R730 SSD Drives for VMware VSAN 7.0

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R730 SSD Drives for VMware VSAN 7.0

 

 

Hi All.

I am hoping someone can assist me.

We are going to build a new All Flash VSAN 7.0 setup with following specs.

Hardware model R730 PowerEdge.

DELL HBA 330 controller.

I have a doubt on disk selection.

8 drives in total(total drives we are going to use on R730).

I wish to use 1 TB SSD SAS drives for cache tier and 2 TB SSD SAS drives for capacity tier. The most economical SSD drives that are fully supported from both VSAN and DELL.

I’m not sure what SSD drives(with SAS protocol) are compatible with my R730 servers and also it should be on the vSAN HCL (which is crucial)

The VMware HCL does not mention the Dell part numbers so matching them is proving very difficult. My supplier is sending me pricing for drives that differ hugely but still hasn’t confirmed support on both platforms.

Please can someone help me identify which 1 TB SSD SAS drives for cache tier and 2 TB SSD SAS drives for capacity tier so that I can double check and use in R730 servers. Whatever we choose, that also should be listed on the VMware vSAN Hardware Compatibility list,

https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/pdf/vi_vsan_guide.pdf    dell disk starts from page 237.

 

Thanks.

Manivel RR

 

WebEx Meetings and Productivity Tools Settings

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I searched and do not find where anyone was successful with this. I am in the middle of trying to capture the WebEx Meetings App without the productivity tools to see if it is just the productivity tools that cause the problem.

 

 

 

I have looked at existing configs people have posted. I have used the profiler, I have stared at procmon until my head hurts on multiple days. I do not see any access denied or any issue that points to something not working but on every restart, the user has to login to WebEx.

 

Does anyone have it successfully working in their environment?

 

Here is my current non working config I borrowed from this elsewhere in the forum:

[IncludeRegistryTrees]

 

 

HKCUSoftwareCisco Systems, Inc.Cisco Webex Meetings Virtual Desktop

 

 

HKCUSoftwareCisco Systems, Inc.Cisco Webex Meetings

 

 

HKCUSoftwareActiveTouch

 

 

HKCUSOFTWAREWebEx

 

 

HKCUSoftwareWebEx_Outlook

 

 

HKLMSOFTWAREWow6432NodeWebex

 

 

HKLMSOFTWAREWow6432NodeWebEx_Outlook

 

 

HKLMSOFTWAREWow6432NodeWebEx_Notes

 

 

HKLMSOFTWAREWebEx

 

 

 

 

 

[IncludeFolderTrees]

 

 

<AppData>Webex

 

 

<LocalAppData>WebEx

 

 

<AppData>Roamingwebex

 

 

<UserProfile>AppDataLocalLowWebEx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ExcludeFolderTrees]

 

 

<LocalAppData>CiscoUnified CommunicationsWebexMeetingsCSFLogs

Microsoft Teams installed in an App Package on AppVolumes 4.1 (2006)

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We’ve successfully been using MS Teams on an appstack with 2.18.x without too many issues, but we are running into weird issues with the same setup using AppVolumes 4.x.

 

We have the Teams installer stored with our Office365 package and everything related to office365 seem to work, but Teams doesn’t load.   It seems to missing the c:programdata%username% folder where Teams is installed from.

 

IF we chose to install it with the ALLUSER=1 ALLUSERS=1 switches, it seems to want to validate the Horizon or Citrix Agents are also installed.  Our app stack builders historically do not have the horizon agents installed.  I’m willing to try this, but do not know if there are adverse affects with the agent installed when we build the packages.

 

 

Does anyone have any concrete ways to install Teams successfully with appvolumes?

We do have a use case where we do _not_ want it on the golden image because we have exempt staff that do not use Teams or an Office365 license.

Adding a choice before component selection

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Hello support.

 

I’m wondering if there is a way to have a drop down choice that gets after the license agreement and selecting the install directory but before component selection?  trying to control which components are visible based on a choice before the selection, but can’t find away to add a choice before component selection.

