Hi everyone

i want to upgrade vcenter 8.0.2.0000 to 8.0.2.100 but after i attach right patch iso file to vm and imput this command : softwaqre-packages stage --iso i get this message : Latest updates already installed on VCSA , Nothing to stage

please help me

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I have installed a new vmware cluster with 1 vicenter + 2 vspheres.

They have all the essentials plus 8 license.

Now I realize that I need to migrate the vcenter from local storage to a new shared storage but I got an alert telling that the essentials plus doesnt have the requested vmotion license.

In order to fix it I would like to know if it is possible to downgrade the lisense from the cluster to the 60 days free trial license --> do the vmotion --> then restore the essential puls license.

Thanks

Hello, I wish be helped with suggestions on the best free preparation materials for VCP-DCV & VCA-DCV. Please if you know a good udemy course, website or tutor it is welcome. Thanks in advance.

This is something i know nothing about but i really would love to start learning everything i can on how to run a virtual machine.

Like whats the best flash drive to get to run your virtual machine on?

Once i install a virtual machine on my flash drive would i be able to run a personal virtual desktop from pretty much any capable computer?

Do i run any risk if i download a virus on my virtual machine for it to affect the main computer that im running my virtual machine on as well?

Does the computer i have my virtual machine pluged into go back to completely normal with no risk of any of my files or data on my virtual machines getting transferred to the main computer im running my virtual machine on as soon as i unplug my usb that contains my virtual machine?

Any recommendations to a place i can learn about all this and any other useful info about virtual machines would be much appreciated!

I cannot expand the disk size although I added the space It shows Unallocated memory, but when I click on the main disk The extend volume button doesn’t work, only Shrink Volume, what do I do?

If we want to use VMFS Datastore on 3rd party storage we only have few options for principal storage:

Management domain:

No options > not supported / SDDC is blocked, and will not deploy mgmt domain without vSAN

VI Workload domain:

Only VMFS over FC 3rd party storage

Why Management domain and VI Workload domain doesn't support VMFS over ISCSI ?

Additional argument is that more than 80% of currently deployed configurations around the world are using VMFS over ISCSI.

We can see what supported options are on:

1. Poster link: https://core.vmware.com/blog/vmware-cloud-foundation-5x-posters
2. https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Foundation/5.1/vcf-design/GUID-2156EC66-BBBB-4197-91AD-660315385D2E.html

Hello I am planing to use a rs822rp+ as a datastorage for two vmware servers and some sharded folders. The idea is to make it easy to switch between the two esxi servers if it comes to an error.

I have 5 VMs running on each Esxi server. My old storage server had 8 x 1TB sata disks and raid 6 with freenas but it starts to get too old and the 2 TB storage gets a bit too smal.

I am interested in this configuration: Synology RS822RP+ 4-Bay RackStation NAS (AMD Ryzen V1500B 2GB RAM 4xRJ-45 1GbE LAN-Port) 24 TB Bundle with 4 x 6TB Seagate IronWolf HDDs. Two power supplies.

Do you think this configuration is good for that purpose? Or would you recommend a different model with more disks? And which raid level would you use?

And I am planing to use the backup vm function from synology on a additonal synology storage server but I am not sure what model I should use. Maybe the same again or can the RX418 be used for that purpose? Think it would have a fast connection by the sata port.

Thank you :)

I am having an annoying issue.

For context, we have 2 clusters with 2 different server models. One with skylake, one with icelake. To be able to move vms between these clusters, I have skylake evc enabled on the icelake cluster.

After upgrading VM Hardware level on some VMs, powered off vms have per-vm evc disabled. But, when booting them, per-vm evc is enabled with Cascade Lake. I have no idea why it is defaulting to cascade lake, but now that I want to move stuff between clusters to update ESXi hosts, I have to manually shutdown each vm, enable skylake EVC on the VM level, then reboot them.

Is there a setting or parameter somewhere that is setting cascade lake evc for each vm when they boot?

I've installed pfsense on my vmware workstation pro 17 . I'm trying to use pfsense with a single NIC. The physical port of my laptop is connected to a managed switch trunk port.

But sending tagged traffic from pfsense vm to the switch doesn't seems to be working. But the traffic on the native vlan from pfsense works

Greetings! I need assistance from the hive mind. Perhaps someone has encountered this already.

