vCenter Appliance 5.1 - Cannot verify the SSL Thumbprint
Hi, i have installed a vsphere environment with two vsphere ESXi 5.1 hosts and a vCenter Server Appliance 5.1Recently a strange issue has shown up. Randomly both hosts became disconnected from vCenter...
View ArticleSDRS Runtime rules I/O Latency
I've noticed datastores clusters in the environment I'm supporting with I/O thresholds set below the 30ms default. I'm looking into why this was done but, most of the recommendations I have seen are to...
View ArticleDRS Question
For the first time in 5 years I noticed that DRS is acting strange and was curious if it warrants opening a ticket with support. Out of the blue it started vmotioning VM off of one Host on to the...
View Articlevcenter 55 appliance - is it possible to upgrade a vcenter 4.0 u2 database,...
And really - just wondering how upgrades in general work going from non-appliance to appliance? Or, is it necessary to "start over" with a fresh db? When I look at the interop matrix, it really does...
View Articlevcenter appliance - compatible with ANY additional VMware products? SRM, for...
And if not - if any product that ever needs to "plug-in" to vCenter is just not going to work with the appliance - then, hmmmm .....
View ArticleProblem adding second vmxnet nic - Windows 2008 R2 VM
I have a Windows 2008 R2 VM in my production environment currently with 2 virtual nics installed, one vmxnet3 and one e1000. I need to add a second vmxnet3 nic. The problem is when I add the additional...
View ArticleAny AD Account Can Log Into vSphere Web Client
I've started messing with vSphere 5.5.0a. From what I can tell any user with an AD account can log into the vSphere Web Client. They can't really see anything but the fact that they can log in bothers...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 won't start after reboot
Wow, what a bungled mess 5.5 has been. I have seen this happen on more than 1 installation. On a fresh install of vCenter 5.5.0 (build number 1378903 which is supposed to be the fixed 'a' release),...
View ArticleAttention Drobo B1200i users
Drobo is looking for VMware users that have deployed Drobo B1200i units within their ESX virtualization infrastructure. The company is working on a better integration workflow with VMware vCenter...
View ArticleIs there a way to add mutltiple vCenter server in a single Web Client...
Hi,Is there a way to add or register a vCenter server to a single Web Client under the version 5.5? All the administration tool like admin-app has been removed on version 5.5. Any help will be...
View ArticleUser root@ logged out (login time: , number of API invocations: , user agent:...
ESX 5.1Vcenter 5.1Vsphere Rep ova installed Error above keeps logging from same ip address over and over again to different hosts I do not have vshield installed. I power off the vm and the events stop...
View ArticleVirtual Center 5.5 Web client host display view
Does anyone have a way to default the view for hosts and clusters to show all the hosts on the left pane? To switch between hosts I have to click up to 'hosts' then click in the center pane on the host...
View ArticleCancel Storage DRS recommendations?
vCenter 5.0, ESXi 5.0 Can you cancel the "Apply Storage DRS recommendations" task? I started an offline move a VM from a datastore cluster on one host to another host and a different datastore...
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VSCA 5.5 Rename VM task never ends. Stucks in "validating"
We've got a problem with vmware vcenter web client. When any user (even root) tries to rename a virtual machine o folder, he gets a window saying "validating" and it never ends. We have vmware vcenter...
View ArticleJoining a domain controller of a 2012 windows server
Good day, I created a 2012 virtual server, and changed it to a domain. my pc's ip is 192.168.11.***-gateway is 192.168.11.* the virtual server ip is 192.168.80.**** and the domain is test.test "keep...
View Article"General System Error " when trying to create a host profile
I have a cluster comprising 3 ESXi 5.5 nodes. I'm trying to set up profile compliance on this cluster, however I am unable to generate the host profile using any of the nodes as the reference host. The...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Snapshot process Locks at 99% and kills all VM connectivity
Good Morning, I utilise the VEEAM B&R tool to back-up my VMware enviroment, the back-up process nightly largely goes without issue but when backing up certain VM's on various differnet days (there...
View ArticleChange Vcenter server appliance IP address to a other subnet / VLAN
Our company wants to change the IP address of our VCSA to another VLAN / Subnet. But I'am afraid the VCSA gets isolated from the network. We use a distributed switch, but I discover that on the ESXI...
View Articlequestions regarding p rovisioning automation
Hi. I am using vCenter Server 5.5 along with ESXi 5.5 host. I have a few questions and problems regarding provisioning automation. Firrst of all, when I try ro create a VM automatically through...
View ArticleDeploy and customize guest OS through vCenter API
Hi, I want to enable our internal systems to fully automatically provision VMs on vCenter system. Is it possible todeploy a VM from a template and customize its guest OS using customization...
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