Storage Vmotion for oracle RAC servers
Hi Gurus, I want to migrate all oracle two node rac , to different Datastore. Storage Vmotion. But the problem is second node physical raw luns are still pointing to old datastore after migration as...
View ArticleWhat vSphere product shows me who changed what of a VM?
Hi I'm getting a bit lost on which product does what. I'm searching for the product that shows me exactly who changed the VM configuration on a specific date and also WHAT was changed. Since I can now...
View ArticleBasic vCenter and vMotion setup doubts - ESXi in different networks
Hi there, I have a legacy vSphere setup I want to leverage and integrate into a vCenter, basically to be able to do vMotion and have all hosts visible from it, and I have several doubts someone with...
View ArticleNeed to populate VC performance data on a custom dashboard tool
Hi All, We have a custom reporting tool in our organization called as custom dashboard. our requirement is to pull the performance data from the VC DB and populate it in the custom dashboard tool....
View Articlevcenter server upugrade question
Ok, I just inherited fixed sort of a mess of vmware hosts and vm's. I haven't really done any upgrades to vcenter or vsphere before so just wanted to make sure I'm doing things in the correct order....
View ArticleI have been asked with this question some one help to find the right answer.
1. You have a cluster of 8 ESXi hosts that require installation of a new security patch that will require a reboot of each host. Explain how you would reboot each host without impacting the VMs.2. X...
View ArticleVcenter 5.5 foundation cluster
Have 3 hosts in my Vcenter cluster running foundation version with esxi 5.5.0 and want to upgrade 2 hosts to new hardware. Have 8 vm's per host. Thinking I should move vm's to the other hosts and then...
View Article[Clustering] Single VM spanning across multiple physical hosts ?
Folks,Is it possible to allocate to VM more resources than single ESX host have in order to build single big VM out of many physical hosts?For instance I have two ESX hosts with 2GHz and 16 GB DRAM...
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vCenter Service Status - Database storage is running low.
vCenter (v5.5.0.2001466) Service Status alert - " Database storage is running low. Refer to VMware KB2078305 for details"I've looked at KB2078305 -- but it is generic SQL/DB troubleshooting tips.The...
View ArticleConfiguring Alarms for separate teams
Hello, I am trying to configure alarms that notify separate teams. I would like to have the below alarms configured at both the data center level for Team 1 (which manages everything) and the same...
View ArticleHow to set up Advanced Conditions in vcenter alarmsI(Vsphere HA failover in...
looking at this alarm, 'vSphere HA failover in progress', i see that there are advanced settings in the condition. What exactly do we enter in the conditions to get this alarm to work?i just want to...
View ArticlevCenter server upgrade with View Composer on the same machine
Are there any tricks or things I should be aware of with this? I will be moving from vCenter 5.0.1 to 5.5 and the View Composer is 5.0.
View ArticleCannot take snapshot - causing RedHat guest to hang
Hi, I have a RedHat 6.6 VM and whenever I try to take a snapshot (Manually or from a backup, in this case Symantec BackupExec 2014), the vm becomes unresponsive and eventually crashes the webserver...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 SSO and a child domain as identity source
Hello, we have an Active Directory with 2 domain in the forest.One root domain "contoso.local" and one child domain "belgium.contoso.com" Only the child domain contains resources (users and...
View ArticlevCenter Web Client and "Use the Customization Wizard to temporarily adjust...
Has anyone else noticed that the option to "Use the Customization Wizard to temporarily adjust the specification before deployment" that exists in the C# client when deploying a machine from a template...
View ArticlevCenter 5 install : Could not connect to DB with specified JDBC URL
I am trying to get vCenter 5 installed on Windows 2008 R2 severSql express 2008 R2 installedWhen I try to connect to install it I receive:Could not connect to database with specified JDBC URL I also...
View ArticleI can ssh to vCenter server (VCSA 5.5) using putty, but not my normal ssh...
I was working with support to be able to ssh to the our vCenter 5.5 VCSA. No matter what account we were trying to reach, we would immediately get a popup saying: "Server responded: Algorithm...
View ArticleHigh memory usage on server - java.exe and tomcat.exe
Hello I have vCenter Server, vSphere Client, vSphere update manager, and vSphere web client installed on my server. I see that there are 3 java.exe processes taking up 2.3GB (all together), and...
View ArticleSSO Issue - gss_acquire_cred failed?
Just had to stand up a fresh VCSA - 5.1 U2. SSO has been configured to use secure LDAP and works fine in that I can login via the web client or with VI Client using DOMAIN\Username or Username with my...
View ArticleInteroperability ESXi and vCenter Server
Dear, You can use the vCenter 5.0 or 5.1 with ESXi 5.5?
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