Hi all,

I'm at my withs end... I have a Debian (Proxmox) VM running on my Mac using VMWare.
All worked perfectly in NAT mode, after that I've switch to Bridge, all kept working, until now...

The VM is currently in NAT-Mode, has internet, can ping the host.
- IP of the VM is: 172.16.131.137/24
- IP Proxmox is obtained via DHCP

The Host, cannot ping the VM, cannot SSH into the VM.

arp -a on my Mac gives me the following:

? (172.16.131.255) at ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff on bridge103 ifscope [bridge]

I've tried:

• Creating a new VM
• Creating new Network adapters in VMWare
• Switching between NAT - Bridge
• There are no firewalls running/blocking traffic
• Restarted Mac/VMWare/VM
• Gave Proxmox a static IP
• Tried several options found online, most of them applied to Windows though I don't think would be different to Mac...or at least not much.

Nothing of the above changed the behavior.
Host cannot access VM, VM can access internet and ping Host.

I can only think of something small that isn't right...but no clue what else can I do?
Open to try your suggestions.

Thank you in advance.

I have to admit I am a bit disappointed here. I went to the exam registration and asked if I could take the VVF exam since that’s all we are entitled to, Will never use full VCF (don’t even have the cores needed to run the full stack) and was told the exam voucher was only for VCF. Seems like a bit of an oversight to me.

VVF is a subset of your flagship product and quite a few folks I met / who asked questions in sessions were VVF folks like me.

The exam voucher is only good during the conference and there’s no way I can learn all the missing pieces in a few hours of downtime. Never used NSX , etc.

I will say that I’ve met some very cool folks and the first day sessions (while heavily VCF focused) were good and the Broadcom team at the booth were very helpful in answering a lot of questions I had for my migration path to 9.1

TL:DR let us take the VVF exam for free please.

This is my 15th year to the conference. I thought it was small blast year, the number of vendor booths this year is crazy small. I guess I’ll get fewer cold calls this year.
I picked up my backpack at noon since they started giving them out early but was told for shirts all they had were extra small, small and medium. There is no way 60% of the attendees can fit into those sizes. I know it’s just a cheap shirt, but seems crazy to me.

When trying to initialize Fortnite after installing VMWare on my Windows computer, I noticed that Fortnite appeared as "servers disconnected". I don't want to bother you with all the things I tried to solve this problem so I'm going straight to the solution.

The problem solved when I triggered down the process related to VMWare just when starting the system, so that triggered the cheat alert, or just made some uncompatibility with eachother. Turning off that automation and restarting the system solved my problem. I hope that helped.

If that's bad written it's bc English is not my first language :)

i am trying to create a LAN VoIP system using Asterisk in Ubuntu Server LTS hosted in VMWare. The host ping to the PBX server is 1.53ms average whilst the PBX server ping to a phone connected to the LAN is very high so much i can't register the phone to the server. Anyone who can help to solve this latency problem, i think im missing something.

I have an email that I use for my personal PC's Microsoft Account for Windows 11.

I got set up with a new VM for work, so I connected to the VPN and used RDP for the VM. When I went to Edge to sign into Outlook, it had saved my email that I use to sign into Windows 11 from my personal PC.

Anyone know why this would happen?

Don't need the portgroup, so we delete it. But in doing so, all the other portgroups I had created also disappeared.
The other vSwitches still show a vmkernel port that were associated with the portgroups that were created. But vmkernel adapters is also now 0.

But in the Networking \ Port groups page, there are now 0. There were 5 before I deleted "VM Network" portgroup.

This has occurred more than once, so not some random fluke.

Anybody else notice this?
The only other thing that had been done was to rename the existing vSwitch0 to Management via configstorecli (per article https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/426705/rename-a-vswitch-via-esxi-command-line-i.html)

EDIT: well wtf. more cosmetic issues, I guess? So for funsies, I created a new portgroup called "management" on the management vswitch. Poof, every single portgroup reappeared. Every vmkernel adapter reappeared.

EDIT2: I did open a support case. While creating the support case, the "AI Response" did provide a solution (which was what I had found on my own) but the cause does not line up with my circumstance. All my vmkernel ports are on their own portgroup, and the host has exactly 0 VMs. It also doesn't line up with any of the KBs I have found about cosmetic issues with host networking. So we will see what comes of the support case.

EDIT3: Response from support:

I checked internally and these are cosmetic issue and our team is already aware of this issue.
You might also see this error : "Virtual Switches" page fails to load with error "TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'config')" in ESX 9.1 Host Client UI
Those will be fixed in the Next release and its advised to use the vCenter to manage the ESXi host.

The article link for the vSwitch page reporting an error which I also saw once or twice and rebuilt the host thinking it was an actual problem: https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/451032

I may not be using the correct terminology, but I built some VM's that are on a standard mapped data store. Currently they are an OS disk and some of them have a secondary data disk. I need to migrate them to a raw SAN LUN. The LUN is created and I can see it if I try to add an RDM disk to the VM.

