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Add an ESXI 5.5 to vCenter 6.0

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Hi guys,

 

I'm currently working on a vdi solution and I consequently need a vCenter (6.0).
I took the evaluation mode and everything was alright until I tried to add my ESXI (5.5) to the vCenter, I had an error message like : "license can't not perform this operation... Plz Upgrade your license."
I looked for a trial version, or a temporary key for vCenter but it seems that this version doesn't need any key... Therefore I didn't find any key or license to be able to add a host.

 

Help would be very appreciated.

 

Thanks a lot.


Moving Vcenter to DNR Site

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Our Vcenter Server is located on a ESXi 6 host outside of the Vmware environment.  I want to move the server to our DNR site, is there a process for doing this?

 

Vmware is telling me i need to rebuild the box and backup and restore the DB.  But if i have rebuild I may as well just import the hosts/VM again.

 

Can anyone tell me why I cant change the IP/change DNS to point to the new IP and move the server without having to rebuild??

Vcenter 6 "upgrade" path

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I've got a Windows/SQL vCenter 5.5.0c server that was upgraded multiple times from very old versions, and even P2V'ed at one point.   I had tried to do an in place upgrade to v6 over the weekend and I ran into some database issues and had to back out.  I think we probably resolved the DB issues, but it got me thinking that I really just would rather be on the Appliance going forward.    I tried the Fling VCSA migration appliance to migrate to the DB, but it just kept hanging at the same place and VPX wouldn't start.   I'm kind of at the point where I'm wondering if starting over fresh on a clean VCSA is the right path.  

 

Browsing some online resources, it seems like migrating to a new vCenter would be as simple as disabling DRS and HA, removing the hosts one at a time and connecting them to the new vCenter.  Is there anything more to it than that?

 

Our environment is fairly simple:

 

  • <15 hosts
  • 1 vCenter single server setup
  • no Distributed Switches  (but conversion to dvswitch planned soon)
  • no VDI
  • no vSAN
  • no FT

 

So I think all of the normal gotchas wouldn't apply to me, right? 

 

Or I guess I could try to give the Windows upgrade another go since I think I solved my DB issues.  Maybe Vmware will release a fully supported and featured VCSA converter with 6.5?  

Unable to choose tiny or small size during appliance vCenter upgrade to 6.0

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We are trying to migrate/uograde vcenter appliance from 5.5U3 to 6.0

 

After resolving the issue with diskspace on the source appliance we ran into an issue with selecting deployment size.

 

We cannot choose tiny or small. Only choices are medium and large, and since we have 3 host with a total of 30VM's it's quite overkill.

vcsa6.png

 

Anyone had this issue and know how to get the tiny deployment option back?

how to find out what sso deployment topology

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I currently have 2 physical locations

 

each location has 4 vcenters and they all have sso installed on them along with vcenter (4 VMs)

 

when I login to one vcenter, I see all 4 vcenters so they are all in linkd mode.

 

On the other physical location - same thing, when i login to one vcenter I see all 4.

 

 

what kind of sso deployment topology do I have?

 

the 2 sites does not seem like they can see each other, at least not from linked mode

Full qualified VM names after vCenter 6 restart

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Hello Community

 

after we installed VMware Tools on multiple VMs our VC Server crashed an was not available anymore.

We have restarted the system and now you can connect against it but some of the VMs are not named correctly like:

ds:///vmfs/volumes/12345678-12345678-ABCDE/foobar-it/foobar-it.vmx

instead of:

foobar-it

 

When you restart the hostd and vpxa service on each host the VMs change their names correctly but this only works until the next vCenter reboot.

 

Does anyone know this error?

Vcenter server reboot --- Can I just reboot it?

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My SAN is working somehow, but I cannot access my vcenter server through.the vsphere client.  I get the error:  An unknown connection error occurred, (The request failed because of a connection failure.  I also cannot connect through veeam.  Everything else seems to be working correctly.  VCenter is a virtual machine in my SAN environment.  Can I simply restart the vcenter server?  Or do I have to shut everything else down before I do this? 

 

Thanks in advance for the help.

Determine volume / disk name from naa number

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How can I determine the volume / disk name from the naa number?  In multipathing settings is just shows me the eui number.  Thanks for any help!

 

- John


vCenter Web Client 6.0 U1B - Users can't see VM performance data.

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Our vCenter Server in 6.0.0 U1b and it's a Windows 2012 Server.

 

My problem is, the VM admins have access to their VM's but when they go to look at the performance charts they get the message...

"Permission to perform this operation was denied.

