Migrate VM from host 1 to host B
Hi Guys,i have two host and vcenter,on my host 1 i have 20 Vm up and running , those VM are created on a Sata HDD, however on my host 2 i've got SSD disk and want to migrate them to the SSD HD on host...
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HelloGentlemen,I have avery strangescenariohereinAngolaon a client, this clientis a financialbank andhas severalvirtual machinesdistributed across multipleserversinVMwarevCenterDatacentersuddenlybegan...
View ArticleUpgrading vcenter 4.1 on Windows 7 to Vcenter 5.5
We are preparing to upgrade our Esxi 4.1 servers to 5.5 and would like to start with the vcenter upgrade. Our Vcenter server runs on a dedicated VM. It has its own SQL 2008 RTM express for DB....
View ArticleVCenter 5.5 deployment
Hi,Deploying a new vCenter 5.5 from scratch for our new datacenter. VC is added to AD domain (for example tcgms.int) and the FQDN is shown as VCentername.<domain name>. During SSO install...
View Articleflash and RHEL6 ?
All. Has anyone succeeded in connecting to a vcenter 5.5 appliance with a RHEL6 workstation? If so, what's the magic incantation and ritual keystrokes? Made the mistake of upgrading to esxi 5.5...
View ArticleVcenter storage question
Does Vcenter need to see all the attached storage that the hosts have access to? I tried googling it but couldn't find a definitive answer. Thanks!
View Article5.5 Hardware Status not Refreshing
Hello, I've got a brand new vCenter 5.5 server with about 10 hosts connected so far. Some are running 5.5, some are running 5.0.x, but all are experiencing the same issue. When we go to the Hardware...
View ArticleVM Reboot Alarm
I would like an alarm when a VM is rebooted from within the OS and from what I have been reading is this is only possible with a power state alarm. So far I only get an email notification if the...
View ArticleCan't edit alarm conditional trigger "condition length" values?
I'd like to configure a "datastore usage on disk" trigger (which is a conditional trigger) but the "condition length" field for either warning or alert -- don't let me pick or type any values. What am...
View ArticlePacket loss on all machines on network during vmotion
Hello, I'm having a serious issue with packet loss across my entire network when I migrate a powered up VM from one host to another. I'm not just talking about losing pings within my VMware...
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vCSA 5.5 web-client manage networking: virtual switches buttons disabled
Hi all, I can't access network configuration in vCSA 5.5. Virtual switches buttons are greyed out and I can't manage networking, create, edit...I tried to:- restart vsphere client- restart vcenter...
View ArticleMemory consumption on Vcenter 5.1 and 5.5 on Windows 2k8 R2
Morning, I have a quick question concerning the memory usage on a Vcenter server. I have created a new Vcenter 5.5, and started the migration of the all hosts/clusters. The both Vcenter are based on...
View Articleinstall vCSA on single host and manage this host from "inside"
hello, probably this is a stupid question, but i didn't find any reference or information about it:is it possible to install vCSA on a single host, which then will be managed by the same...
View ArticleProblem adding host to VCenter 5.5
We have a remote site with a file/print server connected via a 1M T1 connection. Several years ago we put a physical server there, loaded ESXi 5.0, and imported the physical file server to a VM. At...
View ArticleUpgrading to vCenter Single Sign-On 5.5 fails when the SSL certificate is in...
I have have tried the following with no good results.Upgrading to vCenter Single Sign-On 5.5 fails when the SSL certificate is in the PKCS12 format and reports the error: vCenter Single Sign-On Setup...
View ArticleCanceling a cold datastore migration
Hello, i have a powered down vm right now. I'm migration it to another data store. The drives around about 700GB total. If I reach my window for maintenance and need to bring the server back up, how...
View ArticleRecreate Host Profile after 5.5 Upgrade (Auto Deploy)
Hello. I am upgrading 100 hosts from 5.1U1 to 5.5 using auto deploy. I would like to reuse the existing host profiles as I do not know all the settings contained in them. Can I simply apply the host...
View ArticleError 29114. Cannot connect to DB
I am trying to install vCenter Server Single Sign On using existing Database option but i am receiving error message " Error 29114. Cannot Connect to DB.I have create new Database on MS SQL Server 2012...
View Articlevmoition hangs at 9%
When attempting to migrate certain VMs from one specific host, vmotion hangs at 9% and then times out with the following error... Error Stack:The vMotion failed because the destination host did not...
View ArticleFalse cpu usage alarms
Hello Using vcenter 5.0 build 623373 and esxi 5.0 build 821926. I am getting many cpu alarms on windows 2k8 r2 OS's. But perf mon/task manager is consistently reporting normal or below average cpu...
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