Health status showing temperature 77 degrees C as normal?
Hello! We have Ncentral monitoring enabled on our servers and are getting reports that one of our HP ProLiant DL380 G7 ESXI 5.0 hosts has 77 Degrees C.After checking, I can see that temperature is...
View ArticleScheduled Tasks - Shutdown VM and Migrate
Hello Everyone, I am looking to schedule a task to shutdown a VM and then migrate the VM to another server. I did mange to schedule the shutdown but not able to schedule the migration due to the fact...
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SRM and Heartbeat using the same VC?
Hi everyone, My team is looking to implement SRM and Heartbeat. Shouldn't be a problem, only my supervisor wants to try and use it in an... interesting way.Her idea is to have a vCenter Server on the...
View ArticleDo I need to shut-down all VM's when enabling EVC and AMD Opteron Gen. 3 (no...
Hi, We have a cluster of older Dell PowerEdge servers, we need to introduce some newer Dell server hardware into the cluster (same CPU family etc). The newer hardware does not support 3DNow so we need...
View ArticleRebuilding a VCenter already assigned to a cluster
I have a previous 2 node cluster. The vCenter for this has completely died and unrecoverable. Am I going to be able to rebuild a vCenter and attach it to the current cluster without losing the hosts on...
View ArticleChange hardware acceleration for RDP client VMs
Is it possible to change hardware acceleration, if so how. This change settings option is grayed out. Didn't know if we need to try a different video driver for Windows 7.
View ArticleHow to define certain virtual machines to not startup after cluster failure?
Hi, Im looking for a way to define certain virtual machines to not startup after a compleet cluster failure. A scenario where this might happen is a compleet power outage. The reason for not wanting...
View ArticleConnecting WD Network drive to ESX5i
We need to quickly copy VM guest files off a remote ESX5 i local hard drive onto a Western Digital network drive - then ship the WD driveback to corporate and add the VMs to inventory. We tried using...
View ArticleThe vmrc console has disconnected solution
Good morning everyone!I have the following error, the VMRC console has disconnected, I tried several solutions and no success! One was to open the task manager and terminate instances from vsphere...
View ArticlevCenter cluster disaster site
Hello, I`m working on establishing a second server of every main service on our disaster location.Getting a second AD, second SQL server in a Enterprise cluster and so on is not a problem, but what...
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What triggers the Health status monitoring??
I'm having a hard time finding out what is triggering the alert. First i thought it was because one of my esxi's did not show its hardware status but i fixed this error and still i'm getting the...
View ArticlevCenter and the physical/virtual argument in 5.1
We currently have a physical vCenter server and I'm planning to argue for a P2V of it. I'll be discussing the issue with one of our architects next week and would like to go in with some good, current...
View ArticleError adding AD group to _Administrators_ group in SSO
Here's the situation, when I first set up SSO I added a particular AD group to the _Administrators_ group inside the SSO configuration. Logged out and logged back in as a member of that AD group and...
View ArticleNeed a Indexer
Hello guys, What I am looking for is a alerting system that can monitor a vcenter or multiple vcenters and push back alerts when anything changes. For example - If I want to know when my customer...
View ArticleInventory service can't be started, service status stay in starting,How to...
After reboot VCenter server host.The inventory service keeping status in starting.I can't stop inventory service.I found some error in the inventory log file as below:[2013-08-31 08:48:22,265...
View ArticlePhysical Nics for ISCSI and VMotion
We have 4 hosts that are identical. These host servers only have room for 2, 1GB nics and 2, 10GB nics. The 1GB nics are used for management and VM access. We also have 2 Nexus 10GB switches...
View ArticleMove vsphere vm between vcenters
Hi, How to move a VM between vCenters. If source vC and Destination vC is on same version and different version.
View Articlenot all domains are appearing under permission
Hi all, I'm just trying to add a an new admin to a site, but unfortunately they are some domain which are no more existing and one of the domains which i need is not apperaing. So I cant selsect the...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 Windows 7 Pro VM never retains IP.
We have 9 W7 VMs and one will not retain and IP. In the morning, the other VMs show VMware tools running and an IP, except this machine. It is not until we open the console from vSphere client that it...
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