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vCentre installation stuck during orchestrator set up on 2008 R2
Hi there, I'm having problems with vCentre 4.1 update 1 on a 2008 R2 VM. I always get stuck on the orchestrator part of the setup, the machine gets stupdly slow and nothing happens for hours... I left...
View ArticleHow to Check Time on Vcenter Appliance?
Simple question: how do I check what the time is on my Vcenter Server Appliance? I am running 5.1 Update 1a.
View ArticlevSpehre Web Client - IE page won't load. Starts up blank (white page)
Question about vSpehre Web Client.I have just finished installing a new vCenter server and everything is working just fine except the Web Client when accessed from the local server via...
View ArticlevSphere Licensing, ESX admins
In vSphere 5 licensingwe see 8 way, 32 way CPU model for virtual environment. What is this represents? How the ESX admins group exists? If doesn’t exist then are we allowed to create manually?What is...
View ArticleSSL Certificate Upgrade Gone Wrong
A bit ago I upgraded to vCenter 5.1 with two servers. The SSO and web client on one server and the vcenter service and the inventory service on the other. Had everything running great, no...
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vMotion disables even though it is licensed
Hi all I have a strange problem We are running vmware ESX 4.1 on two hosts (IBM blades) vMotion is licensed and I can enable it on the hosts but when I try to migrate a live server it tells me that...
View ArticleManually remove vSphere Client (ESXi 5.1) from a crashed vSphere Server 5...
Hi, I have some VM Hosts running ESXi 5.1. Their management server has crashed and is not recoverable. How do I go about removing the link the ESXi install has to its management server seeing as though...
View ArticleVCenter Migration - SSL Certificates
I am planning to move my VCenter 5.1a host following these steps. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=5850444 In step 14 it states: If...
View ArticleAdding vCenter Server Appliance to AD
Building up a brand new VMware environment and attempting to setup the vCenter Server Appliance. It was successfully imported into a host, it runs, I can connect to it over the network on both 5480...
View ArticleExport search results in VC
Sorry simple one but is there a way to export the results from a search which yields a list of VMs? Example, I search for a list of servers with a certain word in their description and get a list of...
View ArticleWindows 2012 Server - Best practices for creating Template
On Windows 2012, has anyone created templates for this OS (VM)?If so, what services did you remove, disable or install or what tweaks did you do to create a "Base" template? Any ideas or suggestions?...
View ArticleVery large VCI_PACKAGE_LOCALES table (Update Manager database)
The VCI_PACKAGE_LOCALES table of our update manager database has grown very large, in excess of 3GB. What can I do to reduce the size of that table? How can I purge old data? There is an KB arcticle on...
View ArticleVC MAC address issue - VC VM lost Network - suddenly lost network connectivity
Hi My VC server (virtual machine , 5.0) suddenly lost network connectivity, from the physical switch MAC address is not learned, if i changed the IP address as a test it is working !!!! (but there are...
View ArticleVCenter 5.1 update 1 upgrade fails with "insert disk 1", now vcenter won't...
I’m having a problem with updating VCenter 5.1 to 5.1 update 1. I downloaded the ISO then mounted it on the VCenter server at our D/R site (it’s not gone “live” yet, so it makes a good test). I opened...
View ArticleHost Profiles Question
Hi, I'm running through our hosts at the moment upgrading to 5.1 U1a and as I'm nearing the end I thought I'd have a look at Host Profiles. I understand the concept and I think I already know the...
View Article3 vCenter SSO with single site or multi site ?
Hi ,I am having 3 vCenter at different location. Now I am planning to upgrade my vCenter to vCenter 5.1 with SSO. But after going through the below sites , Am little bit confused wether I should go for...
View ArticleSysprep via OSCustomisation
this should be easy............but is driving me mad Using vCenter 5.1 and ESXi 5.1Windows 2008R2 SP1 absolute basic install, next next etcVM Shell is all correct as per Windows 2008R2 etcInstall...
View ArticleRemoving SSL requirement for vCenter 5.1
We recently had a certificate expire on us which left us without the ability to use our domain logins to get into our VMware environment. I'd like to remove the SSL requirement so that we don't run...
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 ArticleHow to make an HP EVA controller visible to a VM?
Folks - I'm trying to figure out how to get a Virtual Machine to "see" an HP EVA storage controller. I am not trying to do an RDM or even "VM Direct Path/PCI passthrough" (though the latter would be...
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