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vCenter 5.5 Appliance communication with AD in multiple sites
I have installed a new vCenter Appliance 5.5 which is located in a separated Active Directory Site. And the problem is when i am trying to implement AD Authentification, vCenter makes ICMP connection...
View ArticleVMware With MS Exchange 2012
During a vSphere vMotion operation, memory pages are copied from the source ESXi host to the destination. These pages are copied while the virtual machine is running. During the transition of the...
View ArticleCan We Delete vCenter Advanced Settings?
Ok, This is a Weird one, I created a vCenter Advanced Setting, But Can't change the value Or Delete It.
View ArticleVMware Tools Status "Out of Date"
Dear Team, In vcenter server inventory list, VM Tools status is displayed as "Out of date", just want to know what does it mean (vmware tools functions will work or not), regardsMr VMware
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Cold Migration Fails with Cannot Connect to Host
I've having a problem that I've done many times before, but now that it's not working I don't know if I'm having a brain dump and missing something obvious or something changed in my environment that's...
View ArticleHow To Clean Up Failed vCenter 5.1 Upgrade
Recently I attempted to upgrade our vCenter server from 5.1 Update 1 to 5.1 Update 2c. The update failed and I had to work with technical support to return to a working state. So now I am returning to...
View ArticlevCenter Server 5.5 rebuild process ?
I have vCenter server 5.5 and SQL DB server where vCenter Database are hosted. Suppose if my vCenter server OS crashed and now it is not recoverable. What I need to do rebuild my vCenter server ?If I...
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VM Memory Allocation & Usage
I have read a great deal of information as far as how memory is defined in VMware, but I am not sure what assumptions I can/should make when dealing with memory allocations, etc...Below is a shot of my...
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 ArticleHow can you move a folder or a file from one datastore to another
I am NOT talking about moving a VM, just a folder like a folder called ISO and a bunch of ISO's in the folder for example. You cannot use Migrate for that so please don't tell me to right click the VM...
View Articlevm access reduced to root
I can login to vcenter and access all but one vm, where root has had the rights changed, how do I resolve this. I can't remote or ssh into the virtual as there appears to be a network issue on the VM
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Serviço do vCenter caindo direto - Banco de Dados do vCenter ficando cheio
Pessoal boa tarde, Estou com um problema em meu vCenter de uns dias pra cá: Tem um arquivo do Banco de Dados do meu vCenter que está ficando cheio muito rapidamente. Eu adicionei mais espaço na unidade...
View ArticleVMware VirtualCenter Server service not starting (v5.1)
Hi guys, I have been pulling my hair trying to figure out how to fix the VirtualCenter Server service not starting problem. Initially I had thought the culprit was an SQL database which was maxing out...
View ArticlevSwitch shows same VM twice and two MAC addresses - but only one VM exist?
I am running vSphere 5.5 I created a Windows 2012 Server VM with some basic configuration settings. I installed the default OS without the GUI . OS installed and I logged into the VM. I then decided to...
View Article2 Clusters, 2 Sites - Best Practice
Currently we have 3 Host Clusters at 2 Sites, each being managed by its own vCenter Appliance. One Site has been upgraded to 5.5 and the other is still on 5.1. What is the Best Practice for vCenter to...
View ArticleMultisite SSO - does latency impact replication?
Multisite SSO for vCenter 5.5 has changed where data (policies, solution/application users, identity sources) is now automatically replicated every 30 seconds between each SSO server in the same...
View ArticleAdd ESXi4 host to vCenter 5.5 failed, Host do not support VSAN
Hi all. I've build a test lab running with vCenter 5.5, and a Dell PE 1950 server running ESXi 4. I am trying to add the ESXi 4 host to vCenter 5.5 (to a test cluster), however, the Add Host process...
View ArticleWhat web browser do you use for the web client?
I am curious to see what people use to access the vCenter server web client and how much luck they have had using the Client Integration Plugin. Currently I cannot get the CIP to run on either my...
View ArticleGranular rights assignment import/export OVF
vCenter Version: 5.5 U1ESXi: 5.5 U1 As the title states, how can I grant a set of users that manage their VM's the rights to import/export OVF's?This might also mean they can create and delete VM's as...
View Articleweb client not showing all port groups in a dvSwitch
I have a dvSwitch with a bunch of port groups. I can scroll down, but it stops scrolling before showing all of the port groups. What's up with that? Does anyone else even have that problem? vSphere web...
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