vCenter upgrade 5.0 to 5.1 incorporating vCenter Appliance
I'm wondering if during an upgrade to 5.1 from 5.0 one can add the vCenter appliance to handle SSO and web services, but still have the Windows server I have from before running the remaining...
View ArticleChange to VCenter Server Appliance during upgrade?
Is there any way when upgrading VCenter 4.1 to 5.0 that we can take the opportunity to move to the new VCenter Server Appliance? I have looked at all the documentation I could find and found no...
View ArticlevCenter 5.0.0-804277 for VMware View - Installation failed
I already installed VMware vCenter many times without any problems using an oracleenterprise database server (11.1.0.7) as the backend.This time the installation continues failed with the error: "Error...
View ArticlevCentre Server Database Size
Hello All, My vCentre Server (5.0) database has been growing by about 2GB per day for the last few weeks. It was initially on a local SQL Express server, but moved it onto full SQL once it hit the...
View ArticleDRS Rules and Group MIA
Hi I have a strange issue. I while ago I created a number of DRS rules and groups . These have now for some reason gone missing. BUT the rules are still being applied to the VM's. So what I have is a...
View ArticleMask LUN in VMware
Hi - Need an help . I was going through one of the blog, I see that LUN mask can be done at hypervisor software level? Why is LUN masking done here ? what's the benefit without the using the storage...
View ArticleWWPN and WWNN
Hi - Need a small clarification on WWPN and WWNN in VMware How does that work with NPIV when we enable for VM? After you enable the NPIV for the VM: I am generated with the WWPN and WWNN, which one I...
View ArticleDo anyone have ideas on security hardening for VMWare ?
Do anyone have some idea of security hardening for VMWare ? It seems that two scripts could be run- PowerCLI & vSphere SDK for Perl for hardening, is it a simple way to do this ?
View ArticlevSphere Replication - Manual Recovery or Recovery without vCenter?
I'm trying to wrap my head around how to handle this. I was under the impression that the VRA would help with DR. I set it up and read through the docs that you can simply deploy one instance and...
View ArticleUpgrade vCenter 5U1 to 5.1 fails
Hi, trying to upgrade my vcenter server to 5.1 but getting the below message error 29114 cannot connect to db I have tried this with a local express DB and a full 2008 R2 DB server and get same...
View ArticleRequirements for a good restore of a vCenter 4.1
Dear users, I'm planning to upgrade our vCenter from 4.1 to 5.0 and my checks and documentation are saying that the upgrade will succeed but I also want to make sure I have a good backup/restore plan...
View ArticlevCenter 4.1 to vCenter 5.1 Upgrade - Search not working
Hello everyone, This past weekend I updated our vCenter from 4.1 to 5.1 and now the search functionality does not work when connecting from a remote workstation. It does however, work just fine when...
View ArticlevCenter Replication (5.1)
I'm not finding very good documentation around the vReplication features included with vSphere 5.1. Is the vCenter Web Client required or is there a plugin for the VI client? I have it setup and...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 backtrace host disconnection
Hi all, Wow I can say I have had the worst experience with 5.1 upgrade.I have never had an issue upgrading of vSphere since v3.0.2 but I guess I was bound to hit a snag eventually I had planned to...
View ArticleHealth problem of vCenter
Dears, I have an Alerts on vCenter Health Status. That is "Unable to retrieve health data from https://localhost:443/health.xml"There are 4 Alerts. Screenshot is attached. Kindly guide me how I can...
View ArticleVCenter Server Appliance 5.1 and MSSQL
Hi, does anybody know if VMware plans to Support external MSSQL Support for the VCenter Appliance? Marc
View ArticleUpgrade to vCenter 5.1 new DB
Hello, I need to upgrade my vCenter 5.0 to 5.1 but I would like to install 5.1 on new hardware and a new database. In doing that I need to move all of my existing hosts from my 5.0 vCenter to my new...
View ArticleNetworking question
Greetings - We recently started looking into 5.1. What is the best way to segment traffic internally?For example, I am looking to create a dozen or so vm groups that will need to talk tothe vm in the...
View ArticleHost UUID from vCenter GUI client.
Is there any way to get the ESXi host UUID from the vCenter GUI client? I know I can pull it from the host via the web browser... https://<HOST>/mob/?moid=ha%2dhost&doPath=hardware%2esystemInfo
View ArticleVMware Converter Plugin for vCenter 5.x?
Hi, Is there VMware Converter Plugin for vCenter 5.x? I can only find download for the standalone version. Thanks,Alex
View Article