This is a home lab. I promise my actual setup at work is much more robust :D

I'm looking to save some money on buying another 3X 10GB fiber cards +SFPs.

I'm thinking about setting up a LAG on each host using 4x 1GB Ethernet and direct connecting them to each other(2 hosts) for vMotion.

Im going to take my current 10GB vMotion(direct) connection and utilize them for an ISCSI target.

Are my storage vMotions going to be shit slow? Its mainly some >100GB VMs.

Thank you! :)

I’m wanting to test drive CBC to test drive it and to learn more about EDRs however I’m wondering if this is even possible. How much would it cost per endpoint? What is the setup? Is it all cloud based or would it be hosted on prem?

I’m a senior in college looking to build experience with VMware (now Broadcom/Omnissa) products. There is an MSP that I’ll be performing an internship with next semester. Because their primary focus is vCenter, Horizon, DEM, and AppVolumes I wanted to build experience in my home lab with these products. Does anyone know if VMUG is still valid, and if it comes with DEM/App Volume license? I see they do mention horizon and vCenter on their website.

I have a total of 5 clusters, all share one vCenter appliance. I'm fairly sure this is an "external" vCenter appliance (as opposed to an embedded one). During pre-checks and when running VxVerify on my first cluster, on which vCenter typically runs, I did not receive this error. The first cluster upgrade completed without issue, and I believe this first cluster upgrade resulted in the upgrade of vCenter accordingly. However, now when running pre-checks for the upgrade of my second cluster, I'm getting this warning:

[Screenshot-2024-11-11-160116.png](https://postimg.cc/47k6jdby)

The KB referenced states "If an external vCenter is present, this needs to be upgraded before the managed VxRails." Well, I did this, I think... when I upgraded my first cluster. I expected when rerunning the checks after the fact, that this warning would go away. Neither does it go away if I actually migrate vCenter to this second cluster, then rerun the checks.

In short... I think it's safe to ignore this and proceed, but wondering if anyone can shed any additional information here? Why didn't I see this warning on the first cluster? How can I see the link between this "external" vCenter appliance and my first cluster, if such a link exists as I am assuming it must?

VxVerify Outputs of First Cluster, Second Cluster Before First Cluster Update, and Second Cluster After First Cluster Update

So I have three guests installed on my windows 11 host. Fedora, Arch and Mint. For mint everything works fine. Graphically speaking Fedora and Arch works flawlessly but they have frequent issues when I enable 3d acceleration. Especially Fedora. I'm curious if there is any solution to fix those visual and audio bug. This issue is present in VirtualBox as well. Though in case of Vbox it's just Fedora.

I installed a new font on the Base Image (Poppins font).

In the image, it works correctly, it appears in the lists of all Office programs and in the Fonts folder.
When I open a session in VDI (Instant Clone), the font I installed does not appear in the fonts folder or in the font list of the Office programs (inside VDI).

I already installed it 2 times and put the snapshot pointing to the pool.

1- Copied and pasted the font files into the font folder.

2- I went file by file installing them individually.

I have had no luck with either way.

Any ideas what I may be doing wrong or what may be causing this problem?

Hello all. Wondering if anyone else has run into a bit of a strange issue after a VxRail bundle update. After the completion of the update there are no outstanding errors, however the VxRail system page is blank and doesn't seem to even attempt to load. Also, the VxRail Updates Compliance page shows the new version, but the icons are blown up huge:

How It Does Look

How It Should Look

Hello,

I would like to run a Windows VM on my PC. I have purchased Workstation Pro 17.6.1 for this purpose.

The VM can be installed. Windows current ISO from the MS website.

I can join the VM in Azure, so I log in with my access data the first time I start Windows. Bitlocker is enforced by my company's policy.

After Windows updates, the VM becomes corrupt and I have to enter the Bitlocker recovery key. After a reboot it needs the recovery key again.

Any Ideas?

Under Parallels for Mac this has been working for over a year without any problems. But I really want to go back to windows.

Hi

Today I've done an upgrade from vcenter 7 to 8.

So now the new vCenter has an evaluation license and I need to insrt tne license again. Same happens for the hosts...

At that point, can I use the same old vCenter 7 license on the upgraded vCenter 8 or do I need to get an updated license from the Broadcom portal?

I am asking this noob question cause the customer told me that he has no licenses on his broadcom portal cause the vmware account migration has some issue (he has oppened a support case to fix it) and nobody (even me) has the old vcenter license. We have 60 days to fix it but in case I could not use the old license maybe I could get it from the old vcenter by command line.

So I've found that when I place one node in maintenance mode, it will not automatically vmotion the vms off to the other host and enter.

I have to manually vmotion them off. Everything is showing configured correctly, vmotion works fine manually, automatic full drs is enabled.

I've read that for a 2 node cluster, this is expected.

