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Re: UEFI Secure Boot support for guest Linux VM on Workstation 12 Pro

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It shouldn't need any specific configuration, as long as the guest OS has good EFI and Secure Boot support.

 

Which exact CentOS .iso image are you using?  (Minimal, DVD, Everything?)  I'll try it here and see what's going wrong.  I can't tell right away whether CentOS has included the signatures necessary for Secure Boot, so they might simply be lagging behind Redhat in support for Secure Boot.

 

Does it work if you disable Secure Boot for that VM, so it'll just try a regular EFI/UEFI boot?

 

Thanks,

--

Darius


Re: Expanding Disk Capacity.

New SAN + RAID 10

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Hey guys,

 

 

We just purchased a new SAN and i'm curious as to the best configuration. We currently have an IBM V5000 and are adding a Lenovo S3200 to the mix. The purpose of this is to separate all of our Windows partitions (C:\ drives) from the V5000 so that it can be used strictly for the Data drives (everything other than C:\) as the V5000 currently is being taxed quite heavily with all of this combined traffic.



The S3200 is loaded with 24 600GB 10k SAS drives. I've decided on a RAID 10 setup as the usable space will be more than enough for our current configuration and growth. If I need more later i'll just expand the S3200 with another enclosure.

 

 

I haven't been able to find a KB article on recommended configuration for the SAN side, so if someone knows of one please let me know. I had planned on doing 2 different LUNs with a hot spare. I'm not sure if more LUNs would be better for this setup or if it's not necessary.



My biggest question here is what should the RAID stripe size be for raid 10 with ~10 disks per LUN? Is there a general rule of thumb to go by depending on number of drives in the LUN?



As a side note:

vSphere 6 (will be upgrading to 6.5 in the near future)
VMFS5
About 50 vm's total

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Re: UEFI Secure Boot support for guest Linux VM on Workstation 12 Pro

Re: UEFI Secure Boot support for guest Linux VM on Workstation 12 Pro

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Darius,

I am using Cent OS 7 x86_x64 DVD Build 1511 (http://mirror.jaleco.com/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1511.iso)

I am seeing the same errors at boot time, whether I enable or disable, UEFI Secure Boot, for EFI boot

 

Does the host machine needs to use UEFI instead of BIOS to run ESXi ?

The hardware I am running ESXi 6.5 on does not have any UEFI related setings, I am guessing it  does not support UEFI.

 

thank you,

Kumar Talinki

Re: UEFI Secure Boot support for guest Linux VM on Workstation 12 Pro

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The host system's firmware is not relevant at all (neither the physical host nor the nested "host").

 

I would expect that the medium you're using should be EFI-bootable, but I'll set about double-checking.  In the meantime, have you checked that your downloaded .iso file is complete and has the correct checksum?  Instructions: TipsAndTricks/sha256sum - CentOS Wiki

 

Cheers,

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Darius

Re: UEFI Secure Boot support for guest Linux VM on Workstation 12 Pro

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Darius,

 

thanks for the info. I was able to get  farther than Cent OS 7, with RHEL 7.3

I was able to get the Guest OS installed.

and mokutil --sb shows "SecureBoot enabled"

And I can see UEFI related keys in the system_keyring

 

Were you able to get the Cent OS working with UEFI Secureboot enabled?

 

thank you for your help,

Kumar Talinki

Re: VXLAN configuration Status Busy

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Since you are using DHCP server(not IP pool), can you please ensure that the helper address is configured to reach out the DHCP server.

Also please check if the vmkernel interface for the VXLAN got IP Address.


Get LUNs Capacity, Provisioned, Used Space & Percent Free

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Hi guys

 

Below scripts is from Ping4 which I frequently used.

Please help to modify & tweak, so I can extract disk size Provisioned, Used Space & Percent Free.

Currently, I can extract all storage within the cluster with storage Capacity in GB.

