An error occured while starting service 'sps' VMware vSphere profile-driven Storage failed to start

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Hello, I am very new to the community.

 

I am working on new installing and configure the VCSA , to get Vsphere running  receiving an error in the process. I am building the VCSA VM on HP Blade Gen 10 6.7EXSI host

 

“An error occurred while starting service ‘sps’ VMware vSphere Profile-Driven Storage failed to start”

 

I will appreciate any help…Thank you

Hostd, vpxa and the vSphere API/SDK – Confusion on where the APIs actually live

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Hi All,

I’m taking the VMware vSphere Deploy, Manage course and was confused about this:

  • In one slide, the instructor showed that vCenter Server communicated with the ESXi host using vSphere APi/SDK (The VMware Host Client also communicated using this)
  • In another slide, the instructor showed that the vCenter Server communicated with a vCenter agent living on the ESXi host (vpxa). This then communicated with another process called hostd, which then executed commands at the hypervisor…

With the second bullet point in mind, where does the vSphere API/SDK fit in? Is hostd the item that houses the vSphere API? Does vCenter communicate with vpxa, which then communicates with hostd using the vSphere API/SDK?

 

Clarification would be much appreciated.

Hostd, vpxa and the vSphere API/SDK – Confusion on where the APIs actually live

Hi All,

I’m taking the VMware vSphere Deploy, Manage course and was confused about this:

  • In one slide, the instructor showed that vCenter Server communicated with the ESXi host using vSphere APi/SDK (The VMware Host Client also communicated using this)
  • In another slide, the instructor showed that the vCenter Server communicated with a vCenter agent living on the ESXi host (vpxa). This then communicated with another process called hostd, which then executed commands at the hypervisor…

With the second bullet point in mind, where does the vSphere API/SDK fit in? Is hostd the item that houses the vSphere API? Does vCenter communicate with vpxa, which then communicates with hostd using the vSphere API/SDK?

 

Clarification would be much appreciated.

US Default keyboard on VMWare Windows equivalent

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So this seems to only happen on certain ESXi versions;

 

I know the root password I have set during install, and I have tested it to be sure by using keyboard on host directly. But when trying to add to Vcenter or login from web client it says password incorrect.

 

I have tried changing my windows keyboard and even sopping out special characters with the ones they could be; eg ‘ instead of @ but no joy.

 

Please, I need to add this host to the vcenter. The ESXi version on there is 6.5U2. The other host with 6.7 and exact same root password and even same physical keyboard used to set password works…

 

Host affected: HP DL380 Gen8 ESXi 6.5U2

Working host: HP DL380 Gen10 ESXi 6.7

VMware power-on is delayed on some but not all hosts, same hardware (1 second vs 16 seconds)

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I’m having a strange issue that I hope someone else has come across it, hostd.log doesn’t show any information except to confirm the boot time is slower (16 seconds!).

 

Using this script.

 

 

for ($i=1; $i -le 25; $i++)
    {
    Start-VM -VM $(Get-VM 'vHost01 Test') -Confirm:$false
    Start-VM -VM $(Get-VM 'vHost02 Test') -Confirm:$false
    Start-VM -VM $(Get-VM 'vHost03 Test') -Confirm:$false
    sleep -seconds 2
    Stop-VM -VM $(Get-VM 'vHost01 Test') -Confirm:$false
    Stop-VM -VM $(Get-VM 'vHost02 Test') -Confirm:$false
    Stop-VM -VM $(Get-VM 'vHost03 Test') -Confirm:$false
    sleep -seconds 2
    }

 

Screenshots to show consistency.

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All systems have local nvme disks, 2.1Ghz gold procs, and are booting a new & empty vm, same hardware versions, same os patch, same everything.

 

 

Systems all running `VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 10302608`

 

 

Each Server is configured exactly the same:

(1) SD w/ESXi installed

(1) NVMe SSD for Datastore, all datastores are local.

