Alarms management
Hi, I have a lot of difficulties to manage alarms on my vCenter (5.0 U1). All alarms are defined on vCenter object but I have 5 Datacenters who are managed by differents support team. The problem is...
View ArticleIBM Blades with Nortel module switches and LACP
I am really desperately hoping someone with some Nortel switch knowledge can help me out with this. On the back of my IBM Blade chassis are some "Nortel Layer2-3 GbE Switch Module" switches. These...
View ArticlevCenter 4.1 to vCenter 5.1 Migration and Upgrade
We had a plan in place for our upgrade of vCenter 4.1 to vCenter 5.0 U1, but had yet to begin and now vCenter 5.1 is out. The plan was to migrate our vCenter 4.1 SQL database from our SQL 2005 server...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 and NFS Windows 2008 R2
I've been trying to get two hosts to work with a NFS datastore that is running on a Windows 2008 R2 server but I keep running into a problem in which the datastore becomes inactive when any disk...
View ArticleSSO RSA_USER password reset?
In my SSO install the passwords for the RSA_user and RSA_dba have been lost, is there a process to resetting these passwords? thanks in advance
View ArticlevShield Manager "The SSL certificate of STS service cannot be verified"
Hello, For about 2 weeks I am struggling with this problem and now have become desperate enough to post it here. When I want to register vShield Manager with vSphere SSO it gives me the error "The SSL...
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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...
View Articlecannot select Store with virtual machine
Hi, I want to configure RDM for a VM that has been powered off. When i selected a to add RDM for a LU, the option "Store with virtual machine" was greyed out, only "Specify datastore" is available....
View ArticleInstall of Vcenter 5.0.1A fails Invalid Argument
I am trying to install vCenter (VMware-5.1.0-880471) on a Windows 2008R2 4Gb RAM 2 Processor 60Gb HDD with .Net 3.5 configured VM in Workstation 8. The single sign on installation is failing with...
View Articlerisk of continual grow of vmdk?
Hi all,I have vcenter 4.1 with esxi 4.1 hosts running with an EMC array for storage. In order to get my customer out of a jam, we have given them more storage on the fly by 1st growing the LUN, and...
View Articlefresh Installation of vCenter5.1 - No login with the vSphere Client
Hi,I did a fresh installation (simple) of a vCenter5.1. On installation I had a warning 29155. After the simple installation, I started successfully installation of the vSphere Client. I could'nt...
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How to access Web-Client admin-app on vCenter Server 5 Appliance?
Hello Everybody,as stated above I have troubles accessing the Web-Client admin-app on my vCenter Server 5 deployed via Appliance. as mentioned...
View ArticleAccessing SSO Interface
I am in the process of setting up for 5.1Per the instructions I installed SSO on a windows boxThe servcies says its runningBut I can't seem to find the browser pageI tried http and https doing...
View Articlechanging vcenter services to run as local or network service account
Based on security best practices, we are in the process of changing the following vcenter services (running on Windows 2008 R2) to run as either local service, network service or a non admin domain...
View ArticleIncrease Disk Size Replicated VM
Currently using vCenter 5.0 VM Replication and SRM. I'm looking to increase the disk size on a replicated VM. When doing it I get the following error: Reconfigure virtual machine:Invalid or unsupported...
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Linked mode - Error when clearing alarms
Hi folks. I have 4 vCenters which I put into linked mode last week. Version 5.0. When I try and clear some alarms I get the following message Any clue as to why this is happening? It clears it self...
View ArticleCan't move some VMs into a folder
In vCenter 5.1 (either the Web Console or the VI client) I can move most VMs in the 'VMs and Templates' view from the 'Discovered virtual machine' folder to another folder that I have created....
View ArticleNo Trial Version anymore of vCenter?
hello, I looked all over the Vmware site but i dont see the ability to download vCenter as a trail version anymore. Did they remove that option? i see the ESXi versions. Is ther anyway to test it...
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Vsphere Installation and setup page 206, para 11b Grant EXECUTE
The procedure for creating the database Vsphere Installation and Setup para 11b requires grant EXECUTE permission on the named stored procedures.There is no right click for Properties, how do I...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1 hostprofile troubles
Hi, I'm experiencing some trouble dealing with hostprofiles. I've got an existing cluster and want to create a hostprofile from the first host. This profile should only applay some basic settings like...
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