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Error adding ESXi host in environments with multiple vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller behind a load balancer You set up an environment with multiple vCenter Server instances and multiple Platform Services Controller instances behind a load balancer. Workaround: Restore the Platform Services Controller node and reboot vCenter Server again, or start all services from the command line using the following command: service-control --start --all.

This issue is rare, but it has been observed. Workaround: None. This issue has been observed when the DNS did not resolve localhost to the loopback address in an IPv6 environment.

Reviewing your network configuration may assist in resolving this issue. If, after 8 hours or more, you attempt to log in from the same browser tab, the following error results. However, the virtual machine can be added in other ways, for example, when the encrypted virtual machine is added by a backup operation using file-based backup and restore.

As a result, the virtual machine is locked invalid. This is a security feature that prevents an unauthorized encrypted virtual machine from accessing vCenter Server. Unregister the virtual machine and register it back using the vSphere API. Error while communicating with the remote host during virtual machine encryption task You perform a virtual machine encryption operation such as encrypting a virtual machine or creating a new encrypted virtual machine. Your cluster includes a disconnected ESXi host.

The following error results. An error occurred while communicating with the remote host. Automatic failover does not happen if Platform Services Controller services become unavailable If you run Platform Services Controller behind a load balancer, failover happens if the Platform Services Controller node becomes unavailable.

If Platform Services Controller services that run behind the reverse proxy port fail, automatic failover does not happen. These services include Security Token Service, License service, and so on. Workaround: Take the Platform Services Controller with the failed service offline to trigger failover.

Cannot establish trust connection. The command does not upgrade the bootloader and it does not persist signatures. When you enable secure boot after the upgrade, an error occurs. In this case, the secure boot process cannot verify the signatures for the old VIB, and fails. Secure boot cannot be enabled under these conditions.

Reinstall the ESXi host to enable secure boot. However, after an upgrade, the service is enabled on port the Secure Token Server port by default. Having SSLv3 enabled might make your system vulnerable to certain attacks.

Workaround: For an embedded deployment, disable SSLv3 in the server. For a deployment with an external Platform Services Controller, determine whether any legacy vCenter Server systems are connected, and upgrade those vCenter Server systems. Open the server. Error when cloning an encrypted virtual machine with one or more unencrypted hard disks When you clone an encrypted virtual machine, the following error results if one or more of the hard disks of the virtual machine is not encrypted.

The operation is not supported on the object. The clone process fails. Even if you do not make changes to the advanced settings, the clone process succeeds. Mismatch occurs for shared clusterwide option during host profile compliance check, During a host profile compliance check, if a mismatch occurs because of the shared clusterwide option, the device name is displayed for the Host value or for Host Profile value.

Workaround: Treat the message as a compliance mismatch for the shared clusterwide option. Host Profile remediation fails if host profile extracted from one vSAN cluster is attached to a different vSAN cluster If you extract a host profile from a reference host that is part of one vSAN cluster and attach it to a different vSAN cluster, the remediation apply operation fails.

Workaround: Before applying the host profile, edit the profile's vSAN settings. The cluster UUID and datastore name must match the values for the cluster on which the profile is attached. After applying the host profile and rebooting the host, Lockdown Mode is disabled on the host.

Workaround: After applying the host profile and rebooting the host, manually enable Lockdown Mode for the host. Compliance errors for host profiles with SAS drives after upgrading to vSphere 6. Workaround: Disable the Device is shared clusterwide configuration option for host proiles with SAS drives before remediating.

Host Profile batch remediation fails for hosts with DRS soft affinity rules A batch remediation performs a remediate operation on a group of hosts or clusters. Host Profiles uses the DRS feature to automatically place hosts into maintenance mode before the remediate operation. However, only hosts in fully automated DRS clusters that have no soft affinity rules can perform this operation. Hosts that have a DRS soft affinity rule fail remediation because this rule stops the hosts from entering maintenance mode, causing remediation to fail.

In the cluster, select the Configure tab, then select Settings. For hosts with the DRS soft affinity rule, manually move the host into maintenance mode, and then remediate the host. Workaround: Replace the bnx2x driver with an asynchronous driver. For information, see the VMware Web site. The vmkernel. Workaround: Replace the driver with the vSphere 6.

This behavior is observed when you set any kind of policy such as VMCrypt or tag-based policies. Workaround: To permanently keep the VM on the selected datastore, manually change the automation level of the VM. Add the VM to the VM overrides list from the storage cluster settings. The setting controls the ability of an ESXi host to mark a problematic path as dead and trigger a path failover. When added through the host profile, the setting is ignored.

Run the following commands to reclaim the device: esxcli storage core claimrule load esxcli storage core claiming reclaim -d naa. Workaround: Perform the clone operation without any policy change.

