vCenter Alarm - Extend Virtual Disk
Does anyone know of a way to trigger a vCenter alarm when a VM's virtual disk is extended? I'm wanting to give this privilege to our 24x7 first line support team but I would like to know when any...
View ArticleHow can i see which user did what?
Hi everyone, can anybody tell me in which logs i can see which user did what? If there is any possibility on vSphere client/webclient would be interesting too...I want to see for example who cloned or...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 HA SSO with F5 load balancer
Hello, Has anyone tried to configure this? I'm looking to see if anyone has some sample configurations on how to get this working. Thanks
View ArticleESXi Gateway for iSCSI/vMotion on diff subnets?
Going from ESX4 to ESXi 5.1. We have 2 vswitches. 1. vswitch0 is connected via 4 physical NIC's to 1 physical switch. vswitch0 has a VM port group, a service console and a vmkernel port for vMotion....
View ArticleCreating a Host profile gives error "Unexpected language"
Creating a Host Profile from a host gives on most of our hosts, but not all, the following error:A general system error occurred: See the error stack for details on the cause of this problem. Error...
View Article256 kb partition created in VM when taking a snapshot with Option "quiesce...
Hi all I have the following problem: When I take a snapshot (via VCenter) of a vm and choose the option "quiesce guest file system", then under certain circumstances there is a small partition created...
View ArticlevCenter install requirement
I read vCenter4.1 and 5 install requirement document and it says it needs 2 core CPU and those clock should be more than 2.0 GHz.If this requirement is not met, installation will fail ?
View ArticleWindows Template Corrupting
Hi, I have an infrastructure cluster of 2 ESXi 5.1 hosts with shared FC storage. I have a few more hosts with many more to come on the same management newtwork as the infrastructer hosts. These...
View ArticleVcenter - New Installation with transfer of Permissions and Folder to new...
Hi,i installed a fresh VCenter 5.1 and want to transfer all Hosts from the old 5.0 Installation.Detaching the hosts and attaching it to the new Instance is only half of the work to be done. The Folder...
View ArticleVMware Syslog Collector
Hello, I'd like to know if anyone has found a way to have the syslog data directories be the host name and not IP Address. Currently the syslog collector is creating directories using the host IP...
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vCenter SSO Failing and no log in not even root
hi guys Today a log in issues was reported and I tried with my AD credentials to log in to my vCenter Appliance 5.1 (build 880146). No go.Tried with root credentials. I was not able neither. So lucky...
View ArticleSSO Install Error 29168
I have never even seen this error before. I am installing SSO onto its own Windows 2008 R2 Standard server. Installing as a stand alone SSO Server, from VCENTER 5.1.0b ISO. Not using Simple Install....
View ArticleMaking datastore visible to single VM
Hi I have vCenter 5.1.0 (Win2008 R2), with ESXi 5.1.0. I have the possiblity to adminster everything with the windows administrator account. For one machine I'd like to give another person the...
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vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 - cannot connect
Hi guys, Just deployed the vCenter VA to one of our ESXi Hosts. Powered it up and after configuring the network (and adding entry into DNS), I can ping, but not view the web admin...
View ArticleAdmin@system-domain can't log in to Vcenter server
I installed SSO on the Virtual Center server in our DR environment and then upgraded the Web Client. When I log in to the Web Client as Admin@system-domain I see the following error message displayed:...
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high cpu load on vcenter server appliance
since a couple of weeks we're seeing a 100% load on our virtual server appliance:Our environment is not that big, it's a demo setup but vpxd is using a lot of CPU resources:Anyone any idea how we can...
View ArticleHow to automatically start/stop VMs?
Hi, is it possible to automatically start/stop VMs (and create from template if necessary) based on specific criterias? I think of setting up a template containing a webserver and I want to fire up and...
View ArticleSSO: domain users login only once
Hello,I have the following issue in VCenter Server 5.1.0 U1A and SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 installed in 2 different VMs.I configured SSO with a single AD domain using ldaps; In identity source I provided...
View ArticleProblems after installing vCenter 5.1a - No vCenter Server found
Sorry, I'm new at this and I'm having a problem installing vCenter 5.1a on Windows Server 2008 R2 using the simple install. After completing the install without any errors, I start up the vSphere Web...
View ArticlevCenter Simple Install 5.1 continues to fail
vCenter Simple Install 5.1 continues to fail with error 29114. I choose the SQL 2008 Express installation, because it's already installed for another app. I've looked at this help, but did not...
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