vCenter Essentials, multi-site SSO/PSC, Enhanced Linked Mode
In vCenter 6.0 with Platform Services Controller 6.0, I realize that the new "Enhanced Linked Mode" is enabled by default when you join a 2nd PSC/SSO node to an existing PSC/SSO domain. This is great...
View ArticleGood riddance Flash. What is the plan VMware?
After years of bloated, bug ridden death throws, Flash is finally going to the grave it should have been in since HTML5 was a frisky pup. When vSphere 6 dropped just a few short months ago we were...
View ArticlevCenter server 6 web client redirect URL
Hello all,I have a question. Is it possible to redirect internal web client URL request ( ip or hostname) to my fqdn using the built in web server to redirect the request?
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How to perform Windows VCenter Upgrade with less or no issue at all ?
Hi, I have 24x VMware ESXi servers 5.1 Update 1 on HP Blade Servers managed by my Windows VMware VCenter VM that is currently on version vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1 (build 1064983 2013-04-25) as...
View ArticleVM running on the host Shows Unprotected in Cluster Summary as Host gets...
I have a scenario. I have read that when a host disconnects from Vcenter the Vcenter instructs master HA agent to unprotect virtual machines running on the disconnected host.1) I tried to test it. I...
View ArticlevPostgres vacuum KBs outdated for vCSA 6.0
Heads up folks at VMware, there are still (many) situations where the vPostgres DB will not clean up deleted rows or tables are flodded with event data causing vpxd to stop working once the vpostgres...
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Auto guest customization
To cut a long story short, when creating Windows 7 templates, is there any way of permanently assigning a guest customization policy to a template? If I manually step through deploying a VM from a...
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Vcenter db maintenance
In looking at the performance best practices documents, it mentions the following two lines in regards to DB maintenance: - Update statistics of the tables and indexes on a regular basis for better...
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Server 2003, 2000 SQL server freezing. disk queue maximum
Yeh yeh its legacy i know but its still in production. heres the specs; farm of around 30 guests5 vsphere servers in vcenteremc iscsi san with 24 spindlesServer in question is 32bit 2003 server....
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Which log file should I check for this problem
I've got a machine running a program we created that is supposed to connect to vcenter and pull data about the vms. It's run daily via scheduled task but it isn't working anymore. Just stopped working...
View ArticleAfter vcneter 6 upgrade from 5.1 U2, user permissions issue web client
Hello,I have a permissions issue after upgrading to vcenter6 coming from vcenter5.1.permissions that were created in 5.1 are transferred fine to the new system and canbe seen just fine using the...
View ArticleDRS ruls
Hi All, We have four hosts cluster in our infra. We are segregating Linux and Windows VMs on these four hosts(two hosts will have linux VMs and other two will have Windows VMs running).I have created...
View ArticlevCenter 6 'Empty Inventory' due to permissions
I have a fully functional, completely working vCenter 6 environment. Admin users can log in and see the entire inventory, as they're supposed to. However, I have a number of business users that need...
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vCenter Appliance (vcsa) 6 can not add a new source identity (Active directory)
Hi every one, i have join the vCenter node to our Domainand reboot the VM appliance vCenter.After that, i check and it's ok vCenter Appliance is join our Active directory domaine Windows Server 2003....
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Cannot power on VM through vsphere client connected to Vcenter Server: Unable...
Vsphere version 6.0 (vcernter server + esxi) Get this error when trying to power on some virtual machines:Failed to find a host for powering on the virtual machine. the following faults explain why the...
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Patching vCSA 6.0 -- Inclusive?
I have recently upgraded my infrastructure to using the new vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 -- my instances list themselves at build 2656761. When I look at the Product Patches page I see that there are...
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VCSA 5.5 to 6.0 upgrade is changing FQDN
I'm getting this message during the upgrade process to 6.0 on our VCSA that I haven't seen in any of the guides I've read online: Will this have any affect on any fqdn-based connections we have to the...
View ArticlevCenter 6 Install/Database issues.
I have a relatively small ESXi 5.5 environment. I am running 5 hosts with 82 Virtual Machines. Our current database is 2008, which is unsupported for the vCenter 6 upgrade. The SQL server we are...
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Migrate vCenter 6.0 from 2008 to 2012
Hello,We have vCenter 6.0 running server 2008, with database on SQL server 2012. I want to know how can I migrate vCenter 6.0 from 2008 to 2012. Step by step guide will be much appreciated. Thanks,Mihir
View ArticleVCSA 6.0 VPXD does not start
I have VCSA 6.0 installed but the VPXD does not initialize. Is there a specific log file that I can look at to determine why it is not initializing.
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