(2) Intel Gold 2.1Ghz 6130 Processors

768 GB of DDR4 RAM

 

 

**Host1**

 

 

12788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] State Transition (VM_STATE_OFF -> VM_STATE_POWERING_ON)
2018-10-23T14:26:35.376Z info hostd[2100207] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] SIOC: SIOC is notified not to start injector
2018-10-23T14:26:35.376Z warning hostd[2100207] [Originator@6876 sub=Hostsvc.Tpm20Provider opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] Unable to retrieve TPM/TXT status. TPM functionality will be unavailable. Failure reason: Unable to get node: Sysinfo error: Not foundSee VMkernel log for details..
2018-10-23T14:26:35.378Z info hostd[2100207] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2018-10-23T14:26:35.378Z info hostd[2100207] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] Could not expand environment variable HOME.
2018-10-23T14:26:35.378Z info hostd[2100207] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "~/.vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2018-10-23T14:26:35.380Z info hostd[2100207] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] Found vmx as /bin/vmx
2018-10-23T14:26:35.380Z info hostd[2100207] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] Starting vmx as /bin/vmx
2018-10-23T14:26:35.380Z info hostd[2100207] [Originator@6876 sub=vm opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] VigorExecVMXExCommon: VM /vmfs/volumes/5b9bb253-6d8a5196-5fdc-ac1f6b0e6418/New Virtual Machine/New Virtual Machine.vmx in directory /vmfs/volumes/5b9bb253-6d8a5196-5fdc-ac1f6b0e6418/New Virtual Machine
2018-10-23T14:26:35.380Z info hostd[2100207] [Originator@6876 sub=vm opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] VigorExecVMXExCommon: Exec()'ing /bin/vmx /vmfs/volumes/5b9bb253-6d8a5196-5fdc-ac1f6b0e6418/New Virtual Machine/New Virtual Machine.vmx.
2018-10-23T14:26:35.381Z info hostd[2100207] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-02-01-13-f9e3 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] Vigor: VMKernel_ForkExec(/bin/vmx, detached=1): status=0 pid=2110313
2018-10-23T14:26:35.765Z info hostd[2099717] [Originator@6876 sub=Vimsvc.ha-eventmgr] Event 223 : New Virtual Machine on  localhost in ha-datacenter is powered on

 

**Host2** (and host3)

 

 

12788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] State Transition (VM_STATE_OFF -> VM_STATE_POWERING_ON)
2018-10-23T07:26:44.667Z info hostd[2099611] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] SIOC: SIOC is notified not to start injector
2018-10-23T07:26:44.667Z warning hostd[2099611] [Originator@6876 sub=Hostsvc.Tpm20Provider opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] Unable to retrieve TPM/TXT status. TPM functionality will be unavailable. Failure reason: Unable to get node: Sysinfo error: Not foundSee VMkernel log for details..
2018-10-23T07:26:44.669Z info hostd[2099611] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2018-10-23T07:26:44.669Z info hostd[2099611] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] Could not expand environment variable HOME.
2018-10-23T07:26:44.669Z info hostd[2099611] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "~/.vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2018-10-23T07:26:44.671Z info hostd[2099611] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] Found vmx as /bin/vmx
2018-10-23T07:26:44.671Z info hostd[2099611] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] Starting vmx as /bin/vmx
2018-10-23T07:26:44.671Z info hostd[2099611] [Originator@6876 sub=vm opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] VigorExecVMXExCommon: VM /vmfs/volumes/5b9bb26a-d53a0f08-9b51-ac1f6b0e6454/New Virtual Machine/New Virtual Machine.vmx in directory /vmfs/volumes/5b9bb26a-d53a0f08-9b51-ac1f6b0e6454/New Virtual Machine
2018-10-23T07:26:44.671Z info hostd[2099611] [Originator@6876 sub=vm opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] VigorExecVMXExCommon: Exec()'ing /bin/vmx /vmfs/volumes/5b9bb26a-d53a0f08-9b51-ac1f6b0e6454/New Virtual Machine/New Virtual Machine.vmx.
2018-10-23T07:26:44.672Z info hostd[2099611] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=14bb9f56-84b2-4978-9cd2-bd86db47993f-112788-auto-112789-h5c:70032863-28-01-01-82-212a user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCALAdministrator] Vigor: VMKernel_ForkExec(/bin/vmx, detached=1): status=0 pid=2107626
2018-10-23T07:27:00.067Z info hostd[2100473] [Originator@6876 sub=Vimsvc.ha-eventmgr] Event 131 : New Virtual Machine on  localhost in ha-datacenter is powered on

Installing VMware Tools without WoW64

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I noticed that I cannot upgrade VMware Tools from 6.0 and 6.5 to 6.7 on Windows Server 2016 VMs that do not have WOW64-SUPPORT installed.

