Adding vCenter Server Appliance to AD
Building up a brand new VMware environment and attempting to setup the vCenter Server Appliance. It was successfully imported into a host, it runs, I can connect to it over the network on both 5480...
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 ArticleWhere to install Vcenter
Hello Everyone, I have been tasked with setting up a Dell VRTX (consolidated 5u chassis with two server blades, shared storage and internal switch). I have ESXi installed on the two server blades, my...
View ArticleMigrate MS SQL database to vCenter Appliance PostgreSQL
Is it possible to migrate from vCenter 5.5u1 using the external Microsoft SQL database to to vCenter Appliance using the embedded PostgreSQL database? Thanks for your responses.
View ArticleVSAN
Hi guys, I am new to vsphere 5.1 and later versions. Can anyone explain me how Vsan works? How can I test it in my lab if I have no SSD disk with me. Please let me know if it is possible. Many...
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Adding networking to iscsi adapter
I have a distributed switch set up in vsphere 5.5. I have a vkernel port group set up that links vmk2 to vmnic2. When I try to add networking to my iscsi adapter, I get this: However, as you can see,...
View ArticleError in installing vcenter server appliance using PowerCLI
Hi, We are planning to deploy vCenter server using VMware PowerCLI, we have ESXi 5.5 server on which vcenter appliance server (ova) needs to be deployed. We need to provide customization variable...
View ArticleNeed to retrieve missed VM's and VC
Team, Urgent help needed. We have lab set-up around 250 to 300 VM’s are running with 12 different host , EMC as storage. Last Saturday there was failure and data got corrupted. We approved EMC and...
View ArticlevCenter (SSO) dumping massive amounts to C:\temp - FYI
We stumbled on an issue in which one of our SSO servers (seems to always be the first SSO server in a multi-SSO setup) dumps a lot of krb5 txt files to C:\temp. Over months this folder grew to 7GB...
View ArticleWhy does template customization make the NIC disconnected??
I've been testing template customization with a Win2k3 Enterprise 'gold' template.Every time I deploy from this template, the newly created VM does not have its NIC set to connect at power on.How do I...
View ArticlevCenter DB @ 50GB and still growing
Hi, I've got an issue with my vSphere 5.5 environment where the vCenter DB has grown to 50GB and 25GB of that growth has been since the 8th December. Looking at the SQL DB it seems that login's and...
View ArticlevCSA 5.5 vPostgres database maintenance
I deployed vCSA 5.5 recently and have found that finding documentation and troubleshooting articles are proving to be more difficult than the Windows based vCenter server. My question today is: Are...
View Articlei have installed vCops 5.8 for medium sized environment. Need to know the...
We have installed vCop 5.8.x and we need to know the best practice from vmware to configure global settings
View ArticlevSphere Web Client on OSX no mouse pointer issue
I have upgraded vCenter server to 5.5.0a which makes available client integration tools for OSX, which means that virtual consoles through vSphere web client are supposed to be supported on Mac. In...
View ArticleInterest in Mac vCenter client
I'm trying to figure out how much interest there would be in a native Mac vCenter client. Like many people here I've been frustrated at the lack of an official Mac client and I've started to do...
View ArticleDMZ design question - make a new DataCenter for the DMZ ESXi host?
I am setting up an ESXi host to put in my DMZ, and the P2V my existing DMZ machines. I have the VMware docs on DMZ Virtualization, but my question is one I don't see covered. In our case, we will be...
View ArticleVirtualCenter service not starting on reboot
My VC server VirtualCenter service will not start automatically on reboot. The SQL 2005 Express edition is installed on the same VM. I have the VC service set to depend on MSSQLSERVER, but it has not...
View ArticlevCenter upgrade to 5.5
Hi Guys, I have a vCenter server 5.1 running on a HP prolient box and have plan to upgrade it to 5.5. can u please let me know what would be the pre-requisite and what need to be backup before starting...
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 ArticleVUM Re-install - Invalid SOAP port
I am attempting to re-install VUM after upgrading to vCenter 5 and getting the message: Invalid SAOP port number or TCP/IP port is already in use. I have tracked that port (8084) back to Java using:...
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