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Web REST API Call to determine on which ESX host specific VM is residing?
When I enumerate all VMs from VCenter server via https://{server}/rest/vcenter/vmHow to determine on which specific ESX host each VM is residing?
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vMotions getting failed with Time Out errors
Am using vCenter 6.0 and ESXi 6.0 , whenever the VMs get moved from DRS or if i put host in maintenance mode, i am getting vMotion failed errors, 2 types of error messages, Not all the time am getting...
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Calculate required resources to down-grade a cluster
I have a cluster which has 14 hosts and averaging around 10% CPU usage and 80% memory usage. I want to reduce the number of hosts by say half so that I can better use the CPU resources of the remaining...
View Articlevmware-eam and vmware-vpxd does not start
I already tried these an many others.https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2018902 I cant get these two services running no matter what. here is mail tail -f of vmware-eam: 2018-04-24T17:00:40.482-03:00 |...
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Retrieval of vCenter and Site data using python
Hello All,After collecting inventory and performance data using propertyCollector, me and My team now wants to collect vCenter and Site data. If you know anything about which is the best way to...
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Retrieve site name using ContentManager
I want to get the site name and the PSC associated with vCenter Server using the instance of ContentManager in Python. Do anyone have idea about how we can use existing vmware infrastructure SDK to...
View ArticleRestore of vCenter Server Appliance 6.7 fails in stage 2
Hi, I successfully configured a scheduled backup of our VCSA (test environment) to write backup data to a separate vmfs volume. Now this VCSA is broken and needs to be repaired. Using the vCenter...
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Migration from VMware 5.5 to 6.5
Hi, are the steps to migrate from 5.5 to 6.5 with non-stop clustering? Only with HA, without DRS. It is? 1 - Install new vCenter 6.52 - Create datacenter;3 - Create cluster;4 - Add host A in version...
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Включение Hyper-V в гостевой ОС на ESXi 5.5
Доброго дня Уважаемые коллеги.Для целей практик для Windows Server 2016 необходим стенд для практических работ по Hyper-V. Виртуальная byahfcnhernehf на vmware vSphere.Хосты ESXi 5.5. в кластере.Выбрал...
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How to add custom RunSynchronous to the unattended xml generated by VMWARE?
Hello, I'm usung an external tool (Saltstack with salt-cloud commands) and checking the cloned VM the unattende xml generated by VMWARE for the sysprep commnad has the below commnads.... is there a way...
View Articlevcenter 6.0, common logging service health alarms
I am managing two vcenter 6.0 instances. Each is showing a "vmware common logging service heath" alarm, one is red, the other yellow. I read an article here VMware Knowledge Base and here...
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add root user equivalent to vcenter 6 applicance
how do you add a root user equivalent (named user), to vcenter 6.0 appliance? is there a putty/SSH command?
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Change browser icons for web-client / ui-client
Hi All, I am looking for a way to change the default icons in the web browser when starting the vCenter web client and html5 UI. I want to customize the ico files, maybe change their color but I...
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How Do this Scenario?
if i have a cluster or group of vms and i need to track growth of vms size which is helping me to determine the traffic size when need to backup these vms to DR site.can I do this scenario by vRop ?...
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Need SDK, API, CLI or Tool to Automate SSO User, Group, and Role CRUD...
I'm looking for a way to automate SSO user, group, and role management in vCenter. So far, I am unable to find a single API, SDK, or CLI that allows complete automation of creating a user, creating a...
View ArticleDoes vSphere or an API/PowerShell command have the following feature?...
I haven't seen it when looking, but wanted to check with the community about this. I've been trying to solve a problem and trying to do it without creating a shell/proxy VM to test this. I want to be...
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VCSA 6.7 fresh installation not working correctly
Hi I'm very new to vmware, installed 3x nucs with 3xESXI hosts 6.7 Want Vcenter so installed VCSA 6.7 release but i'm not allowed to https://x.x.x.x:5480 It gives me errors when using a web browser....
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Log Disk Exhaustion on vcenter
Hi Our VCSA 6.7 is complaining: Log Disk Exhaustion on vmw-vcenter We have a rather small scale environment (5 ESXi using this vmw-vcenter) and set it up with the recommended requirements back then...
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VCSA update to 6.5.0.30000 has killed HA
Just updated vCenter 6.5 to version 6.5.0.30000 and HA has crashed out (see image).Tried disabling/re-enabling with no luck Maybe a bug in the new version?
View ArticleHelp with output file, esxtop metrics
I believe this script is from LucD, he always has some amazing scripts. I am new to powercli ise and have not had just about any training or skills in scripting. I am attempting to...
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