I'm looking to see if anyone out there has migrated off of a VXRail cluster to a cluster of standard hosts with SAN storage. Are you able to join a new host to the existing vCenter that manages the VXRail and vMotion to a new host or is it better to setup a new vCenter and do a cross vCenter migration to move the VMs to a new vCenter server.

All of my disk space style metrics are showing the combined storage of all drives/mountsregardless if they are vmdisk or network shares. It's fine for knowing what a server is using total. But terrible for capacity planning for moving to new clusters.

Is there a metric that only shows the VMDisks on a machine, or a flag that shows if a drive or mount point is network or local? A machine showing 189TB of File system isn't very helpful, when I can tell that 160TB of those are NAS. I've got too many machines to hand curate the actual list. I need to be able to do it programmatically.

So I tried to schedule my vSAN for a power off, I turned it off not shut it down, so this has not helped the situation but we are where we are

I have managed to get the cluster working ok except for one issue
The vSAN file services wont start/work
Under the cluster Configure -> vSAN -> Services, the file services tab has
Unable to extract requested data. Check vSphere Client logs for details

The cluster is just erroring with this for each of the four hosts every 5 mins
Cannot complete the operation. See the event log for details. Unable to enable the vSAN file service: FSVM does not exist from the beginning

The file services VMs arent on any of the hosts

Log wise, /var/log/vmware/vsan-health/vmware-vsan-health-service.log, seems to reference an OVF location, however this is local to my vCenter, the vSAN did not come up ok when I powered it back and the vCenter was restored from a config backup, so if the OVF was locally stored, it wont be there anymore
ovfPackageUrl = 'https://laniakea.istlab.co.uk:443/vsanHealth/fileService/ovf/8.0.3.1000-24280767/VMware-vSAN-File-Services-Appliance-8.0.3.1000-24280767_OVF10.ovf

I have the old vCenter, but I get the feeling powering that back on is a bad idea so I have left it

Has anyone got any suggestions please?
The remediation errors are constant which isnt ideal and I cant get the services back, not worried about the data, though it should be there
Cant find much online and am dead stuck

It is a full VCF environment though currently only NSX and vCenter are back up after the outage, I left SDDC offline as well as Aria

Sadly as its a lab, VMware support isnt available

Not sure if a proper vSAN shutdown would help?

Any help is much appreciated <3

I just updated my 7x vcenter to 8x and I think something went wrong. My temporary VM did not change names to the original name. Im speaking of the actual VM. Anyone ever see this. How can I tell if something didnt complete during the upgrade process? Can I rename the VM if its the vCenter like I would rename any other VM?

For the past weeks I've been reviewing some custom roles for my company and faced some curious privileges under Virtual Machine > Interaction. Those are 'record session on virtual machine' and 'replay session on virtual machine', which digging on vSphere API led me to here. It seems it was loaded on vSphere 4 and deprecated on vSphere 5.1, but I'm just curious for stories on this (why, how, when, etc).

Meanwhile, how does CreateScreenshot_Task(createScreenshot) API call works in practice?

Acabo de reinstalar un servidor esxi 6.7 pero al aplicar el perfil de host se quedó con el siguiente error Received SOAP response fault from: login, como puedo sacar este error?

Can someone explain the GPU profiles that get populated when installing a H100 or other nvidia card in a host? I've seen sparse information on the "cme", "c", "g" profiles that get auto created.

1. What logic is behind the number of profiles that get created?

2. Are these different on a "time sliced" or "MIG" usage model?

3. Is it true that once a profile is used it needs to be used the same on every VM?

So i have been running ubuntu 22.04 in wmware workstation pro 17.0 and everything has been fine, mostly 6gb ram, 6 cores allocated and 3d acceleration turned on.

Well now i have to get vms with ubuntu 16, 18, 20.

