Are you looking for https://www.vmware.com/go/get-free-esxi , or for an opensource hypervisorlike https://xenproject.org/ ?

André

I have an ESXi host, freshly installed with 6.5 and configured with standard switch, management only, and a freshly installed vcenter VCSA (6.7).

I created a new vDS with just a mgmt port group, add the host to vcenter, and migrate the mgmt vmk from the standard swtich to the vDS.  All good so far.

I then add another port group to the vDS, and it appears in the vcenter GUI and the ESXi GUI as well.  I add another port group... and it doesn't.   The port group appears in the vcenter GUI, but doesn't appear on the ESXi host GUI.  I continue this with other new port groups and some appear on the host, and some don't.  I've confirmed that they are definitely not on there, I've rebooted the host and tried to put VMs on the port groups -- they're just not there.

At a loss as to what to do. This host and vcenter have had a lot of work done on them, hosts added, removed, etc, so I though there could be some remnants of old configs lying about, but I've tried reinstalling the host (and zeroing the drive first) and creating new vDS's and port groups with new unique names on the vcenter.  Same thing happens every time. 

It may be that you need to unregister the extension and re-register if the HTML5 client is reporting the old version. 7.3.1 was a hot mess so no telling if something got lodged in vCenter or not.

did you get a proper resolution on this?we got the same issue here and users are making some stuff outside the vmware session.is there a way to disable those vmware stroke?

Confirmed that Get-Folder -name MigratedVMs looks good

adding it to the full command produces the same error.

Hi all,

I'm trying to find the correct way to use getAllVirtualMachines with filters. I want to get the list of all vms bloqued by question as is shown in the screenshot:

I guess that the same result is possible using VcPlugin.getAllVirtualMachines(string[] additionalPropertyFilterrs, String query) but I cannot find the correct grammar for that.

Get all VMs and then check for "vm.runtime.question" is very SLOW.

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot

D.

Thanks

I tried this KB but still guest customization fails.

T.

Since you're doing this through vRA, there are a few methods for installing software via running a PowerShell script.

1. vRA guest agent (gugent) has a built-in ability to run a script on a machine. This doesn't involve vRO. Script can either pre-exist, or you can build somewhat of a framework to first mount a script repo and call the one you want. This option, while available in all vRA licenses, is a bit unwieldy.
2. vRA software components. Requires vRA Enterprise license. You can just paste in  your PowerShell code directly and have it execute on the deployed machine. Lots of other abilities enabled by this including things like property binding and computed properties. Also does not involve vRO.
3. Guest Script Manager. Free, community-supported only package. Stores scripts as Resource Elements making it fairly easy to call them on a destined machine. Has known issues and hasn't been updated in a while. Run directly from vRO. You're required to set all the vRA plumbing up for this to work.
4. SovLabs Lifecycle Components Toolkit. If you don't have a vRA Enterprise license, this is the one I like the best. Allows you to execute a script on a deployed node (and have it automatically remove the script), or on another node. Either one allows you to easily tap into custom properties. Runs through vRO but requires no vRO maintenance or configuration, no EBS subscripts, nothing you have to configure other than a couple vRA catalog item requests to fill out your script info and related stuff. This one is probably the most robust of any vRO method you'll find and also fully supported, tested, and maintained.

Wow thank you so much!  I'm still somewhat new to the vRA game... and I really appreciate this.  I'll try to figure out which option is best for us.

I found a log on vcenter /var/log/vmware/vsphere-client/logs/vsphere_client_virgo.log that has some info:

[2019-05-23T04:11:11.214Z] [ERROR] vc-extensionmanager-pool-104 70000028 100004 200002 com.vmware.vise.vim.extension.VcExtensionManager                  Package com.vmware.vco was not installed. Error expanding zip file found at https://<IP-redacted>:8281/vco/vsphere-web-client/vco-plugin.zip. Make sure it is a valid zip file then logout/login to force another download. java.util.zip.ZipException: zip file is empty

From the vro server I can see the zip file there and it is 6.7M. What seems strange is the vro server is not listening on port 8281 at all according to netstat, not sure if that is expected behavior.

Hi Luc

when i tried this it only made a 1GB to 10GB instead of 11GB

this is my command

Get-VM -Name test | Get-HardDisk -Name 'Hard disk 2' | Set-HardDisk -CapacityGB (10 + $_.CApacitygb)

Hi all

I'm new hear and to vm stuff. How do I get worstation 14player to launch a winxp and win7 ?

I have a new Del Server with a Preinstalled Dell ESXi 6.7.0 Update 2 (Build 13006603) Image and when I select any of the HBA Adapters I get an Unhandled Exception.

We have tried Many Browsers (Chrome, Safari, IE, Edge, Firefox, Chromium),Different Macs and PCs and all get the same Error.

