vCenter appliance 5 and SMTP Configuration
hi guys I setup the SMTP Server IPand Sender Account in my new and shiny vCenter Appliance 5 server SMTP Server: 192.168.1.xSender account: vcenter@mycompany.net now testing for the email alerts I get...
View ArticleGuest Customization /w sysprep file not working after upgrading vCenter from...
Up until this point, we have been using custom sysprep answer files to deploy new clones of Windows Server 2008 R2. I wrote a script to take guest-specific info (e.g. hostname, IP address) and replace...
View ArticleNo realtime data in vcenter performance tab
Hi, we have four esxi5 host in a cluster and our vcenter server performance tab has no realtime data, it just states that there is no data for this object. This is happening for two host in the...
View ArticleHP Procurve 2510G as HA iSCSI Switch?
Hi All, I have 2x HP Procurve 2510G-24 switches and plan to use it for HA iSCSI connection to Netapp filer. My plan is to: 1] vif 2 NIC on filer, 1 NIC to each Procurve switches at port 1 2] trunk 2...
View ArticleAdd specific counters to vCenter statistics level
Since we upgraded to vCenter and ESXI 5.0 I noticed a few important statistics counters to be missing (not realtime ones), namely VM IO statistics like datastore.numberReadAveraged.average and...
View ArticlevCenter Linked Mode for DR purpose: What if the primary node fails?
Hi,I'm investigating on vCenter Linked mode for our Company. Infact, our DR policy is planned to restart everything from COLD (from tape... ok It's bad but is what our business team asked us). Since...
View Articlechange ldap port for linked mode?
I am configuring linked mode and I want to change the default port 389 to 636. I found instance.cfg, but upon changing that and restarting the vcenter service the service will not start. How do I go...
View ArticleUpgrade from vCenter 4.1 to vCenter 5.0
Guys. I am thinking to completely build a new vCenter 5.0, and then move my host off from vCenter 4.1, but since I have EVC enabled I am wondering how would I add a host to a new cluster while the host...
View Articleinternals errors after vcenter update (5.0 -> 5.0 U1b)
hi everyone, I have two differents errors in the perf tab and in the storage views tab using my vsphere client :in the perf tab :'General Report Generation Exception fault' in every graphs...
View ArticleVMware vPostgres vCenter app 5.0 U1b
hi guys I would like to know if this VMware vPostgres database which now replaces DB2 embedded in the vcenter appliance 5.0 U1b has the same limitations as the embedded DB2 and SQL Express? or the 5...
View ArticlevCenter 5.0 update 1 upgrade - database not upgraded?
Hi, Upgraded our vCenter 5.0 server to update 1 - had no error messages, and upgraded the components (update manager etc), rebooted and all seemed fine until I checked the vCenter service status. I...
View ArticleVmWare VCenter Server service won't start
Earlier this week, we experienced some issues with our Vcenter that required us to reload our server from an image. Now that the server is back up and functioning, the VCenter Server Service and the...
View ArticleMerging vCenter instances
Greetings, At the moment we have a single vCenter instance with two datacenters corresponding to the geographical location of the ESX servers. We have merged with another organisation which also...
View ArticleMigrating between datacenters in the same virtual center.
Hi there, We are attempting to migrate between hosts that are in different datacenters. Both datacenters are in the same Virtual Center. We could do this in the past, presumably before upgrading...
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vSphere Client error : An internal error occurred in vSphere Client Details...
We are facing an issue with vsphere client the last 2 days. An error message appears suddenly while connected in vcenter server 4.1 vSphere Client error : An internal error occurred in vSphere Client...
View ArticleServer 2012/Win8 Templates
Anyone have any luck creating Server 2012/Win8 Templates? Doesn't look like it's supported yet, so it's a manual build process for us now. I'm wondering if we could automate it by generating the...
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Need help with SQL setup
I need some help with setup, configuration and optimization for a SQL Server 2008 R2 running on ESXi5. Hardware:Proliant DL380p G82 Xeon CPUs @ 2.5GHz - 6 cores each64 GB RamLocal Storage Only - 4x 10k...
View ArticleSince Upgrade to VCenter 5.0 update 1 vshphere web client inventory sits on...
I've been scouring the net to see if i could find anyone else who has had the same problem, and have come up empty handed so far.Today I performed the upgrade from v 5.0 and applied update 1. The...
View ArticleVcenter server database backup
guys, I want to uninstall my vcenter server and reinstall a latest build number version. but i have configured so many things in the cluster. so i need to backup the configuration data and all other...
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How umount the datastore ?
hello,I meet a problem to umount the datastore . As we want to change the NFS mount IP to this ESX server.Could you anybody have the solution to solve this problem ? thanks Ray
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