vCenter Appliance-adjusting deployement size
Under the Settings tab you have the option to change the inventory size. If you do change it was exactly is happening on the back end? Also under System Information is states OVF Enviroment: Not...
View Articleport 8080 and port 80
I'm trying to re-setup vCenter server after a problem I had with the VM that it was installed on. The installer gives an error about ports 80 and 8080 already being in use. From what I read,...
View ArticlevCenter Single Sign-on
Due to below caveats, is it necessary to have SSO installed for new vCenter 5.1 implementation? Can we skip it? What happens when the SSO server is down?When SSO is down, any operation that requires...
View ArticlevCenter Linked Mode Inventory Objects with the same Name
Hi Guys, I currently have two vSphere sites setup and I have my SAN replicating some volumes to the DR, however my VC is located at the primary site. To save the hassle of replicating my VC then have...
View ArticleWhat is the difference between vcenter essentials and vcenter standard?
In vsphere 5 essential plus kit includes vcenter for essentials, i wan to know is that 100% similar to vcenter server standard?then don't i need to purchase vcenter server seperatly. please reply me...
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Unable to login to Vcenter "bad user name or password"
Hi everyone any help on this will be gratefully received. Running VC 4.1 on Windows 2008 R2 when using the VSphere client to connect to vcenter I'm getting the error bad user name or password, I know...
View ArticleMigrate vcenter from one cluster to another
I need to migrate our Vcenter from one cluster to another and both clusters are different hardware specs so vmotion is out of the question Any help would be greatly appreciated
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 Standard - Cannot Manage ESXi Essentials Hosts Anymore?
Hi all! I have 12 vSphere Essentials servers and 16 vSphere Enterprise servers. I have one vCenter Standard server managing all of them. I just upgraded my vCenter server from 5.0 to 5.1 (3 hours)....
View Articleupgrading Vcentre from 4.1 to 5.0
Hi i am upgrading vcentre from 4.1 to 5 is there any minimum version of ESX/ESXi should vcentre 5.0 resides in?
View Article*BUG* in vCenter upgrade from 5.0 to 5.1 (linked mode)
Hello! We tried linked mode with several vCenter 5.0 installations about a year ago. It didn't work out as planned, so we REMOVED all vCenter servers from linked mode several months ago. Everything...
View Articlenew vcenter installation
I have a new install of vmware 5.1. I have the esxi installed and running. I created the first virtual server for the purpose of installing and managing vcenter server. I successfully installed...
View ArticlevCenter 5.0 database supports MS clustering or not
Hi, Can anyone help me out by providing strong confirmaiton that vcenter database clustering is supported by vmware or not ? And if YES then what would be the plan and action required
View ArticleComplete list of actively used .vmdk files
Hello, My envrionment has many clones that have not been deleted and due to our naming conventions it is not always apparent which machine is being actively used, I don't want to try to recover a VM...
View ArticleHost % memory usage metrics
We have 2 separate 4-host clusters (ESXi5, 2x vCenter Server Standard 5 servers in linked mode) In one cluster's Hosts tab, % memory for each host is 91, 84, 81 and 86 (average 85.5%). In the...
View ArticleI'm sad to see that this hasn't been fixed in 5.1
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2008877 I was sad to see that this got "left behind" when going from 4.x to 5.0. Sad to see it...
View ArticleInstalling vCenter Server 5.1 on Windows Server 2012
Hiya, ---First of all, I would like to use this topic for experiences running vCenter 5.1 on Windows Server 2012. Hopefully I will manage to get this all running and others will find answers in this...
View Articlehow to terminate idle sessions from vsphere client session tab ??
Dear All ,Whenever i see seesion tab in vsphere client then there are some idle sessions ,is there any way to terminate them Auomatically ...if you have some script or any other activity then please...
View ArticlePerformance Overview - no data after vCenter Upgrade
After completing an upgrade from vCenter 4.0 to 5.0 Update 1, the Performance Overview graphs usually come up with a message "No Data Available". If I change to view the monthly version, I can see...
View ArticleESXi update taking VMs off network
Hello, I recently updated our ESXi 5.0.0 blades from 768111 to 821926. I applied this update using update manager to 15 hosts. Out of the 15 hosts we are now having issues with 2 of them. The hosts are...
View ArticleDeploy VM from Windows 8 template requires manual reboot to start customization
I'm observing a strange behavior when deploying a virtual machine from a Windows 8 template.The environment has vCenter Server 5.0.0,623373, managing a couple of ESXi 5.0.0, 623860 hosts (vSphere 5.0...
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