You do not hold privilege "System > Read" on folder vcenter-server-name"

 

They have the ability to power on/off their VM and they show up in thier list.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks

vCSA 6.0U1 - Health Status 'Unknown' on management page

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This issue is really bugging me

When I log in to the management tab for my vCSA 6.0U1 appliance I see this:

vcenter unknown.jpg

N.B. this screenshot was taken a few days ago hence the timestamp shown. I still have the issue.

I have reboooted vCSA and this has not resolved the problem.

What is vCSA looking for to determine its health? I have an identical instance at another site with a health status of 'Good'.

Any advice appreciated.

VCSA 6.0 VMware Content Library Service

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It seems as though the Content Library Service has up and vanished from my vCenter Services. I created a content library back in April. I went to delete and add an online library I built and it wouldn't work. I dug around and did some homework and found where the core services were. I used a BASH shell command to try and start it. I figured it wouldn't work, but here is what it spit back.

 

Has anyone had issues with their content library before?

 

service-control --start vmware-vdcs

INFO:root:Service: vmware-vdcs, Action: start

Service: vmware-vdcs, Action: start

2015-12-30T00:00:40.321Z   Running command: ['/sbin/chkconfig', u'vmware-vdcs']

2015-12-30T00:00:40.362Z   Done running command

2015-12-30T00:00:40.363Z   Running command: ['/sbin/service', u'vmware-vdcs', 'status']

2015-12-30T00:00:40.453Z   Done running command

2015-12-30T00:00:40.454Z   Running command: ['/sbin/chkconfig', '--force', u'vmware-vdcs', 'on']

2015-12-30T00:00:40.486Z   Done running command

2015-12-30T00:00:40.486Z   Running command: ['/sbin/service', u'vmware-vdcs', 'start']

2015-12-30T00:00:56.294Z   Done running command

2015-12-30T00:00:56.294Z   Invoked command: ['/sbin/service', u'vmware-vdcs', 'start']

2015-12-30T00:00:56.294Z   RC = 1

Stdout = Starting VMware Content Library Service...

wrapper  | An encoding declaration is missing from the top of configuration file, /etc/vmware/wrapper_common.conf, trying the system encoding.

wrapper  | An encoding declaration is missing from the top of configuration file, /etc/vmware/wrapper_linux.conf, trying the system encoding.

wrapper  | Spawning intermediate process...

Waiting for VMware Content Library Service..................

WARNING: VMware Content Library Service may have failed to start.

Last login: Tue Dec 29 23:04:21 UTC 2015 on console

 

 

Stderr =

2015-12-30T00:00:56.294Z   {

    "resolution": null,

    "detail": [

        {

            "args": [

                "Command: ['/sbin/service', u'vmware-vdcs', 'start']\nStderr: "

            ],

            "id": "install.ciscommon.command.errinvoke",

            "localized": "An error occurred while invoking external command : 'Command: ['/sbin/service', u'vmware-vdcs', 'start']\nStderr: '",

            "translatable": "An error occurred while invoking external command : '%(0)s'"

        }

    ],

    "componentKey": null,

    "problemId": null

}

ERROR:root:Unable to start service vmware-vdcs, Exception: {

    "resolution": null,

    "detail": [

        {

            "args": [

                "vmware-vdcs"

            ],

            "id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart",

            "localized": "An error occurred while starting service 'vmware-vdcs'",

            "translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'"

        }

    ],

    "componentKey": null,

    "problemId": null

}

Unable to start service vmware-vdcs, Exception: {

    "resolution": null,

    "detail": [

        {

            "args": [

                "vmware-vdcs"

            ],

            "id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart",

            "localized": "An error occurred while starting service 'vmware-vdcs'",

            "translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'"

        }

    ],

    "componentKey": null,

    "problemId": null

}

Vmware -ESENT(48282)

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I have received an error


ntevl:ESENT (482 - General): Directory (1120) An attempt to write to the file "\\?\Volume{0c788ce3-c42a-11e5-8e64-005056af0000}\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\VMwareVCMSDS\edb.log" at offset 8014336 (0x00000000007a4a00) for 512 (0x00000200) bytes failed after 0 seconds with system error 19 (0x00000013): "The media is write protected. ". The write operation will fail with error -1032 (0xfffffbf8). If this error persists then the file may be damaged and may need to be restored from a previous backup.


Can any one help me to find resolution for this error ?


Thank you

ssl verification failure for "ip" due to a host thumbprint mismatch.

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Hello.

Have big problem with vSphere client

Today i press button Clear SSL certificate in IE on my Windows 7 OS

Then i faced with strange issue

I'm trying connect to vm console (client connected to vCenter) and i have an error ssl verification failure for "ip" due to a host thumbprint mismatch.

