Change from dvSwitch to vSwitch live
We have 5 ESXi 5.0 hosts.We have 2 dvSwitches. One for vm´s and one for VMotion and Management. Now we unfortunately have to change our dvSwitches to vSwitche. How do I do that without vm downtime?
View ArticleVCSA 5.1 U1a stops on regenerating certificate
Hello guys, Yeasterday I deployed new VCSA and moved existing ESX servers to it. Then I shut down old vCenter and changed IP and hostname of new VCSA to IP/hostname that was previously set on old...
View ArticleTemplate Win 2008R2 VMXnet3 adapter ordering problem
Hello all, I have created a vmware template of Windows 2008R2 with 3 VMXnet3 adapters. Before the template is shutdown I remove the 3 VMXnet3 nics from Windows. The problem that rises when the template...
View ArticleDisable SSL requirement for VMware Web Client
Hi, Is anybody know how to disable SSL requirement for VMware Web Client (port 9090)? I need to configure a reverse proxy (ISA Server), which include SSL offload, in order to publish the Web Client...
View ArticlevCenter still not compatible with Windows 2012 Server ?
Hi, As I can read o nthe KB :VMware KB: Minimum system requirements for installing vCenter Server Windows 2012 is not listed. is this normal ? Thanks, Vincent
View Articleevc cluster westmere and nehalem
hi everyone. I have a cluster with 2 hosts running in a cluster with EVC Westmere configuration.Recently I wanted to add another host into the cluster that came from another datacenter which used to be...
View ArticleHost profiles and detaching an ESXi 5.1 host.
I have not had a chance to try this, and searching for it didn't pull up the results that I was looking for. If I have a host profile on an ESXi 5.1 host, in vCenter of course. If I remove that host...
View ArticleTrying to find a way to minimize the an over abundance of performance statistics
We just recently deployed our VMware VM environment. We migrated from HyperV to VMware ( vCenter 5.1). We are currently using the SQL 2008 R2 Express for the database. I have automated SQL express...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 naming issue
Hello all, We've run into this issue VMware KB: vMotion fails at 15% with the error: The object or item referred to could not be found CauseThis is a known issue affecting VMware vCenter Server 5.1...
View ArticleAdvanced NUMA Attributes
Hi Guys,Can seem to find out if you can adjust the Advanced NUMA Attributes while vms are running?
View ArticlePowering off a virtual machine fails with the error: Can not power Off:...
hello,"I have a VMwarevCenterServer4.0"I have aVM "Windows 2003 server" andwhen I tried torestartthe VMhas crashedwithblue screenandI geta message"Poweringoffavirtual machinefailswiththeerror: Can...
View ArticleSQL Edition for Virtualcenter DB
Hi, Pros and cons for running SQL 2012 Express for the virtualcenter database?, we have about 300vms and we are thinking of moving our current db to maybe an Express of SQL to save sql licens.Is that...
View ArticleDéplacer le server Vcenter 5.1
Bonjour, Je souhaite déplacer mon Vcenter (test bien sur) d'un server a l'autre . je m'explique : j'ai un server 2008 R2 installé sur un Workstation sur Pc Portabl i7 et je veux le déplacer sur un...
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Remove inactive datastores - vcenter appliance
hi guys I am using vcenter appliance 5.1 and I had to remove some datastores so I unmount them and delete them from my vCenter the thing is they still show up as Inactive under datastores is there a...
View ArticleAre there any pitfalls to installing vCenter Server on a host in a cluster...
I suppose the first answer I get back will be; Why? Our organization has decided that the UNIX team and the Windows team cannot share a single vCenter Server that manages the entire environment. Hence...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 Update1a cloning error
Environment consists of vCenter 5.1 Update 1a, ESXi 5.1 Update 1, there seperate are 2-sites in linked mode. I was cloning a powered off VM for testing and received the attached error just after...
View ArticleGuest OSes Reported Incorrectly
I have recently upgraded everything from 4.0 to 4.1 and I noticed that some guest OSes are being reported incorrectly. Specifically some Server 2008 R2 servers are being reported as Server 2008 - many...
View ArticleVCenter 5.1 Migration Strategy?
We are running vcenter version 5.1 and I want to upgrade to vcenter 5.1a. I also need to move the DB to our SQL 2012 environment. Since I'm doing this I'd also like to install vcenter on a new server...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 Web Client – where is Update Manager?
I am running vCenter Server 5.1 build # 947673. This is a small virtual structure with less than 10 VMs. The web client software is installed on the same VM as vCenter Server. I installed Update...
View ArticleFailed insertion of statistics - vSphere 4.1.0
Hello,I have a problem, when viewing the "events" shown in my vCenter I get the following error "Stats insertion failed for entity XXXX due to ODBC error".I get this error for a bunch of my ESX's. I...
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