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Firefox saves login credentials but doesn't prefill next time

October 29, 2017, 5:21 am
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Hello,

 

when I login into vCenter 6.5, Firefox asks me if I want to save login credentials. I did that.

But next time when I visit the login website, the login credentials are not prefilled-out and I have to type everything manually again.

Why? Firefox password saving is working on all other sites, but that vCenter login site seems to be a little bit special. Sometimes when I enter something into the field username, delete it and click in the username field again, Firefox shows the Administrator@... login credentials and also fills it out correctly, if I click on it.

But why isn't it working, when I just visit the page like on all other websites?

Is there anything which I could do?

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Datastore Latency Spike - VM metric only

October 30, 2017, 12:51 pm
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I have couple of VMs who's datastore performance metric show a astronomically large latency spike, 46000000000000ms. A user who was using the web console at the time reported poor console performance with repeatedly typed characters. From the host's performance metrics the datastore showed no spikes and looked normal. Of about 15 VMs that were checked during this time this is the only VM that showed the spike. 

 

vSphere 6.5. Ubuntu VM. ISCSI SSD storage.

 

Can this be explained?

 

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Update Manager 6.0 - "cancel discovering virtual appliance"

September 18, 2017, 5:55 am
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Hey Community,

 

I have an Issue regarding virtual appliance discovery with Update Manager 6.

To resolve this issue, I deactivated Virtual Appliances scanning in Update Manager see KB:

 

The Update Manager task Discovering Virtual Appliance never completes (2047100) | VMware KB

 

After that I restarted the update manager service.

 

unfortunately the "Cancel discovering virtual appliance" tasks is there and could not be cancelled....

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In addition I could not restart vcenter at the moment.

 

Thx in advance.

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vRO 7.3 + NSX 1.1.0 failed to create connection manager

November 7, 2017, 1:13 am
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I need to choose one of the configured NSX Endpoints, depending on an input parameter.

For that I wanted to use the NSXConnectionManager.findConnectionByName(<|>?String_name) method, but I get a null pointer exception early on, when creating a new NSXConnectionManager:

 

var myNSXConnectionManager = new NSXConnectionManager();

exception: 'Cannot create NSXConnection object : java.lang.NullPointerException'

 

What is the correct way to create a new connection manager instance? Do I have to pass a value?

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OVA deployment - "Transfer failed: The OVF descriptor is not available"

October 7, 2017, 4:13 pm
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Hello,

 

I am having a problem when trying to deploy an OVA file. The message "Transfer failed: The OVF descriptor is not available" is displayed. Any suggestions? Much appreciated.

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modify VMware vRealize Operation LOGO

November 7, 2017, 1:23 am
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Customer needs to modify VMware vRealize Operation LOGO, want to insert the company name in the LOGO , can do it?

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VM Ware Operating System

November 7, 2017, 5:09 am
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vSphere 6.5 - Proactive HA - HP Provider

August 4, 2017, 5:14 am
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Hi,

 

We are looking for a HP Health Provider to use with Proactive HA in vSphere 6.5, but we are not able to find out.

 

Does anyone know if HP has developed a Health Provider?

 

thanks

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Get Virtual Machines From Deployment

November 7, 2017, 8:31 am
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In vRA 6.x I was able to find all of the child virtual machines in a multi machine blueprint by finding the parent virtual machine and looking at the parent's child virtual machines. Unfortunatley the link to the parent virtual machine for virtual machines that are components of a deployment appears to be null now in vRA 7.x. 

Is there any way for one virtual machine component in a deployment to find out what other virtual machines are in the deployment? I would expect there be some unifying entity (like a parent entity) tying the machines together. Also, if there is such an entity, when is it created? 

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Setting up

November 7, 2017, 8:20 am
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Hi,

 

Need to get setup VM environment  with following hardware:

 

I'm planning to setup VM environment, 6.5U1

The plan is to have

2-HP servers

1-HP SAN

any suggestions?

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upgrading issues from VC6.5 to VC6.5U1 and how to solve them

November 7, 2017, 7:59 am
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hello,

my environment is a little one, a vertex dell with 3 hosts, an embedded san shared on all the three, each host manages 10 active vms based on shared san, a vmware essentials license.

i'm still having big problems while trying to upgrade my vcenter windows installation from 6.5 to 6.5U1, the setup stops and cannot be rolled back, so after a couple of months of useless attempts and knowing the fact that i cannot migrate from VCwin6.5 to VCSA6.5U1, i'm trying to find another way. i'm thinking to follow these steps:

1. install a fresh copy of VCSA 6.5, trial license

2. unregister each of my three esxi hosts from VCwin6.5

3. turn off VCwin6.5 and forget it

4. register my license on VCSA6.5U1

5. register each of my three esxi hosts to VCSA6.5U1

 

any suggestion, concern or danger regarding these steps?

anything that am i forgetting or anything that will i lose with these steps?

thanks a lot in advance.

