I used Karabiner Elements to create my own custom rules that allow me to do this.

First step is to install Karabiner Elements

Next, I prefer to use terminal, and navigate to ~/.config/karabiner/assets/complex_modifications

Inside that folder I vi filename ben-vmware-keyboard-mapping

*note, I only prefix my name on the filename so that I know it is my custom rule in Karabiner. It is completely optional!

Next, I paste the following into the file.

{
  "title": "Map Keypad when using VMWare Console",
  "rules": [
      {
      "description": "BEN: VMware Console Use Keypad 0 key as 0",
      "manipulators": [
        {
          "conditions": [
            {
              "bundle_identifiers": [
                "^com\\.vmware\\.vmrc$",
                "^com\\.apple\\.Terminal$",
                "^com\\.googlecode\\.iterm2$"
              ],
              "type": "frontmost_application_if"
            }
           ],
          "from": {
              "key_code": "keypad_0"
           },
          "to": [
            {
            "key_code": "0"
            }
           ],
           "type": "basic"
        }
       ]
    },
    {
      "description": "BEN: VMware Console Use Keypad 1 key as 1",
      "manipulators": [
        {
          "conditions": [
            {
              "bundle_identifiers": [
                "^com\\.vmware\\.vmrc$",
                "^com\\.apple\\.Terminal$",
                "^com\\.googlecode\\.iterm2$"
              ],
              "type": "frontmost_application_if"
            }
           ],
          "from": {
              "key_code": "keypad_1"
           },
          "to": [
            {
            "key_code": "1"
            }
           ],
           "type": "basic"
        }
       ]
    },
    {
      "description": "BEN: VMware Console Use Keypad 2 key as 2",
      "manipulators": [
        {
          "conditions": [
            {
              "bundle_identifiers": [
                "^com\\.vmware\\.vmrc$",
                "^com\\.apple\\.Terminal$",
                "^com\\.googlecode\\.iterm2$"
              ],
              "type": "frontmost_application_if"
            }
           ],
          "from": {
              "key_code": "keypad_2"
           },
          "to": [
            {
            "key_code": "2"
            }
           ],
           "type": "basic"
        }
       ]
    },
    {
      "description": "BEN: VMware Console Use Keypad 3 key as 3",
      "manipulators": [
        {
          "conditions": [
            {
              "bundle_identifiers": [
                "^com\\.vmware\\.vmrc$",
                "^com\\.apple\\.Terminal$",
                "^com\\.googlecode\\.iterm2$"
              ],
              "type": "frontmost_application_if"
            }
           ],
          "from": {
              "key_code": "keypad_3"
           },
          "to": [
            {
            "key_code": "3"
            }
           ],
           "type": "basic"
        }
       ]
    },
    {
      "description": "BEN: VMware Console Use Keypad 4 key as 4",
      "manipulators": [
        {
          "conditions": [
            {
              "bundle_identifiers": [
                "^com\\.vmware\\.vmrc$",
                "^com\\.apple\\.Terminal$",
                "^com\\.googlecode\\.iterm2$"
              ],
              "type": "frontmost_application_if"
            }
           ],
          "from": {
              "key_code": "keypad_4"
           },
          "to": [
            {
            "key_code": "4"
            }
           ],
           "type": "basic"
        }
       ]
    },
    {
      "description": "BEN: VMware Console Use Keypad 5 key as 5",
      "manipulators": [
        {
          "conditions": [
            {
              "bundle_identifiers": [
                "^com\\.vmware\\.vmrc$",
                "^com\\.apple\\.Terminal$",
                "^com\\.googlecode\\.iterm2$"
              ],
              "type": "frontmost_application_if"
            }
           ],
          "from": {
              "key_code": "keypad_5"
           },
          "to": [
            {
            "key_code": "5"
            }
           ],
           "type": "basic"
        }
       ]
    },
    {
      "description": "BEN: VMware Console Use Keypad 6 key as 6",
      "manipulators": [
        {
          "conditions": [
            {
              "bundle_identifiers": [
                "^com\\.vmware\\.vmrc$",
                "^com\\.apple\\.Terminal$",
                "^com\\.googlecode\\.iterm2$"
              ],
              "type": "frontmost_application_if"
            }
           ],
          "from": {
              "key_code": "keypad_6"
           },
          "to": [
            {
            "key_code": "6"
            }
           ],
           "type": "basic"
        }
       ]
    },
    {
      "description": "BEN: VMware Console Use Keypad 7 key as 7",
      "manipulators": [
        {
          "conditions": [
            {
              "bundle_identifiers": [
                "^com\\.vmware\\.vmrc$",
                "^com\\.apple\\.Terminal$",
                "^com\\.googlecode\\.iterm2$"
              ],
              "type": "frontmost_application_if"
            }
           ],
          "from": {
