Storage service is not initialized
vCenter5.1 and all esxi5.1 servers - no upgrades, all fresh installs. I get a "Storage service is not initialized, please try again later" when i click on the storage views tab. The sms logs are full...
View ArticleDell management plug-in for VMware vCenter
Hi. I am installing Dell management plug-in for VMware Vcenter. I'm up to the point where I need to register a new vcenter. I enter the ip of the virtual machine server and the admin user name and...
View ArticleAdding Port Groups and restarting services
If I add additional port groups to my 5.1 environment does it require a restart of the services on the ESXi host?
View ArticleHow to change Authentication > NIS Server Settings and retain Vsphere client...
Hello all, As title, says we'd like to point our Vcenter Server Appliance to a new NIS domain, while keeping the user permissions the same as they currently are found on each of the different hosts...
View Articleinstalling vcenter database failed
Installing vCenter Server 5.1 x fails with the error: Error 25003 Failed to Create Repository. this kb couldn't help to resolve the issue: Installing or upgrading to vCenter Server 5.1 fails - VMware...
View ArticleProblems downloading Windows updates through update manager
Recently we've had an issue when tryong to download Windows updates through update manager, I've gone through the logs and dug out the line which is showing the error, but I don't know a lot about SQL...
View ArticleHow does the initial SSO identity source browse the Active Directory Tree
I understand that the orginal identity source is automatically configured to use "Authentication type" reuse session. When I add additional identity sources it seems I need to use password. Just trying...
View ArticleVcenter Appliance and VDDK
I am very new to Vmware and I am slightly confused. I am running Sep Sesam for our backups and need to install the VDDK plugin in order to backup our Virtual servers. We are using the Vcenter...
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Provisioned Space Not Equal to Actually Provisioned Space
Hey All, I have an odd issue with some NFS Datastores in my Environment not reporting the correct Provisioned Space on the Summary Tab of the Datastore. I have 2 of my datastores showing the...
View ArticleESXi host management network nonresponsive after vCenter reboot
Hey guys I got a weird one here. vCenter 4.1 & ESXi 4.1.0 build 502767. The vCenter service will crash then the vCenter VM is rebooted. After reboot some hosts are disconnected and cannot be...
View ArticleAn internal error occurred in vSphere Client with VC5.0 U2
with update manager to update VM, I installed update manage server and client correctly, but when enable VUM plug-in, the client pop up msginternal error:An internal error occurred in vSphere Client...
View ArticleHow to Configure RAW LUN
How to Configure RAW LUN to Access BY Two win2k8 r2 VMS with out MSCS
View ArticlevCenter
Which latest vCenter Server update available ?? Mine vCenter Current Version is 5.0 (Build 755629)
View ArticleLow Disk Space
I just upgraded our virtual center server 5 and am having some disk space issues now. I ran jdiskreport and found that there are some huge log files and I wondering if these can be removed and if...
View ArticleCan vCenter Servers from Multiple AD Forests point to one single SSO Server
We have multiple AD Forests with multiple instances of vCenter Servers. We are looking at having a single sign one experience where in we can use single set of credentials to manage all these Virtual...
View ArticlevCenter 4.0 Logon fails: Server could not interpret the client's request
Good Day! We run a vSphere 4.0 installation consisting of:- 2 x ESX 4.0- 1 x vCenter 4.0 Server For some reason we can't login using the vSphere Client directed at the vCenter IP-address any more...
View ArticleESXI 4.0
Hello everyoneThere is even the trial version for vmware esxi vcenter server 4.0
View Articlevcenter storage monitoring service fails
Hello,I am hoping someone can help me out. We upgrade to vcenter 5.0 update 2 and now the storage monitoring service fails to initialize. I have done all of the KB tips in the KB's surronding this...
View ArticleHow to use a paged RAM in VMware installation ?
Hi Gurus , I have 4GB RAM in My Laptop, and have alloted 3 GB to VM ware instalaltion, The applicaitons that iam using consume very high memory and i certainly need double RAM... I heard something...
View ArticleVMware Infrastructure Navigator
Hello all, I have been using VIM applicance 2.0.0.398 Build 890698 a while and everything was working fine.last week i was trying to log in to the vsphere web client to start working with the VIM click...
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