If so, how do you automate the patching/upgrades of these clusters?

On my previous 3 node clusters, I was able to just schedule upgrades right in the vsphere gui and everything would happen automatically.

It seems I'll have to use powercli script to try to accomplish the same results now??

I got a remote job few months ago, but the company didn't give me a laptop to work with. I'm using my personal laptop and download VMware Horizon Client to connect remotely to work.

When I am connected to VMware Horizon, does it track my location and usages? Can my employer know my location when I'm working? Or can they see what I'm doing on my own laptop desktop, not the virtual desktop I connect to?

I appreciate it if anyone can help me with this.

we are planning a 6 node cluster, 3 + 3 nodes in two different rooms. Also we don't require any FTT for VMs as it is all instant clone work load. If we lose one room i.e 3 nodes does vSAN continue to work ?

From the documentation 2n+1 is the formula, where n is the failure. So to tolerate 3 failed nodes don't we need 7 nodes. Does the fact that we don't need any FTT for the VMs make any difference ?

Thanks

Hello,

Running into an error when executing an Ansible Playbook for Port Mirroring. I was wondering if someone else has encountered this issue before.

Error:

"A specified parameter was not correct: macManagementPolicy"

I place the parameter into the playbook, only to receive the error "Unsupported parameters for module: "macManagementPolicy""

Playbook Code:

- name: Create remote destination mirroring session.
  community.vmware.vmware_vspan_session:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    switch_name: dvSwitch
    state: present
    name: Remote Session
    enabled: true
    description: "Example description"
    source_port_received: 105
    destination_port: 815
    session_type: "remoteMirrorDest"
  delegate_to: localhost

I ran into an eyebow raiser yesterday trying to move from using Hyper-V to VMWare Workstation Pro 17.6.1 on Win 10:

My Linksys WUSB6300v2 WIFI adapter seems to only work on my Win 10 VM in VMWare in NAT mode. I want it to work in bridged mode.

I have it set up that way in Hyper-V and it works great. Hoping to get some advice to do this in VMWare, because VMWare seems better for my purposes. I'll suffer with Hyper-V if I have to, but I hope someone can help!

I'm using a WIFI adapter because I needed to redo all my furniture in such a way the computer is no longer in a spot an ethernet cable is the best choice (or even possible for that matter).

• I can 'connect the usb device' to the guest OS, but in doing so, the host OS loses access to the USB WIFI, subsequently losing Internet. Both should have Internet.
• I googled/chatgpt'd and it came up with some interesting ideas, which unfortunatley didn't work:
  • In Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Network Connections I tried bonding the WUSB6300v2 and a legacy MS Loopback adapter I added. They bonded but no Internet was available in the bonded adapter.
  • In Virtual Network Editor I tried to tweak settings to add the WUSB6300v2 but it wasn't available in the drop down options for available network adapters. Only my 2 on-board Ethernet adapters were. Grumble grumble.
  • Removed Hyper-V, Removed extraneous virtual adapters, restarts, etc.

Help me, VMWare Wan Kenobi, you're my VM's only hope.

Cheers

Hi all,

I'm currently using one of the last iMac's made on Intel silicon and use VMWare Fusion for Windows VM to run a few bits of software that aren't on MacOS.

I'm looking at upgrading to a new Mac next year with Apple silicon - now I know I'll need a new Windows VM for ARM64, not a problem, but I'm not clear how my old Windows software (which would have been made for x86/amd64) will run on an ARM64 Windows VM... I've read somewhere that MacOS Rosetta jumps in and helps out but I'm a bit baffled how/what/where, or if I need to do anything extra to enable that.

TIA!

I need to replace a custom ssl certificate on my vsphere and there's an option to do a root certificate push to vCenter Hosts. That option pushes that certificate to the esxi hosts in vcenter right? My esxi hosts already have a certificate from vmware that is not set to expire any time soon and I can communicate fine with my esxi hosts. Do i need to push out that custom certificate to my esxi hosts? Will that create any issues down the road if i do push that out other than having another certificate on servers that I need to update?

Hi,

We are preparing for an upgrade of our file server from 2012 R2 to 2019. It currently holds 14.5TB, and we have 10TB available in our cluster. The file server itself have 4 Disks - 1 for OS (100GB), rest is split for pure Data.

Does a snapshot take up the same space as the server itself? Will we encounter any challenges here?

Looking for Pros and Cons on this one.

Running 7.0.2u

We received a couple of the following alerts for our cluster but its unclear what caused it. or what was affected. Looking into a root cause but cant find much.

Any ideas?

vSphere HA completed a virtual machine failover action in cluster Cluster1 in datacenter DC1
Date Time: 11/08/2024, 4:01:34 AM
Type: Information
Target: Cluster1
Description:vSphere HA completed a virtual machine failover action in cluster Cluster1 in datacenter DC1
Related events:There are no related events.

