ESXi 5.5 Hosts disconnecting from vCenter 5.5.0b
Good evening. I've recently deployed some new HP BL465c G8 hosts running the HP OEM install for ESXi 5.5 (not the one just released on 02/18) and the two of the hosts have been disconnecting from...
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View ArticleMove VCenter Server to New Datacenter
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View ArticleWeb Client operations very unreliable? Many tasks seem to stall or never start.
This past Friday I upgraded our 5.1 VMSA to the latest 5.5 using the standard process (deploy OVF, exchange keys, etc). Everything seemed fine aside from a timeout issue on login that I resolved...
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I've seen other threads related to 5.1 and failing to replace SSL certs on vCenter Server, but I'm not able to use any of those solutions to fix my problem. This is a 2008R2 host that originally had...
View Articlevcenter app deployment
Hi, thish is harish, i am involved in deploying vmware infrastructure for a company, as per current setup have installed ESXi5 on 2 blades with 5 vm's on it of server2012 Datacenter 64 bit among which...
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