New KB articles published for week ending 12/27/14

VMware App Volumes

App Volumes licenses delivered to your My VMware Account (2101494)

Date Published: 12/23/2014

VMware ESXi

Tasks and events tab shows error message every ten minutes: Cannot login root @ IP address (2030304)

Date Published: 12/22/2014

vMotion compatibility check does not fail on some Virtual Machines using physical bus sharing (2090933)

Date Published: 12/23/2014

Creating a snapshot of virtual machine fails with the error: An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM Snapshot-VM (2099860)

Date Published: 12/22/2014

Clicking Manage Paths in the virtual machine properties fails with the error: There is no multipath configuration for this LUN (2097287)

Date Published: 12/22/2014

After upgrading ESXi 5.1 Update 1 to ESXi 5.5 GA, VMware tools upgrading causes VMXNET3 driver failure (2087596)

Date Published: 12/23/2014

Log messages generated by executing: Reset System Configuration (2096854)

Date Published: 12/25/2014

Backup fails due to Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) licensing error (2098050)

Date Published: 12/24/2014

ESXi 5.5 host fails with a purple diagnostic screen and reports the error: VFC_TreePurgeWrite (2100948)

Date Published: 12/22/2014

VMware Mirage

Launching VMware Mirage CLI displays an error: log4net:ERROR [RollingFileAppender] Unable to acquire lock on file C:\Program Files\Wanova\Mirage Management Server\logs\streaming.log (2095835)

Date Published: 12/26/2014

VMware NSX for vSphere

Configuring Layer 2 Bridging on a Distributed Logical Router in NSX for vSphere 6.1.2 fails with error: User is not authorized to access object (2099414)

Date Published: 12/24/2014

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone

Converting a machine in VMware vCenter Converter fails with the error: SQL_CANTOPEN: unable to open database file (2096873)

Date Published: 12/23/2014

VMware vCenter Server

File generation procedure for the Certificate Automation Tool (2097388)

Date Published: 12/23/2014

Adding a host to an EVC cluster in vCenter Server fails with the error: Operation timed out (2097284)

Date Published: 12/22/2014

Migrating an ESXi management interface from vSphere Standard Virtual Switch to vSphere Distributed Virtual Switch fails and results in a rollback (2096691)

Date Published: 12/22/2014

VMware vCenter Server Appliance

SDRS causing the growth of VPX_SDRS_STATS_VM and VPX_SDRS_STATS_DATASTORE tables in vCenter Server database (2090463)

Date Published: 12/25/2014

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager

Configuring VMware vSphere Replication fails for a virtual machine that is configured with SCSI Bus sharing (2087852)

Date Published: 12/24/2014

VMware vCenter Support Assistant

VMware vCenter Support Assistant 5.5 fails to retain hostname (2100433)

Date Published: 12/23/2014

VMware vCloud Air

Creating a virtual machine with the End User role in VMware vCloud Air is not possible (2052057)

Date Published: 12/22/2014

VMware vCloud Director

Changing storage policy for a vCloud virtual machine fails with error: The operation failed because no suitable resource was found. DATASTORENAME (2097582)

Date Published: 12/25/2014

VMware vCloud Director for Service Provider

How to use the agentless ESXi hosts for vCloud Director 5.5.x and later versions (2092713)

Date Published: 12/23/2014

Downloading VMware vCloud Director for Service Provider for the end-user fails (2099309)

Date Published: 12/24/2014

Downloading VMware vCloud Director 5.6 for Service Providers (2101364)

Date Published: 12/24/2014

VMware View

Migrating composer database from one server to another server (2051921)

Date Published: 12/23/2014

Cannot change Windows Wallpaper on View desktops (2100962)

Date Published: 12/25/2014

Mitigating the Microsoft Schannel vulnerability on Windows XP desktops in View (2101381)

Date Published: 12/22/2014

VMware Virtual SAN

Adding alarms to vCenter Server for VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) monitoring (2091347)

Date Published: 12/24/2014

VMware vRealize Automation

Editing or deleting the first created credential for endpoints in VMware vRealize Automation 6.1.x fails with the error: A Primary key field specified via the keyFieldName property in not found in the underlying data source (2092326)

Date Published: 12/26/2014

Configuring SSO settings in VMware vRealize Automation 6.2.x fails with the error: Trying to access remote SSO on host %host% and port 7444, but the returned host is %differenthost% and port 7444 (2096619)

Date Published: 12/22/2014

VMware Remote Console (VMRC) connections are blank when connecting from vRealize Automation to a vSphere endpoint (2097927)

Date Published: 12/22/2014

VMware vRealize Configuration Manager

Import/Export tool for VMware vRealize Configuration Manager fails to import a document with the error: The object with name “ecm_fn_is_string_in_text_s” already exists (2099460)

Date Published: 12/23/2014

VMware vRealize Operations Manager (Standalone)

Configuration Maximums for VMware vRealize Operations Manager Standalone or Installable (2097551)

Date Published: 12/22/2014

VMware vRealize Orchestrator

Running the Add a PowerShell host workflow for adding the powershell host fails with the error: Null (68) (Dynamic script module name; add a PowerShell host #16) (2099386)

Date Published: 12/22/2014

VMware vSphere Replication

Unable to update CA SSL certificate for VMware vSphere Replication appliance (2087590)

Date Published: 12/24/2014

VMware vSphere Storage Appliance

vCenter administrator account needed for VMware vSphere Storage Appliance 5.5 (2101285)

Date Published: 12/23/2014

VMware vSphere Web Services SDK

How to create a virtual machine through SDK API/method call (2017436)

Date Published: 12/23/2014

VMware Workspace Portal

Active Directory users without the mail attribute are not synced to VMware Workspace Portal (2099706)

Date Published: 12/24/2014