Hi
I have Vcenter Server 6 and all host use ESXI 6 u1 and above (3host 6u1 -1host is ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 5 and 2 host ESXi 6.0 Update 1b )
im using LACP for all host (6 host)
All the Adapter is E1000 and E1000E for Linux and Microsoft Server
some Vm have show Metric for Network in Performance and the some one has No Metric
why should i do ?
1. High Balloon memory utilization
Memory Balloon Percent (55%)is above a defined threshold (50 %)
I am getting above warning message
on the VM settings: Options
Memory : i checked the box (Reserve all guest memory(All Locked))
Then the warning disappeared. Is this the right way to approach.
Will i face any issue with VMotion or any other isses by doing this.
2. How to solve the below warning message for a virtual machine.
VM Screenshot HA reset
Failed by event : VmDASBeingResetWithScreenshotEvent
Event description : MyVM on MYESXi in cluster MYCluster in MYDC reset by vSphere HA. Reason: VMware Tools heartbeat failure.
Having some strange behavior accessing the vSphere Web Client from Windows 8.1 using IE11 from laptop systems.
vCenter version is 6.0 update 1b
We re-imaged a laptop and a desktop both with the exact same base image, no additional drivers or configuration settings, both are using a wired connection on the same network., etc... Upon first bootup of the OS we attempt to access the web client from IE11 (desktop browser, not the metro app browser) The desktop machine works while the laptop does not. Symptoms are immediately after providing login credentials, the laptop just sits there with the blue web client background with the clock icon spinning. The desktop displays the web client interface as expected.
I'm at a loss as to what may be causing this and was looking to see if anyone had any suggestions as to why the laptop would fail but the desktop would connect.
thanks for any insight.
I was able to generate a new password last week for the Vcenter Server Appliance (5.5U2) and it worked for logging in so I made note of it and I came in today ready to upgrade to Vcenter 6.0 only to find out it won't accept the password again. I figured no big deal, I'll just reset it again but I've tried 4x newly generated passwords (none with a "!") but it won't let me login. I'm following the instructions I followed last week to generate them using Putty:
Any idea why it's not working? I can't upgrade it without those creds.
I mean the PW seems to reset but still won't let me login using the newly generated PW
Hi,
I have VCenter 5.0 Installed , I am looking to upgrade VCenter 5.5 , Can i use the same license or i need to buy new license for 5.5.
Regards
Usman Ghani
First vCenter installed at site A. Second vCenter Server installed with multisite configuration option with new SSO setup in new site (site B). New SSO in new site (site B) registered to first SSO at site A. Other components of vCenter such as Inventory service and vCenter server registered to local SSO at site B whereas Web client registered to primary SSO at site A. SSO at site A and site B belongs to same domain account with same username and password.
I already can see both the vCenters in single pane of window.
Does it require any changes to point all the vCenter server components such as Inventory service, Web client and vCenter server register to primary SSO at primary site A ?
In short, Site B has SSO register to primary SSO of site A, domain is vsphere.local
Site B has Inventory service register to local SSO of site B, domain is vsphere.local
Site B has vCenter server register to local SSO of site B, domain is vsphere.local
Site B has Web client register to primary SSO of site A, domain is vsphere.local
If all the above components to be registered to primary SSO of site A, please kindly advise on how the Inventory service and vCenter server can be re-registered to primary SSO of site A with no down time.
I recently moved from a Windows based vcenter 5.1 install on a physical server to the virtual appliance for 6.0. In the past if I wanted to use a plugin, I'd either install it right on the Windows vcenter server, or on it's own server and connect to vcenter via the install settings. But now that I'm on version 6 and the appliance, I'm not exactly sure how the whole plugin set up works. I found this in the docs about deploying a plugin package, but it was a bit confusing. Any help would be appreciated.
This wasn't even what I started working on to get here. I was looking for documentation on updating Qlogic FC HBA's via command line from vib as I did in earlier versions, but couldn't find much information on it. The one thing I did find was to install the Qlogic vcenter plugin and update them via he GUI, but then I realized I had no idea how to connect a third party plugin to this appliance.
And here I am.
VMware vCenter Server Appliance Deployment has been stuck on "Powering on appliance" for nearly an hour. Please advise?
Update: After 4 failed attempts on the same host (ESXi-10), I tried the install on another ESXi (ESXi-1) host and installation completed successfully. I'd still like to figure out what caused the Power On to hang with ESXi-10 though. Any ideas as to cause?
I have installed a new vSphere 6 environtment.with external Platform Services Controller. There was no error or warning during the installation. But, when I connect to the vCenter server with the Web client, I cannot see the Licensing part of the Administration menu. I use the Administrator@vsphere.local account, so the permissions are ok. When I want to add a host to the vCenter, I also get an error message related to license management:
The class com.vmware.license.client.cis.components.AssignLicenseFormFactory is not exported by any plugin.
I installed the newest version of vCenter.
Thanks in advance for any tips or help.
Zoli
I am attempting to access vSphere API method CreateVvolDatastore in list of Managed Object "HostDatastoreSystem" methods.
New CreateVvolDatastore method should be available in HostDatastoreSystem since vSphere API 6.0:
However method CreateVvolDatastore not showing up as an option. Note latest vijava pom.xml dependency entry is version 5.1:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.vmware</groupId>
<artifactId>vijava</artifactId>
<version>5.1</version>
</dependency>
Can anyone please advise how to successfully find / interface with vSphere 6.0 API class HostDatastoreSystem, method CreateVvolDatastore() ?
Is there any vijava SDK jar available containing this new method?
