphere confirm that customization was successful.  I looked in the guestcust.log and could find nothing to suggest an error or that any part of the customization failed.  Hoping I'm not alone here, this is a plain vanilla install of Windows 10, nothing fancy added or configured.

vSphere Client version 5.5.0 build 3237766

vCenter Server version 5.5.0 build 3142196

VMware ESXi, 5.5.0 build 3568722

VMware tools are current and running

guestcust.log attached.

Hello.

I'm executing a script on a remote PowerShell host, and I want to be able to act upon either the exit code or some other output text within a string variable to do something like log, or fail the workflow within vRO.

The example being that if i attempt to run a native windows command (e.g. dnscmd.exe) within my PowerShell script that returns "Access Denied" or similar, as the PowerShell script still completes successfully, so does the vRO workflow.

How can I forcibly fail the workflow when certain output criteria is met?

Thanks,

Dan

Hi
with ESXi 5.1 you have a decent chance to recover your files.
To give you an estimation I need the first 1536 MB of the VMFS-volume. Feel free to contact me via skype - see my signature.
Ulli

I have an NSX manager with fqdn

nsxmgr.my.olddomain.com

The domain has been updated and changed to

nsxmgr.my.newdomain.com, dns records edited etc. and the NSX Manager VM reflects that in it's networking, hostname, dns configuration.

However the Self-Signed cert still shows up as nsxmgr.my.olddomain.com

This is causes API calls from an app written by our front end devs to bork.  As the cert fqdn (CN) doesn't match the fqdn of the VM itself.

I DO NOT WANT to replace the current cert with a CA signed one.  I know how to build a Windows CA/PKI thanks.  But I don't want to.

I just want an API call or option to get the NSX Manager to re-issue itself with a cert based on it's new FQDN.

I can't find anything in the API docs (other than browsing existing certs or the usual CSR generation and import/export of a new externally signed certs)

I've tried SSH but as you get a Cisco-esque high-level command interface you can't checkout the rui.key/rui.crt as you can on a VCSA, if it even exists.

Answers on a postcard please?