We have an ESXi 6.0 server with three USB ports.

Two of the USB ports are mounted to VMs; one is used for storing online logs for security scans, one is for Veeam Backups.

We are trying to mount the third USB drive to make it available as a temporary datastore.

I followed the process found on line and first stopped the USB arbitrator.
 
We then noticed the VM hosting the USB Veeam Drive was unavailable.
 
So, I restarted the arbitrator but the USB drives, the one for online logs for security scans and Veeam Backup,  was not available again to mount to the VM.
The only way I could get it back as available be to the VMs were to reboot the ESXi Server.
Not sure why ?

Second question is…can the USB drives for storing online logs for security scans and for Veeam Backups be mounted if we use the third drive temporary datastore?

OVF/OVA - Deployment Issues VMware Windows Vcenter 6.5

we have the windows vcenter 6.5 and for that using vsphere web client we are unable to deploy the vm using OVA file because extreme slow and it is not importing.

Please suggest and us to overcome the issue.

please do the needful.

Thank You.

I have a virtual Windows 2016 server. Somehow it got corrupted. We are also using VMWare 5.5. I have a small amount of data on the E drive that I would like to recover and or repair the entire machine if possible. I do not have any backups. It just keeps taking me to the repair screen. I am able to boot up in Safe Mode for a limited amount of time then it shuts down. I even got in as SafeMode with networking for a short amount of time but have not been able to copy data off. Is there a way to copy data from a server booted up in VMWare 5.5 safemode? When I tried to copy and past the folders I wanted it did not work. I do not seem to be able to log in long enough to copy the data to to another server. Also, what about a repair process? I can probably find the ISO that the server was built from that that is about it. Any suggestions on how to pull the data from Windows or VMware is appreciated and if there is a possible way to repair the server that suggestion is welcome too.

Hi Experts,

We have 2 ESXi identical hardware 6.0 hosts directly attached to a Powervault Md3400 .On 1 host we have 2 active paths, 1 active and 1 active with (I/O) and have a multipathing policy  VMW_SATP_ALUA.

The 2nd host I see 2 active paths and neither one has an active (I/O) path nor does it have a multipathiing policy available to select on the drop down and Storage type is blank.

Is there an option to enable multipathing on Esxi 6.0? I dod not see an option in th emodulard disk store manager on the Storage Array? and did not enable any specific settings on the host that displays the paths corrently.

Thanks

Citrix XenApp 7.15 CU2 VDA Agent installed on Windows 2016 Server.
On Studio trying to create new HSD Server using MCS.
VMWARE ESXi and Vcenter 6.5.
Created AD Computer account and on summary page click on Finish, Snapshot is creating and received below error.
A snapshot could not be created from the specified virtual machine.
When I try to create a machine catalog from Master Image, without prior creating a snapshot the machine creation will fail.

Error LOG:

Error Id: XDDS:02C84D06

Exception:
    Citrix.Console.Models.Exceptions.ScriptException A snapshot could not be created from the specified virtual machine:

       at Citrix.Console.PowerShellSdk.ProvisioningSchemeService.Scripts.SnapshotVMsScript.CreateVMSnapShot(String vmPath)
       at Citrix.Console.PowerShellSdk.ProvisioningSchemeService.Scripts.SnapshotVMsScript.RunScript()
       at Citrix.Console.PowerShellInteraction.PowerShellScript`1.Run()
       at Citrix.Console.PowerShellSdk.ProvisioningSchemeService.BackgroundTasks.SnapshotCreationTask.RunTask()
       at Citrix.Console.PowerShellSdk.BackgroundTaskService.BackgroundTask.Task.Run()

DesktopStudio_ErrorId : FailedToCreateSnapshot
    Sdk Error Message : The create snapshot operation failed.
    Sdk Error ID : Citrix.XDPowerShell.HostStatus.FailedToCreateSnapshot,Citrix.Host.Sdk.Commands.NewHypVMSnapshotCommand
    ErrorCategory : NotSpecified
    DesktopStudio_PowerShellHistory : Create Machine Catalog 'Windows  Test'

Hi

We have NetApp SAN and 3xFujitsu PRIMERGY ESX host servers and Brocade switches and Cisco switches.
and using VMware - vCcenter appliance.