## The Setup

I set up a Lenovo Thinkstation Tiny P3 as my home lab with vSphere 8.0 Update 2.

So far I've set up a Windows Server Eval and a PhotonOS VM.

## The Problem

The download bandwidth towards the guest systems is horrible. Below 1Mbit/s mostly.

A simple "yum update" is already running for over an hour, for perspective.

A speedtest.net teston the Win Srv typically shows under 1Mbit/s download but the full upload that is available to me at 40Mbit/s.

Here's a screenshot of a local iPerf test form my Laptop: https://i.imgur.com/EcRlHsk.png

## What now?

P- and E-Cores are already disabled. It doesn't seem to be a performance issue.

Could it be a network driver issue? I thought vSphere 8 already included many network drivers.

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I'm trying to get into ESXi so I'm grateful for every help I can get!

Hi.

I am running a couple of VMs in Workstation Pro. Everything is rather smooth, except for the noticeable audio lag - every action (changing the volume flyout, shots in FPS games, etc.) has around 1 second of audio delay before being played through the host speakers.

It is the same behavior in both Windows 10 and Linux guests.

I tried updating the .vmx file with something like "sound.bufferTime = "20"", but it did not change anything.

Any ideas of what could be wrong?

Thanks.

Edit:

I just noticed that switching to DisplayPort sound output to my monitor (almost completely) eliminates the audio lag, so I guess Windows driver stack is in play here?

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Host: Win11Pro with VBS enabled

Hypervisor: Workstation Pro 17 (latest) on top of Windows Hypervisor Platform

VMWare Tools installed: Yes

Host sound card: Creative sound blaster AE-7

Host bit/sample rate: 24bit/48KHz

Hi,

This is a guide to stretching VMWare Player guest resolution to host resolution when the Player is in full screen mode.

It has been an issue for me and many others for a long time.

This is useful for people who are running old games on their VM's and want to have full screen.

Vaious solutions exist on the net and this one worked for me (VMWare Player 16.2.3).

1. goto folder %AppData%Roaming\VMware
2. open preferences.ini
3. add these lines to the bottom of the .ini file:

pref.autoFit = "TRUE"

pref.autoFitGuestToWindow = "FALSE"

pref.autoFitFullScreen = "stretchGuestToHost"

Hope this will be of help to others who has struggled with this like me.

Thanks

Edit:

I would like to add that if you need to set a specific resolution in your VMWare guest you can run the following command in cmd:

"C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\VMwareResolutionSet.exe" 0 1 , 0 0 640 480

Including the quotes. Just replace 640 with desired width resolution and 480 with desired height resolution.

The path is usually "c:\program files\vmware\vmware tools\VMwareResolutionSet.exe", but if not change the path in the command accordingly.

If you need to switch resolutions often you can make a .bat file with the same command line in it.

Running / double-clicking the .bat file will change the resolution.

I am curious what are the best practices for using, keeping, deleting, and maintaining snapshots in VMware workstation 17? I have recently been doing some experimentation with an ancient operating system called novell netware and I got the thing installed with VMware tools, before making any changes as not to repeat a 30 to 60 minute install routine, struggling to navigate the graphical portion of the install considering that I use the zoom feature on my windows 11 laptop for accessibility reasons and the GUI does not play nice. What I mean by the GUI does not play nice is that I click inside the VM with the host zoomed up,move the mouse and the screen does not follow unlike in a Windows XP or later VM. I have adjusted the mouse settings and the preferences of VM workstation to no avail. Installing tools makes it (somewhat) better as now I can ungrab the input from the vm, move my host cursor around while being fully zoomed up then click back into the VM and the cursor is effectively “dropped” right where i want it, but that can only be made to work after the installation of the OS and there’s no way to integrate the drivers. As the result there of, I’ve decided to script the installation using Novell‘s answer file method, and then install vmware tools after the fact. Then keep a snapshot of that exact point in time prior to doing anything to break it. As the result there of, I am curious what are the best practices for using and maintaining snapshots? And is there a better way to do what I am doing?

Hi everyone!

I've been arguing with my gen8 microserver, lsi2008-8i, esxi8.0.2 for more than a week now.

I was wondering if it was possible to make a virtual machine see the controller that is not compatible with esxi8.

I'll explain.

