vpxd failed to initialize
Hi All, I have been using the current intallation of vCenter vApp in my environment for more than 6 months. I have restarted the vCenter quite a few times also with no issues. A few weeks ago, my...
View ArticlevCenter 4.0 Upgrade
We currently run vCenter version 4.0 (258672) and were building 2 new physical servers (1 vcenter\upgrade Mgr - 1 DB) to move to version 5.0. We know 5.1 is out, but hear there are issues, many of...
View ArticleSSO requires hardcoded Domain Controllers
We have an enterprise scale environment and are trying to figure out why SSO only lets us add two domain controllers to an identity source. We're also confused why we need to hardcode them at all....
View ArticlevCenter server appliance loses AD permissions after reboot
vCenter Server Appliance 5.0 (based on SLES 11) joined to AD domain. I have added the domain's Domain Admins group at the vCenter object level in Permissions tab (Propagate: yes, shows up as...
View ArticlevCenter Server and SQL server affinity
Is there a best practice for affinity rules between a vCenter server and a SQL server VM in the same cluster? Thanks
View Articlevcenter appliance - AD authentication
Today I was playing around with the new vCenter5 appliance. While setting up AD authentication, I had to include 'administrator' information. I tried using my own AD credentials with quite some AD...
View ArticlevCenter Tomcat memory usage
Hi. Something seems to be wrong with the memory usage of our vCenter Server. We have started noticing that the server is low on memory, and I checked the process memory usage. The "Commit" memory of...
View Articlevcenter 5.1 keeps crashing after a few days
Hi, I'm currently trying vcenter 5.1 (hosts in 5.1 also) and I keep having the same problem, even after multiple tries.I deploy a new vcenter appliance using...
View ArticleInvalid Argument
Hi all, Not sure what exactly happened but 6 servers became invalid in virtualcenter. I removed them from inventory but i can't add them back with the .vmx file as this option is grayed out. This is...
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vCenter 5.0 to 5.1 Upgrade Issue
Hi people. I upgraded vCenter from 5.0 to 5.1 and now I can't login using Active Directory accounts. When I try login in Web Client, I get the follow error: When I try login in vSphere Client, I get...
View ArticleHow do I backup vCenter roles and permissions
As you know vCenter roles and permissions are stored locally in an ADAM database, even when the main inventory SQL server database is on another system. I am backing up my SQL server database...
View ArticleRDM to VMDK Conversion
I am trying to purposely convert an RDM to a VMDK and keep getting "Incompatible device backing specified for Device "0"Luckily this is just a test rehearsal. So this is what I am trying to doP2V...
View ArticleBest Practices for vCenter 5.1 with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
I am looking for a best practices, or really any documentation on configuring vCenter 5.1 with a SQL Server 2008 R2 database. I see that SQL Server 2008 R2 is supported but that's about it. Any help is...
View Articledifference between cloning and cold migration
We have a vSphere 4 environment (vCenter 4.1.0 build 799345 and ESXi 4.1.0 build 800380). Generally when I have to move an virtual machine from one ESXi cluster to another in our environment I power...
View ArticleVMs on our ESXi 4.0 U2 servers not showing CPU and Memory data in vCenter 5.1
We have migrated our ESXi 4.0 U2 hosts and ESXi 4.1 U2 hosts to our new vCenter 5.1server. For all the VMs on our 4.0 U2 servers, under the Summary tab under Resources, we show 0.00 for Consumed host...
View ArticleError registering VCenter Server 5.1
Please see attached screenshots and information below about test environment: I have ESXi 5.1 host installed on a HP Proliant ML330 G6 server. On this host I have two VMs running Windows server 2008...
View Articleautostart vCenter VM after datacenter shutdown
Hi Guys. I'm not about the best way to do this...every once in a while, we need to completely power down our data center for a while during power maintenance. (This happens, no biggie....)In the past,...
View ArticlevCenter: - Change from Physical to Virtual
Hi, I have 1 vCenter 5.0 server which is a physical machine. Physical Machine (vCenter Configurations):1. HP Porliant Server2. Windows Server 2008 R2 Std. SP13. RAM: 16 GB4. CPU: Interl Xeon 8 cpu. I...
View ArticleWeird vCenter 5.1 Web Client / vSphere Client discrepancy
Hi, i was putting up a POC for a customer and i thought to use vSphere 5.1 to do that since it was a good way to get hands on the new version. I found some weird things setting up the environment, for...
View ArticlevSphere client login problem
Since the upgrade of vSphere server from version 5.0 to 5.1 some users are no longer able to login, but the vSphere web client works fine.They get the error: The server 'xxx' took to long to respond....
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