vCenter Server Appliance 5.1.0 – Health Status and Storage Services not working.
Can anybody suggest on how to resolve this. I have read plenty of troubleshooting for version installed on an OS eg 2008 but nothing when installed as a “vCenter Server Appliance” vCenter Server...
View ArticleDo alarms clear automatically?
Hi all. We recently had an alarm come up and applied a patch to supposedly fix the issue. When we came back online, the alarm was still there. I am wondering- Do alarms in vSphere clear/disappear...
View Articlechange host password via vcenter or cli
hi I have around 15 ESXi 5.0 and 10 ESX4.1 hosts , is there any way to change all Hosts local password via vCenter or vmware power CLI !!??
View Articlegeneral question about VMWare Auto Deploy dependencies and restrictions
Hello, I'm a Network Engineer, so forgive my ignorance of what might be some basic VMware concepts. In my company, we're deploying VMWare Auto Deploy. I've read this...
View ArticleTroubleshooting "a general system error occurred migration failed while...
Hi Everyone, Looking for a bit of help on this one. I am having real problems doing migrations from 1 host in a cluster of 8 hosts. Whenever I try to do a vmotion of more than one machine it gives the...
View ArticleVirtual machine disks consolodation is needed.
Hello, I'm having an issue with one of the VMs in my environment. It was hung on reset at 95% and wasn't moving. I ran ssh'd into the host the VM was running on and did a services.sh restart. Once...
View ArticleRDM attached list ??!
hiI wanna to know how can I find ROW DISK MAPs (RDMs) that attached to my VMs in Vcenter via command line or scriptting . I have more 400 vm that most of them have more than 2 attached RDM Disks .
View ArticleMoving Inventory Service to Another Server
Does anyone have any suggestions or pointers to articles on moving the inventory service of an existing environment to its own dedicated server? We are planning our vSphere 5.1 upgrade from 5.0 and...
View ArticleBridget not go correctly
Hello evrybody, I have the following situation/problem: Vmware9A physical machine (Win7), and 3 virtual machines above: (Win srv 2008 Win7Pro and XPPro).Bridged connectionMy LAN: 192.168.0.0The...
View ArticleRestart Physical vCenter 5.0 Server after power supply termination
Dear all, We are using a Physical vCener 5.0 server, with 3 ESXi servers and a EQL iSCSI SAN. Our vSphere SQL database is located in a VM. Last Sun, as the power supply of our floor need terminate for...
View ArticleCan't connect to vcenter 5.1 appliance with vsphere client after power failure.
Hi all, Had an ungraceful shutdown of vcenter 5.1 appliance, now can't connect with the vi client. Have tried restarting etc. Followed this KB as it sounds like my problem, but when starting the ODBC I...
View ArticleVirtual SQL vCenter backend question
According tot he recommendations in the vCenter 5.1 Database Best Practices white paper, VMware recommends the following layout for disks of the SQL backend server: SQL Server It is recommended to...
View ArticlevCenter and update Manager
Hello all, I have Vcenter 5.1 running on a WIndows 2008 R2 server. Now when I log into Vcenter Web Client none of the VMHost machines show up. Am I missing something as to how to add the hosts? Also,...
View ArticlevCenter in Linked mode access issues
I have 2 vCenter 5.1 servers in linked mode with no firewall between them, connected via layer 2 connectivity, in two different data centers. They are both a member of the same domain, with DC's in...
View ArticleSRDS and DRS Rules
Hi,i am not sure if this is the right place to ask the question. So feel free to move it. We are on a design for our new NetApp Storage. I read a lot of documents and papers about designing and...
View ArticleWorkaround for long update delay on vCenter Server Appliance
As a summary of other discussion and especially for @VMware to publish & implement this workaround. The update process for 5.1 Update 1 on the vCenter Server Appliance may take more than 45...
View ArticleVirtual Center service won't start - 404 Not Found
Hello, I've not seen this one before so I'm hoping someone else has as I can't find anything on Google. The VirtualCenter Server service on our vCenter is refusing to start. I've tried a couple of...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 U1 install process idle
Hey guys, Just doing a fresh install of vCenter 5.1 U1. Installed SSO on its own server. Installing inventory service and vCenter service on a separate box. SQL also sitting on a separate server.No...
View ArticleVirtual Machines status Unknown
I started having a problem with Virtual Center after upgrading all the environment to 5.1.My virtual machines suddenly get disconnected.When I check the vm list I see machine name (inaccessible) and...
View ArticlevSwitch Policy Question
I need to vMotion all the guests off of 2 hosts to reboot the hosts, but get a compatibility message stating one of the network connections on the guests uses a different offload or security policy...
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