vCenter Server Appliance checking for update hangs
Hey all, I just wanted to update a vCSA appliance. Unfortunately it hangs in the status "Checking for aivailable updates..." as has no internet access. I changed the settings to CD-ROM updates,...
View ArticleSSO 5.5 HA questions
Hello all.I got some problems while trying to configure SSO HA.I have 2 vms with primary and secondary nodes of SSO and vm (debian7) with apache 2.2 as load balancer. Load balancer config taken from...
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VC 5.5.0 (1476327) and Profile Driven Storage / java / high CPU load
Hi all, back from weekend I found our VC vm nearly unoperatable. We recently updated from VC 5.0 to VC 5.5.0. Our ESXi servers are still 5.0 U3.I found the cause in TaskManager, a java.exe with all...
View ArticleWhats the status the bug issue with vFRC and high CPU/RAM?
Anyone whats happening with KB2072392? We upgraded our Enterprise licenses to Enterprise Plus to utilize vFRC. We haven't been able to use it for over two months and no word yet from VMware Support......
View ArticleShare templates between vCenter servers
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone have tried sharing templates between vCenter servers?I want to set up a common iSCSI VMFS volume that is accessible by all our ESX-hosts, and use the same set of templates...
View Articlehost memory usage
A ESXi 5.0 host usage is 17 GB / 38 GB but on cluster's host tab, it shows that particular host "% Memory" value is 72. Which one is correct? How is this value calculated? vCenter 5.0 is on Windows...
View ArticleDatastore Cluster move to a new vcenter 5.5 - steps?
Designing a plan to move exisiting 5.1 environment to a new 5.5 vcenter server. I have a Datastore Cluster that I would like to move into the new vCenter. I have SDRS rules setup. How do I move the...
View ArticleAuthentication to vSphere web client using smart cards
Hello everybody, I'd like to authenticate to vSphere web client using smart card logon. Is that feature supported in vCenter 5.5? If so, how can I enable it ? Thank you very much !
View ArticleDatabase problems?
Hi, I recently upgraded from 5.0 to 5.5 U1 (including the heartbleed bug patch) and am having what I believe are database issues. All services start and I am able to connect via the vSphere client and...
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 ArticleFresh vCenter install -- vCenter Advance Settings page just sits on loading
Two issues: 1.) new install of vCenter 5.5 (on one server), runs fine, just sometimes the vcenter advanced settings page just sits on loading and never loads. I have to restart the vCenter services to...
View ArticlevCenter Inventory Services
Hi, I want to install the Inventory Services, but when I enter the password for admin@system-domain, I receive this message: The user hasn't got enough privileges to perform administrative actions....
View ArticleOS customization fails with VMXNET3, works with Intel NIC
vCenter 5.5u1 appliance. When using a non-sysprepped Server 2012 R2 template with a customization specification, sysprep is never executed. After lots of trial and error I found out that it fails with...
View Articlecan't create datastore in web client
Just upgraded to 5.5U1 and I'm trying to get used to the web client. I went to create a new datastore by first rescanning which seemed to work fine then I tried to create a new datastore (VMFS) but...
View ArticlevCenter Server service can not start
Hi,Our virtualization system is using vSphere 5.5 version. Everything were OK until before yesterday that could not load Inventories information. Anywhere in the vSphere client navigator GUI were...
View ArticlevCenter Appliance Hosts and VM's
I just set up the vCenter appliance with the embedded database. Some of my hosts in different countries are getting moved to outsourced support, so I thought the appliance would be perfect. (I have...
View ArticleUpgrading to 5.5 Update 1
For the upgrade to 5.5.1 A with driver roll-up 2, it says "This image should not be used for ESXi upgrades." In the readme file it says to use a different method to upgrade the drivers. Is there an...
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template actions grayed out
Hi, Today I've found out that for one of my templates some of the actions are grayed out. I can successfully deploy vm from this template, however I can't convert it to vm, nor rename it, nor remove it...
View ArticleSSO problem
HI All,For some reason my SSO stopped working last night. Found this out when my backup jobs failed. After talking with the support tech, her suggestion was to reinstall all the components. My...
View ArticleHow to change vCenter Web client Panel Layout
Hi All, I have upgraded my VMware Infrastructure to 5.5. Now with the new feature and policies from 5.5 version , We need to login through VMware vSphere Web client. So my Question is ...... Is there...
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