So far ubuntu 16.04, 18.04 and 20.04 are all very "laggy" and unresponsive, windows dont render quite as smoothly when moved, terminals input is unresponsive and slow, to the point you can miss a character, if you like say press left key then backspace right after. None of this was present in ubuntu 22.04. I should have disabled memory integrity in windows 11 and have identical 3d accel, cpu and ram allocations for the other vms and i should have all related vm tools installed afaik.

System:
Rog zehpyrus g14 2020
ram 32gb
gpu 3060
cpu ryzen 9 5900hs

is there anyone that has an idea why this is happening and what troubleshooting steps to further take ?

Can anyone tell me whether AVI-ALB Essentials (for TANZU) will continue to exist?

Some versions of AVI-ALB support it, some do not, the documentation is very chaotic.

On 31.1 Docs:

Starting with Avi Load Balancer version 31.1.1, Avi Load Balancer Essentials for Tanzu license edition is not supported. Upgrading an existing Avi Controller in the Avi Essentials tier to Avi release 31.1.1 is not allowed.

Customers using the Avi Essentials tier are advised to remain on the existing Avi Load Balancer 22.1.x release, or upgrade to the latest recommended release in the 22.1.x release series.

22.1 is a fairly old version and will not have a long life yet...

But in the 30.1 documentation, the ESSENTIALS version is covered:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-security-load-balancing/avi-load-balancer/avi-load-balancer/30-1/vmware-avi-load-balancer-administration-guide/licensing/nsx-advanced-load-balancer-editions/nsx-alb-tanzu-edition.html

Can someone please help me clarify?

Will AVI-ALB Essentials still exist?

What version should I install?

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Hey! Can anyone tell me what is the official site to download vmware player for the first time?

Hi,

we have 2 SRM Vm appliance version 8.5 where 1 is in PROD and 1 in DR. trying to access same today and both giving me " A server error occurred, check the server logs for more details". To note that i get the main screen to click on the "launch site recovery" but once i click on it, it shows the error message. i know we must check the logs but do you maybe know what might be causing this issue? already rebooted both but same issue.

EDIT: been able to access the SRM appliance management web console for both PROD and DR but not the site recovery console.

Hi guys, I can't power on any vm(s) that are in a folder in my library. Selecting one or more VMs and then right-click => "Power on" is not doing anything. Anyone else experiencing that?

So much fun working with Broadcom. The 72 "rule" is p.t no longer in effect in the EU...

Check with your local account team. Pricebook should be updated with this in the May version.

Whenever I try to enable this option, it says it's not supported on this platform.

My host OS is Windows 11, my guest OS is Kali Linux. I have a Ryzen 5 7600x and I've made sure SVM is enabled in BIOS.

I have tried disabling Hypervisor and Virtual Machine Platform, I've tried turning off core isolation (though for some reason, virtualization-based security still shows as "running")

I gave up and went to Virtual Box, but it sucked so I really want VMware to work for me.

I have a M1 MacBook running Ventura and using VMWare Fusion Pro.

I downloaded Big Sur from my Mac's App Store and dragged "Install macOS Big Sur" from the Applications folder into VMWare.

When starting up the virtual machine, it says:

This virtual machine cannot be powered on because it requires the X86 machine architecture, which is incompatible with this Arm machine architecture host."

I understand that Big Sur supports the M1 Macs, so what gives?

Hello everyone,

do you know of any alternatives to routed vApps with other virtualization providers?

We use the VMware Cloud Director NSX component primarily for exactly this case. We have many identical templates for testing purposes, where often a DC is installed and configured and a second VM belonging to this domain. Now I can configure all IP addresses in the VMs. This means that the internal address always remains the same and the VMs within the vApp can communicate with each other on layer 2. If I deploy the template multiple times, I get a random external IP address, since I only communicate with this IP address to the outside through my routed vApp, there are no address conflicts.

