Catch-22 - how does one edit the vcenter server VM if you have already...
Once you update a VM to VMX-10, you can no longer edit the settings of the VM using the Windows vSphere client - you have to use the vCenter Web client. But what if your vCenter server needs more RAM?...
View ArticleCan someone verify this setup / make suggestions?
Can someone verify this setup is correct, and make suggestions on improvements? Hardware:2x HP DL380p Gen8 Servers1 CPU each, 10 Cores, 2.2 GHz32 GB Ram each8x Gbps NICs 2x HP Procurve 2920 24-port...
View Articledatastore clusters and i/o control
I have an EqualLogic array and if I understand the docs correctly, they say to disable storage i/o control in VMware and let the SAN handle it. Suppose I present multiple luns from the EqualLogic to...
View ArticleExamining ESX server logs to determine vCenter Shudown?
I'm not familiar with VMWare however examining a situation where we need to determine if the vCenter at an office was shutdown. The only data I have right now are logs from the ESX servers.Any ideas...
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High cpu usage on newly created 5.5 vcenter (build 1623101)
Hi Admins! I dont understand why my newly created vcenter use to much cpu resources.Java(TM) Platform Binary uses 50% of cpu resources Environment:6 ESX hosts (5.5)1 virtual vcenter (5.5)150 VMs My...
View ArticleCPU Ready% Alarm
Hi folks. We've got a particular VM hosting a workload that *very* sensitive to latency/contention and I'm setting up an alarm based on CPU Ready Time. I understand the mechanics of creating the alarm...
View ArticleIs there a way to restrict all deploying vms to use thin provision only?
We have quite a large environment with huge number of users who deploys VMs from templates. While you deploy a VM you can select which kind of provision to select. We want to force this selection to be...
View ArticlevCenter Server is Under Reporting Disk Usage for a VM
We are running vCenter Server 5.5.x and vSphere ESXi 5.5.x. On the vCenter Server, looking at the VM, it has two virtual disks - one is 25GB and one is 250GB. The "Provisioned" line is 276.11 GB which...
View ArticleVcenter server 5.5 instalation requirements
Hello , We have just parchased vsphere essential plus license upto three servers. We have need to know about vcenter server installation requirements. Can we install Vcenter server 5.5 on linux...
View ArticleIncrease memory in vCenter VM
I have a vCenter 5.5 VM with only 4gb of RAM allocated.I want to upgrade this.Firstly what is the recommended memory to allocate (SQL on another server).The memory option is greyed out (permissions are...
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DRS powered on a VM with VM Monitoring disabled
Has anybody encountered this before? DRS appears to have automatically powered on a VM roughly 12 minutes after the VM was powered off. It's a two host cluster running ESXi 5.1 update 1 build 1312873...
View ArticlevCenter Server Appliance checking for update hangs
Hey all, I just wanted to update a vCSA appliance. Unfortunately it hangs in the status "Checking for aivailable updates..." as has no internet access. I changed the settings to CD-ROM updates,...
View ArticleVcenter Appliance 5.5 Single point of failure
Hey All, How do you get around using the Vcenter appliance and it not be a single point of failure? We rely on Vcenter heavily and downtime is unacceptable? There isno way to build a clustered...
View ArticleBreaking a HA-DRS cluster in two cluster
Hi, My client has 13 node cluster which has two generation of servers and all servers are running windows. Server generation A (7 Servers): 24 logical CPU and 192 GB RAMServer generation B(6 Servers):...
View ArticleSSO 5.5 HA questions
Hello all.I got some problems while trying to configure SSO HA.I have 2 vms with primary and secondary nodes of SSO and vm (debian7) with apache 2.2 as load balancer. Load balancer config taken from...
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VC 5.5.0 (1476327) and Profile Driven Storage / java / high CPU load
Hi all, back from weekend I found our VC vm nearly unoperatable. We recently updated from VC 5.0 to VC 5.5.0. Our ESXi servers are still 5.0 U3.I found the cause in TaskManager, a java.exe with all...
View ArticleWhats the status the bug issue with vFRC and high CPU/RAM?
Anyone whats happening with KB2072392? We upgraded our Enterprise licenses to Enterprise Plus to utilize vFRC. We haven't been able to use it for over two months and no word yet from VMware Support......
View Articlehost memory usage
A ESXi 5.0 host usage is 17 GB / 38 GB but on cluster's host tab, it shows that particular host "% Memory" value is 72. Which one is correct? How is this value calculated? vCenter 5.0 is on Windows...
View ArticleAuthentication to vSphere web client using smart cards
Hello everybody, I'd like to authenticate to vSphere web client using smart card logon. Is that feature supported in vCenter 5.5? If so, how can I enable it ? Thank you very much !
View ArticleDatastore Cluster move to a new vcenter 5.5 - steps?
Designing a plan to move exisiting 5.1 environment to a new 5.5 vcenter server. I have a Datastore Cluster that I would like to move into the new vCenter. I have SDRS rules setup. How do I move the...
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