When will vSphere Web Client support for IE 11 be released?
When is vSphere going to work on IE 11? You can't even open a freeking console window? Really?? We're running Windows 8.1 and cannot back/down rev to an earlier version of IE.
View ArticleClone a VM as a backup.
Hi Esteemed IT Folk My question is as follows ,I have been tasked with upgrading some of out windows 2008r2 servers to 2012 ,I would like to do a in place upgrade on them which seems fairly...
View ArticleWebclient Not showing all VM's
When I go into webclient from firefox I don't see all my VM's under the cluster, it seems to me that if I'm clicking to expand the tree's they always fail, doesn't anyone know about this, is there a...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 SSO and a child domain as identity source
Hello, we have an Active Directory with 2 domain in the forest.One root domain "contoso.local" and one child domain "belgium.contoso.com" Only the child domain contains resources (users and...
View ArticleAMD vs Intel for ESXi Servers
Have been searching for real world comparisons between AMD and Intel processors in a VMware environment. I am currently running AMD opterons and have a chance to upgrade server hardware and I am...
View Article"Disconnecting" a managed host from vCenter Server: practical application?
The vSphere client offers the possibility to "disconnect" a managed host from vCenter Server (rightclick > disconnect). I was wondering in which situations this would be used/useful? Does it impact...
View ArticleViewing inventories of multiple vCenter instances SSO/Linked Mode
Hi Everyone, The setup is vCenter 5.1 standard/ESXi 5.1 E+ I have an issue with the SSO/linked mode. I'm able to browse inventories of two vCenter instances, however: -when I run the Linked Mode...
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Issues with Host Profiles - Syslog.global.logDir
Hi I have issues with Syslog.global.logDir in my Host Profile.I get this error:Option Syslog.global.logDir doesn't match the specified criteria. Under Advanced Configuration Option in the Host Profile,...
View ArticleRemove vSphere Web Client Evaluation Mode License
We recently installed vCenter Server Appliance to replace the existing vCenter server. It automatically installs a Evaluation Mode license and then gives warnings that licenses are about to expire....
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Storage adapter capacity
Hello,I have a storage device attached to my server (pcie device) and when I display the config information from the ESXi host using esxcli tool, the capacity shows as 2222 GB: Partition Usable...
View ArticleHow datastore are selected by vcenter for Datastore heartbeat?
Guys,Hope all is well. I have a doubt on this. What if all of my datastores are shared among all the host in a cluster. What if I am having a combination of iscsi, RDM and FC in my cluster? How vcenter...
View ArticleHow to troubleshoot if DAVG value is high?
Hi Guys, Can anyone suggest me the steps or a workaround to mitigate situations with high DAVG value. KAVG value is under limit. Many Thanks.
View ArticleTeaming doubt
Guys, Suppose if I have 4 VM's sitting on an esxi host. For an instance consider VM1 and VM3 is communicating with Vmnic0 (active) and VM2 and VM4 with Vmnic1( active). Since it is an active-active...
View ArticleRemove a datastore from an old Host webclient
So I followed the following document to remove the datastores from an ESXi Host that had failed Unable to remove a datastore from the vCenter Server 4.x / 5.x inventory (1026661) It removed the...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 on W2k8 R2 - Simple Install fails
So I'm trying to install vCenter 5.5 on a VM running W2K8 R2 and it fails every time.Done a bunch of google searches - seems like other people are having same failures.Mine the simple install just...
View ArticleVMware Vcenter 5.5 download Link
Hello, I want to install VCenter please share the exact link of download VMware vcenter server as there are many Vcenter products i want the one who is managing the multiple Esxi hosts. I download one...
View ArticlevCenter Login Timeouts
I am having an issue with vCenter where periodically I get an error of a timeout via DNS name or IP address. Its not a credentials issue as I works sometimes, but then other times it doesn't. What log...
View ArticlevCenter adding and removing NIC
I have removed the NIC from my vcenter server because I was having some network issues with that server, now when I try to add a new one the network label drop down is blank? I am using 5.1 with vDS. I...
View ArticleCan't login to vCenter
The authentication server returned an unexpected error: ns0:RequestFailed: Internal Error while creating SAML 2.0 Token. The error may be caused by a malfunctioning identity source. Ideas? Cant login...
View ArticleMoving an ESX/ESXi host with vDS from one vCenter Server to another (1029498)...
I'm reading KB 1029498 VMware KB: Moving an ESX/ESXi host with vDS from one vCenter Server to another, and I'm confused on how to to perform step #2 if my management vmkernel virtual adapter is part of...
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