Cannot power on VM through vsphere client connected to Vcenter Server: Unable...
Vsphere version 6.0 (vcernter server + esxi) Get this error when trying to power on some virtual machines:Failed to find a host for powering on the virtual machine. the following faults explain why the...
View ArticleUnable to add standalone host - Already exists
Hello guys, I have a problem on my vcenter (version 4.1.0).I've deleted 2 old host (ESX) and when I try to re-enter the new one (with the same ip address) i have the follow error: "Add standalone...
View ArticlePatching vCSA 6.0 -- Inclusive?
I have recently upgraded my infrastructure to using the new vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 -- my instances list themselves at build 2656761. When I look at the Product Patches page I see that there are...
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VCSA 5.5 to 6.0 upgrade is changing FQDN
I'm getting this message during the upgrade process to 6.0 on our VCSA that I haven't seen in any of the guides I've read online: Will this have any affect on any fqdn-based connections we have to the...
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vCenter 6 Install/Database issues.
I have a relatively small ESXi 5.5 environment. I am running 5 hosts with 82 Virtual Machines. Our current database is 2008, which is unsupported for the vCenter 6 upgrade. The SQL server we are...
View ArticleMigrate vCenter 6.0 from 2008 to 2012
Hello,We have vCenter 6.0 running server 2008, with database on SQL server 2012. I want to know how can I migrate vCenter 6.0 from 2008 to 2012. Step by step guide will be much appreciated. Thanks,Mihir
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Datastore Space Utilization - 'Other' File Types
Hi, All. We have a SATA FC LUN, presented to 3 x ESX 4.1 hosts and 1 x ESXi 4.1 host (all fully patched) from an IBM DS4800 SAN. We wanted to provision some new test VMs and noticed that the...
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vcenter 5.5: Management Webservices service failed to start or terminated...
Hi in our fresh installed vcenter 5.5 (on Windows 2012r2) we are not able to start VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices, we have many messages in system log: "The VMware VirtualCenter...
View ArticlevCenter 6 DRS-available memory resources error
I have a case open with support on this but I wanted to see if anyone else has run into it. We upgraded from ESXi 5.0/5.1 with vCenter 5.1 to ESXi 6 and vCenter 6. After the upgrade, DRS has started...
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Vcenter appliance crashed
We ran out of disk space on /storage. We increased the size but vcenter doesn't come up. extract from vpxd.log mem> 2015-08-07T22:20:36.977Z [7F53C6290740 verbose 'utilvpxdDbBulkLoader']...
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Single Sign on using Web client
Dear All, I upgraded our Vcenter Server to 6.0 from 5.5. All went well. After accessing the Web client the first time with IE11 I downloaded and installed the client integration plugin. But each time...
View ArticlevCenter SSO AD Integration - every user in domain can logon to vSphere Web...
Dear Forums, we just installed a virtual Center applicance (6.0) and integraded SSO in Active Directoy using the "Integrated Windows Authentication". I see that now every user in the Domain can logon...
View ArticleVMware certificate templates
I'm trying to create new certificate templates for vcenter 5.5 on enterprise PKI running on WS2003 SP2. Following this KB: VMware KB: Creating a Microsoft Certificate Authority Template for SSL...
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Installation of component VCSServiceManager failed for vCenter 6.0
Hi When installing vcenter 6.0 i get the below errors; I see that there are solutions on the vcenter release notes page...
View ArticleProtecting vCenter
Hi All, Running vCenter in a VM. Can you someone please help me understand my own logic!!!?? All this time, I thought I was good taking snapshots of vCenter before doing anything potentially dangerous,...
View ArticlevCenter Server Port Scan shows 9876 Rux
Hi Guys, I'm using vulnerability scanner to find out vulnerabilities on vCenter Server. The scan result showed Port 9876 (Description Rux) is opened on the vCenter Server. But the port is being used...
View ArticleVCS to VCSA Fling
Has anyone tried using this fling with 5.1? As in from 5.1 VCS to 5.1 VCSA or 5.1 VCS to 5.5 VCSA ? Is it even possible?
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Datastore Cluster Question
Hi, Is it possible to have 4 ESXi Clusters, each with their own set of SAN Datastores, all joined to a single Datastore Cluster? I've not found exactly this configuration described anywhere. I...
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Update View Composer Service Accounts
Looking for a little guidance on changing the View Composer account password. We have to update the service account password tied to the AD service account used to build machines in the established OU....
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Datastore Rename Alarm
Hi All, I'd like to create a vCenter alarm when a Datastore is renamed.I can't see a defined trigger for this, is it possible? Thanks
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