We tried with a ESXi Base Image and it has the same issue as the Dell Image. We tried with 2 separate Hosts as well and both have the same issue. We have not tried installing the vCenter OVF yet.

We are on this Screen and Click any of the vmhba devices.    If I select the Row itself. I get the HBA Info below, it is only when I click the HBA link itself that I get the error. Once I get the Exception I can press ESC and see the contents of the HBA as though it looks when you select the Row and the info is below the list vs being the only Item.

Unhandled Exception (Same on Mac and PC)

Cause: Possibly unhandled rejection: {"line":422,"column":216,"sourceURL":"https://172.16.1.61/ui/scripts/main.js"}
Version: 1.33.3
Build: 12923304
ESXi: 6.7.0
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_3) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.0.3 Safari/605.1.15
Exception stack:
toAddress64@https://172.16.1.61/ui/scripts/main.js:422:216
updateAdapter@https://172.16.1.61/ui/scripts/main.js:365:26288
https://172.16.1.61/ui/scripts/main.js:365:26555
https://172.16.1.61/ui/scripts/main.js:324:23177
$digest@https://172.16.1.61/ui/scripts/main.js:324:28780
https://172.16.1.61/ui/scripts/main.js:324:30510
e@https://172.16.1.61/ui/scripts/main.js:323:10076

Java Console on Mac

[Error] Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) (vfeed.css, line 0)
[Log] 13:8:50.887 VMware Host Client loading... (main.js, line 475)
[Info] 1:09:28.838 StorageDatastoreListController https://172.16.1.61/ui/scripts/main.js:362:23272  – "getNvdimmSystemInfo" (main.js, line 441)
Object
summary: {numDimms: 0, healthStatus: "NvdimmSystem.normal.healthStatus", totalCapacity: 0, persistentCapacity: 0, blockCapacity: 0, …}
Object Prototype
[Error] Failed to load resource: bad URL (injected.min.js.map, line 0)

[Error] Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) (nv.d3.min.css.map, line 0)
[Error] Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) (underscore-min.map;, line 0)

Java Console on PC

172.16.1.61/:1 Refused to apply style from 'https://172.16.1.61/ui/thirdparty/vfeed-custom/vfeed.css' because its MIME type ('text/plain') is not a supported stylesheet MIME type, and strict MIME checking is enabled.
main.js:475 11:37:55.361 VMware Host Client loading...
main.js:324 11:38:22.401 StorageDatastoreListController https://172.16.1.61/ui/scripts/main.js:362:23268  getNvdimmSystemInfo Object
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(index):1 Refused to apply style from 'https://172.16.1.61/ui/thirdparty/vfeed-custom/vfeed.css' because its MIME type ('text/plain') is not a supported stylesheet MIME type, and strict MIME checking is enabled.
main.js:324 11:39:23.751 StorageDatastoreListController https://172.16.1.61/ui/scripts/main.js:362:23268  getNvdimmSystemInfo {summary: {…}}summary: availableCapacity: 0blockCapacity: 0healthStatus: "NvdimmSystem.normal.healthStatus"numDimms: 0numInterleavesets: 0numNamespaces: 0persistentCapacity: 0totalCapacity: 0__proto__: Object__proto__: dimmInfo: undefineddimms: undefinediSetInfo: undefinedinterleaveSet: undefinednamespace: undefinednsDetails: undefinednsInfo: undefinedsummary: undefinedconstructor: ƒ ()__proto__: Object
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VM525:1 Uncaught ReferenceError: num is not defined    at <anonymous>:1:1
(anonymous) @ VM525:1
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main.js:324 11:43:57.874 StorageDatastoreListController https://172.16.1.61/ui/scripts/main.js:362:23268  getNvdimmSystemInfo {summary: {…}}
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h.

That will not work, you can only reference the pipeline object ($_) in a script block.

See my previous answer.

If it's an embedded vRO/vRA server that's normal because everything is run through the vRA appliance's rHTTP proxy. If it's external vRO then there's a problem somewhere, maybe with firewalls, routes, or something else in the network.

Hi,

I updated several hosts this week to 6.7.0 U2a and didn't try this.

I could check tomorrow to see if I experienced the same.

I was going to say to restart the Management services but, as you already re-installed the hypervisor there is no need to do it.

I will let you know.

Which PowerCLI version are you using?

If not on 11.2.0, can you upgrade?

Opensource hypervisor to deal with license dependency. Also can get benefits of virtualization . Better if it can also accommodate some production load. Please suggest

Thanks for the workaround.

I tested but it doesn't resolve the error - still guest customization fails.

T.

Have you asked Google about this? You're asking on a VMware forum where none of their hypervisor products are open-sourced.