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High cpu usage on newly created 5.5 vcenter (build 1623101)
Hi Admins! I dont understand why my newly created vcenter use to much cpu resources.Java(TM) Platform Binary uses 50% of cpu resources Environment:6 ESX hosts (5.5)1 virtual vcenter (5.5)150 VMs My...
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SSO Issue - gss_acquire_cred failed?
Just had to stand up a fresh VCSA - 5.1 U2. SSO has been configured to use secure LDAP and works fine in that I can login via the web client or with VI Client using DOMAIN\Username or Username with my...
View ArticleProblem with quiesced snapshot on Server 2008 R2 with ESXi 4.1 U1
Hello Since we have updatet from ESXi 4.1 to Update 1 we have problems with taking quiesced snapshot. Before we have installed the update 1 quiesced snapshot worked witout problems. When we take a...
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Data Service Container Process Heap Memory Alarms
Every so often, I'm seeing these two alarms appear in the WC. The Data Service container process is running low on heap memory (> 90% utilized.)followed byData Service is functioning properly. They...
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vcsa 5.5 to 6 upgrade / install trouble
I'm trying to upgrade VCSA 5.5 to VCSA 6.0 however once I specify the Target in Step 2 it says validating and then returns with the yellow error bar but no error message.This happens when I choose both...
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How to install a complete vcenter failover cluster with 2 physical servers?
Hi all, I would like to install a new vcenter 6 failover cluster using 2 physical servers (which will be independants from esx hosts).Those servers have microsoft cluster failover services, and host a...
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Moving VMs between VCS 5.5 and VCSA 6
I have a particular 5.5 8-node cluster being managed by VCS 5.5 that I cannot migrate to VCSA 6 with the appliance (long story). So I wish to basically just create a new vCenter with VCSA 6 and move...
View ArticlevCenter Server Migration
Hi Folks, I want to migrate my existing vCenter 5.1 to vCenter6.I have deployed the VCSA 6 appliance and configured it.The next task is to create/copy folder structure ( virtual datacenters, blue...
View ArticleGroup permission stopped working
Hi,I have encountered a problem recently. Adding new users to group (local (global) and AD) doesn't give them permissions that are assigned to the group. I have to apply permissions for a single users...
View ArticlevSphere Web Client behind a NAT
My company is being required to NAT traffic by a parent company that owns an internal subnet we use. It so happens that vCenter Server is on this subnet, therefore to reach vSphere Web Client we will...
View ArticleKeyboard and Mouse is not working in VM
we are running vsphere 6.0u2. In the summary tab of the VM it shows Vmware tools current but when i am checking this in VM Guest OS Device Manager it is showing Keyboard and Mouse Driver with...
View Articlevmware-vpxd service cannot start after importing Machine SSL certificate
Hi people, I have implemented vCenter Server 6 WEB appliance and tried to import self signed SSL Machine certificate, in order to access on vCenter web interface using that certificate for HTTPS....
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Redundant vCenter Server
Can we create 2 or more vCenters in a same datacenter for redundancy?Is it applicable if the primary vCenter is a Windows based VM with an embedded database and PSC installed in a same VM?What would be...
View ArticleMinimum permissions for a user to clone a VM
I've been struggling with this- ensuring that our users have the minumum permissions on our ESX VC system. When we first set up our first ESX cluster and VC, we gave everyone VM Admin permissions on...
View ArticleContainers and single service VM's
Hello all, I was just reading this: VMs are houses, containers are apartments! | Settlersoman - A settler in the SDDC world. and got thinking about the possibility of running very low demand guest's...
View ArticleVCSA 6.5 - HTML5 Client updates?
Hi, in "What's new in 6.5" is written exactly "VMware might also periodically update the vSphere Client outside of the normal vCenter Server release cycle. To ensure that customers can keep current,...
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VCSA 6.5 - Update Manager not work
Hi, I have successfully migrated from VC 6.0 for Windows to VCSA 6.5 as I wanted to get freed Windows Server license. All is working correctly except Update Manager. I'm still getting error "VMware...
View ArticleHow to programly add external AD user to PSC/vCenter SSO Security Group
Hi experts, Currently I'm trying to add an external AD user to SSO group by program, but the dir-cli seems not work for the sso group but the local ad group, as below:'dir-cli group modify --name...
View ArticleUnable to access Vcenter server
Hi , I got my Vcenter server not accessible from Remote Desktop not from my Vsphere client at my laptop. I can not : 1. RDP to my vCenter Server which uses 3389 TCP via RDP .2. Cannot access vCenter...
View ArticleUpgrade from 5.5 to 6.5 ---- New host > 6.5 then upgrade the originals?
Hello, In theory, would it be efficient to follow this upgrade path? 1) New host configured to 6.5 with embedded PSC and Vcenter as an appliance.2) Migrate VM's from server 1 from cluster 1 to the new...
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