Alarm 'vSphere HA failover in progress' on Cluster1 triggered an action
Date Time: 11/08/2024, 4:01:34 AM
Type: InformationTarget: Cluster1
Description:Alarm 'vSphere HA failover in progress' on Cluster1 triggered an action
Related events:There are no related events.

Hi, with the release of VVF last year, and the new vSAN changes, Ive started a three part series to explore everything in VVF and help people maximise their value, as from work Ive noticed a lot of people have moved to VVF, not having had stuff like Aria before and not really using it

So this article is all around deploying and configuring VMware Aria Suite Standard in what I felt was the easiest way, and then how you can configure and use Aria Logs, Operations and Lifecycle to get some really cool benefits

I also couldnt find a good article on the entire thing, end to end, just odds and ends for some things over the internet, with dashboards being a bit lacking in how to configure them from scratch, so I made one

It did some out quite long as I kept finding very useful bits

Hopes this helps people getting VVF start to get the most value out of their purchase and I do believe its a good platform, cost aside

https://blog.leaha.co.uk/2024/11/11/vvf-ultimate-guide-part-1-of-3/

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/11/new-smb-friendly-subscription-tier-may-be-too-late-to-stop-vmware-migrations/

Small businesses said goodbye to Broadcom's (VMware) new subscriptions and prices. Now, Broadcom is trying to fix this by lowering the prices with new subscription offers for SMBs. Too little too late ?

I may be late to the party since Broadcom acquired VMware. But since VMware holds a considerable part of the market share, how can I get hands-on use with it installed on my own machine?

I am currently studying in school, with the WGU Cyber program, in my A+ class now, then Net + and Sec +.

I have an old Dell business machine i7-7700 and would love to install VMware ESXi on it for an Ubuntu machine, Ubuntu server, and Windows, but everything seems so convoluted with Broadcom’s system, and there’s no clear path on how to download it. Is it even still possible? Every resource that I have found is outdated and before Broadcom’s changes.

I am looking for resources to point me in the right direction if this is possible.

OR

Is it just a no-go cause of “stock price” and “corporate overlords…”

I just installed Windows 98 SE on a VMWare machine.

I don't want to allow Internet access on the Windows 98 SE guest, but I still want it to access the other computers in my network.

Is there a way to do that?

I have a MacBook Air from 2017 and I am trying to install VMware Fusion.

It gave me a compatibility error.

Need vmware tools so I can copy and paste commands from my host machine to vm. Hopefully vmware tools also enables me to copy and paste commands from my vm to host machine as well.

In previous versions that setting was available, but somewhere missing in v17.

I'm choosing between parallels and VMware fusion at work for Linux vm.

The default Fedora aarch64 (gnome and wayland) in parallels has something installed that makes it smooth to worth with.

I've tried the same in VMware (kde and wayland) but I can't get the same smoothness, like the 3d acceleration is not working.

Do I need to install something specific? I've seen some xf86-video-vmware but it's x11 only.

Hey everyone!

I’m gearing up for the 5V0-31.23 VMware Cloud Foundation Deployment Specialist exam, and I’m a bit nervous since it's my first time with this certification. I've been working in IT for a while, mainly in sysadmin roles, but this is my first deep dive into VMware certifications.

Does anyone have any recommendations for resources or tips on what to focus on? I’ve been studying the official VMware documentation and some online guides, but I’m wondering if there are specific topics that tend to show up more often on the exam.

Also, if anyone has experience with practice exams or mock tests that simulate the exam format, I'd love to hear about it! Any advice or guidance would be super helpful. Thanks in advance!

Not sure If I'm going crazy or what here.

I am Trying to run Cisco CML on my laptop to do some modeling but continuously get the "Intel VTX not supported warning when I power on the VM guest. I have enabled Intel VTX in the bios, I have disabled Core Isolation, disabled Microsoft Hyper V, Virtual Machine Platform and Windows Hypervisor Platform in the Windows features section, set they Hypervisor Launch type to OFF, rebooted about a million times.... and still same issues.

For context I am running the following:

HP Zbook G9

Windows 11 Pro Ver 23H2

VMware Workstation 17.6.1 build-24319023

Cisco CML Ver 2.6.1

Anything Im missing here? Anything I find on the web people are using Vmware Workstation 16 with Windows 11 am I the only one running VMware Ver 17?? Thank you in advance.

Hi, as I was navigating VMWare esxi.v8 with one Virtual machine, I thought I chose to delete one hard drive but in fact it deleted the vmdk. Searched this forum, found 'ssmmsp/need to recover' post, and began to step through the process. I'm stuck though on being unable to find the flat file needed to find the size.

Is there anything else I or someone can do (even remotely)? No backups available AFAIK.

Reye