              "key_code": "keypad_7"
           },
          "to": [
            {
            "key_code": "7"
            }
           ],
           "type": "basic"
        }
       ]
    },
    {
      "description": "BEN: VMware Console Use Keypad 8 key as 8",
      "manipulators": [
        {
          "conditions": [
            {
              "bundle_identifiers": [
                "^com\\.vmware\\.vmrc$",
                "^com\\.apple\\.Terminal$",
                "^com\\.googlecode\\.iterm2$"
              ],
              "type": "frontmost_application_if"
            }
           ],
          "from": {
              "key_code": "keypad_8"
           },
          "to": [
            {
            "key_code": "8"
            }
           ],
           "type": "basic"
        }
       ]
    },
    {
      "description": "BEN: VMware Console Use Keypad 9 key as 9",
      "manipulators": [
        {
          "conditions": [
            {
              "bundle_identifiers": [
                "^com\\.vmware\\.vmrc$",
                "^com\\.apple\\.Terminal$",
                "^com\\.googlecode\\.iterm2$"
              ],
              "type": "frontmost_application_if"
            }
           ],
          "from": {
              "key_code": "keypad_9"
           },
          "to": [
            {
            "key_code": "9"
            }
           ],
           "type": "basic"
        }
       ]
    },
    {
      "description": "BEN: VMware Console Use Keypad = key as =",
      "manipulators": [
        {
          "conditions": [
            {
              "bundle_identifiers": [
                "^com\\.vmware\\.vmrc$",
                "^com\\.apple\\.Terminal$",
                "^com\\.googlecode\\.iterm2$"
              ],
              "type": "frontmost_application_if"
            }
           ],
          "from": {
              "key_code": "keypad_equal_sign"
           },
          "to": [
            {
            "key_code": "equal_sign"
            }
           ],
           "type": "basic"
        }
       ]
    },
    {
      "description": "BEN: VMware Console Use Keypad / key as /",
      "manipulators": [
        {
          "conditions": [
            {
              "bundle_identifiers": [
                "^com\\.vmware\\.vmrc$",
                "^com\\.apple\\.Terminal$",
                "^com\\.googlecode\\.iterm2$"
              ],
              "type": "frontmost_application_if"
            }
           ],
          "from": {
              "key_code": "keypad_slash"
           },
          "to": [
            {
            "key_code": "slash"
            }
           ],
           "type": "basic"
        }
       ]
    },
    {
      "description": "BEN: VMware Console Use Keypad * key as *",
      "manipulators": [
        {
          "conditions": [
            {
              "bundle_identifiers": [
                "^com\\.vmware\\.vmrc$",
                "^com\\.apple\\.Terminal$",
                "^com\\.googlecode\\.iterm2$"
              ],
              "type": "frontmost_application_if"
            }
           ],
          "from": {
              "key_code": "keypad_asterisk"
           },
          "to": [
            {
            "key_code": "asterisk"
            }
           ],
           "type": "basic"
        }
       ]
    },
    {
      "description": "BEN: VMware Console Use Keypad - key as -",
      "manipulators": [
        {
          "conditions": [
            {
              "bundle_identifiers": [
                "^com\\.vmware\\.vmrc$",
                "^com\\.apple\\.Terminal$",
                "^com\\.googlecode\\.iterm2$"
              ],
              "type": "frontmost_application_if"
            }
           ],
          "from": {
              "key_code": "keypad_hyphen"
           },
          "to": [
            {
            "key_code": "hyphen"
            }
           ],
           "type": "basic"
        }
       ]
    },
    {
      "description": "BEN: VMware Console Use Keypad + key as +",
      "manipulators": [
        {
          "conditions": [
            {
              "bundle_identifiers": [
                "^com\\.vmware\\.vmrc$",
                "^com\\.apple\\.Terminal$",
                "^com\\.googlecode\\.iterm2$"
              ],
              "type": "frontmost_application_if"
            }
           ],
          "from": {
              "key_code": "keypad_plus"
           },
          "to": [
            {
            "key_code": "plus"
            }
           ],
           "type": "basic"
        }
       ]
    },
    {
      "description": "BEN: VMware Console Use Keypad ENTER key as ENTER",
      "manipulators": [
        {
          "conditions": [
            {
              "bundle_identifiers": [
                "^com\\.vmware\\.vmrc$",
                "^com\\.apple\\.Terminal$",
                "^com\\.googlecode\\.iterm2$"
              ],
              "type": "frontmost_application_if"
            }
           ],
          "from": {
              "key_code": "keypad_return_or_enter"
           },
          "to": [
            {
            "key_code": "return_or_enter"
            }
           ],
           "type": "basic"
        }
       ]
    }

  ]
}

Next I open Karabiner Elements.

