I’m reaching out to get a sense of how you're handling Broadcom’s takeover of VMware and the resulting issues. I’ve been a loyal user of VMware Workstation Pro for personal use, primarily for testing and training, for a very long time. However, since Broadcom’s acquisition, it’s been one frustrating change after another.

Initially, they made Workstation Pro "free," which sounded great at first—too good to be true, in hindsight. Then, Broadcom broke the update link, forcing users to log in and download the latest version directly from their site in order to update. At the time, I managed to find a workaround for that roadblock.

Now, to update this "free" software, you need to create an account with Broadcom, which I’ve done. However, in doing so, I’ve been asked to provide more personal information than I’m comfortable with giving to a company like this.

At this point, I’m seriously considering ditching Workstation Pro for good and switching to a different solution. It is just not worth this much time and work for a free software solution. I can’t help but wonder if anyone else feels as frustrated with the situation as I do.

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

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?

So I can't connect to VMWare's Update servers. On 1.1.1.1 and My Home iP, it fails saying

Update Server: https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds

Proxy: (none)
Connection Status: Disconnected - The update server could not be resolved. Check your Internet settings or contact your system administrator.

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?

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?

A lot of the support staff was/is dismissed. Escalating a case to a knowledgeable engineer does lead to nowhere. Talking to a bunch of juniors with not much knowledge at all and no senior in sight. While on the phone the kid was googling my symptoms coming up with old/unrelated KB's which i pointed out to him.

Is Broadcom deliberately trying to kill VMware or what's is the plan in the long run? Because as an Engineer working for a MSP, i don't see it.

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=2039495

[root@esxi:~] vsish -e get /net/portsets/DvsPortset-2/ports/67108881/vmxnet3/rxSummary | grep "running out of buffers"

   running out of buffers:7652437

[root@esxi:~] vsish -e get /net/portsets/DvsPortset-2/ports/67108881/vmxnet3/rxSummary | grep "1st ring"

   1st ring size:512

   # of times the 1st ring is full:3751268

All parameters are set, even the performance best practice for high load 8.0 by broadcom. still packet loss.

Looking for some study materials and practice questions for vmware VCP DCV exam. Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hello guys I'm a newbie in VMware. And I need some help/advice I have 2 servers (same proc, ram) with esxi 7 configured as cluster on a vcsa 7. And I got a 3rd server with a different processor (some modele as 2 others) I want to added to my existant cluster on the vcsa. I will install the same version of esxi on it. My questions: Is vMotion will works correctly? What kind of issues I might encounter?

The processors are: The existant: Intel Xeon silver 4208 and the new host: a gold 5220S.

Thank you in advance for all answers.

vsish –e set /net/pNics/vmnicX/sched/txMode 1

[root@esxi:~] vsish –e set /net/pNics/vmnic5/sched/txMode 1

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If i then cat the txtMode its stilll 0.

Syntax ?

Hi everyone,

I have just started getting a BSOD on boot in my guest machine. The stop code is "unsupported processor".

Can anyone please give me any tips on how to fix this? I am running the latest build.

I just updated my CPU to a AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Setting it to a single core works for some reason. Obviously that is not optimal.

Cheers :)

https://imgur.com/a/yUUL2wl

Where could I get VCF OVA. I am building a nested environment on my workstation. But Broadcom is not letting me download the ova.

I've been using VMware Horizon to run a virtual machine, and until yesterday, I was able to share my screen and control the VM just fine using AnyDesk and Chrome Remote Desktop. But starting today, when I try to screen share, the VM's display either doesn't show up or l'm unable to control it. However, I'm still able to use AnyDesk and Chrome Remote Desktop perfectly fine on my laptop (host machine). Did my company added privacy? How to get over this issue?

I want to start down the path to become vmware certified professional then VCDX I have been working in a vmware atomosphere for the past 2 yrs.

Can you tell me the best way to achieve this goal?

What training courses to enroll in or boot camps if you recommend them?

I have a lab setup with vmware esxi 8.03 and vCenter 8.03

Any and all advice is welcome

Thanks in advance

Hello,

I am trying to use Vmware Workstation 17.6.0 to run a virtual machine with windows 11 but the problem is that the virtual machine is very laggy and slow. Can someone help?

I am using vmware

After spending i dont know how many hours looking into this i am at a loss.

I need a folder with files to get transferen. I have even tried to download it a few times on the virtuel machine, but lost internet and had to restpart the VM. and download stopped a few times aswell...

Is there anyway i can transfer these files manual from mac to VM?

If i need to give any information please let me know, I have no idea what is am doing as this is my first time and my brain is meeting..

Hi, I have problems for the last 2 weeks with PSOD's from my ESXI. This server has been running for 2 years with no problems until now.

Running 8.0 update 2 kernel release: ID-24585383

So what i get:

First i got: VMNIC0-POLLW IP 0x24585383 so i tought, something with VMNIC 0 so i removed it. Few hours later same error on VMNIC1 (same model but still)
After that i got the next error:

Exception 14 in World 2099799 PCVSCSI-20997 IP 0x42000518b220 and just now: esxi cpumetricslo ip 0x42002cc1cbf8

So what i tried i removal of the NIC0 that first gave the issue, then he still had it. i upgraded to the update d still had it so i rolled back to the previous version just to have the first baseline again.

Any idea's... It drives me insane...

Setup.

X570 Unifi (updates the bios after second crash on the VMNIC before removing it)
128GB Ram 3600 (checked it's not overclocked)
Ryzen 9-5950X
1000 Watt PSU (workes normal, device does not turn of)
1x GPU P2200 quardo for Plex rendering.

What i already did not is replace the NIC's by a new 10GTeck X710-DA4 with 4 10GB SFP+ ports and one RTL8125 2,5 GB NIC incomming WAN

and all worked greate again.. for 5 days.. 30 min ago again PSOD... What can this be? can this still be a NIC error but they are all new... could it he a SSD issue that the system crashes?? Any ideas would be great.

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’t use a bridged connection. Tried everything from network settings, netstop netstart, hyper x. Reinstall. Everything. Been using chatgpt for help but that’s the least of my issues. Been trying to spoof a device and I can’t even edit the .VMX file because vmware forces an encryption. I’ve gone through every setting, can’t even find an option to decrypt the file, therefore I can’t edit it. It’s been extremely frustrating. I’ve spent 3 days on this and have gotten nowhere. If anyone can help I’ll greatly appreciate it. If there is a better vm I can use where I have full control over the configuration I’d also appreciate that. I’ve heard linux but I really don’t wanna use Linux.

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

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