.sa accounts in vCenter
I have a number of accounts in vCenter under home\administration\roles that are specified as such. (My AD domain is contoso.local): I know that the identity source that SSO is getting these accounts...
View ArticleProblem with Auto Deploy - Fatal error: 10 (Out of resources)
I am working with Auto Deploy this weekend and I am getting this same error when I try to boot my ESXi hosts. I have tried both the standard offline bundle (5.5.0-1331820) and a modified version with...
View ArticleA newbi question: vCenter Community edition on linux
I have looked many places but I have been unable to find the vCenter Linux appliance as an installable appliance. I am sure I am no doing something correct. Could one of you with more experience point...
View ArticlevCenter Appliance is connected to AD but cannot browse/lookup users/groups...
Hi all, Hopefully someone can help me with this.. I just connected our vCenter Appliance to our Domain. And from the CLI I can lookup users. vcenter:~ # id DOMAIN\\useruid=2022179929(DOMAIN\user)...
View ArticleInventory view host & cluster has been changed
Hi guys, I have been facing a strange problem with my vsphere web client. After rebooting one of my ESXi host my inventory view has been changed and I don't know why. My VMs from host & cluster...
View ArticleAn unrecoverable problem has occurred, stopping the VMware VirtualCenter...
Hi, Out of the blue our vCenter server stops when the backup jobs are running (NetApp SnapProtect 10). All I can find in the eventviewer is: The description for Event ID 1000 from source VMware...
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ERROR CODE 2 VCENTER SERVER I NEED HELP VCENTER SERVICE DON'T START
bonjour, je me présente je suis patrick, je suis étudiant informaticien; j'ai un soucis avec vcenter server,je n'arrive plus à me connecter avec le client vsphere;le service vcenter server ne démarre...
View ArticlevCenter VPXD.log logging a lot of messages
I'm trying to offload our vCenter logs to a syslog server and I noticed while doing this that vCenter is logging ALOT of messages. Specifically vpxd.log to the tune of 24,000 in about a 6 minute time...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 SSO's ldap source no longer provides anonymous option?
Hi, perhaps I've over looked something but it seems like the vCenter 5.5 Single Sign On interface no longer offers any ability to leave the username/password blank to anonymously hit your ldap service....
View ArticleVCSA 5.5 u2 and WinServer 2012R2
I have an odd situation here.... I am running the VCSA 5.5u2 appliance in a Win Server 2012 R2 Forest and Domain. I am able to join the appliance to the domain (According to the :5840 website),...
View ArticleUnable to access vcenter after upgrading from 5.0 to 5.5
The main thing to mention here is I am using Safari on OS X Yosemite. I am able to use Firefox to a certain extent, but unable to open a VM console still.
View ArticlevCenter Server vCPU Sizing
I'm trying to determine how many vCPUs a virtualized vCenter would need based on the enviornment size. Vmware gives some guidance here based on physical CPUs:...
View ArticleMigrate Database vCenter to other server !!!
Friends, I migrated the sqlexpress database to a new sql server server, vCenter changed the odbc to the new server and database via ODBC connection works 100%, but when I restart the vCenter service is...
View ArticleDrives go missing with MS cluster
Hi - My Drive went missing after patching DB2, currently Vmdks are attached to the first server, and when I attach it to other server it gives BSOD. Server version - 2008 R2Esxi 5.5 I have tried to get...
View ArticleWebclient not authenticated
Dear All, When I try to login with my Windows domain account to the webclient I'm receiving this error message. "Client is not authenticated to VMware Server XXXX:10443". However it logs me in and it...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 install - physical vs virtual
We are leveraging enterprise plus edition and we have around 600 esxi hosts and 5000 vms and 50 clusters. Currently we are ruining vCenter 5.1 in a VM ( cluster-HA/DRS) with stand alone backend SQL DB...
View ArticleHow to move / copy some VMDKs?
I have a VM with 2 VMDKs on the new SAN and 2 virtual RDM disks referring to data on the old SAN.I want to have all data in VMDKs on the new SAN. One way to do it is to do a Datastore migration to a...
View ArticleHelp with Design please
We have a total of 17 vcenters, all 5.1. I'd like to reduce the number and upgrade to 5.5. My question is around SSO and what is the best design? We have two sites in the UK with a further one in...
View ArticleLag in vCenter awareness of prior actions, aka vCenter migration can't find...
This is a somewhat oddball question. I'm trying to get a solid, precise understanding of how vCenter updates its "state model" with regard to programmatic changes to resources. Here's our...
View ArticlePre-register extension in vC instal package
Hello, For industrialization needs, I am wondering if we can pre-register an extension in the vCenter iso, I mean by that provide a custom vC installation package that would already contain a specific...
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