VM Template and Customization specification
Hello, I tried to achieve this but i guess i am somewhere doing something wrong. I created the VM on Windows 2012R2 and i did a sysprep OOBE with generalize and shutdown. Once i created the file based...
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About vcenter
We have already built Windows server. I would like to build vcenter there. Instead of creating a new data center, I would like to manage it with the server that built vcenter. Is such a possibility...
View ArticleEvent Filters on vCenter Event
Hi All, I had a problem. My monitoring system (zenoss) need to logon esx in order to monitor esx and vm.Any time it logon an event message raised.I used the following procedure: Filtering logs in...
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VCSA vpxd fails to start after reboot. vxdx.cfg corrupted
I had an outage in my home lab which caused a hard reset of my ESXi host and my vCenter 6.0 Appliance didn't come back. After some digging it seems to have corrupted vpxd.cfg and all other services are...
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vCenter Appliance Installation error - Cannot start Component Manager /...
Hello all, I am stuck with installing the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5: I get the error message "error while starting service 'cm'" or (2nd try) "cannot register license service with component...
View ArticleWindows vCenter 6.0 with External PSC Patching Methodology
Hello all, I thought this would be pretty well documented but I just can't find it anywhere. I have two sites and in each site there is a single Windows PSC server and 2x Windows vCenter servers. The...
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Userinit.exe registry changes on first boot of clone machine
Hello Team,I have a issue and want to understand how userinit registry works when a clone machine starts. So the below is the scenario:I have a Virtual machine where I have modified the registry path...
View ArticleSNMP not responding
Imagine 2 vCenter 5.5 servers belonging to 2 different and separate vSphere infrastructures in 2 different LANs.Both vCenter servers are based on Windows Server 2008 R2 servers not member of any Active...
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Cancelling a cold datastore migration
Hi All! Is this safe to do? I've found two articles that have kind of mixed feedback. Unfortunately its around 1.7TB and has been running since early Saturday morning, now being Monday morning the...
View ArticleSNMP not responding
Imagine 2 vCenter 5.5 servers belonging to 2 different and separate vSphere infrastructures in 2 different LANs.Both vCenter servers are based on Windows Server 2008 R2 servers not member of any Active...
View ArticleProblem with last command when configuring PSC HA in 6.5
Hi all, I am configuring PSC HA in a 6.5 environment.All appliances are at the 6.5 express patch 3 version level. (I copied and replaced the updateSSOConfig.py and UpdateLsEndpoint.py scripts from a...
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Migrate from Windows vCenter 6.5 to VCSA 6.5
Hi there,Is there a migration path from a Windows vCenter 6.5 to a VCSA 6.5? The migration tool said not supported
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rollup jobs explained
Hi, could someone explain to me relations between vpx_hist_stat[1-4] and vpx_sample_time[1-4] tables in vPostgres database?Why 1-4?How rollup jobs are working? What's the logic? thx vmrale
View ArticleVCSA vMotion
Hi Guys. I am having an issue that is really starting to piss me off. I have moved from Windows vCenter to the VCSA appliance. Now on the whole it's a good experience. However one thing that is pissing...
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Unable to open vSphere Client 6.0 on Win10
Hello I have a windows 10 pro Laptop and I recently installed vSphere Client 6.0 and I am unable to launch it. When I click on the vSphare icon nothing happens.I see the task running on taskmanager but...
View ArticleVCSA vMotion
Hi Guys. I am having an issue that is really starting to piss me off. I have moved from Windows vCenter to the VCSA appliance. Now on the whole it's a good experience. However one thing that is pissing...
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Scheduling VCSA 6.0 database backup?
I recently upgraded from vCenter 5.5 on Windows, with MS SQL database, to the VCSA 6.0 u3b. Previously, backing up the SQL database was easy; we use EMC Networker, and I just added the SQL server to...
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Help for migrating VMs to new host
I'm getitng new hardware in a site and I am migrating all VMs off are old hardware and I wanted to see if anyone had any thoughts on what I might be missing. This is a vSphere 6.0 environment (both...
View ArticlevSphere Replication
Hello, I encountered an issue under vCenter.I have a vSphere replication under 5.5.0.0 Build 1309877 and my vCenter under 6.5.0.1 Build 6816762I deployed an vSphere replication Appliance under my...
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