You can update the policy after completing the clone operation. The VMDK settings are honored at the virtual machine level. Pre-upgrade checks display error that the eth0 interface is missing when upgrading to vCenter Server Appliance 6. In addition there might be a warning displayed that if multiple network adapters are detected only eth0 is preserved. Please check the vminst.

Attempts to upgrade a vCenter Server Appliance or Platform Services Controller appliance with an expired root password fail with a generic message that cites an internal error During the appliance upgrade, the installer connects to the source appliance to detect its deployment type.

If the root password of the source appliance has expired, the installer fails to connect to the source appliance, and the upgrade fails with the error message: Internal error occurs during pre-upgrade checks. This problem occurs due to missing dependency shared library path.

Run the following commands. Upgrade from vCenter Server 6. This problem occurs because during extraction, some extraction tools change the default permission set on the vCenter Server Appliance ISO file. VMware vSphere vApp vApp and a resource pool are not available as target options for upgrading a vCenter Server Appliance or Platform Services Controller appliance When upgrading an appliance by using the vCenter Server Appliance installer graphical user interface GUI or the command line interface CLI , you cannot select vApp or a resource pool as the upgrade target.

The vCenter Server Appliance installer interfaces do not enable the selection of vApp or resource pool as the target for upgrade. When the upgrade finishes, move the newly deployed virtual machine manually as follows:. If you upgraded the appliance on an ESXi host that is part of a vCenter Server inventory or on a vCenter Server instance, log in to the vSphere Web Client of the vCenter Server instance and move the newly deployed virtual machine to the required vApp or resource pool.

If you upgraded the appliance on a standalone ESXi host, first add the host to a vCenter Server inventory, then log in to the vSphere Web Client of the vCenter Server instance and move the newly deployed virtual machine to the required vApp or resource pool.

Upgrading to vCenter Server 6. If you disable IPv6 after the installation and then attempt to upgrade vCenter Server to version 6. If you attempt to upgrade from a version that allowed duplicate names, the upgrade will fail.

Workaround: Rename any Distributed Virtual Switches or Distributed Virtual Portgroups that have the same names before you start the upgrade. When validation ends with failure on staged patches in a vCenter Server Appliance, the staged update packages are deleted To update your vCenter Server Appliance, first you must stage the available update patches before you install them to the appliance. If the validation of these staged packages fails, they are unstaged and deleted.

An attempt to validate the packages after an initial failure generates an error. The vCenter Server cannot be restarted once it has failed. Workaround: Unregister the problematic virtual machine from the host inventory and restart the vCenter Server. You might need to repeat this process if the failure happens again. Downloaded vSphere system logs are invalid This issue might occur if the client session expires while the downloading of system logs is still in progress.

The resulting downloaded log bundle becomes invalid. DownloadLogController Error downloading logs. ClientAbortException: java. SocketException: Broken pipe Write failed at org. Performing an Advanced Search with Tags might slow down vSphere Web Client in large environments The vSphere Web Client might be slow in large scale environments while performing an Advanced Search that includes Tags as part of the search construction.

This issue occurs while the search is occurring, and stops when the search completes. Commands for restarting the services: service-control --stop vmware-vpxd-svcs service-control --start vmware-vpxd-svcs. This degradation occured specifically in an environment with 10 vCenter Servers plus 4 PSCs and the maximum number of Web Client user accounts, but is expected to occur in all large environments over time.

If you do not intend to use the plug-in you may leave it disabled, or you can choose to re-enable it only when you need to use it.

If you experience performance degradation, disabling then re-enabling the plug-in should also temporarily reset the leak. The inventory trees, lists, and object details also do not reflect the new state. For example, if you power on on a VM, the Power On tasks do not appear in Recent Tasks, and the VM icon does not have a power on badge in the inventory trees, lists, and object detail.

The Web browser and vCenter Server are connected using WebSockets, and when the IP address of the browser machine changes, this connection is broken. Select Use TLS 1. Reason: Unable to update files in the library item. The source or destination may be slow or not responding.

If logged into the vSphere Web Client using an IP address, accept the certificate that is issued when logging in with a fully qualified domain name. Open the fully qualified domain name target to accept the certificate. Accepting the certificate permanently should be sufficient. Permission on tag cannot be viewed from another management node When logged in one vCenter Server management node in a multiple vCenter Server deployment, if you create a permission on a tag, it is not viewable when you log in to another management node.

Workaround: While tags are global objects and can be viewed across nodes, permissions on tags are only persistent locally and cannot be viewed across nodes. To view the tag permission, log into the vCenter Server where you created the permission. Logging into vSphere Web Client in incognito mode causes internal error Users can log into the vSphere Web Client when the browser setting for incognito mode is enabled, but receive the following internal error:.