 

My plan B is to put both options in the component selection as components and use a non visible component with rules to allow only one of the option components to be selected, but this seems clunky compared to just asking the user to make a choice before selecting components.

PowerCLI and Powershell Windows 7.0.3: Exception: VMware.VimAutomation.HorizonView module is not currently supported on the Core edition of PowerShell

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When I do an Import-Module VMware.PowerCLI I receive the following error:

 

Import-Module Vmware.PowerCLI

Exception: VMware.VimAutomation.HorizonView module is not currently supported on the Core edition of PowerShell.

 

PS 7.0.3 version:

PS C:> $psversiontable

Name                           Value
—-                           —–
PSVersion                      7.0.3
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.0.3
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.14393
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

 

PS C:> Get-Module -ListAvailable  -Name *Vmware* | FT -AutoSize

    Directory: C:UserslocalscriptuserDocumentsPowerShellModules

ModuleType Version         PreRelease Name                                    PSEdition ExportedCommands
———- ——-         ———- —-                                    ——— —————-
Script     12.0.0.15947289            VMware.CloudServices                    Desk      {Connect-Vcs, Get-VcsOrganizationRole, Get-VcsService, Get-VcsServiceRole…}
Script     7.0.0.15902843             VMware.DeployAutomation                 Desk      {Add-DeployRule, Add-ProxyServer, Add-ScriptBundle, Copy-DeployRule…}
Script     7.0.0.15902843             VMware.ImageBuilder                     Desk      {Add-EsxSoftwareDepot, Add-EsxSoftwarePackage, Compare-EsxImageProfile, Export-EsxImageProfile…}
Manifest   12.0.0.15947286            VMware.PowerCLI                         Desk
Script     7.0.0.15939650             VMware.Vim                              Desk
Script     12.0.0.15939657            VMware.VimAutomation.Cis.Core           Desk      {Connect-CisServer, Disconnect-CisServer, Get-CisService}
Script     12.0.0.15940183            VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud              Desk      {Add-CIDatastore, Connect-CIServer, Disconnect-CIServer, Get-Catalog…}
Script     12.0.0.15939652            VMware.VimAutomation.Common             Desk      {Get-Task, New-OAuthSecurityContext, Stop-Task, Wait-Task}
Script     12.0.0.15939655            VMware.VimAutomation.Core               Desk      {Add-PassthroughDevice, Add-VirtualSwitchPhysicalNetworkAdapter, Add-VMHost, Add-VMHostNtpServer…}
Script     12.0.0.15939647            VMware.VimAutomation.Hcx                Desk      {Connect-HCXServer, Disconnect-HCXServer, Get-HCXAppliance, Get-HCXComputeProfile…}
Script     7.12.0.15718406            VMware.VimAutomation.HorizonView        Desk      {Connect-HVServer, Disconnect-HVServer}
Script     12.0.0.15939670            VMware.VimAutomation.License            Desk      Get-LicenseDataManager
Script     12.0.0.15939671            VMware.VimAutomation.Nsxt               Desk      {Connect-NsxtServer, Disconnect-NsxtServer, Get-NsxtPolicyService, Get-NsxtService}
Script     12.0.0.15939651            VMware.VimAutomation.Sdk                Desk      {Get-ErrorReport, Get-PSVersion, Get-InstallPath}
Script     12.0.0.15939672            VMware.VimAutomation.Security           Desk      {Add-AttestationServiceInfo, Add-KeyProviderServiceInfo, Add-TrustAuthorityKeyProviderServer, Add-TrustAuthorityKeyProviderServerCertificate…}
Script     11.5.0.14899557            VMware.VimAutomation.Srm                Desk      {Connect-SrmServer, Disconnect-SrmServer}
Script     12.0.0.15939648            VMware.VimAutomation.Storage            Desk      {Add-EntityDefaultKeyProvider, Add-KeyManagementServer, Add-VsanFileServiceOvf, Add-VsanObjectToRepairQueue…}
Script     1.3.0.0                    VMware.VimAutomation.StorageUtility     Desk      Update-VmfsDatastore
Script     12.0.0.15940185            VMware.VimAutomation.Vds                Desk      {Add-VDSwitchPhysicalNetworkAdapter, Add-VDSwitchVMHost, Export-VDPortGroup, Export-VDSwitch…}
Script     12.0.0.15947287            VMware.VimAutomation.Vmc                Desk      {Add-VmcSddcHost, Connect-Vmc, Disconnect-Vmc, Get-AwsAccount…}
Script     12.0.0.15940184            VMware.VimAutomation.vROps              Desk      {Connect-OMServer, Disconnect-OMServer, Get-OMAlert, Get-OMAlertDefinition…}
Script     12.0.0.15947288            VMware.VimAutomation.WorkloadManagement Desk      {Get-WMNamespace, Get-WMNamespacePermission, Get-WMNamespaceStoragePolicy, New-WMNamespace…}
Script     6.5.1.7862888              VMware.VumAutomation                    Desk      {Add-EntityBaseline, Copy-Patch, Get-Baseline, Get-Compliance…}

