Connecting VM Host groups to VM Storage groups
A quick overviev of our situation:6 hosts named ESXPRD01 to 064 datastores named VMFSP01 to 04Hosts are set-up in 2 host groups according to their respective location Host ESXPRD01, ESXPRD03 and...
View ArticleVCenter start fails after demoting Domain Controller
Hi. Instead of hijacking other one's thread having the same problem I decided to start a new thread, so sorry for double posting. After promoting a new DC and demoting the old one we have the problem...
View ArticleDistributed switch problem
I am configuring a new VMkernel distributed switch and trying to add a new vMotion virtual adapter. I input the correct IP address information and received the error - “Call...
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Permissions to View dvSwitch on VM
Hi I want to give the permissions to a role for manage VMs. But I can't find the accurate permission to view the network configuration of VMs which are configured to use dvSwitches: I don't want to...
View ArticleStorage vmotion failing on a VM.
I am using virtual centre 4.0.0, 385281 and have esx 4.0.0, 208167, and have an issue with storage vmotion which is failing on one VM. The VM have about 8 disks, where 5 of them are RDM , and 3 are...
View ArticleVCSA Appliance Embedded SSO Backup.
Hi, Can anyone point me in the right direction. There is a ton of info on backing up SSO in the Windows version of vCenter but I can't find anything on SSO backup for the VCSA . Thanks,-Christian
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HP MicroServer as vCenter Server - Performance
Hello all, Simple question, I hope Has anybody got the HP MicroServer running as a vCenter Server, with the SQL Express database, maybe 4Gb or 8Gb of ram and is happy with the performance? I'm looking...
View ArticleMove a VM from vSphere ESX 4.1 to EXSi 5.1
Hi All,We have 02 linux web servers (VMs) on a ESX 4.1 host. Now we have a new platform built by using vSphere 5.1 ESXi with fail over cluster facility (02 physical servers) installed with vCenter. The...
View ArticleVM powered off state
Hi Guys, I have a VM which is in powered off state in vSphere but the server installed on it is pinging and also able to connect remotely (RDP). just want to know what could be the problem and how to...
View Articlereplace SSL certificates with AutoDeploy (vCenter 5.1)
I'm trying to replace all certs used by vCenter 5.1 and have so far succeeded using the predeployment method stated in Derek's blog here. However, this link, and the corresponding VMware (threadbare)...
View ArticleNo data display when i connect to Vcenter server 5.1
Hi. I have a Vcenter server with version 5.1, host and VM also with 5.1. When i connect to vcenter with the domain account i have no data to consumed cpu, memory. To performance overview Internal...
View Articlereal envi doubts
Hi i have been VCP 5 certified recently and goin through the prctical experiments. I always think of the funny situations imagining the worst situatuions in the real environment. How can we change the...
View ArticleLinked Mode Authentication
Hi, I have two vCenter servers running in the same domain and configured in linked mode. I have created a domain account and granted it admin permissions in both vCenters. When using one of the vCenter...
View ArticlevCenter Linked Mode - Failure to autenticate with the server
Hi, I have 3 vCenter Servers and have placed them all into linked mode. However, I cannot connect to one of the servers, I get the error 'there are issues communicating. Failure to authenticate with...
View ArticleCold Migrations
For a cold migration, there is no reason to have shared anything as long as vCenter manages both hosts correct? I can cold migrate a VM from on cluster or datacenter to another as long as the ESX...
View ArticleMigrating SQL Express while upgrading to VC 5.0
Hello, The previous admin in the environment I support, used SQL express instead of SQL enterprise for hosting the VC database. Current version of VC is 4.1 0 345043 running on a Windows 2008 R2...
View ArticlePermissions to a folder only
I've got a local Windows account. I'm trying to allow the user to log into the vSphere client, but only see VMs in a particular folder (the "dev" folder). As it stands, the user has been assigned the...
View ArticleOSCustomization is Modifying Windows Computer Name - Adding "-0" to the end.
My goal is to build a separate test\dev environment in a different domain, on different ESXi 5.0 (U2) hosts and separate storage, using clones of our production servers. Most of these servers are...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 performance tab "no data available"
Hi All I have a problem with the peformance tab not showing any data for VMs & hosts. I have done a fair bit of searching on this problem and not found an answer yet. My thoughts is that its a...
View Articlehow to upgrade vcenter 5.0 to 5.0 update 2 without update manager
how to upgrade vcenter 5.0 to 5.0 update 2 without update manager as Vcenter is not up
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