Next I click on Complex Modifications and click on Add Rule

Scroll down and look for the “Map Keypad when using VMWare Console” Section.

To add them all, scroll down and you will see an Enable All button!

Now you will see them enabled on the next screen

Now when I open the Remote Console I am able to use the numeric keypad !!

Migrate VMware Virtual Machine (VM) 2012_DC01.BINTRI.AD from ESXi Host-A to ESXi Host-B

The Migration was successful.

However after the VMotion completed, when I attempted to ‘ping’ my VM host IP Address it showed that there was a Duplicate IP address!

# ping -I ens192 172.16.241.187
PING 172.16.241.187 (172.16.241.187) from 172.16.242.196 ens192: 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 172.16.241.187: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.459 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.241.187: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.460 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 172.16.241.187: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=0.529 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.241.187: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=0.529 ms (DUP!)

I knew my client (2012_DC01.BINTRI.AD) only had a single ethernet interface.

Initially thinking someone grabbed my IP address on the network, I ran the following to display the MAC address

# arping -c 1 -I ens192 172.16.241.187
ARPING 172.16.241.187 from 172.16.242.51 ens192
Unicast reply from 172.16.241.187 [00:50:56:AF:7A:19]  1.390ms
Unicast reply from 172.16.241.187 [00:50:56:AF:7A:19]  1.432ms
Sent 1 probes (1 broadcast(s))
Received 2 response(s)

This told me that there was the SAME MAC address (00:50:56:AF:7A:19) responding to IP 172.16.241.187

Because I wanted to be doubly sure, I used nmap to tell me the OS type/etc and I was able to verify it is a Windows Server 2012 Client MAC Address (00:50:56:AF:7A:19)

# nmap -FO --system-dns 172.16.241.187

Starting Nmap 6.40 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2022-01-24 16:02 PST
Nmap scan report for dc01.bintri.ad (172.16.241.187)
Host is up (0.00033s latency).
Not shown: 95 closed ports
PORT      STATE SERVICE
53/tcp    open  domain
80/tcp    open  http
139/tcp   open  netbios-ssn
445/tcp   open  microsoft-ds
49152/tcp open  unknown
MAC Address: 00:50:56:AF:7A:19 (VMware)
Device type: general purpose
Running: Microsoft Windows 7|2012
OS CPE: cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_7:::ultimate cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_2012
OS details: Microsoft Windows 7 or Windows Server 2012
Network Distance: 1 hop

OS detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at http://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 4.47 seconds

Because I knew MAC Address (00:50:56:AF:7A:19) belonged to (2012_DC01.BINTRI.AD) there was ‘something’ in ESXi that believed there were 2 instances running!

I powered off VM 2012_DC01.BINTRI.AD using vCenter.

Yet I was still able to ping the IP address.

I went to the source ESXi Host-A and verified that it did not exist.

This told me that something was still resident in memory on either ESXi Host-A, or ESXi Host-B

I ssh’d into ESXi Host-A and ran the following command:

# esxcli vm process list

I looked for any processes open for host 2012_DC01.BINTRI.AD. I saw none.

I then ssh’d into ESXi Host-B and also ran

# esxcli vm process list

Except this time I saw in the output:

# esxcli vm process list
AD_2012_DC01.BINTRI.AD
   World ID: 136755
   Process ID: 0
   VMX Cartel ID: 136754
   UUID: 42 2f 8d 75 b6 84 51 78-90 5b 06 84 b2 e4 d5 22
   Display Name: AD_2012_DC01.BINTRI.AD
   Config File: /vmfs/volumes/d81de9d4-9c2bbc60/AD_2012_BENDC01.BINTRI.AD/AD_2012_BENDC01.BINTRI.AD.vmx

Because I powered off the VM, this told me that there was a process that needed to be stopped.

Therefore I used the ‘World ID’ and ran the following:

# esxcli vm process kill -t force -w=136755

Re-running esxcli vm process list now showed the process was gone.

I attempted to ping the IP address and this time it did not respond; as expected.

I then powered on the VM, and now when I ping, there is only a single IP Address

# ping 172.16.241.187
PING 172.16.241.187 (172.16.241.187) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 172.16.241.187: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=1.68 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.241.187: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=0.348 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.241.187: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=0.606 ms