Our current domain controllers are Windows Server 2016 Datacenter. They are virtual and have the following settings:
2 CPU, 4GB RAM, 90 GB HDD Thick Provisioned, 1 NIC (E1000). They are NOT running VMware tools.
If we try to install VMware tools, the tools install fine and run ok but it is almost impossible to log back into the machine. The machine comes up to the login screen and when you enter a username and password and hit enter, nothing happens. The machine gets stuck in some state where some services are running and some are not. DNS and DHCP servers do not always work. After resetting the machine anywhere from 5-30 times, it is possible to login.
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We have built multiple new domain controllers. If we start with a fresh server install with VMware Tools and promote it to a DC, the problem shows up. If we start with a fresh server install without VMware tools and promote it to a DC, there are no problems. Once promoted to a DC, if we add VMware tools, the problems start again. We know this is unique to our environment/domain. I built a new test domain with Server 2019 servers with VMware tools and everything works fine.
All of this started in VMware 6.5 and has persisted after upgrading to 7.0 u3. (Yes, I know this has been recalled but we have not had any issues. We are discussing rolling back to 7.0 u2 but since we went from 6.5 to 7.0 u3, I'm not sure what our options really are at the moment [topic for another post]). I have no idea what in our environment might have triggered this but hoping someone has seen this and has a solution. So far I haven't been able to find a solution and neither have MCSEs from two different MSPs.
We have been running multiple DCs under Windows Server 2016 Standard without seeing this behavior. ESXi of both 6.5 and 7.0 involved. Unfortunately not apples to apples (Datacenter vs. Standard), but close.
Perhaps a GPO setting that is applying to your DCs that is causing this behavior? It sounds like a VM running Windows Server 2016 Datacenter does not suffer this issue, even with VMWare Tools installed. So the change to a DC has to be the trigger.
I'm curious what you find out. I too run DC's on standard 2016, no issues. I am still U2 instead of U3, but you would think that is a close enough comparison. If not Group policies, maybe AntiVirus or some such thing. When you can't log on how is the networking? Does it ping? Can your RDP to it ? Is it stuck with Netlogon service? Maybe something in the Event Viewer would give a clue on what is not working network wise.
I have a Windows 2008 R2 X64 server running on Vmware ESXi. Originally it was running on Hyper-V, but I have since converted the VHD to a VMDK and migrated to ESXi. I also installed VMware Tools. This server is our TeamCity continuous integration server, performing nightly builds of software packages that my company develops. Since the move, occasionally certain files that the build process should delete fail to delete due to "The file is in use by another process". We are trying to delete the files using the CMD del command. Sometimes it works, others not. I fired up process monitor with the path of the directory where failures occur as the PATH filter (PATH contains C:\work ). I see a LOT of vmtoolsd.exe Createfile, FileSystemControl, and CloseFile operations occurring in quick succession, repeatedly. Has anyone heard of Vmware tools causing filesystem locks on Windows guests?
Also, due to running out of space, this directory C:\work, was recreated by renaming it to C:\work-old, adding a second virtual disk E:\, and mounting the disk to the directory C:\work , then copying the contents of C:\work-old to the newly mounted C:\work. I see Vmware Tools is constantly performing FSCTL_Get_Reparse_Point on C:\work.
UPDATE:I disabled the VMware tools service last night and it still happened. I believe the C:\work directory, which is a share that is actually the E: drive mounted as a directory to C:\work is being accessed by 2 remote hosts simultaneously and perhaps this is causing a lock on the directory by the first host. This did not used to happen before I mounted the E: to the work directory,, Are there any known issues with file locking and volumes mounted as directories?
It turns out that the problem was not caused by VMware Tools. It is more likely that the windows Application Experience service caused this issue, but I am not positive. I ultimately resolved the issue by adding a virtual disk and creating a new share, then pointing the build to look to this share. If the build step leaves an open handle for this share, it wont affect the subsequent step which does not refer to that share again (previously everything was done from the same share, so if there was an open handle, file operations would fail).
