Adding/Viewing ESX hosts local datastore in vCenter
Hey all, I'm glad to join these forms and hope I don't get shot down for not having a VM cert (I'm trying hard to find out where and how to get it) I have recently graduated with a Network Managing...
View ArticleAdding Hosts With Existing VMs to "Greenfield" DRS Enabled Cluster
I am currently involved in an evaluation project for Hypervisor 5.5 and vCenter. Existing are 2 physical servers with redundant everything and 8 SAS hot swap hard drive bays. Initially, of the 8 bays...
View ArticleEnable EVC Mode from VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Hello, I am fairly new to vSphere. I have two hosts running ESXi 5.1 One of those hosts is running the "VMware vCenter Server Appliance" with vSphere version 5.5. I currently have a single cluster...
View ArticleGetting continous event on vCenter
Hi, We had implemented vSphere 5.1 in our environment along with heartbeat and vCOPS. Now the issue is we are getting continuous events in our vCenter server as 'Cannot login username @127.0.0.1'. I...
View ArticleVcenter Appliance 5.5 Network
Hi All, I have vcenter 5.5 setup but when I try to manage it via the weclient it just constantly hangs (the client) I couldn't even enter the foundation license. Is there a common task that has to be...
View ArticleBest Practice statement from VMware regarding VM CPU Affinity settings?
I am creating documentation/policies documentation for my company, and am required to find official VMware statements regarding any best practices that I assert. After studying up on CPU Affinity, it...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 service could not start
I had running vCenter 5.1 update 2 in a Windows Server 2008 standard. I did an upgrade from Windows 2008 standard to a WIndows 2012 Standart. Now the VMware VirtualCenter service could not start. I...
View ArticleWhen will web client support for IE 11 be implemented? Its not in the...
When will ESXI 5.5 support IE 11? The 3/11/2014 release of update 1 did not include support for IE 11.Windows 8.1 does not support installing older versions of IE.
View ArticleCan't authenticate one user account in Vsphere client since upgrading from...
We have one administrative user (our of 3) who cannot logon using his AD credentials. He gets the error 'cannot complet login due to an incorrect user name or password'. He was able to log on ok...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 appliance and SSO multimaster
dear guys, i thinking to move to vcenter 5.5 but i cannot find a clear statement that i can deploy many vcenter appliances in version 5.5 but what about SSO?can i keep SSO built in in the appliances...
View ArticleDataStore Replication
Hi guys, looking for some advice. I have the following: 2 vCentre 5 DataCentres with ESXi 5.1 U1 hostsMany DataStores with static content (boot .iso files and vmware templates) These 2 sites do not...
View ArticleAutomate VM power on from migrated datastore
Good day all, This will be my first time in this community and i hope you will be able to assist me, please keep in mind i am still learning the intricacies of VMware and all of her wonderful products,...
View Articlevcenter 5.5 service fails
Hi all, since a couple of days our vcenter is reporting the following event: The description for Event ID 1000 from source VMware VirtualCenter Server cannot be found. Either the component that raises...
View ArticleResource Allocation in vSphere Clinet - max consumed
I am preparing to upgrade our vCenter to 5.5. I was logged into the client and I decide to check the resources. I have 8GB allocated to vCenter for 5.1 and it is running ok. This is a small dev...
View ArticleUgrade 5.0 to 5.5
I'm prepping for a vSphere upgrade to 5.5 and reading through the vCenter upgrade documentation, but I can't find anything about what happens to the current database during the upgrade. I have 4 hosts...
View ArticleCluster Networking Issue
Hi, I've got a strange issue with a distributed switch. Hoping someone can assist. Details- 2 Hosts.- Distributed switch with 2 uplinks (2 physical NICs per host)- Switch ports configured for trunking....
View ArticleIssue vceinter update from 5.5 to 5.5a
it is strange, after i got updated to vcenter appliance 5.5 to 5.5a vspere web clients take long time to load some time it will not load and receive "page not found" error, i did update my flash page...
View ArticleNeed Help - Migrating from vCenter Server 4.1.0 on a Windows XP 64-bit host...
OK. I'm fairly new to VMware but I have a good technical background. I've inherited a cluster of (4) physical hosts running vSphere Enterprise 4.1 and (1) Dell desktop running vCenter Server 4.1.0...
View ArticleESXi hosts in vCenter Server
Dear, I have these esxi hosts: esxi01 and esxi02. I plan to have vCenter server (essential kit license). then I build new esxi03 with esxi v.5.5 and run vCenter server appliance as VM in this host. is...
View ArticleSSO problem
HI All,For some reason my SSO stopped working last night. Found this out when my backup jobs failed. After talking with the support tech, her suggestion was to reinstall all the components. My...
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