Vsphere Essentials
Our organization currently has 1 vSphere Essentials license (3 host) and our DR site has 2 stand alone ESXi hosts. Can our organization have 2 vShpere Essentials licenses? I searched the internet...
View ArticlevCSA 6.0 install failure - unable to connect to ESXi Server
I have the vCSA ISO extracted to local drive and am running it from Internet Explorer as Administrator mode. After allowing the plugin, I click Install.I click Accept, then Next.At this point, I am...
View ArticleHow can I get a new license key for the second vCenter server?
I am deploying a new 5.5 vCenter appliance. I have had a license key for a running 5.0 vCenter server, can the new vCenter appliance share that license key, or how can I generate a new license key?
View ArticleConnecting to the SSO server returns : Unsupported nested context...
All, Learning vSphere from scratch, to do some dev against the vSphere Server. Just trying to get the samples to build and run. They build without any errors or warnings on VS2013 (upgraded to .Net4)...
View ArticleMove a Licensed host to unlicensed vCenter (Evaluation)
Hi all,We have a situation where we want to move one of our hosts from the infrastructure to another vCenter in a VM, which is unlicensed, i.e., its on a evaluation license. So the question is, can we...
View ArticlevCenter Essentials, multi-site SSO/PSC, Enhanced Linked Mode
In vCenter 6.0 with Platform Services Controller 6.0, I realize that the new "Enhanced Linked Mode" is enabled by default when you join a 2nd PSC/SSO node to an existing PSC/SSO domain. This is great...
View ArticleVMware Component Manager service fails to start in vCenter Server 6 Update 2
Hello, A brief idea of my test lab environment: vCenter Servers:vc1 - Registered to psc1 in Site1vc2 - Registered to psc2 in Site2 External Platform Services Controllers:psc1 - Site1psc2 - Site2SSO...
View Articlewhere does all the configuration files reside when we configure HA,...
Can anyone help me in this, where does all the configuration files reside when we configure HA, DRA,vmotion in vcenter server?
View ArticleTrying to follow KB: 2118939 - Replacing the Lookup Service SSL certificate...
EDIT: Posted wrong KB in subject line and below (corrected KB the link shown below, was not able to edit Subject field above). I am attempting to follow KB 2109074 - VMware KB: vCenter Server or...
View ArticlePowerCli get VM port number(s)
I want to create a script to automate the many steps of setting up and removing network port mirroring. The first step is to get the port number(s) of a VM. Anyone know how to do that with PowerCLI?...
View ArticleVmware Appliance 6.0 /storage/logs fill up disk space
Hello everyone, Vmware Appliance 6.0 /storage/logs fill up disk space. I have deployed the Heavy logging on the Platform Services Controller Appliance 6.0 causes /storage/log to fill up (2143565) |...
View ArticleChanging default gateway on vCenter Appliance version 6
I just installed the VCSA 6.0 without any problems. Only issue is that the customer told me the wrong default gateway. I'd rather not redeploy the appliance. How do I go about changing the default...
View ArticleUpgrade from 5.0 to 6.0 while changing OS and SQL Server
Hi, I'm currently looking at a two site environment with vSphere 5.0 and SRM. We want to upgrade to vCenter 6.0 and external SRM 6.1 but to make things more interesting change the underlying OS from...
View Article[500] SSO error: Failed to import TenantConfiguration for [vsphere.local]:...
Hey folks,Need help with this one. We have 4 VC linked, in 4 DC running VC6 U2. Initially licensing services failed to issue when adding a new host, so we rebooted the PSC and VC, Web services never...
View ArticleVCSA 6 - VMware Tools power-on script did not run successfully - but it...
I've had occasion to restart our vCenter Server Appliance a couple of times this week, and the following error message has come up after the appliance has restarted: The VMware Tools power-on script...
View ArticleVCSA 6.0 VMware Content Library Service
It seems as though the Content Library Service has up and vanished from my vCenter Services. I created a content library back in April. I went to delete and add an online library I built and it...
View ArticleGuest shows as VMtools are up to date but in vsphere client status for VM is...
Guest Windows VM shows as VMtools are up to date but in vsphere client status for VM is VMTools are out of date. Did any one face this and can any one explain what could be the reason
View ArticlePower Management Policy
I have one vcenter 5.5 and one cluster. there are 20 esxi host ( ProLiant DL380p Gen8 ) and i saw following . what is best practives ? high performans or balanced ? Report of vSphere Optimization...
View ArticlevCenter Recovery Process
Hi What processes / techniques are people using to secure their vCenter / PSC / SQL servers? We have a vSphere 6.0 environment where all the above servers are virtual, and the network design is highly...
View ArticleVCDB - dbo.VPXV_HOSTS: [ENABLED]
Hi Anyone knows what the column "ENABLED" stands for in the VCDB dbo.VPXV_HOSTS table?The other Columns all make sense to to me.. but what does enabled mean?Can a host be enabled or disabled???is it...
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