I just ran a real world perf study and found that workstation was 20-30% slower than player. Less responsive, and in general sluggish on my desktop system. I have quite a bit of memory, and fast nvme drives.
just curious if anyone else has experienced this and knows why.
VCF 9.1? I’m currently on 9.0.1, should I upgrade or hold off?
EDIT: the community consensus seems to be a thunderous “no” 😂
Hi, you can now get the 5th edition.
Changes:
What does not change:
Download in the usual place https://broadcom.ent.box.com/v/OpsYourWorld
LinkedIn announcement.
Feedback to e1@broadcom.com. THANK YOU in advance from Singapore.
Greetings, folks. I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this and can confirm that the secondary effect is also just cosmetic.
I recently upgraded my entire vSphere environment from 9.0.2 to 9.1, and after the upgrades--to include upgrading the vDSs in my environment--I go into one of the hosts to take a new powered-off snapshot of vCenter for another operation when, lo and behold, I get a banner on my VMs on the host saying "This VM is attached to a network portgroup undefined that doesn't exist. Edit this VM and attach it to a different network."
Odd, I thought, but if you look deeper at the port groups, all of the distributed port groups on your vDS on the host also show VLAN IDs as "Unknown."
This Broadcom article clearly states that the banner symptom is purely cosmetic, but there is no mention about the distributed port group symptoms at all.
So, hivemind, has anyone else been similarly afflicted with this issue and seen both the banner issue and the VLAN IDs being "unknown" on the distributed port groups visible on their hosts? Has that also been "cosmetic" for you? Everything looks tip-top in vCenter, and everything is just working right along as it should. This is a greenfield deployment for me full of new appliances and test VMs from the old environment, so I'm just trying to make sure the field isn't foul before I migrate all of my VMs onto it.
I currently have Fedora installed on my PC. I was wondering if I could install the VMware 17 .bundle on Fedora, or should I make a new partition to install Ubuntu 26, then install VMware on Ubuntu?
This is the link :
https://archive.org/download/vmwareworkstationarchive/17.x/
That's it. End of the post. It should be okay for a while.
NEC M310 was outage 3 times last 7 days ago
Now it is not responding by ping float ip for managent
All disk arrays is green, i can access it using ip of controller but it refused any iSM command "iSM returns SM11153".
Note: Bbu was fault before power outage .
I have DAC and 2 expansion enclosures connected SAS.
Hosts are disconncted now.
Hi
I have deployed a simplivity cluster with two hosts, for that purpose I have also deployed a vcenter 8.U3.
After the deployment everything was OK, I was able to add a new storage, create some VM for testing purpose, etc.
However I've being requested to change the vcenter name so I change the DNS record on the DNS server, I launch the VAMI on vcenter and modified the FQDN of vcenter, I've rebooted the vcenter and now I can logon on the vcenter with the new FQDN name.
However when checking the simplivity plugin on vcenter I have lost the access to the cluster data. I asume that I have to log into the omnistacks an run some comand tu "update vcanter info" but I dont know how to do it (its my first simplivity deployment).
I have tried to log into the omnistacks by console or ssh but I cant, I've tried with "root" and with "administrator@vsphere.local"....
I've tried to reinstall the plugin with no luck (Ïm using v5.3.1.2)...
what else can I do?
thanks in advance!
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EDIT:
I found the solution:
loged into both OVC ssh svtcli@192.168.x.x and I ran this commands:
sudo su -
source /var/tmp/build/bin/appsetup svt-update-vcenter --server new-FQDN-vcenter.mydomain.local --username administrator@vsphere.local
It asks you to accept the new certificates, etc and at the end it reboots the OVC, then I repeated it on the second OVC and at the ind I was able to log to vcenter with the new FQDN and the Simplivity plugin works fine :)
How do we all feel about https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/414415/authenticated-network-scan-of-vcf-infras.html ?
Government teams (or public sector where it applies), how are you handling this? How have you been handling VMware's third party scans? (subtracting false positives). We're seeing CVSS > 9 and above reports for current supported releases. Official VMware support has been...typical.
This has always been a sore spot talking to security personnel, and that article seems like they are slinking away from any responsibility.
EDIT: Nobody that responded seems to be held against NIST SP 800-53. Anybody of relevance want to chime in? Are you just risk accepting the whole appliance?
I've an ansible playbook for esxi deployment. Now I've the strange situation that one HPE hosts fails at...
># esxcli system settings encryption set -e=true
Unable to change the encryption mode and policy. Verify that the current host configuration can satisfy the new requirement.
I've no idea what is missing. TPM and secure boot are enabled.
># esxcli hardware trustedboot get
Drtm Enabled: false <<-- other working host have same state
Tpm Present: true
># esxcli system settings encryption get
Mode: TPM
Require Executables Only From Installed VIBs: false
Require Secure Boot: true
># /usr/lib/vmware/secureboot/bin/secureBoot.py -s
Enabled
This host was reinstalled and TPM was cleared in RBSU before, as it failed with PSOD during second install. Everything except this last step went smooth.