How does one go about migrating the disk, or is it better to just blow the VM away and start from scratch?

I'm googling but not finding much for this specific use case. Just how to migrate disks to different storage LUNs.

I have a client that is working on a VMware training opportunity in Florida in late September 2026. This is a skills development rather than certification focused event.

Due to potential Canada / US border 'challenges', I may need a skilled vSphere trainer to fill in for me. If you have strong teaching skills and solid technical experience with vSphere 8.0, please DM me with your contact info.

Thanks in advance.

I'm in the process of an evergreen deployment of VVF 9.1. I have two hosts in one site and a single host offsite. I want to setup my vSAN on my two local hosts and the witness appliance on my remote host. How does this work? I know that I can't deploy my witness appliance OVA without using vCenter. (it errors if you try deploying it directly on the ESXi host) But I'm supposed to use SDDC to deploy the vCenter, hence I'm going in circles.

Do I just deploy vCenter by itself instead of using SDDC, add my hosts to the cluster, deploy the vSAN witness host to my offsite host, and then use SDDC to add the remaining, necessary VMs to my fleet?

I appreciate any insight that readers can offer.

Estoy iniciando con VMware Vcd, la verdad quiero sacar el mejor provecho. Algún tip?

I would like to know if, in order to regain the Workspace ONE certification, it is necessary to retake the exam, or if simply taking the course is sufficient.

I installed Kali linux in VMware and everything is working fine but my cursor is invisible, it works i just cant see it. I tried with ChatGPT to fix it but its still not working, can anyone help me?

We deployed a greenfield VCF 9.1 fleet with the new Distributed Transit Gateway + VNA model (the "no edge cluster needed" VPC architecture). Everything works — hosts, overlay, edges, BGP, existing VPCs, SNAT — except the VNA cluster's datapath never comes alive, which breaks creating new VPCs (HTTP 500) and therefore Supervisor/VKS.

After a very long debugging session I can honestly say this is the most thoroughly diagnosed problem I've ever not fixed. The short version:

The smoking gun:

• The VNA's HA/BFD session (fp-eth0, link-local 169.254.x, VLAN encap on transport VLAN 72) stays DOWN forever with Diag: Concatenated Path Down (from NSXA) and Remote_discr: 0 — zero packets ever exchanged.
• pktcap-uw on all four fastpath vNIC switchports, both directions: zero frames. Not even ARP. The appliance simply never transmits on the fastpath.
• Meanwhile the management-plane BFD between the same two appliances is UP (captured it: BFDv1 Multihop, State Up) — it's the session carrying the "concat path down" diag to the peer. So BFD stack, appliances and network are all fine.
• The fp vNICs attach to NSX ports with attachment.type: PARENT + com.vmware.port.extraConfig.vpc.serviceport = parent. Child VIFs are never created (/api/v1/fabric/vifs shows mgmt + 4 parents, nothing else).
• Appliance accepts its HostConfig with error_code: 0 (vtep, transport_vlan 72, MTU 9000 all correct), NSXA marks fp-eth0 UP, adds the HA filter… and then datapathd just holds BFD down.

Why I'm sure it's not the network:

We deployed a second, completely fresh VNA cluster — new nodes, static mgmt IPs — and got byte-for-byte identical behavior. Even better: DRS put both new nodes on the same ESXi host, so the HA traffic never needs to touch a NIC, cable or switch — still dead. On top of that we verified/eliminated: trunk/VLAN config, jumbo MTU end-to-end (8972 DF vmkping passes), no ip redirects on the SVIs, NIC firmware (BCM5741x updated past the GENEVE checksum bug), ENS_INTERRUPT host switch mode, SpoofGuard/DFW (default ALLOW + exclusion list), IP block exhaustion, licensing (valid VCF Solution license), a degraded NSX manager cluster (found + fixed mid-hunt, 3/3 STABLE now), VCF Automation inventory sync, host config resync, node redeploys, and the "Activate NSX on DVPGs" step from KB 417250 (was indeed not activated — activating it changed nothing).

Regular NSX edges on the same VDS and fabric have all tunnels UP. Host↔host GENEVE is UP. It's exclusively the VNA serviceport datapath.

Environment: NSX 9.1.0.0200.25524173, ESX/vCenter 9.1.0, SDDC Manager 9.1.0.0400, physical Dell hosts (not nested), VDS ENS_INTERRUPT, Nexus 9K vPC ToR.

My questions:

1. Anyone actually running DTGW+VNA on 9.1.0.0200 on physical hosts? Does your get bfd-sessions show the VLAN-encap session UP, and do you see child VIFs on the serviceports?
2. Does anyone know what NSXA's "concatenated path" validation actually checks before the fastpath is allowed to transmit?
3. Is there a newer NSX 9.1.x build with a fix? Our depot tops out at 9.1.0.0200.