It's happend again then i trying to connect directly to ESXI

vCenter version 5.0,ESXi 5.0

What I tried to do - clear SSL ignore by regedit, reinstall vSphere client - it's not resolve a problem

I'm still not able to connect to any VM console

I'm trying connect from websphere - no luck,same error

Then i install client on different machine - all running ok

vCenter Storage Monitoring Service Service Initialization failed after upgrade from 5.1 to 5.5

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I recently upgraded from vCenter 5.1 to 5.5. After the upgrade I began to get health warnings for the VMware vCenter Storage Monitoring Service that say "Service initialization failed". I have rebooted the vCenter server and restarted the services several times and that has not cleared the issue. When I look in the SMS.LOG file there is no activity in it since the date I did the upgrade (a week or more ago). All prior activity in the SMS.LOG looks to be fine up up until the upgrade occured though. I have found at least a half-dozen KB articles that describe various reasons why this error might occur but they all pertain to older versions of vCenter. Just to be thorough though I reviewed the symptoms in the articles and none of them really seem to be the same as what I am seeing. My one hypothesis is that perhaps the SMS didn't get properly re-installed during the upgrade because I don't see any SMS sub directory in the \Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\tomcat\webapps directory but I'm not even sure if this directory should exist on a 5.5 installation.

 

Would appreciate if anyone has any troubleshooting advice for this type error.

 

Thanks,

Mike

Evalutation Issue when adding second host to datacenter object

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Hello,

 

I am currently on my evaluation period to get a better idea of the features around VMWare. I just started an evaluation and setup the VCenter web client. I was able to add the first host and when trying to add the second host I get an error message that the license has expired on host 2. When connecting to host2 on VSphere client, under Configuration shows the expiration as 4/30/2016.


Adding VCSA 6.0 to domain fails

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Hi Guys,

 

Hopefully something you can assist me with to stop me from ripping anymore of my hair out   For the last few days, I have been trying to add our VCSA to our domain so that I can setup the SSO domain.

 

This is a brand new deployment - 6.0 all around.  We are using the embedded VCSA with an embedded deployment.  When I go to join the domain, I get the following error:

 

Idm client exception: Error trying to join AD, error code [11], user [Administrator@mydomain], domain [mydomain], orgUnit []

 

I have replaced our domain name with 'mydomain' above - any ideas?

NFS disk between different VCenters

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Got one VCenter 5.5 and a new one, VCenter 6.0. For migrating purposes I would like to share a NFS disk between one host from each VCenter. Is that possible?

 

I've shared NFS disk between hosts in different clusters but that was in the same VCenter, that worked fine. But maybe not between hosts in different VCenters?

 

Got the NFS share up and running and connected to one server in VCenter 6.0 environment, and I can create folders. Using NFS3. On host in VCenter 5.5 I have connected the share but get error when I try to create a folder.

vCenter Service overall health changed from 'green' to 'red

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I received this alarm as datacenter target but how can I know more details?

I don't understand what means OR in the alarm definition because there are twice RED status, 1 GREEN status and 1 YELLOW status

 

 

 

ALARM:

 

Target: Datacenters

Previous Status: Green

New Status: Red

Alarm Definition:

([Event alarm expression: vCenter Service Overall Health Changed; Status = Red] OR

[Event alarm expression: vCenter Service Overall Health Changed; Status = Green] OR

[Event alarm expression: vCenter Service Overall Health Changed; Status = Red] OR

[Event alarm expression: vCenter Service Overall Health Changed; Status = Yellow])

Event details:

vCenter Service overall health changed from 'green' to 'red'

Como faço para adicionar um DataStore para que apareça em todos os hosts?

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Bom dia a todos,

 

Como faço para adicionar um DataStore para todos os hosts que tenho no meu vCenter? Quando estou adicionando um DataStore, ele me permite escolher apenas um Host, não deixa eu selecionar mais que um host:

 

Add Storage - VMWare.jpg

 

Isso tem me causado um problema, porque eu tenho outros Datastores em meu ambiente, e quando eu vou buscar uma ISO por exemplo no host01, se a máquina não estiver no datastore que esse host01 enxerga, eu não consigo usar a ISO. Aí eu tenho que fazer migrate do host para o mesmo DataStore que está a ISO. Por isso, eu preciso que todos os hosts do meu vCenter enxergue todos os DataStores. É possível?

 

Espero ter sido claro em minha dúvida. E desde já agradeço as respostas.

Issues after upgrading VC 5.5 U3a to VC55 U3b

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After upgrading vcenter 5.5 and his components from build 2646481 (VC 5.5 U3a) to build 3254792 (VC 5.5 U3b), it gives error starting vCenter Server service and Management Web Services., giving timeout.

 

 

A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the VMware VirtualCenter Server service to connect.

 

I searched KBase but I didn't any issue related regarding this. I already opened a SR for this with the log attached for analysis.

 

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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