Thanks,
Elaine
I'm on the latest version of the 5.5 appliance. When I add AD users to the Administrators group of Single Sign-on, some users show in the list and some don't. The permissions work, so I know it's adding them. But what I can't do is see who is in there and who isn't. I've gone to using an AD group in place of adding explicit permissions (probably a better way to do it anyway) but I would like to know why this happens and if it's happening to anyone else. Also, if anyone knows how to list out the members of a group using CLI of some kind, I'd appreciate that as well. Thanks.
We have a use case requirement that we disable vMotion on all VMs that get added to a specific resource pool. It's not a setting that you can toggle via the settings of a resource pool. Has anybody solved this problem? Current thinking is we can use vCO or something to poll and disable vMotion per vm. Ideas? Thanks, Blake
I just tried to update to VC2.5 with a db on an MS-SQL2005 DB server. The collation of the SQL Server's masterdb is case sensitive. I created a vcenter database on this SQL Server with a case insensitive collation.
When i try to install, it exits with the following error :
the selected DSN points to a SQL Server instance or database with a case-sensitive collation,
which is unsupported by VirtualCenter. Please select a SQL Server instance(and database)
with a case insensitive collation.
After looking up the install log in the temp dir of my profile-folder i found the following errors :
VMware VirtualCenter-build-84767: 05/19/08 20:35:42 sql query: use "vcenter";
VMware VirtualCenter-build-84767: 05/19/08 20:35:42 Master DB case is : Latin1_General_CS_AS and len is 20
VMware VirtualCenter-build-84767: 05/19/08 20:35:42 SQLFetch: Master DB is Case-Sensitive
VMware VirtualCenter-build-84767: 05/19/08 20:35:42 Getting Property UILevel = 5
VMware VirtualCenter-build-84767: 05/19/08 20:35:42 Attempting to retrieve error message for error Id: 25129
VMware VirtualCenter-build-84767: 05/19/08 20:35:42 Msi Error table Query is <SELECT Message FROM Error WHERE Error=25129>
VMware VirtualCenter-build-84767: 05/19/08 20:35:42 Error message is The selected DSN points to a SQL Server instance or database with a case-sensitive collation, which is unsupported by VirtualCenter. Please select a SQL Server instance (and database) with a case-insensitive collation.
This tells me, that the master db has to be case insenstive. Is this true ? Why isn't it sufficient that the vcenter db is case insensitive ? I can't reinstall all my db's on the server to change the master db's collation.
Hi Community
Does anyone have any experience of how VCSA copes with a hard shutdown for e.g. lets say VCSA is hosted on a host in a cluster that abruptly fails and vSphere HA kicks in to restart it on other host in the cluster. Is it likely to recover consistently?
Is there anything I can do to ensure the VCSA doesn't get corrupted in such scenarios outside of having a clone taken regularly in case I need to revert to it?
Can VCSA be deployed in a manner similar to application clustering?
Thanks
Dryv
I have a trust set up between 2 domains (A & B). I can login fine to domain A windows boxes using my domain B account.
I've added a new identity source for domain A in vcenter and can't log in using my credentials from domain B (domain A works fine). Do I need to do anything else in vCenter (VCSA) for this to work?
"disconnected from host: cannot verify SSL Thumbprint. There was an error unconfiguring vSphere HA agent on this host. To solve this problem connect the host to a vCenter server of version 5.0 or later"
huh?
A backup DC is available in the environment - but until FSMO roles get moved over - is there anything we can do to get this vCenter connected to the hosts again?
Obvisously for now we are managing the hosts by direct connecting the vSphere client ...
vSphere 5.0 u1
Hi Guys,
I have a VM with guest Windows server 2008R2 on ESXi 5.5. I am using a Netbackup to backup these VMs. while running the backup for this VM, the backup fails and when i check in the vCenter Server, the below error observed.
An error occurred while taking a snapshot: msg.snapshot.error-QUIESCINGERROR.
An error occurred while saving the snapshot: msg.snapshot.error-QUIESCINGERROR.
Please assist at the earliest.
regards
VK
Hi, yesterday I updated VCSA appliance from version 6u1 to 6u2 and after the update I have problems with SNMP agent.
The SNMP agent was working after restart about 30 minutes and then it stopped responding to SNMP queries.
I tried another reboot, and it was the same. So I reset SNMP agent using snmp.reset and configured again communities and enabled SNMP agent using snmp.enable, then again it worked about 30 minutes and stopped responding to SNMP queries.
I also checked if the snmpd service is running and it is. Sometimes it helps to restart snmpd service, but not every time.
Can someone please advise?
I am using the vcentre 5.5, and have started to use the vpshere web client. But in the web client in administration/solutions, I cannot see the plugin management to enable plugins. I have stopped the firewall on my vpshere server but still no luck. I have administration rights to the virtual centre as well. In the desktop vsphere client I can see in the plugins ok. I have setup VSC6.2, but it can only be used in the web client.
Is there something you have to do to get the plugin management appear in the web client.
Thanks
we are migrating our production from 5.1 to 6.0 as support ends this year.
we have windows running VSC but we want to switch over to VSCA for DR purposes and one less license.
I have been googling and searching but maybe I'm not finding or using the right termonlogy...
I have found https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vcs-to-vcva-converter
which converts the current to an appliance version. but can this upgrade to such a jump? I only see 5.5
I'm dreading upgrading to 5.5 VSC... just to upgrade to 6.0 VSCA, would rather a simple easy step.
is it better to just build a VCSA and remove current hosts from VCS to add to new VCSA?
we have 4 hosts so we can migrate to get all upgraded without downtime or off-hours moving the 30+ vm's
any all help is appreciated. thanks!
send me links to read, or tips to search for, or write it out... I'm in the research phase so it needs done.
Accipitor