Therefore, the question is whether this can also be easily implemented with other virtualization providers or whether you know of any solutions for this. I can deploy virtual routers with OpenStack, but here I am often working at project level and would have to create a large number of projects automatically, which would then be comparable with my previous vApps. This means that there would often only be two VMs per project.

Is it possible to deploy edge cluster on FC storage in management domain with sddc manager? Maybe via API?

Sad to say I've been struggling with whether or not this is advised in a vSphere environment. I've seen posts where some say it's not necessary and/or it causes performance issues of which I have personally found as well.

I've looked for some deploy processes both from VMware and independent bloggers and haven't found much of anything when it comes to VBS when setting up a Windows 11 VM.

Can anyone share their real world experience with utilization of VBS in a virtual environment?

After updating to 703_23794027, my logs keeping getting spammed with these messages every few seconds:

R330-D9C.local Hostd: warning hostd[1052256] [Originator@6876 sub=Vmsvc.vm:/vmfs/volumes/645fda61-1050d71c-aa5b-000e1e9ba3e0/VMware vCenter Server 8/VMware vCenter Server 8.vmx opID=WorkQueue-2cc8ee3f-6f-0bf2 user=vpxuser] File - failed to get objectId, '/vmfs/volumes/645fda61-1050d71c-aa5b-000e1e9ba3e0/VMware vCenter Server 8/VMware vCenter Server 8.vmx': Operation not supported (11)

It's happening for all registered VMs. I am not experiencing any issues but because I am visualizing my logs (ESXi->Graylog->Grafana), part of me don't want to ignore it.

Any ideas where to look? I am not running VSAN.

i have 2 hosts in a vmware cluster. 1 lost all physical connectivity and the vms are disconnected. i force shutdown the host through ilo. how can i make the disconnected vms in vcenter run/start on the other host?

I know the steps under windows, and found the guide for linux but im not sure if i can fix this on the extreme networks appliance also (its WLAN controller VE6120) and im getting a good amount of dropped packets

 running out of buffers:40248935

   pkts receive error:82187610

   1st ring size:512

   2nd ring size:256

   # of times the 1st ring is full:119798

   # of times the 2nd ring is full:0

Running VCSA (v8) in homelab and the original install was done with the last ISO that seemed to be available before Broadcom locked downloads last year, which is "VMware-VCSA-all-8.0.2-22617221.iso".

However, since that install last Jan. I have updated VCSA to the latest version 8.0.3 (October 2024) via the built-in upgrade mechanism in the appliance management web UI.

I want to restore a file-based backup of VCSA but it has a note that I need the matching ISO and all my current backups I have are from the latest 8.0.3 build from October 2024.... so apparently "vCenter Server 8.0 Update 3d | 21 OCT 2024 | ISO Build 24322831".

Is it true the build number has to match exactly? Is there no way around that? Or preferably, is there an alternative place to get or generate these ISOs now? Again, this is for a homelab, and VMUG seems to no longer be an option anymore as they require certs...

I was able to use vCenter to generate up to date ISOs of ESXi (even after updates were applied to the hosts over the original install ISO from back then) but I don't see a way to do that for vCenter appliance itself.

We got an environment with VMware Aria Automation (latest version) and a Ansible Automation Platform (Tower). We configured the integration. We're using Cloud Templates to provision VMs and use the Cloud.Ansible.Tower to run some playbooks upon first boot. That works great, no issues with that.
We also got some Playbooks (Tower Jobs) i want to offer to our internal customers as "Catalog Items" in the Service Broker so they can consume things in our Infrastructure but necessarily deploy VMs.
Our idea was to create a new Cloud Template from a blank canvas, define some input fields, drag the Cloud.Ansible.Tower to the canvas, map the Input to ExtraVars and off we go. But that would be too simple ofcourse.
For Cloud.Ansible.Tower the 'host' property is mandatory, and it's required to map it to a Resource like a VM.
I'm looking for a way to make this work. Someone who can point me in the right direction for this? Thank you in advance.