When I boot the gen8 I see the hdds connected to the primary controller b1201 (compatible with esxi8) and also those connected to the sas lsi2008 (not compatible with esxi8).

Then esxi8 starts and inside I no longer see the hdds connected to the lsi2008 but only those connected to the b1201. Okay, lsi is not compatible and it's as if it doesn't exist.

Here's my question: from a working virtual machine, like freenas, can I see the lsi2008 controller and use the connected hdds to create a shared folder in raid5 to share with the other VMs?

Thank you all!

I have been tasked to move about 200 VM’s currently deployed on Red Hat Virtualization to VMware and was wondering what would be the most effective tool to use to accomplish this .

Any reason to connect to vCenter?

Got a handful PowerStores scattered around. I just connect iSCSI LUNS to vSphere environments. Is there any reason or benefit to have a vCenter connection and go through the VASA registration process. I don't see any information within PowerStore that I can't already get from vCenter.

I've noticed it gets disconnected sometimes but usually reconnects on it's own. Also have had some issues where the certificates expired and I had to completely remove it and reconnect.

I have a Windows 11 host machine, I've dedicated 6 gigs of RAM, 3 processor cores and 60 gigs of storage to my windows 7 virtual machine, i haven't install VMware tools and I've tried running cmd as administrator in the host machine and setting hypervisor off but that didn't help, any suggestions?

Sorry for this embarrassing post but I can't understand if the LSI 9340-8i controller is compatible with ESXI 8.0.2. I looked in the compatibility guide but I can't find it. Can you kindly help me? Thank you bios controller jpg

Please bear with me on what probably sounds like a dumb question, compared to the posts I see here. Although I'm pretty good with computers, I don't know much about networking. And I don't understand - and haven't found answers to - my problem with getting the host and guest OS to communicate through the virtual switch.

Guest Info: VMware Workstation 17.5.1 Player running OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 Beta

Host Info: Windows 10 ProDell Precision 3541 laptop, 32 GB RAM

Network: I'm wondering if this is the problem; I don't have a network environment (like at work). I have a bunch of devices (phones, tablets, laptops, etc.) connecting to the internet through an ATT router/modem gateway. These devices don't share files, or if they can, I don't know how to do it. I do know that I can ping the other devices from my host OS.

What I am trying to do: Basically, I wanted to experiment and learn about network communication. SSH or whatever. So I thought a convenient way would be to have my host OS talking with my guest and vice versa. But at the same time I want my guest OS to have access to the internet. I don't think "Host-only" would do that.

Is this possible given the home network I'm in?

How do I setup the network connection in VMware? If I at least knew which settings are supposed to provide what I want, I can take it from there and try to get it working.

Thanks.

Hello VMware Community.

I'm new to the world of VMware and am trying to solve a problem.

I have a Server running ESXi6.5.0 and a Windows 10 laptop running Workstation Pro 17. I can connect to the server remotely through the ESXi web interface and create and manage VMs from there, that's all good.

I bought Workstation Pro 17 to utilise the ability to clone VMs, which is possible on my Laptop. But when I connect to the Server using Workstation Pro 17, I can see the VMs, I can do most admin things, but I can't clone them.

I keep getting the message "You cannot make a clone of a shared or remote virtual Machine."
I would appreciate you suggestions on how to resolve it.

Cheers

Today I noticed that Hock Tan will be at the German UserCon 24.

https://my.vmug.com/s/community-event?id=a1Y4x000003rmsXEAQ

I am amazed and wonder what he has to say.

We have a virtual machine that stopped running unexpectedly because a snapshot that was being taken by Acronis filled up the datastore. I went into snapshot manager to delete the snapshot but it didn't make a difference in the space being used. I created a new snapshot from the vsphere client and hit delete all and that didn't make a difference in the space being used. Finally I just moved a couple of VM's off of the datastore to a temporary location and powered on the vm that had been shutdown. This was at night and I figured it was good cause I could reach it so I went to bed. The next morning there are floods of tickets that people are missing data. Turns out that everything from after March 22nd is missing, which was the same date as the snapshot. Its almost like the VM reverted to the snapshot on its own. I've never seen anything like this before. Does anyone know of a way to fix this?

ESXI Version is 6.0, Dell customized.

Hi everyone!

