Unable to start VMware VirtualCenter Managment Webservices service & VMware...
Hello,I recently rook over at IT director at a K12 school. I have disabled the previous IT directors AD account and found my Veeam backups didn't run. I was also unable to launch Vsphere. Upon...
View ArticleCheck vCenter Server Inventory Size
Where in vCenter Server can I check the inventory size setting that was configured during installation (SMall, Medium or Large)?
View ArticleVMware Client Integration Plugin 6.0 install failed - solution
Hi, I tried install VMware Client Integration Plugin 6.0 for deploy new vCenter Server VA and I received this error:There is a problem with this Windows Installer package.A program run as part of the...
View ArticlevCenter ignoring AD groups
I have had two different vCenter 5.5 servers (on Windows 2008 R2) over the course of three months that have suddenly decided to ignore AD groups when allowing users to access resources, locking...
View ArticleSSO Upgrade Password Oddity
When upgrading from various 5.1 iterations of vCenter, each time I upgraded the SSO component, when it came to entering the SSO Admin password it will only take the very original password used when it...
View ArticleCannot launch vSphere 6.0 Web Client
I just upgraded our vSphere to 6.0, including vCenter and ESXi.Everything is fine, but the web client has little problem.On my Windows 7 computer, web client works fine.However, on my Windows Server...
View ArticlevSphere 6.0: After changing ip lookup is not working
Hi, I have change my vc ip, after that lookup is not working due to SslHandshakeFailed. If someone suggest quick workaround ,it would be very helpful. -A
View Articleerror 28038 intallazione vCenter 5.0 su windows server 2012
and this is log:questo e' il log: [2014-10-15 16:14:12,155 com.vmware.vim.jointool] Failed to find instance config at: "C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\instance.cfg", assuming...
View ArticleSSO Identity source type differences
Hi all...so what are the functional differences between Active Directory (Integrated Windows Authentication) and Active Directory as an LDAP Server? For some reason, my company's AD is horked up to...
View ArticleOdd issue with VCSA and the Windows C# client - authentication
I have built side-by-side Windows and VCSA vCenter 6. Both VMs are joined to the domain. Both vCenters have the domain added as an identity source. My User Group is added with the Role of Administrator...
View ArticleDeploying a template fails
I'm trying to export a VM running Server 2012 Datacenter from Citrix XenServer 6.5 into a VMware 5.5 environment. I've tried exporting as an OVA and an OVF template but they both fail with the same...
View ArticleMatching Luns to RDM's
One thing I never liked (or understood) is how to keep track of RDM's. If you had the option of naming them in vcenter so you could give it a user friendly name that included the lun name and storage...
View ArticleRemoving Error Message: Misconfigured vCenter
While installing vCenter in linked-mode; we had a misconfiguration with an old vCenter server. We managed to create another one and configure that in linked-mode but somehow the previous Old vCenter's...
View ArticleHigh cpu usage on newly created 5.5 vcenter (build 1623101)
Hi Admins! I dont understand why my newly created vcenter use to much cpu resources.Java(TM) Platform Binary uses 50% of cpu resources Environment:6 ESX hosts (5.5)1 virtual vcenter (5.5)150 VMs My...
View ArticleUndocumented VCenter, unknown SSO Master Password
Hi All I've been trawling through the community reading a lot to get a handle on this so thought I might ask this question to get a concise answer. I am being asked to upgrade a VCenter from 5.1 U2 to...
View ArticleCreating alarm when a virtual machine question appears
Hi, I would like to create an alarm triggered when a question happens for a VM (you know, like "are you sure you want to unmount ISO, vm may still be using it" or "have you copied it or moved it"). I...
View ArticleConfiguring vCenter in linked mode
Hello, I've configured two vCenter 6.0 servers in linked mode. How do I add an additional vCenter Server which has been installed and configured already. The option for adding to an existing platform...
View ArticlePCI Network Eth. Interface Available -- Pending problem
I have an IBM 3650 M3 Server that I just got to learn VMWARE. It has ESXI 6.0 on it. I have Vsphere 6 and Vcenter Server 6 in a VM on this server. I recently added a 4 Port IBM NIC PCI-E 39Y6138...
View ArticlevCenter Login Issue
Yesterday we were having trouble trying to login and it looked like it was the service for the vCenter server wouldn’t start. Done a couple of reboots and troubleshooting the error. It was coming back...
View ArticleProper procedure for changing domain on Vcenter server guest?
Glad I cloned it.... But never the less. We are changing out a SBS 2003 domain controller by putting in a new domain / contoller, dis-joining and rejoining every workstation and Vmware guest to...
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