Having issues adding ESXi host to vCenter Server Appliance
I've been spending lots of time working on the new vCenter 5.1.0A. I have two vCenter environments in my test and dev. vCenter1 = Windows 2008 R2 vCenter server. It has local domain Microsoft CA self...
View ArticleLicense file download from host.mydomain.com to vCenter Server failed due to...
When I try to add my ESXi hosts to the vCenter server I get the error "License file download from host.mydomain.com to vCenter Server failed due to exception: vim.fault.SSLVerifyFault.". I have SSL...
View ArticleUpdate Manager Reporting\Exporting info capabilities?
Is there a way to export or create a report of installed patches and\or missing patches. I am looking for a reporting tool for documentation purposes for patch management and change management...
View ArticleAdding Port Groups for New VLANs
Do I need to bounce my ESXi 5.1 box when I add additional port groups in order for them to see the newly created vlans on the physical switches? I've added 4 networks and the network adapters can't see...
View ArticleMigration in the vCenter changed network interface in a CentOS virtual machine
I have a vCenter 5.1 and two hosts with local storage which have ESXi 4.1 (Host1) and ESXi 5.1 (Host2) installed. They are working fine. I migrated a CentOS virtual machine from host1 to the host2....
View ArticleStorage service is not initialized
vCenter5.1 and all esxi5.1 servers - no upgrades, all fresh installs. I get a "Storage service is not initialized, please try again later" when i click on the storage views tab. The sms logs are full...
View ArticleVmware Guest Customization - Windows Server 2008 R2 does not work
Hi, Recently i noticed that the guest customization for windows server 2008 r2 does not work for me,The wizard comes up and i select everything there (change password, user registered, tcp/ip settings,...
View ArticleDell management plug-in for VMware vCenter
Hi. I am installing Dell management plug-in for VMware Vcenter. I'm up to the point where I need to register a new vcenter. I enter the ip of the virtual machine server and the admin user name and...
View ArticleAdding Port Groups and restarting services
If I add additional port groups to my 5.1 environment does it require a restart of the services on the ESXi host?
View ArticleHow to change Authentication > NIS Server Settings and retain Vsphere client...
Hello all, As title, says we'd like to point our Vcenter Server Appliance to a new NIS domain, while keeping the user permissions the same as they currently are found on each of the different hosts...
View Articleinstalling vcenter database failed
Installing vCenter Server 5.1 x fails with the error: Error 25003 Failed to Create Repository. this kb couldn't help to resolve the issue: Installing or upgrading to vCenter Server 5.1 fails - VMware...
View ArticlevCSA 5.1 Performance tab overview shows "This program cannot display the...
I've got a vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 system setup, and I can't get the Performace tab overview to show up correctly. When I click on <Overview> I get a Internet Explorer looking page which...
View ArticleProblems downloading Windows updates through update manager
Recently we've had an issue when tryong to download Windows updates through update manager, I've gone through the logs and dug out the line which is showing the error, but I don't know a lot about SQL...
View ArticleHow does the initial SSO identity source browse the Active Directory Tree
I understand that the orginal identity source is automatically configured to use "Authentication type" reuse session. When I add additional identity sources it seems I need to use password. Just trying...
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Vcenter search Issue
Hello Team When i try to search Virtual Mchine in Vcenter 5.0 then search does not work and shows the error given below : Could you please help me to understand how i can fix it . Thanks .
View ArticleVcenter Appliance and VDDK
I am very new to Vmware and I am slightly confused. I am running Sep Sesam for our backups and need to install the VDDK plugin in order to backup our Virtual servers. We are using the Vcenter...
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Provisioned Space Not Equal to Actually Provisioned Space
Hey All, I have an odd issue with some NFS Datastores in my Environment not reporting the correct Provisioned Space on the Summary Tab of the Datastore. I have 2 of my datastores showing the...
View ArticleAn internal error occurred in vSphere Client with VC5.0 U2
with update manager to update VM, I installed update manage server and client correctly, but when enable VUM plug-in, the client pop up msginternal error:An internal error occurred in vSphere Client...
View ArticleESXi host management network nonresponsive after vCenter reboot
Hey guys I got a weird one here. vCenter 4.1 & ESXi 4.1.0 build 502767. The vCenter service will crash then the vCenter VM is rebooted. After reboot some hosts are disconnected and cannot be...
View ArticleUpgrade from MSSQL 2005 to 2008 R2
Hi, Here is where I started :1. vCenter Server 4.1 U2 build 4915572. on Windows 2008 Std 64 bit3. using MS SQL 2005 64 bit on a remote Win2k8 std 64 bit server. I needed to upgrade the MS SQL from 2005...
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