I have a hp gen8 with 16gb ram and xeon cpu. I put an SSD on the 5 drive instead of the CDROM. I want to keep the 4 front HDDs free. I installed HP's custom ISO of ESXI 8.0.2 in drive 5 and without the front HDDs and I see that everything is fine. obviously, if I insert the front HDDs the boot is taken from drive 1 so a USB pendrive inserted in the motherboard is required. here, my question is how to transfer the boot to the USB pendrive which then recalls esxi installed on drive 5. on ubuntu I solved it easily using grub installed on the pendrive which starts drive 5 with ubuntu server and so I have the 4 front HDDs available. I would like to do the same thing with esxi, is it possible?

Thank you!

Hej, I have a esxi 8 with vmug licence and I shared 2 GPU Radeon 6600 XT to the VM but even if I see the rocm-smi the cards look like working the ollama service gets stuck somewhere in the loading process... Logs are inconclusive and if I start the server with a USB stick with Ubuntu and perform the same install the 2 GPU are detected and work fine... So something seems to be not working with the passthrow... Anyone experiencing issues with it?

Hello,

I am looking for recommendations on how to quickly get Vcenter and Hosts into a state where I can start restoring VMs. I am looking at the all hosts are hosed and need to be reinstalled DR situation.

My vmware setup (8 hosts, 2 clusters, enterprise vmware license, 7.0.3.800 esxi -moving to 8 when license update comes in). I have my VMs backed up using Veeam, exporting vcenter config weekly, I am also using powercli to export host configurations using "Get-VMHostFirmware -backupconfiguration" command. I am trying to figure out my recovery procedure from step 0.

I was thinking of creating a custom esxi USB install with kickstart to boot and install my current esxi version + HPE and Nimble addons - then using the Host configuration backups to restore the Hosts to good condition. I realize that I can only restore the configuration to the same host. I believe that should get my hosts back to running. Looking for steps if I have to install to new hosts.

Then i should be able to redeploy vcenter using its configuration backup, and fix any connection issues to my nimble san / rebuild Datastores if needed. Then start restoring Veeam then start restoring production VMs. I think this should get me running fairly quickly.

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Looking for opinions on my current DR steps or if there is a better method I have not seen. Sadly my boss does not want to leave 1 host configured and offline with a ready vcenter installed locally (my first instinct.)

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VMware vSphere Client can display events for a particular VM in groups of 10, 20, 50 or 100 items per page, and you can export those items in those same amounts.

I would like to be able to export events for a period of time regardless of how many items are in that time range. Is it possible for vSphere Client to export events based on a time range, and not by groups of 10-100? Or can I at least export more than 100 items at a time? If not, can you export them some other way? I don't use command-line enough to know but assuming there might be a way there. And I've seen some VMware logs available in a web browser (I think by using the ESXi host name in a URL followed by a path to a filename?) Appreciate any tips (and need detailed steps please).

Hi!

Our Internal CA certifcate will expire soon and I am using that in Certifcate Management under Trusted Root Certifcates. I thought that If I press ADD and install the new certficate then it will simply replace the old one with new one but thats not the case. I am getting error " Error occurred while adding trusted root certificates: Trusted root already exists ".

As my current CA certifcate is expiring then I have to replace it with a new one. I am using the same certifcate for LDAP authentication as well.

I dont see any delete option on the Certificate Management page.

What is the best way to delete the during Trusted Root Certificate and add new one?

Thanks for your input.

Hello,

I have zero experience with vmware API. I need assign backup tags to the VMs using the API, from the rh satelitte. I have no idea, what should be the next steps and where I have enable it? Or it not working like that? :-D Iam completely lost.

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Thank you very much for your help.

Hi

I have a scenario with a VMware cluster made of 2 vsphere hosts and one vCenter.

The vCenter machine is provisionaly located at the local datastore from one of the hosts.

I would like to migrate the vCenter machine to a shared datastore.

In order to do the vcenter migration, can I do it from the vCenter itself without stoping it or must I loging into the host that manages it and do it from there?

My worries is that I launch the migration process from the vCenter while it is running and it crashes!

Thanks

Pls I need advise on how to get the esxi host added to the Vcenter using the fqdn instead. Each hosts already have hostname and fqdn update on the aws domain but when I tried to add the hosts using the fqdn i got error message related to network configuration issue.