Issue with installing Windows Server 2019 on ESXi 6.0.0

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Now that I’ve got my additional space in ESXi, I am trying to install Windows Server 2019, but I can’t get vsphere client to boot to my Server 2019 ISO. Just for troubleshooting, I setup a new VM, attached Windows Server 2012 ISO and booted right up.  I looked up requirements and 2019 is supported with ESXi 6.0.  The 2019 ISO is valid, since I’ve used it with Hyper-V.

 

I can only go up to Windows Server 2012 when selecting a version.  Any ideas why I can’t boot to Server 2019?

KB article to create custom alerting is not working for me

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Hi team,

 

Hoping to see if you can pin point the root cause of this 400 error pasted below. I am trying to create a new email template and I get 400 error.

 

VMware Knowledge Base

 

Executed step 3 from KB article by replacing IP address of the master node.

 

]# curl -k -X POST -i -H “X-vRealizeOps-API-use-unsupported: true” -H “Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8” -u admin -d ‘{
“id” : null,
“name” : “Email Template 1”,
“html” : true,
“template” : “$$Subject=[Email Template 1 Subject] State:{{AlertCriticality}}, Name:{{AffectedResourceName}} nn New alert was generated at: {{AlertGenerateTime}} Info: {{AffectedResourceName}} {{AffectedResourceKind}}
Alert Definition Name: {{AlertDefinitionName}}
Alert Definition Description: {{AlertDefinitionDesc}}
Object Name : {{AffectedResourceName}}
Object Type : {{AffectedResourceKind}}
Alert Impact: {{AlertImpact}}
Alert State : {{AlertCriticality}}
Alert Type : {{AlertType}}
Alert Sub-Type : {{AlertSubType}}
Object Health State: {{ResourceHealthState}}
Object Risk State: {{ResourceRiskState}}
Object Efficiency State: {{ResourceEfficiencyState}}
Symptoms:
{{Anomalies}} Recommendations: {{AlertRecommendation}} vROps Server – {{vcopsServerName}} Alert details
“,
“others” : [ ],
“otherAttributes” : {}
}’ https://10.50.6.88/suite-api/api/notifications/email/templates
Enter host password for user ‘admin’:
HTTP/1.1 400 400
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 19:01:08 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Request-ID: 4hh8Gupwd06DRmHiPoyKGdqIXSDJic1s
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: 0
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Content-Security-Policy: default-src https: data: ‘unsafe-inline’ ‘unsafe-eval’; child-src *
Vary: User-Agent
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: application/xml

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″ standalone=”yes”?><ops:error xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” xmlns:xs=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema” xmlns:ops=”http://webservice.vmware.com/vRealizeOpsMgr/1.0/ httpStatusCode=”400″ apiErrorCode=”400″><ops:message>Invalid input format.</ops:message><ops:moreInformation><ops:info name=”api-uri”>/suite-api/api/notifications/email/templates</ops:info></ops:moreInformation></ops:error>

 

 

thanks,

Salman

RDM Peer Persistence disk disconnect issues

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We have a pair of Server 2016 servers VMs configured as a failover cluster with RDMs presented from our 3PAR-9450.  When we failover the RDM to our other 3PAR the disks on the VMs disconnect and we can’t get the disks to come back on line.

