vMotion not showing available hosts
I've just completed an upgrade from 3 x ESXi 5.0 hosts and a vCenter 5.1 appliance (Essentials Plus) to ESXi 6.0.5050593 and VCSA 6.5.5973321. This is a fully supported VMware setup. I upgraded the...
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New VM actions - what should i do with this alert
Hi Folks, I have this alert name "New VM Actions" on a VM which status is critical/red alert. How should i manage with this alert? Attached is the alert i received. Thank you.
View ArticlevSphere bad choice of domain
Hello, I implemented in a business a vCSA and during the setup i indicated the wrong domain, meaning, i indicated a real domain, the one where i want to add vcsa to. Unfortunately this is an issue now...
View ArticleVCSA 6.5 (no updates) fail to install - stops at arouund 80% - password expired
Hi all, please be aware www.reddit.com/r/vmware/comments/7856fx/vcsa_65_cant_set_root_password/ Gary
View ArticleAbout 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...
View ArticleVCSA 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 ArticleUserinit.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 ArticleCancelling 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 ArticleMigrate 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
View ArticleUnable 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 ArticleScheduling 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...
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...
View ArticleHost Memory Upgrade
We have 4 hosts in our environment, with 55 VMs running total. Each host has 128 GB of RAM. I want to install more RAM in each host, but due to the amount of resources we are using, migrating VM's to...
View ArticleUse CA cert for vCenter
I'm trying to user a CA cert for vCenter (6.0) and the KBs are confusing me. We have our own CA. Can someone explain what the process of doing this would be? Do you have to replace both the machine...
View ArticlevCenter 6.0 U2 with SQL Server 2014 SP2 (SP1 end of life)
I am running vCenter 6.0 U2 on windows with SQL DB on SQL Server 2014 SP1 This version of SQL is now out of support as of last month. I see that SQL server 2014 SP2 is not supported for vCenter 6.0 /...
View ArticleERROR: 1, join vmdir failed site
All new installation (v6.5), PCSs LB (lb configured correctly), vcenter appliance or windows, vcenter always fails with same error : ERROR: 1, join vmdir failed site
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