Any hint?
In a space constrained lab, I need to replace all of my hosts at once.
Environment:
Backend storage, using NFS
2 vCenters, v8.03, ELM
No vSAN, no NSX
vDS
Host Management and vMotion ports are on vSS
Process:
As I shut down VMs - Remove from Inventory
Remove hosts and clusters until I'm down to one host with the two vCenters as guests.
Shut them down.
>swap hardware, cable up, power up<
1st ESX host:
Attach to storage
Register vCenter VMs
vCenter NICs are currently on vDS
Do I set up a temp vSS to put the vCenters on?
Add 1st host to vCenter (so I can vMotion it later)
Add rest of hosts to vCenter, clustered, with vDS
vMotion vCenters from stand-alone host with vSS to cluster with vDS.
Register VMs and off I go!
Any Gotcha's?
Anything I'm not thinking of or overlooking?
Thanks
Hi everyone,
Our VMware reseller told us that Broadcom may no longer offer vSphere Enterprise Plus subscriptions in the future and that customers might be forced to move to vSphere Foundation (VVF) instead.
We are planning to renew our vSphere 8 Enterprise Plus subscription for one more year to keep our current environment and delay a migration.
However, I haven’t been able to find any official Broadcom announcement or KB article confirming this.
Has anyone else heard the same from their reseller or Broadcom account manager?
● Is Enterprise Plus really being phased out again?
● Will renewals still be possible for vSphere 8?
● Is there any official documentation or partner advisory confirming this?
I’d appreciate any information or firsthand experience. Thanks!
Trying to setup SSO using Microsoft Entra ID.
I think I cant use this method because our site is not publicly accessible.
How else can I use Microsoft Entra ID as SSO ?
For those, who switched from VMware to Nutanix, what was your price per core for NCI? And for which edition (NCI Pro, Ultimate or even NCP)?
I heard that Nutanix did a bad job in the past with high cores prices, because of their sellers being greedy, but this has been flagged internally, apparently.
Been told about fair prices since this year, where Nutanix started with higher discounts and offered NCI pro for 140$/core and NCI Ultimate for 180$/core.
And their VDI and edge licensing is often 50% cheaper because of the licensing metric (edge uses "per VM" licensing, VDI uses "CCU" licensing no matter how many physical cores).
What's your experience?
PS: VVF is back in soume countries for 200$, but only for smaller customers, and a maximum of 20% discount or something like that. Mostly more expensove than VCF. Anyone?
Warning for those with HPE servers. Before you apply the latest SPP2026050000.2026 you need to first apply the ESXi "j" patch. This is likely true of Dell and other vendors.
If you do not, you will end up with errors such as this and ESXi will fail to be recognized as a valid boot partition (and the system isn't obvious, this came via the iLO logs / email alerts):
Secure Boot Authentication Failure - The image on Slot 2 Port 1 failed authentication and was not executed.
ACTION: Update the image to known good trusted version. If current image is trusted, then update the Secure Boot allowed database (DB) with the certificate or image hash.
The fix is easy, but a waste of time and can be avoided. You must boot the the currently installed ESXi ISO, select your boot partition, once it is detected use the "Upgrade and preserve data" option. Note that this can even blow up if you patch to "j" and also SPP2026050000.2026 at the same time. You must do "j" first and reboot clean before patching with SPP2026050000.2026 (ask me how I know).
Also note that if you patch to "j" then you cannot use the OEM HPE ISO as there isn't one for "j" (they often skip a number of releases) and the latest OEM HPE IOS for "i" will fail to work as a recovery media and you'll have to use the generic "j" ISO.
VMware, now broadcom, had a script to fix an issue. They seem to have completely wiped it from the internet, I believe it is deprecated, but I am looking to get my hands on a copy. Is there any chance someone still has a copy saved and would share? I don't want the .sh version, it needs to be the .ps1
that is all.
the install process is garbage
bringing in ops failed and broke ops in the process
the list keeps growing.
I decided to retire instead.
If yes, what are the steps? First install macOS 26 then upgrade to macOS 27 from there? Do I have to install any kind of Device Support on the host 15.7.7? Thanks
Asking the brains trust for help before I raise an SR.
Vcf 5.2.3.0 is target. Version
I'm building an FC San backed management cluster, 3x hosts no vsan so have to use brownfield. The first onboarding worked but the nsx deploy failed as the script was looking for a bundle that didn't exist for nsx that didn't match what was needed ( download site had 4230 and 424 but it wanted 4233)
As the cluster now exists i have to use the nsxdeploy instead, and that's failing with a file not found error.
I've debugged the scripts and its never getting past the vcenter connection for the bound vcenter against the management cluster on the sddc.
It's there a way to "unbind" the vsphere from the sddc so I could repeat the onboarding now that I have the right parameters?
I'm not sure if the esxi hosts are touched but I took a snapshot of vcenter prior to the onboarding. So I was thinking to revert that, then restart the onboarding once, clean, using the right nsx bundle.
Would value the brains trust thoughts on above?