 

This is an error we see in the cluster logs.

Cluster resource ‘Cluster Disk 1’ of type ‘Physical Disk’ in clustered role ‘<REDACTED>’ failed. The error code was ‘0x80070490’ (‘Element not found.’).
 
Based on the failure policies for the resource and role, the cluster service may try to bring the resource online on this node or move the group to another node of the cluster and then restart it.  Check the resource and group state using Failover Cluster Manager or the Get-ClusterResource Windows PowerShell cmdlet.

 

We have to shutdown both VMs and cold boot one VM.  Once it brings the disk online we can start the second VM.  Any thoughts on what is causing our problem? 

 

Michael

Fusion 8.5.10 hijacks route to 192.168.2.x

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Running Fusion 8.5.10 on macOS 10.14.6.

 

I have 3 sites; let’s call them Office (192.168.0.0/24), Home1 (192.168.1.0/24), and Home2 (192.168.2.0/24). They are fully meshed via pfsense 2.4.4/IPSec hardware tunnels connecting:

Office<–>Home1

Office<–>Home2

Home1<–>Home2

 

I’m at Home1, and my Mac can’t see through the tunnel to Home2 whenever I have Fusion running with networking.

 

Here’s my Mac’s route through the working tunnel to Office:

 

route get 192.168.0.2

   route to: <hostname>

destination: default

       mask: default

    gateway: 192.168.1.1

  interface: en0

      flags: <UP,GATEWAY,DONE,STATIC,PRCLONING>

recvpipe  sendpipe  ssthresh  rtt,msec    rttvar  hopcount      mtu     expire

       0         0         0         0         0         0      1500         0

 

Here’s my Mac’s to Home2 when Fusion is running with a network adapter installed:

 

route get 192.168.2.2

   route to: 192.168.2.2

destination: 192.168.2.0

       mask: 255.255.255.0

  interface: vmnet1

      flags: <UP,DONE,CLONING>

recvpipe  sendpipe  ssthresh  rtt,msec    rttvar  hopcount      mtu     expire

       0         0         0         0         0         0      1500   -205028

 

and my Mac can no longer access any resources at 192.168.2.x. Curiously, the Win7 VM in Fusion can get to resources at 192.168.2.x just fine.

 

My VM is configured with Bridged networking, so it gets a 192.168.1.x address from my DHCP server, so I don’t know why it’s messing with 192.168.2.x. But even if I change the networking type to NAT, it doesn’t fix the problem of my Mac getting to 192.168.2.x.

 

If I remove the network adapter from the VM _or_ if I shut off Fusion, then my Mac sees:

 

route get 192.168.2.2

   route to: 192.168.2.2

destination: default

       mask: default

    gateway: 192.168.1.1

  interface: en0

      flags: <UP,GATEWAY,DONE,STATIC,PRCLONING>

recvpipe  sendpipe  ssthresh  rtt,msec    rttvar  hopcount      mtu     expire

       0         0         0         0         0         0      1500         0

 

and then my Mac has the expected access to everything in 192.168.2.x.

 

How do I change the configuration of this VM so that it has networking but doesn’t hijack the route to 192.168.2.x? I don’t see any reference to that in the .vmx file (attached).

 

Thanks!

VM causes host to start freezing at seemingly random intervals.

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I have recently started using VMware and have really enjoyed it thus far.

However, it seems that my Linux Mint 19 virtual machine will occasionally flash in the taskbar as if it was trying to notify me of something and then almost immediately begin causing my entire Windows 10 computer to begin skipping. I need to forcibly kill the VM and VMWare with the Task Manager, which is very difficult when your computer is chugging.

Lowering the number of resources the VM could use helped a bit when needed to kill the process, but it shouldn’t be causing these random freezes in the first place.

 

Sometimes this happens after only 30 minutes of use, sometimes this doesn’t happen or many many hours, and I have yet to find a predictable cause.

 

Could someone tell me where I can find logs that may explain the issue or if this a known issue, and how to resolve it?