No support entitlement on this environment (lab/POC), so community wisdom is my best hope. Happy to share the full evidence bundle (API dumps, pcaps, appliance syslogs, host logs). And yes — the irony of the appliance-that-removes-the-need-for-edge-clusters being the only broken thing is not lost on me.

Distro repositories often ship open-vm-tools builds that lag significantly behind upstream releases, delaying kernel/driver fixes, memory balloon enhancements, and CVE patches.

I open-sourced vmware-tools-builder to automate building and distributing the latest upstream binaries without polluting the host environment:

- Containerized builds: Uses Docker to compile upstream source into standalone .deb and .rpm packages.

- Target OS matrix: Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL/Rocky/Alma (8 & 9), Fedora, and openSUSE.

- Fleet orchestration: Includes an Ansible role that automates deployment, handles migration from distro-managed packages, and validates the vmtoolsd service state.

- Distribution: Packaged and installable directly from Ansible Galaxy (giuliosavini.vmware_tools_builder).

Repository: https://github.com/GiulioSavini/vmware-tools-builder

Feedback, testing across different hypervisor versions, and GitHub stars are welcome.Distro repositories often ship open-vm-tools builds that lag significantly behind upstream releases, delaying kernel/driver fixes, memory balloon enhancements, and CVE patches.I open-sourced vmware-tools-builder to automate building and distributing the latest upstream binaries without polluting the host environment:- Containerized builds: Uses Docker to compile upstream source into standalone .deb and .rpm packages.- Target OS matrix: Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL/Rocky/Alma (8 & 9), Fedora, and openSUSE.- Fleet orchestration: Includes an Ansible role that automates deployment, handles migration from distro-managed packages, and validates the vmtoolsd service state.- Distribution: Packaged and installable directly from Ansible Galaxy (giuliosavini.vmware_tools_builder).Repository: https://github.com/GiulioSavini/vmware-tools-builderFeedback, testing across different hypervisor versions, and GitHub stars are welcome.

When switching from one guest machine to another, the display shrinks to about 1". Most of the time the guest resolution doesn't change, but sometimes it reduces to 800x600. The host resolution for that monitor is 1920x1200 (full 24"). VMware tools has been reinstalled multiple times on all guest machines. 3D acceleration is turn Off on all guests.
Image showing the issue, and various settings; https://app.screencast.com/JUUjFAQqK2YdE

If anyone knows how to resolve this, I would appreciate it.

Host:
Windows 11, with all updates.
Two - GeForce GTX 1650 4GB. Latest drivers installed from Nvidia.
Three monitors. 1920x1200, 3840x2160, 1920x1200. VMware only runs on the right monitor (1920x1200).
i7-12700K. Not using onboard video.

VMware > Preferences https://app.screencast.com/8QT6sRvvg7eEo

Guest:
Windows 10, VMware tools installed in all guests.
Guest > Virtual Machine Settings https://app.screencast.com/sEgscMycIGlc6

I'm forced to use a MacBook M4 Max, but I can run VMs inside it. I was thinking on running NixOS with KDE. I did a test, installed everything, and it's all working. The issue? The desktop environment is very sluggish. But when I run things like `glxgears` I see that at my mac the GPU is being used to the max. I'm wondering if anyone is having a good experience, at the desktop, using Linux from VMWare.

This might be a long shot. Has any one deployed VCF ops for logs 9.1 and successfully configured an external NFS target for archival.

I had my VxRails split brain on me while troubleshooting a node disconnection and HA agent failing on all 4 nodes.

Now I can only see the vSAN Datastore on 2 of the 4 nodes with the other 2 not being able to be re-add to the cluster. I need to get the VMs from the vSAN Datastore and on to an external server because our backup crapped out before this happened.

When I try to get them off the vSAN Datastore through WinSCP to my workstation and back up to the new External vCenter server, it works until I register the VM, then it doesn't because it can't enumerate the disks.

I realized I don't have the -flat.vmdk for any of my VMs in the vSAN datastore after looking through all the VMs.

Is there anything I can do?

Fellow (ANGRY) VMWare Gods!

We are upgrading to VCF Automation 9.1 from VCF Automation 9.0.1

We are using VCF Salt 8.18.3 (latest version).

I cant find whether its supported or not?

Has anyone been brave enough to upgrade to VCF 9.1 and confirm it works with VCF Salt (aria salt config) 8.18.3?

I'm trying to use a Windows 11 virtual machine in a GNS3 lab, but I can't power it on from GNS3.

I also tried starting the VM from the terminal using vmrun, but it asks me for the VM encryption password. When I enter the correct password, it still says the password is incorrect and refuses to start the VM.

The same issue happens if I clone the VM or create a snapshot. Basically, the encryption password is correct, but GNS3/vmrun still rejects it and the VM won't start.

Has anyone dealt with this before, especially with encrypted Windows 11 VMs using TPM in VMware Workstation pro 16 and GNS3?

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.