Catch-22 - how does one edit the vcenter server VM if you have already...
Once you update a VM to VMX-10, you can no longer edit the settings of the VM using the Windows vSphere client - you have to use the vCenter Web client. But what if your vCenter server needs more RAM?...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 AD group membership resolution
Hi, I have problem with group membership resolution for users, that are members of high number of AD groups (about 500 local and global AD groups). In our environment we grant VM users role to...
View Articledatastore clusters and i/o control
I have an EqualLogic array and if I understand the docs correctly, they say to disable storage i/o control in VMware and let the SAN handle it. Suppose I present multiple luns from the EqualLogic to...
View ArticlevCenter Server 5 Foundation HA
Hello, If you have licensign of vCenter Server 5 Foundation and ESXi Standard, Do you have High Availability? Thanks,
View ArticleExamining ESX server logs to determine vCenter Shudown?
I'm not familiar with VMWare however examining a situation where we need to determine if the vCenter at an office was shutdown. The only data I have right now are logs from the ESX servers.Any ideas...
View ArticleNPE on apputils ServiceConnection.connect
We are using the vSphere 5.0 Web Services SDK for Java (the most current version seems to be released on 2011-08-22) to connect to our vCenter server 5.1.0 (build 947673)When doing a...
View ArticleCan't add ESXi host to vCenter Server
Hello, I created a home setup of a VMware datacenter for studying purposes. I currently have 2 virtual machines: one with an ESXi host and one with vCenter Server Appliance deployed on it.I configured...
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High cpu usage on newly created 5.5 vcenter (build 1623101)
Hi Admins! I dont understand why my newly created vcenter use to much cpu resources.Java(TM) Platform Binary uses 50% of cpu resources Environment:6 ESX hosts (5.5)1 virtual vcenter (5.5)150 VMs My...
View ArticleIs there a way to restrict all deploying vms to use thin provision only?
We have quite a large environment with huge number of users who deploys VMs from templates. While you deploy a VM you can select which kind of provision to select. We want to force this selection to be...
View ArticleVM memory usage:
Hi All, In one of client environment they have following VM: -128 GB memory assigned to vm ( Host has 256 GB memory, no over commitment)-Running SQL and Reserve memory inside the Windows OS for SQL...
View ArticleCPU Ready% Alarm
Hi folks. We've got a particular VM hosting a workload that *very* sensitive to latency/contention and I'm setting up an alarm based on CPU Ready Time. I understand the mechanics of creating the alarm...
View ArticlevCenter Server is Under Reporting Disk Usage for a VM
We are running vCenter Server 5.5.x and vSphere ESXi 5.5.x. On the vCenter Server, looking at the VM, it has two virtual disks - one is 25GB and one is 250GB. The "Provisioned" line is 276.11 GB which...
View ArticleStorage providers error
Hello, when I open VCenter - so automatically is open Storage Providers with this error Call "SmsServiceInstance.QueryStorageManager" for object "ServiceInstance" on Server "back01" failed Can you help...
View ArticleIncrease memory in vCenter VM
I have a vCenter 5.5 VM with only 4gb of RAM allocated.I want to upgrade this.Firstly what is the recommended memory to allocate (SQL on another server).The memory option is greyed out (permissions are...
View ArticleVcenter server 5.5 instalation requirements
Hello , We have just parchased vsphere essential plus license upto three servers. We have need to know about vcenter server installation requirements. Can we install Vcenter server 5.5 on linux...
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DRS powered on a VM with VM Monitoring disabled
Has anybody encountered this before? DRS appears to have automatically powered on a VM roughly 12 minutes after the VM was powered off. It's a two host cluster running ESXi 5.1 update 1 build 1312873...
View ArticlevCenter Appliance syslog rotation
Hi, In the normal Windows based vCenter, there are options to set log rotation settings for the syslog service to which the ESXi-hosts are logging.I can't find this option in the vCenter Appliance....
View ArticleHow to add an ESXi 4.1 in a vCenter 5.5?
Hi We are involved in a migration project since ESX/ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5. Now all my infrastructure is managed by a vcenter 4.1 and it manages several ESX 4.1 and ESXi 4.1. Recently we've bought a new...
View ArticleVcenter Appliance 5.5 Single point of failure
Hey All, How do you get around using the Vcenter appliance and it not be a single point of failure? We rely on Vcenter heavily and downtime is unacceptable? There isno way to build a clustered...
View ArticleBreaking a HA-DRS cluster in two cluster
Hi, My client has 13 node cluster which has two generation of servers and all servers are running windows. Server generation A (7 Servers): 24 logical CPU and 192 GB RAMServer generation B(6 Servers):...
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