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If you try and setup an Azure HCI cluster on VMware workstation or vSphere the cluster setup fails and you see the error:    {       "Name" : "AzStackHci_Hardware_Test_Tpm_Certificate_Properties" ,       "DisplayName" : "Test TPM DEMO-HCI-01" ,       "Tags" : {},       "Title" : "Test TPM Certificate Properties" ,       "Status" : 1,       "Severity" : 2,       "Description" : "Checking TPM for desired properties" ,       "Remediation" : "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-stack/hci/deploy/deployment-tool-prerequisites" ,       "TargetResourceID" : "Machine: DEMO-HCI-01, Class: TpmCertificates, Subject: TPMVersion=id:00020065, TPMModel=VMware TPM2, TPMManufacturer=id:564D5700, Thumprint: 42E5DC85B4ABC9C7C64BBA3868A2C100017F3E8B" ,       "TargetResourceName" : "Machine: DEMO-HCI-01, Class: TpmCertificates, Subject: TPMV

When you're create an Azure HCI Stack cluster you may get an error similar to this. Type 'ValidateHardware' of Role 'EnvironmentValidator' raised an exception: { "ExceptionType": "json", "ErrorMessage": { "Message": "Hardware requirements not met. Review output and remediate.", "Results": [ { "Name": " AzStackHci_Hardware_Test_MountedMedia_Exists ", "DisplayName": " Test No Mounted Media exists ", "Tags": { }, "Title": "Test No Mounted Media exists", "Status": 1, "Severity": 2, "Description": "Checking mounted media does not exist", "Remediation": "https://aka.ms/nomountedmedia",  I found this was because I'd installed the test system on a VMware workstation machine and had installed VMware tools on the Azure HCI stack hosts so that I could read the text on my high resolutio