 

 

#

# .SYNOPSIS

# PowerCLI Script for collecting the details of storage connected to a cluster.

# .DESCRIPTION

# This PowerCLI scritpt will help to identify how the disks/LUNs connected to the host are presented(RDM,VMFS or None).

# .VERSION

# v1.1

# .NOTES

# File Name : Get-DiskDetails.ps1

# Author : Sreejesh Damodaran

# Requires : PowerCLI 5.1 Release 2 or above, vCenter 5.1 or above, Powershell 3.0 or above

# .LINK

# This script posted in: http://www.pingforinfo.com

# .EXAMPLE

#   Get-DiskDetails.ps1

#

 

 

#####################################

# VMware VirtualCenter server name, #

#Cluster Name and output file(csv) #

#####################################

Connect-VIServer "vCenter Name or IP"

$outputFile = "Output csv file, eg : c:\DiskRep.csv"

$cltName = "Cluster Name "

 

 

new-variable -Name clusterName -Scope global -Value $cltName -Force

new-variable -Name LUNDetails -Scope global -Value @() -Force

new-variable -Name LUNDetTemp -Scope global -Value @() -Force

new-variable -Name LUNDetFinal -Scope global -Value @() -Force

 

 

####################################################

#Function to creeate objects and insert into array.#

####################################################

function insert-obj(){

[CmdletBinding()]

param(

[PSObject]$esxHost,

[PSObject]$vmName,

[PSObject]$dsName,

[PSObject]$cnName,

[PSObject]$rnName,

[PSObject]$Type,

[PSObject]$CapacityGB,

[PSObject]$ArrayName

)

$object = New-Object -TypeName PSObject

$object | Add-Member -Name 'Cluster' -MemberType Noteproperty -Value $global:clusterName

$object | Add-Member -Name 'Host' -MemberType Noteproperty -Value $esxHost

$object | Add-Member -Name 'DatastoreName' -MemberType Noteproperty -Value $dsName

$object | Add-Member -Name 'VMName' -MemberType Noteproperty -Value $vmName

$object | Add-Member -Name 'CanonicalNames' -MemberType Noteproperty -Value $cnName

$object | Add-Member -Name 'LUN' -MemberType Noteproperty -Value $rnName.Substring($rnName.LastIndexof(“L”)+1)

$object | Add-Member -Name 'Type' -MemberType Noteproperty -Value $Type

$object | Add-Member -Name 'CapacityGB' -MemberType Noteproperty -Value $CapacityGB

if ($ArrayName -eq "LUNDetails"){

$global:LUNDetails += $object

}

elseif($ArrayName -eq "LUNDetTemp"){

$global:LUNDetTemp += $object

}

}

######################################

#Collect the hostnames in the cluster#

######################################

$Hosts = Get-Cluster $clusterName | Get-VMHost | select -ExpandProperty Name

#############################################

#Collecting datastore, RDM and LUN Details.#

#############################################

foreach($vmHost in $Hosts) {

Write-Host "Collecting Datastore details from host $vmHost ...."

get-vmhost -Name $vmHost | Get-Datastore | % {

$naaid = $_.ExtensionData.Info.Vmfs.Extent | select -ExpandProperty DiskName

$RuntimeName = Get-ScsiLun -vmhost $vmHost -CanonicalName $naaid | Select -ExpandProperty RuntimeName

insert-obj -esxHost $vmHost -dsName $_.Name -cnName $naaid -rnName $RuntimeName -Type $_.Type -CapacityGB $_.CapacityGB -ArrayName LUNDetails

}

Write-Host "Collecting RDM Disk details from host $vmHost ...."

get-vmhost -Name $vmHost | Get-VM | Get-HardDisk -DiskType "RawPhysical","RawVirtual" | % {

$naaid = $_.SCSICanonicalName

$RuntimeName = Get-ScsiLun -vmhost $vmHost -CanonicalName $naaid | Select -ExpandProperty RuntimeName

insert-obj -esxHost $vmHost -vmName $_.Parent -cnName $naaid -rnName $RuntimeName -Type RDM -CapacityGB $_.CapacityGB -ArrayName LUNDetails

}

Write-Host "Collecting Free SCSI LUN(Non-RDM/VMFS) details from host $vmHost ...."

(get-view (get-vmhost -name $vmHost | Get-View ).ConfigManager.DatastoreSystem).QueryAvailableDisksForVmfs($null) | %{

$naaid = $_.CanonicalName

$DiskTemp = Get-ScsiLun -vmhost $vmHost -CanonicalName $naaid

insert-obj -esxHost $vmHost -cnName $naaid -rnName $DiskTemp.RuntimeName -Type FREE -CapacityGB $DiskTemp.CapacityGB -ArrayName LUNDetails

}

Write-Host "Collecting details of Unallocated LUNs from host $vmHost ...."

