Using Ansible to Harden ESXi 6.5
Been working on a project that requires me to automate the hardening of my ESXi 6.5 hypervisor using Ansible by following the VMware Hardening Guidelines. So I've been wondering whether there's anyone...
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Cannot retrieve service content using...
Hi laurentsd, we met a serious problem if we tried to get service content using vim25 in Java service when developing our plugin in vSphere HTML5 client(html-client-sdk: 5097204), the following...
View ArticleSnapshot Management from CentOS 7
We've been listing, creating, and deleting snapshots from CentOS 5 with VIX and Perl. I'm running into issues running the same utilities on CentOS7. Is there a better tool for snapshot management...
View ArticlevixDiskLibSample in VDDK 6.5 won't compile
Trying to compile vixDiskLibSample in VDDK 6.5 and getting errors.I have not had this problem with other (previous) versions of VDDK (notably 5.5.4, 5.5.5, 6.0.0, 6.0.1 and 6.0.2).Using Microsoft...
View Articlevprobes start issue (windows)
Goodmorning I'm using VMware workstation pro 12 on windows 10 and I'm trying to extract some information from the hypervisor with the vprobe script.I've added the vprobe.allow = "TRUE" on the following...
View ArticleHow to assign same signature to a DS using...
I am unable to use "resolveMultipleUnresolvedVmfsVolumes" as it requires HostSystemStorage reference and "HostUnresolvedVmfsResolutionSpec". I am unable to find correct way to populate the spec file it...
View ArticleUnable to delete Network folder from Vmware Vsphere 6.5 vcenter
Hi, I am currently using the latest vim25.jar java version (https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?productId=614&downloadGroup=VS-AUTOMATIONSDK-JAVA65).I have 6.5 Vcenter. When I tried to...
View ArticleVDDK open disk failed when using nbdssl
I am testing the vddk library. The version is 6.5. When I run the sample program to connect to an esxi server 6.5 to get disk info using the following command: ./vix-disklib-sample -info -host...
View ArticleNewbie Question! Mac missing /var/lib/vmware directory
Apologies in advance for the newbie question....I'm confused because I've set up a Mac environment previously to work with the webclient SDK without this issue.I'm using a new Mac install (Sierra), and...
View ArticleConsole Proxy for VS6.5 (authenticated..)
Hi all, We are in the process of upgrading our/planning the rollout of 6.5 - currently on 5.5.With the loophole of having the webconsole on the jetty powered service being closed - where by you could...
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Console Proxy for VS6.5 (pre-authenticated)
Hi all, We are in the process of upgrading our/planning the rollout of 6.5 - currently on 5.5.With the loophole of having the webconsole on the jetty powered service being closed - where by you could...
View ArticleVDDK can't connect to ESXi 6.5
Unable to get any version of VDDK to connect to ESXi 6.5. Following are the outputs from VDDK 5.5.4 and 6.0.2. Tried VDDK installed on Windows 7 and Windows 10. Similar command works fine with ESXi 5.5...
View ArticleDouble scrollbars on the configure/monitor tabs with 6.5 SDK samples
Using the "chassis-b" sample from the 6.5 SDK ("vsphere-client-sdk-6.5.0-4602587.zip"), the "Configure" and "Monitor" tab extensions have double scrollbars - see attached screenshot. This is easily...
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How to set a condition on a portlet based on a custom property/relationship?
I'm trying to add a portlet to HostSystem that only appears if there is a relationship to one of my custom objects. However, I can't find a way to achieve this. I tried various syntaxes to add a...
View ArticleFC multipath storage connected ESXi 6.5 got "Failing registration of device...
We are working on a new FC multipath storage and encounter the ESXi 6.5 FC multipath issue. Description:When connecting the storage to ESXi 6.5, "Failing registration of device 'naa.60xxxx'" errors are...
View ArticleSSL Exception when using IP address as --servername: Host name does not match...
SCENARIOWhen attempting to run the command line sample: $java -ea -cp target/vsphere-samples-6.5.0.jar vmware.samples.vcenter.vm.list.ListVMs --server servername --username username --password password...
View ArticleHow to instal vim-cmd and vmkfstools in my linux machine ?
HiI have a script which converts a .iso to a vm image. The script makes use of vmkfstools and vim-cmd commands . When I execute the script in my linux machine, I get an error -bash: vmkfstools: command...
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customization of Linux root password
Is there anything in the API for customizing the root password in a Linux vm the same way the Windows admin password can be set?
View ArticleHow to correctly use VimPortType for vCenter server VMODL API communication
Hello. I'm working on a vSphere client plugin using the HTML SDK and I checked the vsphere-wssdk-service project included in the SDK as one of the examples where VimService and VimPortType classes are...
View ArticleError: Unsupported plugin dependency type css on vCenter version 6.0.0.2559267
We started to build some parts of our plugin in HTML and noticed that in vcenter version 6.0.0.2559267, the flex part of our plugin deploys fine, but the HTML views show this error. It works fine on...
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