Workaround: Disable incognito mode. This mode is not supported in the vSphere Web Client. Reload the vSphere Web Client to clear up any problems from the error and log back into the client. Content Library tasks are not displayed in Recent Tasks If you perform a Content Library task in the vSphere Web Client, such as uploading an item to the content library, syncing a library, or deploying a VM from the content library, the task might not be listed under Recent Tasks.

You can view all the tasks under the More Tasks lists, even if they are not listed under Recent Tasks. Assign tag operation fails when simultaneously attempting to create and assign a tag in multiple vCenter Server environment Normally, you can assign a tag to an object in the vSphere Web Client from the Tags setting in the object's Configure tab and automatically assign the tag to the selected object.

In an environment with multiple vCenter Server instances, the tag is created successfully, but the assign options fail and you receive an error message. Workaround: Create the tag first on the Tags setting and then assign it to the object. The following error displays: Provider method implementation threw unexpected exception.

Tags cannot be selected to assign. Workaround: Power on the Platform Services Controller node. Also check that all services on the Platform Services Controller node are running. The vSphere Client does not render the edit setting dialog box when a host or data center administrator edits a virtual machine The vSphere Client does not render the edit setting dialog when a host or data center administrator edits a virtual machine within that host or data center.

This happens because the host or data center administrator does not have profile-driven storage privilege. Workaround: Create a new role with host or data center administrator privileges and profile-driven storage privilege.

Assign this role to the current host or data center administrator. When creating or editing a virtual machine using the vSphere Client, adding an eighth hard disk causes the task to fail with error Creating or editing a virtual machine using the vSphere Client results in a task failure with the error: A specified parameter was not correct: unitNumber.

The user can instead use the vSphere Web Client. The vSphere Client supports up to 10, virtual machines and 1, hosts The vSphere Client is only supported up to 10, virtual machines and 1, hosts, which is lower than the vCenter limits. The same field is active and you can change it only in the vSphere Client. This is an expected behavior. Resizing this partition is not supported. You can specify only the HTTP proxy settings. After a successful vCenter Server Appliance update, running the version.

Workaround: Log out and log in as administrator to a new appliance shell session, and run the version. Workaround: In the the security options of the Windows settings on your system, add the fully qualified domain name and IP address of the vCenter Server to the list of local intranet sites. Uploading a file using the datastore browser fails when the file is larger than 4GB on Internet Explorer When you upload a file larger than 4GB using the datastore browser on Internet Explorer, your receive the error:.

For OVA templates only, extract the individual files using a tar utility For example: tar xvf. This includes the ovf file. Note: If only one virtual disk chunk fragment exists, rename it to the destination disk.

If there are multiple disks with chunk fragments, combine each to their respective destination disks For example: disk1. Remove the chunkSize attribute from the OVF descriptor. Export the OVF template. The export produces the OVF file. The manifest file is different than the file from step 1. Combine the files into a single OVA template using a tar utility for example, tar cvf.

On Linux for example: tar cvf vm. For each new tab, you might be prompted to accept a security certificate. This is due to the fact that there are templates still attached to the opaque network. Deploying OVF template causes error. No power on option available at completion of OVF deployment During an OVF or OVA deployment, the deployment wizard does not provide an option to automatically power on the virtualmachine when the deployment completes.

Workaround: This option is not available in vSphere 6. Manually power on the virtual machine after the deployment completes. When the deploy OVF wizard is started from global inventory list, error message not displayed on wizard's location page This issue occurs when you deploy an OVF template from any of the global inventory lists for example, virtual machine inventory list in the vSphere Web Client and navigate to the 'Select Name and Location' page of the wizard. If you do not choose a valid location, instead of the proper error message, the navigation buttons are disabled and you cannot proceed any further in the wizard.

When you arrive at the the Ready to Complete page and click Finish , the wizard remains open and nothing appears to occur. The Datastore value status for the virtual machine might display 'Getting data Negative number as the value of size parameter in fileref element.

Must be positive. Optional Reservation attribute is specified but no parameter provided in VM Hardware section. Not a number. Missing VirtualHardwareSection. InstanceID vssd element. Internationalization section Strings refers to missing file. Unknown prefix added to Internationalization section Strings. Workaround: Modify the descriptor so that it is a valid descriptor according to OVF Specification version 1. This occurs even when the device successfully reconnects to the virtual machine.

As a result, you cannot disconnect the device. Attempt to connect another USB device to the same virtual machine. Power off and then power on the virtual machine. The device is visible in the vSphere Web Client. The failure occurs because certificates are not trusted. If the URL being processed for the file upload operation is not already trusted, then the upload fails.

You should be prompted to accept the certificate associated with that URL. Trust and accept the new certificate, then retry the operation. Deploying an OVA template from URL containing a manifest or certificate file at the end might fail in a slow network environment When you deploy a large OVA template containing one or more manifest or certificate files at the end of the OVA template, the deployment might fail in a slow network environment with the following error: Unable to retrieve manifest or certificate file.

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