Used space reported by Web Client not updating
When I view the used disk space for VMs, the views don't seem to update at all.When I force a refresh of the Web Client (refresh-icon just left of my login-name), the view stays outdated.Also when I go...
View ArticlevCenter VPXD.log logging a lot of messages
I'm trying to offload our vCenter logs to a syslog server and I noticed while doing this that vCenter is logging ALOT of messages. Specifically vpxd.log to the tune of 24,000 in about a 6 minute time...
View ArticleGood riddance Flash. What is the plan VMware?
After years of bloated, bug ridden death throws, Flash is finally going to the grave it should have been in since HTML5 was a frisky pup. When vSphere 6 dropped just a few short months ago we were...
View ArticlevShphere agent failure
hello, I have a failed host and HA has kicked in and all is good. I have the "the vSphere HA agent on the is host cannot reach some of the management........." message as expected. But i don't have...
View ArticleHA Admission Control and DPM with clusters with 3 and 2 hosts
Hi everyone,I have two clusters, first with 3 hosts and second with 2 hosts. And I have couple questions about enabling DPM: In 3 hosts cluster HA/DRS I enabled Admission Control to Percentage of...
View ArticlevSphere vCenter appliance 6.0 muliple NICs
Hi, We sometimes need the possibility to add a second NIC to the vCenter appliance. To do this I started a SSH session to the vCenter and typed the command "shell". That's when I got this messeage:...
View ArticlevCenter Server Appliance 6.0 - cannot acces VAMI on port 5480
Hi! I successfully installed VMware ESXi 6.0 U1 Build 3073146 and then downloaded and deployed VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0.0 U1 Build 3018523. The problem is that I cannot access the web...
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VCSA6 Revert to Current Snapshot issue/bug?
Just installed VCSA6, and have noticed a peculiar issue regarding Revert to Current Snapshot. Basically, Revert to Current Snapshot is NOT greyed out and is selectable for all of my VM's including the...
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Do we need vCenter on ESXi for Cloning 'Ubuntu 14.04.3 32-bit Server' Virtual...
On the web page: How to Install Ubuntu Server 14.04.1 on ESXi 5.5, vCenter Server installation on ESXi is a prerequisite: PrerequisitesvCenter Server installed on the ESXi host.Ubuntu Server 14.04.1...
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vCenter 6 Enhanced Link Mode after installion
I have installed 2 standalone TEST vCenter clusters. Embedded PSC. I want to enable Enhanced Link Mode so I can test cross-vmotion, but I cannot find how to join my 2nd vCenter to my 1st PSC single...
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VVOL
Hi My customer wish to implement VVOL solution. They have existing virtual machines which now they wanted to move it to VVOL datastore. What is the best practices/method to move a VM from vSphere...
View Articleport group
Hi everyone, i am new to vmware ,I have a standard switch and ,i need to add a vlan. I have 4 esxi hosts in a cluster.I have logged in to vsphere client. on one of the host(say host1) i clicked...
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vCenter 6.0 and -AllLinked. Supported?
I'm in the process of migration our 5.5 to newly created v6.0 vCenter servers however I noticed that some of the automation scripts that we've written were not working correctly. After a little digging...
View Articleprovisioned space
What does Provisioned Space mean When i click datastore i can see Capacity : 1.50TBProvisioned Space : 761.96 GBFree Space : 807.18 GB
View Articlee1000 and vmxnet3, GPT and MBR?
Hi everyone1. What is difference between e1000 and vmxnet3If i install windows server 2008 (x86) should i go with e1000 or vmxnet3 2. Wht is the different between GPT and MBR? One of my datastore...
View ArticleOA
Hi everyoneI am not supposed to ask this question in this forums but plz help me.I have created a port group with VLAN ID 90 in the standard switch.This VLAN has to be added to my enclosure. I am using...
View ArticleVcenter Appliance and update manager
Can someone confirm, the appliance vs. the vcenter windows does not contain update manager? We have an Essentials license and for the 2 downloads, the appliance appears to have several features missing...
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calculate resources
Hi everyone, I have a primary site and a DR site.On primary site i have 10 esxi hosts and i am using a third party application and i am replicating few Virtual machines on DR site.The replicated...
View ArticlevCenter Event Format
If I use the vCenter SOAP API to pull event data from vCenter 5.5, will I get the event data in EVTX or in syslog format?
View ArticleUpdate Manager patch repository
Does anyone know of a way to remove/delete old patches from the patch repository in Update Manager ? I'm running all ESXi 4.1 and I want to remove all the old ESX 4.0 patches, and other os patches that...
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