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unable to refresh request form from the server

January 17, 2017, 5:57 am
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Hi

 

I try to create a new blueprint with custom properties.

Hostname

Location

sql

operating system

 

The field of the operating system should present me all  templates according to previous filed.

Unfortunately, nothing is presents. instead I receive the following error: unable to refresh request form from the server

 

localtion:

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sql:

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operating system:

os.jpg

The action which query for templates - When I run it as a workflow it returns all the templates

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Vcenter 5.5 (1 Cluster with 3 Hosts) Upgrade to VCSA 6.5

November 7, 2017, 6:08 am
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Hello,

 

We have Vcenter 5.5 running on Windows Server 2008.  We currently have three hosts running on ESXi 5.5.  I have been told to upgrade Vcenter and Esxi hosts all too 6.5.  This will be my first time doing it and need little help.   Each host has about 15 vms.  Do I need another server to upgrade to VCSA 6.5 from current Vcenter 5.5 server?  What's the easiest way?  I saw the migration tool.  Please advise.

 

Thanks,

 

Ken P.

Systems Support

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Finding a VC:VirtualMachine Object by Name after Upgrade to 7.3 now takes 5x longer

November 7, 2017, 8:34 am
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So, i have some custom workflows that are part of our provisioning process where i find the VC:VirtualMachine object from the vm name passed in by the payload so we can perform some custom actions directly on the vm with the guest agent tools.

 

Here is the snip it of code i use to do this:

 

vm = VcPlugin.getAllVirtualMachines(null, "xpath:name[translate(.,'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz','ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')='VMNAME']")[0];

 

Prior to the upgrade, this action would take anywhere from 5-50 seconds.  Now, this exact same action take upwards of 5+ minutes to complete.

 

Any ideas why this might be?  Or maybe another method that might be more efficient and less time consuming?

 

Thanks in advance for any help on this!

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SRM - Error Pair Sites

October 9, 2017, 2:14 pm
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Enable to access to vCenter 6.0U2 Appliance - vmware-vpxd don't start

November 7, 2017, 9:37 am
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Hi all,

I have a problem to access to my vCenter. The problem begin when we loss power in our building.

The message is : 503 service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint:............) see the picture

503_1.png

I tried several solution i founded in internet

1- UTC

2- repair file check

 

 

My problem is with vmware-vpxd (I can't start it) see the second picture.

vmware-vpxd.png

I think, i have a problem with the database of the vCenter

Can someone help please to repair the database

Thanks !!!!

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Odd PowerShell issue

November 7, 2017, 10:20 am
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I have a powershell server configured in vRO and have been using it with no issue for several weeks. Today any new workflow calling a PS script hangs. I can see it spawn a PS instance on my PS server but nothing happens however existing PS workflows are still working fine.  When I run the PS script myself it runs fine as well. Has anyone seen anything like this before?

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vRO 7.3 - checking guest OS guest operations readiness

October 23, 2017, 6:32 am
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I have to run a few guest operations on a VM, right after it is provisioned.

Until now, I have used a simple sleep value of 60 seconds, during which the vRO workflow execution is halted, before the guest operations are executed. This almost exclusively affects Windows servers since the readiness on Linux systems is given almost instantly.

The sleep method works fine, however now I want to query the exact status of the guest operation readiness, instead of a sleep timer, to save some time and get an accurate status of the guest operations.

So far I have used following approaches, without success (vm = target vCenter VM):

- vm.guest.guestOperationsReady - this returns true, right after a vm comes online and VMTools initialize, however even though it returns "true", guest operations fail with error: The guest operations agent could not be contacted. I still have to wait some time, before executing guest operations.

- vm.guest.isInteractiveGuestOperationsReady(); - this always returns "false", even when checking a vm that has been running for some time and where manualy executing a guest operation workflow works.

What would be a reliable method to check the guest operations availability?

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VCSA 6.5 'Failed to start File System Check'

November 30, 2016, 9:44 pm
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I just had an instance were all my storage was unavailable to my ESXi host for a short time - all machines recovered happily when the paths were restored and marched on with the exception of one: The VCSA appliance. On booting, I'm greeted with 'Failed to start File System Check on '/dev/.....' and I'm stuck in 'Emergency Mode'. My searching seems to have info on VCSA6 and possibly before, but VCSA 6.5 is a different animal - I don't seem to be able to interrupt the boot to modify the GRUB loader and boot with bash or anything, and if I run 'systemctl status systemd-fsck-root.service', I get 'fsck failed with error code 4' and 'Failed to start File System Check on /dev/disk/...'. I can't run fsck or e2fsck in this state... Basically, the 'Emergency Mode' seems to be about as useless as an ice salesman at the south pole.

 

Does anyone know how I can get my VCSA up and running again?