SAN has two power supplies and
node A power supply is connected to UPS-A
node B power supply is connected to UPS-B

Each of Fujitsu PRIMERGY(ESX)servers have 2xPower supplies  
Each of the PRIMERGY ESX server power supply is connected to UPS-A and UPS-B

Core Cisco switches have 2 power supplier and each of the power supply is connected to UPS-A and UPS-B.

Brocade switches (storage switches) have only one power supply each.
Brocade switch –A is connected to UPS –A
Brocade switch –B is connected to UPS –B

The power maintenance is scheduled by local company and we will not have power for 30 minutes. We have APC UPS  and  APC virtual appliance is setup to power down the servers in a power failure situation when the ups running out of the battery, but this has not been tested on a real-time.
I am hoping the servers should run for 30 minutes on the UPS. But if it exceeds this time I want to power off the server’s safety.

On all the 3 ESX servers , can i power off all the guest machines  and then power off the 3 ESX server one by one - to save power .
So that SAN and brocade switches and core keeps running?
Please let me know the sequence of powering off the server.

Any suggestion will be great
Thanks

How can we set our VMware hosts to be not fully managed by vCenter while still remaining connected to it?  Here's the background:

We have a number of VMware ESXi hosts running v6.0 and v6.5.  After we recently removed our last v5.1 host, we installed a new vCenter server appliance v6.7 to replace the existing v6.0 vCSA.

The problem comes with Altaro VM backup, which always backs up through vCenter if the host is connected to one.  Despite saying that the versions we're using are supported (http://support.altaro.com/customer/en/portal/articles/808716-what-are-the-system-requirements-for-altaro-vm-backup-) in fact the combination of vCenter >= v6.5 and hosts v6.0 is not supported (http://support.altaro.com/customer/portal/articles/2949256).

Now Altaro support suggested that it's possible to work around this by setting the hosts to not be fully managed by vCenter.  How do we do this?

The alternative is to downgrade the v6.5 hosts to v6.0 and use a v6.0 vCenter Server Appliance, which we'd rather not have to do as it means we can't use any hosts of v6.5 or later.

Hi wanting to deploy a template with powercli.  I can do that. But i don’t know How to add hard drives that are not in the template. It just has a c   In the same. New-vm command.  If it’s possible

V3700 Remote Mirroring

Cenario
vmWare Essential Plus V5 - 2 hosts
Storage Lenovo V3700 v2 - iSCSI


I Need a solution of Disaster Recovery, so I will acquire other storage V3700 and active the feature called Remote Mirroring.  With this solution, all datas will be replicated in two storages.

Imagine the primary Storage fail. What will happen to VMs?
How do I configure vmware essential plus to VMs will be running in other storage ( mirrored)

Thank's

Hi All

After applying a vCenter 6.7 certificate I get the following error when we try to log back into the appliance.

503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http20NamedPipeServiceSpecE:0x0000556a50f72ae0] _serverNamespace = / action = Allow _pipeName =/var/run/vmware/vpxd-webserver-pipe)

VMware Appliance Management with the root administrator works with now issues and the following services are stuck in a starting state.

VMware vSphere Update Manager

VMware vCenter Server

vAPI Endpoint stated with warnings

Failed to connect to 2a360aa5-6960-4f51-82d2-13e0476b1299\com.vmware.vapi.vcenter vAPI provider.
Failed to connect to f83a5633-a227-4b4c-b09a-52c2ef86a3ff\com.vmware.cis.cls.vapi vAPI provider.
Current vApi Endpoint health status is created between 2018-11-12T08:35:20UTC and 2018-11-12T08:35:21UTC.

When I reset the certificates on Certificate manager the issues goes away, we need to install the SSL cert on the appliance for compliance and security purposes.

Please assist