vSphere HA detected a possible host failure of this host
Hello, I have been building a lab environment using the hardware below with VMware Workstation 8. Physical Hardware:Dell Precision 690Intel Xeon CPU 3.73GHz (2 processors)Memory: 12GBWindows 7 Pro...
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 ArticlevCenter 5.1 Linked Mode Question
Hello, Please excuse for any points missed as I am a newbie trying to learn vSphere in lab environment. I have two vCenter servers VC01 and VC02. VC01 being the primary. I was able to successfully...
View ArticlevCenter is going down regularly due to Oracle DB Temp table space issue.
Hi all,We have deployed vCenter 5.0 u1 with Oracle 11g R2. Couple of weeks later onwards we started hitting the Temp table space issue (Error: Error[VdbODBCError] (-1) "ODBC error: (HY000) -...
View Articlechange notiification languages
Hello When user logon on web console vcenter 5.1 and provide a bad password or login information the notifications are in french. Also if the user add on the link address ?locale=en_US. Waht I can do...
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...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 / email alerts language change not working
Hi, I want to switch the language of our email alerts from German to Englisch. I followed the steps described in the KB:...
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Extra Disk Created during Clone/Sysprep for Windows Server 2012
I am running vSphere 5.1 with all patches applied to everything. When Windows Server 2012 was RTMed I started building a primary server to use for clones for all of our other ones. This worked fine...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 lab environment without AD
Hi guys, I am attempting to perform a sanity check of our vCenter 5.1 server to the most recent version of 5.1. To accomplish this I have created an isloated lab and cloned the production vCenter and...
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Single Sign On Administrators group deleted
Hi, I upgraded vCenter 4.1 to 5.1 update 1a over the weekend, which I might add was fun!! I got there in the end though. Today, I was messing with the Groups/Users in the web client and accidentaly...
View ArticlevCenter VM snapshot
Hello! It's just a question about how to make correct snapshot and revert to it for VM where vCenter was installed, in case vCenter's DB was installed on another VM... I mean, vCenter has use it's own...
View ArticlevCenter service can not start
I use ESX5.1 and vCenter .I could not start vCenter service and vpxd log is the below. I tried restart of SQL service and inventry service but still in problem. 2013-07-14T17:29:44.423+09:00 [04060...
View ArticleSSO install with reverse lookup failure
we are in the process of preparing for the upgrade of our existing environment from vSphere 5.0 to vSphere 5.1. I’ve attempted a mock installation of SSO Server and have also run the SSO...
View ArticlevCenterからGuestOSをインストールできません。
ESX5.1とｖCenterの評価版を使用してGuestOSのWindows2008R2をインストールしようとするのですが、電源をいれても途中でPowerOffになります。 エラーメッセージには 当社はお客様のサポート資格に基づいて対応します。 とかいてあります。これは何でしょうか？ 192.168.0.8 からのエラー メッセージ: 当社はお客様のサポート資格に基づいて対応します。...
View ArticlevSphere client login problem
Since the upgrade of vSphere server from version 5.0 to 5.1 some users are no longer able to login, but the vSphere web client works fine.They get the error: The server 'xxx' took to long to respond....
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 / ESXi's user login/logout logs
Hi, we're monitoring our vSphere 5.1 environment with Nagios. Most of the checks (cpu, memory, hardware, etc.) are performed against the hosts and not through the vCenter. The checks use a local user...
View ArticleVCenter Server 5.1 show migrated VM on old and new Storage
Hello, we update 2 vsphere 5.0 Hosts to 5.1 and the vcenter too. Now we connect new Storage to the vsphere Hosts and migrate some of the VMs on the new Store.(all of them have latest VMtools...
View ArticleWeird login issue specific account
hi guysI have vCenter Appliance 5.1 U1a build 1123961Active Directory W2012 I have this account for read-only access - controlit - . All of a sudden the person reported he was not able to log in error:...
View ArticlevCenter Server Appliance (SLES) out of disk space, service cannot start
Hi everyone We had a scheduled maintenance window over the weekend while some work was carried out elsewhere in the building. As a precaution we shutdown the infrastructure that we we still keep onsite...
View ArticleImporting VMs
I received a removable disk containing a large number of VMware guests. These need to be added to our corporate vCenter (ver 5) inventory. I can do that by using the vCenter browser to copythe .VMDKs...
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