New KB articles published for week ending 1/24/15

My VMware

How to change your password in My VMware (2103054)

Date Published: 1/21/2015

Socialcast On Premise v2

Logging in to Socialcast or launching Socialcast from an Identity Provider fails with invalid SAML SSO response (2105170)

Date Published: 1/22/2015

VMware App Volumes

Increasing timeout for App Volumes Admin (2101667)

Date Published: 1/19/2015

Updating App Volumes Manager by changing the database credential (2101109)

Date Published: 1/21/2015

Increasing Logging Level for AppVolumes Manager (2101668)

Date Published: 1/23/2015

VMware App Volumes Manager lists RDSH server as unlicensed (2101881)

Date Published: 1/19/2015

Prompting for restart when assigning an AppStack or Writeable Volume (2103580)

Date Published: 1/20/2015

VMware ESX

Network connection fails during the vMotion of virtual machine on autodeployed stateless host (2101876)

Date Published: 1/21/2015

VMware ESXi

vMotion validation fails with the error: Unable to access file (2013907)

Date Published: 1/21/2015

When using DHCP for NFS vmkernel, datastores do not mount during boot in ESXi 5.5 (2097804)

Date Published: 1/19/2015

Pinging with jumbo frames fail even with correct configuration in ESXi 5.5 and reports the error: sendto() failed (Message too long) (2100502)

Date Published: 1/20/2015

Installation/Configuration of CoreOS vmx+vmdk image (2104303)

Date Published: 1/22/2015

Installing VIB on the ESXi Host fails with the error: The selected transaction requires NNN MB free space, however the maxium supported size is MMM MB (2099845)

Date Published: 1/19/2015

VMware EVO:RAIL

Configuring a new EVO:RAIL appliance fails at around 6% (2101449)

Date Published: 1/21/2015

VMware Horizon DaaS

New users added in Active Directory are not able to login for tenant (2102031)

Date Published: 1/20/2015

VMware Horizon Flex

Downloading an image from the Mirage Flex Server fails with the error: Failed to contact the restrictions management server (2103574)

Date Published: 1/19/2015

VMware Horizon Mirage

Mirage criticalControllerShimValidation failed for the downloaded image or CVD on this device (2102017)

Date Published: 1/21/2015

VMware Horizon View

View Composer Database upgrade completes with warnings (2102189)

Date Published: 1/19/2015

Using SmartCard Authentication by certain users in an Active Directory Group fails with the error: ‘You are not entitled to use this system’ (2103964)

Date Published: 1/21/2015

VMware Mirage

Disabling Mirage Hide System tray notification balloons (2099433)

Date Published: 1/21/2015

Mirage migration fails to join machine to organizational unit if the machine name already exists in domain (2095518)

Date Published: 1/19/2015

VMware NSX for vSphere

Viewing the virtual machine Summary tab in the vSphere Web Client fails with the error: status code =403, status message = [Forbidden] (2104443)

Date Published: 1/21/2015

Registering NSX Manager to vCenter Server or configuring the SSO Lookup Service fails with the error: nested exception is java.net.UnknownHostException (2102041)

Date Published: 1/21/2015

VMware ThinApp

Google Chrome fails when capturing Google Chrome with VMware ThinApp (2104409)

Date Published: 1/22/2015

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client 5.5 fails when converting a virtual machine in vCenter Server 5.5. (2102484)

Date Published: 1/21/2015

VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vApp)

The hostname of a vRealize Operations Manager 6.x node changes after initial deployment (2102200)

Date Published: 1/21/2015

VMware vCenter Orchestrator

Manually disable SSL v3 support (2103393)

Date Published: 1/21/2015

VMware vCenter Server

Understanding the Linked Mode options for vCenter Server 5.1.x and 5.5.x (2097684)

Date Published: 1/20/2015

C:\Windows\TEMP contains a large amount of .krb5 files that continue to grow (2101225)

Date Published: 1/21/2015

Disabling the vCenter Server Datastore Browser (2101567)

Date Published: 1/21/2015

VMware vCloud API

Optimizing Storage Placement When Creating VMs and Independent Disks With the vCloud API (2105352)

Date Published: 1/23/2015

VMware vCloud Automation Center

Security escalation while modifying the SAML authorization header and accessing privileged pages on the IAAS server (2105325)

Date Published: 1/22/2015

Security escalation while modifying the SAML authorization header and accessing privileged pages on the IAAS server (2105319)

Date Published: 1/22/2015

VMware vCloud Director

In VMware vCloud Director after creating an Org and provider VDC you get a system alert: Some datastores no longer support the storage profile (2099753)

Date Published: 1/21/2015

Deleting media in a VMware vCloud Director catalog fails with the error: The requested operation could not be executed because media “<ISONAME>” is mounted by VMs (2099856)

Date Published: 1/21/2015

VMware View

Logging into the View dashboard in a Cloud Pod Architecture environment fails with the error: You do not have sufficient privilege to view this information (2101801)

Date Published: 1/23/2015

Logging in to View RDS hosted application fails with the error: You are not entitled to use the system (2102037)

Date Published: 1/21/2015

Logging in to a VMware Horizon View desktop for the first time fails to download all of the files by Persona Management Profiles (2105270)

Date Published: 1/23/2015

Creating a new linked clone View desktop in a pool causes the View Composer to fail (2102656)

Date Published: 1/19/2015

VMware vRealize Automation

Slow response time is observed on the Items tab (2103923)

Date Published: 1/20/2015

Examples for customizing email templates in VMware vRealize Automation (2102019)

Date Published: 1/21/2015

Slow response time is observed on the Items tab (2103911)

Date Published: 1/20/2015

User Name and Password fields does not appear on the vRealize Automation login page (2102075)

Date Published: 1/21/2015

VMware vRealize Configuration Manager

While comparing machines using Compare Machines under Machine Group Compliance, all machines including ESX/ESXi hosts are displayed for comparison (2103494)

Date Published: 1/19/2015

VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vApp)

Only State and Uptime metrics are received for some or all SCOM resources (2096866)

Date Published: 1/19/2015

VMware vShield Endpoint

Installing VMware vShield Endpoint on the ESXi host fails with VC Error: The installation transaction failed (2104908)

Date Published: 1/20/2015

VMware vSphere Data Protection

Running a manual integrity check in VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) (2067701)

Date Published: 1/20/2015

Deployment of vSphere Data Protection external proxy fails with the error: Failed to Install a new VM Image proxy (2102039)

Date Published: 1/19/2015

VDP appliance goes in to Admin mode and dpnctl reports: gsan status: degraded (2095746)

Date Published: 1/19/2015

Obtaining VDP Error (event) code and description (2102376)

Date Published: 1/21/2015

VMware vSphere Replication

Reprotect fails with the error: VR synchronization failed for VRM group: Remote group is in passive replication state (2095973)

Date Published: 1/19/2015

Replication configuration in vSphere Replication 5.8 fails with the error: Exception Invalid datastore format (2099953)

Date Published: 1/23/2015

Viewing historical data on vSphere Replication 5.8 through the vSphere Web Client fails (2097541)

Date Published: 1/22/2015

VMware Workspace Portal

VMware Workspace 2.1 VA displays Undefined in initial setup with AD if left for 6 hours or more (2102694)

Date Published: 1/22/2015