vCenter 5.5 certificate replacement issue
I'm having problems getting the self signed certificates for vCenter v5.5 replaced with Enterprise CA certificates. I am using the certificate replacement tool from VMware. The SSO certificate is...
View ArticleWeb Client on VCenter appliance can't connect to VCenter - Admin-cmd scripts...
Hi I have deployed a vcenter appliance (5.5.0), and changed the SSL certs. When I log in to the web client on this appliance, it can now not connect to the vcenter. I found the articles to register the...
View ArticlevCenter Server Appliance - no web interface on port 5480
Dear VMware Community!I don't have any web interface after install. Could you help me to solve this issue?I installed successfully VMware-ESXi-5.5.0, and then downloaded and deployed...
View ArticleAverage time taken to migrate virtual machines off a host
Hi, I'm busy trying to work out the average time it would taken to migrate virtual machine off a host if the host is using a 1Gb nic for vMotion. I've looked around for any performance papers that may...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 SSO and failure to successfully authenticate users
I have experienced this problem with the 5.1 upgrade including the latest 5.1.0b. In fact the latest patch makes it impossible to add users explicitly via the vSphere client whereas previously I could...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 SSO and failure to successfully authenticate users
Service accounts not able to login to vCenter application,Followed KB article still same issue,...
View ArticleSnapshots?
Hello all, Just curious to hear your thougts on SNAPSHOTS!! Better powered off or on. What are the benefits either way.There has been a lot of discussions going back and forth here at work.Personally...
View ArticleWhat are the steps to upgrade from vCenter/vSphere 5.0 Essentials Plus to...
We currently have VMWare Essentials Plus on 3 hosts, with 2CPU's each. We wanted to add 2 more ESX hosts, so we upgraded our license to Standard for vCenter/vSphere to version 5.5. We're trying to...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 unattended installation documentation?
Is there any documentation for doing a command-line (unattended) installation of vCenter 5.5? For 5.1 I followed this guide...
View ArticleHow to make snapshot of a VM with prohibitively large 'Mapped Raw LUN' disk?
We have a fileserver VM, which has a 7TB SAN disk attached as 'Mapped Raw LUN'.I am unable to make a snapshot from this VM due to the large disk (a D:\ disk in Windows OS, non-system, data only). Is...
View ArticlevCSA 5.5.0a - Users with spaces are unable to authenticate
I am not able to login to the vSphere Web Client or full client when the username contains spaces. I was able to figure this out after some troubleshooting. I created a user named "Testing" and it...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 Console through proxy
Hello. Essentially we have a 5.5 Cluster setup that works great. Local access works fine from terminals on the network. However remote users access the network typically via proxy over an SSH tunnel....
View ArticleAdding/Viewing ESX hosts local datastore in vCenter
Hey all, I'm glad to join these forms and hope I don't get shot down for not having a VM cert (I'm trying hard to find out where and how to get it) I have recently graduated with a Network Managing...
View Article"Reset Alarm to Green" not available
We have a vSphere4 vCenter server running. Now there are some triggered alarms, which I can Acknowledge. But I also want to clear it, so the alarm goes green. The problem is that the menu "Reset...
View ArticleEnable EVC Mode from VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Hello, I am fairly new to vSphere. I have two hosts running ESXi 5.1 One of those hosts is running the "VMware vCenter Server Appliance" with vSphere version 5.5. I currently have a single cluster...
View ArticleAdding Hosts With Existing VMs to "Greenfield" DRS Enabled Cluster
I am currently involved in an evaluation project for Hypervisor 5.5 and vCenter. Existing are 2 physical servers with redundant everything and 8 SAS hot swap hard drive bays. Initially, of the 8 bays...
View ArticleGetting continous event on vCenter
Hi, We had implemented vSphere 5.1 in our environment along with heartbeat and vCOPS. Now the issue is we are getting continuous events in our vCenter server as 'Cannot login username @127.0.0.1'. I...
View ArticleConfiguration Tab
I feel really dumb asking this but why don't I have a "Configuration Tab" for my guests? I need to set the "On ESX Server startup, Guest Power options" so that my guests start automatically when the...
View ArticleCould not start vCenter Server appliance
Hello, we have been using vCenter server (5.0 and 5.1) on Windows Server 2003 for a long time. Now, with vCenter Server 5.5 there is a need for Windows Server 2008 64-bit and accompanying database...
View ArticleCreate Host Profile from Reference Fails 5.5b Device Alias duplicated within...
Cannot create a host profile on this brand new cluster of HP DL980's. vCenter 5.5b and ESXi build 5.5.0 1474528. I get the following error: Call "HostProfileManager.CreateProfile" for object...
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