vCenter Syslog Support
Hi We have a v5.5. vCenter, vSphere, vCloud Director system. vCenter is on Windows 2008 R2. We trialled the VMware Log Insight and felt that the log filtering value was not worth the price being...
View ArticleVM Specific vCenter Role and Permission
How to give role and permission to user for a specific virtual machine? If I assign Virtual machine Role to user he can play with all VMs; what if I want to give him rights for single virtual machine?
View ArticleQuestion about Expandable Reservation??
Hi, I have created the Resource pool in my Environment and set the VM Reservation value as 1024MB with Expandable Reservation option. Also Set 512MB Reservation for VM1 and VM2 respectively and moved...
View ArticleWhat keeps turning off SSH on my hosts?
So inherited an environment running 5.1 (vCenter and ESXi) I have one cluster that is I enable SSH from the security profile, it gets turned back off within a few minutes. This does not happen with new...
View ArticleSeparate SSO servers for small environments?
We have (2)different VMWare 5.1 environments for security reasons. We have (1)vCenter server with 6 hosts and 100 VMs and another vCenter server with 20 hosts and 500 VMs. The only reason we have...
View ArticleReplacing the VCENER VM with Physical VCENTER
Hi a Customer requested VCENTER to be installed on a VM due to budget limitations he had before but now want to have a physical Server to replace the VM the thing is it has multiple of applications and...
View ArticleUpdating rules of table vpx_guest_disk in vCenter database ?
Hello everybody, Does anybody know how is refreshed the table VPX_GUEST_DISK in vCenter database ??? My interrogation starts from the reflection that vpx_guest_disk contains 4 interesting columns :...
View ArticleESXi host shows "not responding" in vSphere web console after 60-90 seconds...
I'm not sure where to go next with this, hoping someone can offer advice... This is a fresh install of vCenter 5.5 and an existing ESXi 5.5 server. I see my ESXi host and all details in the web...
View ArticleWeb Client poor performance in RDP
I'm not sure is much people like my case, we P2V over 70% - 80% of our physical boxes in past few years, most of technicians coming from remote site to support VMs.People usually uses RDP login Web...
View ArticlePerformance Charts Display Issue
Hello, I have an Issue with the Performance Charts output for VMs. If I take a look on CPU performance for a week I see broken graphs. Please see the attached image.Do you know whats the root cause for...
View ArticleWhere can I enable copy/paste on a cloned VM in vCenter LabManager 4.0
Where can I enable copy/paste on a cloned VM in vCenter LabManager 4.0? Even using the console, I cannot copy-paste from an external environment to the VM. I would like to be able to copy/paste files...
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vCenter 5.5 Installation failing.
Hello Guys, It's a brand new server with Windows 2008 R2 installed from scratch with all updates. vCenter Single Sign-On, Web Client, and Inventory Service gets installed with no issues but during the...
View ArticleHigh traffic between VC 5.5 appliance and ESXi 4.1 hosts
I have recently upgraded my Essentials 5.5 VC appliance and have noted that I am getting significant spikes of traffic between the VC and my two 4.1 hosts. The traffic appears to originate from the VC...
View ArticleVcenter Database user issue RSA_DBA & RSA_user
We installed vcenter 5.1 U2 but created only one RSA_DBA Database ID for everything ( DDL & DML ). We did not create separate RSA_USER for DML as per VMware ( RSA_DBA is used for creating the...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 Web Client shows incorrect inventory
I upgraded my vCenter to 5.5 from 5.1 and it works except the Web Client has incorrect inventory data. It is missing some VMs and has some ghost VMs that don't actually exist. There aren't any error...
View ArticlevSphere SRM and Vmware Update Manager
Hi Guys, Just want to know is it safe to go with installing VMware SRM and Vmware Update Manager on the same vCenter Server. regardsVKS
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Can’t get rid of a ghost vCenter server in the vSphere WEB Client
I recently upgraded to vShpere 5.5U1A. I elected to install a new Win 2012 R2 551 vCenter server instead of upgrading the W2K8R2 5.5 server to 5.5U1a After all was said and done, there is still a...
View Articleadd hard disk VCSA 5.5 to datastore
I'm making the jump to mostly vsphere web client & VCSA 5.5 to edit settings on a VM under a host in a datacenter. The host has 2 datastores. The VM has 1 hard disk assigned to datastore1. I go to...
View Articleabout AD and DNS requirement in vCenter server installation
hello, I am facing some installation stuffs now. It's about installing vCenter server 5.5 in windows.I'm just in my lab. It went well when I installed vCenter server appliance and I can do the remaing...
View ArticleRemote SQL Server Requirements
Hey all, I am preparing to build a new 5.5 vcenter for migration and this time I want to build an remote SQL server to connect to our vcenter as our current setup does not include a remote but local...
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