Get-ScsiLun -VmHost $vmHost | %{

$naaid = $_.CanonicalName

$naaidTemp = $LUNDetails | select -ExpandProperty CanonicalNames

If ($naaidTemp -notcontains $naaid){

insert-obj -esxHost $vmHost -cnName $naaid -rnName $_.RuntimeName -Type UNKNOWN -CapacityGB $_.CapacityGB -ArrayName LUNDetTemp

}

}

$global:LUNDetails += $global:LUNDetTemp

$global:LUNDetFinal += $global:LUNDetails

$global:LUNDetails.Clear()

$global:LUNDetTemp.Clear()

}

############################

#Export output to CSV file #

############################

$global:LUNDetFinal | Sort-Object Host,{[int]$_.LUN} |

select Cluster,Host,CanonicalNames,Type,LUN,DatastoreName,VMName,CapacityGB  | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation  $outputFile

$global:LUNDetFinal.Clear()

Re: .V2 to .v5 (VDI View profile migration)

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The error code 0x800703F0 means: "An attempt was made to reference a token that does not exist". This may be caused the machine where you execute migprofile.exe doesn't have access to AD controller. Please execute migprofile at Windows 10 machine which is a member of your domain.

Error: couldn't query the process result handle staf rc: 7

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Hi  everybody,


I'm trying to run a certification test on a Workbench 3.5.7.0 and when I run the verify test ,I get a Error:


ERROR: VTAF::Framework::Core::Common::STAF::STAFProcess::STAFGetProcessOutput  couldn't query the process result handle staf rc: 7. 


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I tried to reinstall the STAF, but it still don't work ,


Does anybody can help me?  thank you very much!






Re: Session Stays in 'Disconnect' State Even though The User Logged Off

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There is known issue that there will be longer logoff time if user immediately logoff after logged in if using Persona + Win10 (approx. 4-5 minutes).

 

When the issue occurs, please open the problematic VM using vCenter client and see what screen you see (print the screen).

If it's stuck at "Logging off" screen or other screen, then suspend your VM and you'll find *.vmss and *.vmem (depending vSphere you use) and submit to your support channel for further investigation.

Don't forget to collect agent log bundle after you restart the VM.

Having problem with shared virtual machines

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Hi all,

 

I'm using VMware Workstation 12 Pro with version 12.5.2 build-4638234

I'm now having problems with starting shared virtual machines,

I cannot enter the Shared Machine session because it says I have to start shared machine first, but when I tried to start this service in option, it just cannot start.

 

I've attached log file below,

Please help me.

 

Thanks

USB Redirect and Chrome OS

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WHY? WHY? WHY? Why did VMware decide with the new 4.3 client to disable USB redirection on chromebooks?  I have thousands of chromebooks rendered useless.  A primary use case were my students bringing documents in on their thumb drives and accessing those files in their VDI session.  Now you all of a sudden disable that with no warning or work around? Stupid!

 

-Craig

Re: UEFI Secure Boot support for guest Linux VM on Workstation 12 Pro

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Yes, I'm able to boot CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1511.iso in an EFI virtual machine with Secure Boot enabled on ESXi 6.5.

 

Please check that your CentOS .iso file, as attached to your CentOS VM, is complete and not corrupt!

 

Thanks,

--

Darius


View Persona v6 profiles

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This is outlines in the 7.0.3 release notes.

 

  • After every login, View Persona Management take a long time to replicate the first user persona on a guest operating system that uses the "v6" version of the user profile.

 

I'm trying to understand what this means. I know Windows 10 Anniversary update is the v6 profile, but what does it mean by first user persona and after "every login".  Does this mean the first time it creates a v6 profile for everyone of my users it will take a long time? 

 

-Craig

Re: VMware 6.0 не видит диск размером 5,5Tb

Trattino nero fisso?

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Ciao a tutti.

Ho installato il mio bel Linux nella mia macchina virtuale ma al riavvio di essa l'os non parte e rimane il classico trattino grigio fisso. Che devo fare? Vi allego un'immagine per capire meglio.IMG_1885.JPG

Re: How to power on NSX manager thru vSphere web client?

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Hi,

Thanks for having an interest in this post.

I've got message as below when I clicked the channel health.

And I logged in "administrator@vsphere.local" in vCenter.

Plus, I would not able to access to NSX Manager via GUI or CLI(ssh)

 

cant_communicate.jpg

Re: NSX DFW Firewall

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Additional screen shot: Below is the way I tested for SSH (Selecting the destination port as 22)

 

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