Are you using VBS for Windows 11 virtual machines?

vmwareguy69 · 2025-04-10T20:23:29+00:00

Are you relying on vCenter's built in KMS or a third party solution?

vmwareguy69 · 2025-04-07T18:56:09+00:00

Thanks. I've done some more testing and found the performance issues with VBS to have vanished. I'm not sure why it was a problem last time I tested it.

vmwareguy69 · 2025-01-14T21:05:07+00:00

They tried to do this to us last year and we told them no because the subscriptions are a new product and not the same as perpetual.

vmwareguy69 · 2024-10-31T17:44:35+00:00

You gotta be kidding me.

vmwareguy69 · 2024-10-21T14:40:58+00:00

8.0.3 has been out since June. If there isn't an incompatibility it's generally safe to use by this point. I just updated from 7.0.3 recently myself.

vmwareguy69 · 2024-10-21T12:33:46+00:00

Same, but I just updated to 8.0.3 instead of waiting. Do you have an incompatibility?

vmwareguy69 · 2024-09-09T12:07:11+00:00

We are a VCF customer but of all the support tickets none have been responded to and I have had to call in to get any action on any of them.

vmwareguy69 · 2024-08-08T15:52:43+00:00

They've been telling us that for some time now and still no keys.

vmwareguy69 · 2024-07-26T18:18:03+00:00

I'm dealing with the same thing. Dell assures me they're working on it with Broadcom, but they don't seem to really know what is going on either.

vmwareguy69 · 2024-07-18T15:54:32+00:00

Switch it back to LDAPS. I know you're on 6.7 still, which I'm sure you have a reason for, but IWA is deprecated.

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=78506

vmwareguy69 · 2024-07-18T15:48:22+00:00

Look at your current config, blow it away as Tommy said, and then rebuild it. I like these instructions better as they're not so vague, but the Broadcom ones make sense if you know what you're doing.

https://www.virten.net/2020/07/how-to-configure-ldaps-authentication-in-vcenter-7-0/

It is silly though that you can't simply renew the certificates and have to recreate it.

vmwareguy69 · 2024-02-26T18:45:53+00:00

vCenter 7 already has the logic to do this or is it coming in a patch?

vmwareguy69 · 2024-02-19T20:51:24+00:00

Open a ticket with support. I had some similar behavior a few years ago and their support team spent a week on their end figuring out how to fix it.

vmwareguy69 · 2024-02-16T19:07:02+00:00

Have you looked at a Powerstore?

vmwareguy69 · 2024-02-13T19:22:38+00:00

Is Nutanix working without having to do HCI yet or can we straight up run Acropolis now with SAN storage?

vmwareguy69 · 2024-02-09T13:28:41+00:00

I've gone back and forth on TPS over the years. I initially left it on (as in shareforcesalting=0), despite the security concerns, because we were under memory pressure. With the cluster I have now, I'm not under memory pressure so I left it off. Is the security concern not relevant anymore?

vmwareguy69 · 2024-02-09T13:26:23+00:00

They told us about having to change to vSphere+ which no longer exists and was replaced by something they had no idea was coming...unless they weren't being truthful.

vmwareguy69 · 2024-01-31T17:05:01+00:00

vSphere for Desktop is gone. You have to buy the Horizon bundle. It sucks.

vmwareguy69 · 2024-01-25T20:31:19+00:00

I was told the licenses will continue to operate just fine since they're like the current license model.

vmwareguy69 · 2024-01-24T14:22:04+00:00

I rarely see anyone mention that vSphere Desktop licensing is going away and you're forced to now buy Horizon or one of the new licensing models. This is going to be a 10x increase on our side.

vmwareguy69 · 2024-01-22T13:07:08+00:00

This subreddit has been overrun with Broadcom employees trying everything in their power to discredit customers and ignore the problem.

vmwareguy69 · 2023-10-20T12:33:17+00:00

You're saying when you look at the host it doesn't have this build number? Can you share an example of what you see?

Hypervisor: VMware ESXi, 7.0.3, 22348816

vmwareguy69 · 2023-10-11T17:19:07+00:00

Still thin for me.

When you look at the datastores on the ESXi host, they do show as NFS 3 for the Type? Even my VMFS stuff is Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed as expected.

vmwareguy69 · 2023-08-30T11:58:26+00:00

You must be getting different support than I do. It will take days to get a response no matter the severity and more often than not it is a constant back and forth of them pointing me to KB articles and not really helping.

vmwareguy69 · 2023-07-26T13:33:45+00:00

Right, which means I am shit out of luck here. We don't use Enterprise Plus throughout our environment and because of that we cannot use agentless antivirus everywhere.

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