Move from vCenter Appliance 5.0 to Server 5.0.1
We initially had an outside consulting company setup our pair of ESXi 5.0 hosts and vCenter 5.0. They opted for the vCenter Appliance instead of a server I guess because it was easier to drop in and...
View ArticlevCenter Server 5 Role Permissions Required to Apply Host Recommendations?
I have a subset of admins to take care of specific VMs. The role created to give them access to the VM allows them to power off and power on the VMs. However, if we are doing some maintenance in the...
View ArticleHigh memory usage on server - java.exe and tomcat.exe
Hello I have vCenter Server, vSphere Client, vSphere update manager, and vSphere web client installed on my server. I see that there are 3 java.exe processes taking up 2.3GB (all together), and...
View ArticleCold migrating VM's makes the VM's nic disappear
Hi, I was doing some cold migrations, from one ESXi5 host (HostA) to another ESXi5 host (HostB) with no shared storage (only local), using vCenter5. I noted that some of the VM's that where migrated,...
View ArticleDatastore file upload performance problem
We have a need to programmatically upload a file (200 - 300MB range) to a particular datastore in vcenter just using vcenter credentials. We are using the publicly documented HTTP access...
View Articleovf of vCenter server
Hi, this is ashish, i am trying to download ovf of vCenter server but unable to get donwload link, could anyone help me the link to download OVF of vCenter Server. my mail id is akumar.mcse@yahoo.in....
View ArticleRetrieving data runs indefinitivly
Hi, running VMWare Vcenter 5.0.When entering to Equallogic datastore manager under VSphere client (V5.0), on the left column the name of my Vcenter appears, and normally, under this it would appear the...
View ArticlevCenter Inventory Service Bad request
I have the service starting OK, just in case I also used...
View ArticleESX 4 Local Storage Name Changed - Can't change back
I recently move my VMware farm. When I brought it back up, one of the local storage devices came back as "Local (1)". I've never had a (1) on it before and now all the VM's are showing orphaned....
View ArticleSuspended VM's IP address lease expires
While a VM is Suspended it’s IP address lease may expire and the IP address will be allocated to someone else. When the VM is Powered ON after being Suspended it still has the original IP address and...
View ArticleVMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.1不支持win2000 AD?
在 VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.0时可以支持win2000 AD?刚下载5.1的版本，测试连接win2000 AD不成功，是不是这版本开始不支持win2000 AD了？
View Articleperformance problem
Hi all, i have just installed a new vmware host esxi5 and a new mssql guest on it.Aftre that i installed a windows server r2 guest with vm center 5. I have also a new data storage withc is connected...
View ArticleUpgrade to vCentre 5 from x86 vCentre 4
I'm looking to upgrade our infrastructure to v5 in both ESX and vCentre. vCentre is currently at v4.0. However, this is installed on an x86 version of Windows Server. Server is x64 capable, Can anyone...
View ArticleHost missing after permissions change
In vCenter I changed the "Users" roll to "No Access" on a single host in vCenter. Now that host is completely missing from host tree. Regardless of which user I login as, it does not appear on any...
View ArticlevCenter 5.0U1 to 5.1 upgrade fails
Hi all I have tried upgrading a vCenter server from 5.0U1 to 5.1 and installation fails in the first step. I receive a "Error 20010.Failed to configure LookupService" error.I am running English version...
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Cannot connect to host when deploying VM from template
I have a W2K8 template that will not deploy a VM. The error is "Cannot connect to the host". I have tried numerous tricks - Convert back to VM and power up; Remove from inventory; Migrate to a...
View ArticleMoving a vApp (Ops Mgr) from one cluster to another?
Is there a way to move a vApp (vCenter Operations Manager, in this case) to another cluster? I saw there was a way to clone it, but I received an error when trying to do this. Obviously there's a...
View ArticleESXi root password change and vCenter connectivity
I found a problem which describes as follows: 1. I installed a ESXi host, set password as A, and use vCenter to manage it. Everything is fine. 2. I changed ESXi host password to B, and thought vCenter...
View ArticleSSO new users created as Administrator
Hi I have been further exploring the SSO (only local SSO users, no LDAP or AD). SSO is in primary node of multi site.All newly created users (SSO Users and Groups > Users Tab > New User) are...
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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...
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