I'm attempting to enable the SharePoint and SQL granular functionality within our VMware backups, so on one system that was otherwise working as expected with NetBackup under the default VMTools configuration, I installed the Symantec VSS provider. As expected, the installation process uninstalled the VMware Snapshot Provider (and I have verified that it is no longer installed within \Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\Drivers, and its Windows registry entry is gone), and following a reboot of the VM, the Symantec VSS was reportedly successfully installed. However, backup attempts are now failing to quiesce, which was functional before I underwent this process.
I'd seen that article, but its issue centers around heavy I/O on the guest VM, and this one is currently using only 1% of its 6 vCPUs, and 11% of its 36GB of RAM. NetBackup doesn't even have a chance to do much of anything, because even a manually-run quiesced snapshot initiated directly from vCenter errors out (with the message listed above, "Cannot quiesce this virtual machine because VMware Tools is not currently available") within 36 ms of starting. This isn't a timeout issue.
Just for good measure, today we started the entire process over from the beginning by uninstalling everything (VMTools and Symantec VSS), reinstalling VMware Tools without VSS, rebooting, and then installing Symantec VSS, which went smoothly, because it recognized that the VMware VSS provider was not installed. However, that has changed nothing, we're still having the same problem, and we won't be able to get another reboot outage (which shouldn't be necessary, but then, nothing else has worked either) for another week.
I don't think so, the snapshot works with VMware tools version 9354 e doens not works with version 10272...Other think you cannot create snapshot from vmware console, for me it can be a vmware problem, probably with vmware tools version. have you opportunity to check these articles
We've had our two virtual servers migrated to a new service provider and they converted them from VMware to Hyper-V. This left behind "VMware Tools", which should be removed. But from "Apps & features", when I choose to uninstall it, it shows a small uninstallation dialog for a second or two, then it vanishes and nothing else happens.
When I deploy VMware Tools using Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, I use the MSI method to uninstall VMware tools. The appropriate command can be found in the uninstall keys within the Windows Registry, which is located here from a path perspective: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
so far, no luck with any of these workarounds. I no longer have access to vmware support and all my VMs were migrated to AWS with this tools installed and they are getting flagged as outdated and a security vuln by security but I can't get rid of them. any other suggestion would be appreciated.
I have an issue when I try to do an in-place upgrade from Windows Server 2019 to Windows Server 2022. Installation itself starts, run okay but after restarting, system reverts to older version of Windows and I got the following errors:
The final answer for me was an updated ISO. I was told by a MSFT person that this was a bug fixed in November update. I got the latest ISO (Feb 2023 at the time) and was able to do in place upgrade on all my remaining servers.
Removing or downgrading the VMware Tools has no effect. I did have success by using the Windows Server 2022 initial ISO released from Microsoft. Others have reported the same but using an ISO from 2021. I have not tested the latter.
Solution: If you have already installed VMware Tools 12.2.0, you must use an older Windows 2022 ISO to perform an upgrade. I can confirm that the initial Windows Server 2022 release ISO works for the upgrade. Others have reported success with year 2021 ISO releases.
Elsewhere, others had suggested deleting all other user profile references under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList, but I did not try this (seemed too radical). But I did try installing as the local administrator rather than as the domain account, and that made no difference, it still failed. Disabling updates was the solution.
It sounds like @Mike-2930 's answer would have worked for me too, but I ended up doing a similar-but-different thing to fix this same issue, because, unfortunately, I thought the answer at the top (which basically said "don't do upgrades") was the "accepted answer", and initially didn't scroll down and see the other more-helpful responses. For others who may encounter this issue, I hope this info helps you solve it quicker than me. Hopefully people vote up mine and/or @Mike-2930 's responses to push them above the less-helpful one that's currently "above the fold"
In my case, I had the RAS Connection Manager Administration Kit Windows component (that's what "RasCMAK" stands for) installed on our IIS Servers... so I went into Server Manager and uninstalled that component, then ran the upgrade again. The upgrade then completed successfully.
Again, @Mike-2930 's solution probably would've probably worked for me too, if I'd seen it the first time I found this thread, but my alternative solution above may be preferred for some, as it allows you to still updates as part of the upgrade process, reducing or eliminating the patching required after the upgrade completes. 152ee80cbc
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