 

The fact that the VCSA is this fragile is rather poor... I have several Linux based VMs running in my setup, and of them, this is the only one that blew up as a result - the rest, at most, needed a reboot to clear up. Windows? Didn't skip a beat. Every Windows machine picked up right where it left off.

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VCSA HA eth0 and services dont start after reboot

January 13, 2017, 5:42 am
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Hi,

I configured in our test environment a VCSA 6.5 HA deployment. All three node were up and fine, vcenter showed them green at HA status. First problem: After a simultaneous reboot of all three machines, the eth0 interface of master and passive node stays down. Second problem: even after configuring eth0 manually and successfully regaining IP connectivity on public interface, the vcsa services can't be started:

 

Command> service-control --status

Running:

vmware-statsmonitor vmware-vcha vmware-vmon

Stopped:

applmgmt lwsmd pschealth vmafdd vmcad vmcam vmdird vmdnsd vmonapi vmware-cis-license vmware-cm vmware-content-library vmware-eam vmware-imagebuilder vmware-mbcs vmware-netdumper vmware-perfcharts vmware-psc-client vmware-rbd-watchdog vmware-rhttpproxy vmware-sca vmware-sps vmware-sts-idmd vmware-stsd vmware-updatemgr vmware-vapi-endpoint vmware-vpostgres vmware-vpxd vmware-vpxd-svcs vmware-vsan-health vmware-vsm vsphere-client vsphere-ui

 

Command> service-control --start --all

Perform start operation. vmon_profile=HACore, svc_names=None, include_coreossvcs=True, include_leafossvcs=False

2017-01-13T13:30:25.695Z   Running command: ['/usr/bin/systemctl', 'is-enabled', u'lwsmd']

2017-01-13T13:30:25.698Z   Done running command

Service lwsmd startup type is not automatic. Skip

2017-01-13T13:30:25.701Z   Running command: ['/usr/bin/systemctl', 'is-enabled', u'vmafdd']

2017-01-13T13:30:25.703Z   Done running command

Service vmafdd startup type is not automatic. Skip

2017-01-13T13:30:25.705Z   Running command: ['/usr/bin/systemctl', 'is-enabled', u'vmdird']

2017-01-13T13:30:25.707Z   Done running command

Service vmdird startup type is not automatic. Skip

2017-01-13T13:30:25.710Z   Running command: ['/usr/bin/systemctl', 'is-enabled', u'vmcad']

2017-01-13T13:30:25.712Z   Done running command

Service vmcad startup type is not automatic. Skip

2017-01-13T13:30:25.714Z   Running command: ['/usr/bin/systemctl', 'is-enabled', u'vmware-sts-idmd']

2017-01-13T13:30:25.716Z   Done running command

Service vmware-sts-idmd startup type is not automatic. Skip

2017-01-13T13:30:25.719Z   Running command: ['/usr/bin/systemctl', 'is-enabled', u'vmware-stsd']

2017-01-13T13:30:25.721Z   Done running command

Service vmware-stsd startup type is not automatic. Skip

2017-01-13T13:30:25.723Z   Running command: ['/usr/bin/systemctl', 'is-enabled', u'vmdnsd']

2017-01-13T13:30:25.726Z   Done running command

Service vmdnsd startup type is not automatic. Skip

2017-01-13T13:30:25.728Z   Running command: ['/usr/bin/systemctl', 'is-enabled', u'vmware-psc-client']

2017-01-13T13:30:25.730Z   Done running command

Service vmware-psc-client startup type is not automatic. Skip

Successfully started vmon services. Profile HACore.

 

/etc/systemd/network/10-eth0.network.manual:

[Match]

Name=eth0

[Network]

Gateway=10.45.128.1

Address=10.45.128.32/24

DHCP=no

[DHCP]

UseDNS=false

 

/etc/systemd/network/10-eth1.network

[Match]

Name=eth1

[Network]

Address=192.168.64.204/23

DHCP=no

[DHCP]

UseDNS=false

 

Now I shut the passive node down to get active node and witness node up again but the problems still persist. Pinging between active and witness node HA interfaces works. Why are both eth0 down after boot and why cant i start the services?

 

edit:

networkctl status eth0

● 2: eth0

       Link File: /usr/lib/systemd/network/99-default.link

    Network File: n/a

            Type: ether

           State: routable (unmanaged)

            Path: pci-0000:03:00.0

          Driver: vmxnet3

          Vendor: VMware

           Model: VMXNET3 Ethernet Controller

      HW Address: 00:0c:29:7e:7e:08 (VMware, Inc.)

             MTU: 1500

         Address: 10.45.128.32

         Gateway: 10.45.128.1 (ICANN, IANA Department)

 

Network file n/a and State: unmanged??? But I have file /etc/systemd/network/10-eth0.network.manual which was created by vcenter. How can I fix this?

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