vCenter Alarm - Extend Virtual Disk
Does anyone know of a way to trigger a vCenter alarm when a VM's virtual disk is extended? I'm wanting to give this privilege to our 24x7 first line support team but I would like to know when any...
View ArticleESXi Gateway for iSCSI/vMotion on diff subnets?
Going from ESX4 to ESXi 5.1. We have 2 vswitches. 1. vswitch0 is connected via 4 physical NIC's to 1 physical switch. vswitch0 has a VM port group, a service console and a vmkernel port for vMotion....
View ArticleCreating a Host profile gives error "Unexpected language"
Creating a Host Profile from a host gives on most of our hosts, but not all, the following error:A general system error occurred: See the error stack for details on the cause of this problem. Error...
View Article256 kb partition created in VM when taking a snapshot with Option "quiesce...
Hi all I have the following problem: When I take a snapshot (via VCenter) of a vm and choose the option "quiesce guest file system", then under certain circumstances there is a small partition created...
View ArticlevCenter install requirement
I read vCenter4.1 and 5 install requirement document and it says it needs 2 core CPU and those clock should be more than 2.0 GHz.If this requirement is not met, installation will fail ?
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vim.fault.HttpFault when sorting VMs in vSphere Client after 5.1 upgrade
Hello. I have recently completed a upgrade of vCenter from 5.0 > 5.1. I ran into some common teething problems with SSO but things look ok at the moment. I do have one problem that I'd really like...
View ArticleVcenter - New Installation with transfer of Permissions and Folder to new...
Hi,i installed a fresh VCenter 5.1 and want to transfer all Hosts from the old 5.0 Installation.Detaching the hosts and attaching it to the new Instance is only half of the work to be done. The Folder...
View ArticleMaking datastore visible to single VM
Hi I have vCenter 5.1.0 (Win2008 R2), with ESXi 5.1.0. I have the possiblity to adminster everything with the windows administrator account. For one machine I'd like to give another person the...
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high cpu load on vcenter server appliance
since a couple of weeks we're seeing a 100% load on our virtual server appliance:Our environment is not that big, it's a demo setup but vpxd is using a lot of CPU resources:Anyone any idea how we can...
View ArticleVCenter Service Failing.
My vcenter service is failing to start. Any one have any idea why? windows logs attached.
View ArticleAdmin@system-domain can't log in to Vcenter server
I installed SSO on the Virtual Center server in our DR environment and then upgraded the Web Client. When I log in to the Web Client as Admin@system-domain I see the following error message displayed:...
View ArticleSSO Install Error 29168
I have never even seen this error before. I am installing SSO onto its own Windows 2008 R2 Standard server. Installing as a stand alone SSO Server, from VCENTER 5.1.0b ISO. Not using Simple Install....
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vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 - cannot connect
Hi guys, Just deployed the vCenter VA to one of our ESXi Hosts. Powered it up and after configuring the network (and adding entry into DNS), I can ping, but not view the web admin...
View ArticleHow do I identify a vCenter locator in vSphere?
When deploying an OVA/OVF file to vCenter, ovftool requires a locator.The example locator in the user guide looks like this: vi://user:password@localhost/DatacenterWhen I look at the vCenter path with...
View ArticleHow to automatically start/stop VMs?
Hi, is it possible to automatically start/stop VMs (and create from template if necessary) based on specific criterias? I think of setting up a template containing a webserver and I want to fire up and...
View ArticleSSO: domain users login only once
Hello,I have the following issue in VCenter Server 5.1.0 U1A and SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 installed in 2 different VMs.I configured SSO with a single AD domain using ldaps; In identity source I provided...
View ArticlevCenter Simple Install 5.1 continues to fail
vCenter Simple Install 5.1 continues to fail with error 29114. I choose the SQL 2008 Express installation, because it's already installed for another app. I've looked at this help, but did not...
View ArticleDisable the connection log
Hello, I have a vCenter 4.1 and I would like to disable the connection log.In order to monitoring my ESXi and VM's problems, I have a script which permits to connect to the vCenter and asks it the...
View Articlechange notiification languages
Hello When user logon on web console vcenter 5.1 and provide a bad password or login information the notifications are in french. Also if the user add on the link address ?locale=en_US. Waht I can do...
View ArticleSSO DC Server changed
Hello, I installed a new DC server with Windows Server 2012 in my lab. I moved all roles from my old DC server (Windows 2008 Server) over and demotes the DC server and shut it off. What happens that...
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