 

The Tools installer says it cannot access the Windows installer service.

 

When I add WoW64 to the VM’s OS the installer works.

 

I couldn’t find any KBs about that (although about the error message). Any ideas? This is on vSphere 6.7.

Next Code securidnexttoken request for Radius on Push notifications

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I am trying to setup Radius with our OTP that supports push notifications. The problem is currently I get a useless nextcode screen after requesting and approving my push notification. I am seeing the same issue setting it up on the UAG or the connection server and we don’t have a preference currently if we can find a way to work with this next screen.

 

We can currently logon just wanted to see if someone found a way to disable this confusing screen. I have a ticket in with support but they are saying this is a feature request although I see third party radius OTP on my research that is showing a customized next screen or that it doesn’t prompt at all.

 

Procedure is

1 enter username and pin

2 receive and approve push notification on my phone

3 type anything into this useless next code screen then you are passed to AD auth.

company.com/portal/webclient/index.html#/securidnexttoken

 

Looking at this site they don’t even mention the push page which I found odd if there is no way to get rid of the page

https://inwebo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/71565358/VMware+Unified+Access+Gateway+UAG+RADIUS+Configuration

 

looking at this documentation it looks like they modified the text on this page If we have to have a next day we could instruct the user to type anything and click OK

https://duo.com/docs/vmwareview

windows 10 1809 slow

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I downloaded the Windows 10 1809 and Server 2019 ISOs the day they became available so I can start working on my templates.

 

I built the templates with EFI, paravirtual for the C drive and vmxnet3 adapter. I’ve been using this combo for other versions of windows 10/8/7and windows server 2008r2/2012r2/1016 without issue.

 

So far Windows 2019 (with desktop experience) seems to be ok at least for a basic vm and guest customization. Haven’t tried anything else yet.

 

Windows 10 1809 on the other hand is very, very slow to reboot after the initial install or even just rebooting after making some changes post install. After installing the OS it took 10-15 minutes for the initial windows setup stuff (user, security settings, etc) to appear . I tried a VM set to BIOS and it seemed faster but was still quite slow. Server 2019 and other versions of windows 10 have no issue.

 

The hosts are esxi 6.5 and 6.7.

 

I haven’t had a chance to try every combo of BIOS/EFI/vmxnet3/e1000e/paravirtual/lsi sas to see if one is the cause of the issue but was wondering if anyone else had noticed any issues or if it was just me?

 

Thanks

Horizon Client for Linux 4.9.0 fails to run due to undefined symbol

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The VMware Horizon Client for Linux version 4.9.0 fails to start with the following error on my machine:

$ vmware-view
/usr/lib/vmware/view/bin/vmware-view-crtbora: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/vmware/libcrtbora.so: undefined symbol: _ZN4Glib7ustring5beginEv

The missing symbol is:

$ echo "_ZN4Glib7ustring5beginEv" | c++filt
Glib::ustring::begin()

My machine is running Fedora 28 and the glibmm library does provide the Glib::ustring::begin() symbol, but only through C++11 ABI:

$ objdump -T /usr/lib64/libglibmm-2.4.so.1|grep _ZN4Glib7ustring.begin | awk '{ print $NF; }' | c++filt
Glib::ustring::begin[abi:cxx11]()

Is there any chance of getting this fixed in a newer version of the Horizon Client by providing a build for a recent Fedora release?

can’t download registered trial esxi

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VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6 License  xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

Your downloads are available below

VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.7 – Binaries                                                  Manually Download
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi ISO) image (Includes VMware Tools)
2018-04-17 | 6.7.0 | 330.31 MB | iso

—————————————————————————————————————————–

 

I registered today to see if I can get the free 6.5/6.7 exsi.  it returned a license key and download page. but no matter what browser I use, the “Manually Download” button doesn’t work.

 

how does one download if none of the “Manually Download” buttons don’t work?