thin disk
I have 2 tb lun on vcenter 6. and working 1.9 tb thin disk vm in that lun. vm has c disk . c disk has 1.8 tb. now i will delete 1.2 tb files on c disk then c disk will be 600 gb. After the files are...
View ArticlevCenter 6.5 shows 503 a few minutes after startup
Hallo, we just installed a latest 6.5 vCenter on Windows 2012R2 with the latest patches.Memory 16 GB / 4 Cores in a ESXi 6.0 VM, plenty of HD memory free. The first few days the server worked very...
View Articlechange language of alarms, tasks,.... in vCenter Appliance
Hi, even if I start vCenter with https://vcenter/vsphere-client/?locale=en_US all alarms and tasks are in German language, but I'd like to have it in English. How is it possible to change this on a...
View ArticleWhat if local storage is dead and vswp was in this datastore
As one can keep the .vswp in local datastore and other files in shared datastore then question what will happen if local storage is dead and vm was up and running and .vswp was actively in use at that...
View ArticleThe VMRC console has disconnected.. attempting to reconnect
Seeing this error on my Virtual Center client while tryign to get to the console.. We are running Virtual Center 5.0 Build 455964 Anyone now how to fix it?
View Articlepath selection
i have emc storage , esxi.6.0 and vcenter 6.0 and using EMC PowerPath/VE but cant see path selection with emc vsi . Also cant see with powercli . how i can see path selection on vcenter or etc...
View ArticleDisable VMware Tools - Use Case
In VM settings one can disable the VMware tools, although it is recommended not to disable vmware tools. Anyone who can share the use case in which it is required to disable VMware tools?
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VCSA migration - managed ESXi host prerequisites
We are migrating a physical vCenter Server for Windows to the VCSA but are having difficulty in interpreting the prerequisites. The vCenter Server and hosts are running vSphere 5.1. The vCenter Server...
View Articlecores per socket
i have a question ? i really didnt understand this page . which is one of the best performans. number of virtual socket = ?number of cores per socket = ? Does corespersocket Affect Performance? -...
View ArticleImporting OVA into VCSA 6.5 fails - The operation failed for an unknown reason
I'm trying to import an OVA via the vSphere Flash Client. The VCSA is running 6.5 GA, however I@m getting the following error. The SSL certificate is imported and as you can see from the attached...
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Permissions needed to Edit Settings in new vCenter 6.5 HTML5 Client?
I've created a new user\group and assigned the appropriate permissions. I've basically given them all the permissions under Virtual Machine plus some others. All works fine in the older flash web...
View ArticlevCSA 5.5.0a - Users with spaces are unable to authenticate
I am not able to login to the vSphere Web Client or full client when the username contains spaces. I was able to figure this out after some troubleshooting. I created a user named "Testing" and it...
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Configure Cluster between different model type
Currently, we are having one request from customer to create new Cluster between one ESXi host server with version of ESXi 5.1 Update 1(X3850 X5) and another one with version of ESXi 5.1 Update 3(X3650...
View ArticleAuthenticating to an NTP server that is cryptographically based.
Within an enclave the site has a requirement that the network device must be authenticated to Network Time Protocol sources using authentication that is cryptographically based. Is there a way to...
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Mouse disappears (invisible) inside client console
I am running the most current versions of eveything. ESX 4.0 Update 1 and the latest builds of vcenter server and client. My workstation is running server 2008 x64 I am using remote desktop...
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VCSA 6.0 disable root SSH & create new SSH user
Good morning VM Gurus, I'm currently locking down some VCSA 6.0 instances (DoD STIG), and I need to disable SSH access for root. I can do that no problem in the sshd_config file, but I want to have...
View ArticlevCenter Web Client service starts then stops after vCenter server reboot -...
Since updating a Windows-based vCenter from 6.0U1 to 6.0U2, I've noticed that the vSphere Web Client service starts for about 5-7 minutes upon server reboot, then dies. This happens every reboot. The...
View ArticlevCenter Web Client 6.0 u2 - Permissions intermittently being ignored
Using vSphere vCenter Web Client 6.0 u2 with Active Directory users in a SSO Domain group. I have Read Only on vSphere, Datacenter and Host and then Admin privileges on objects below. About daily, the...
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Upgrade to vCenter 6.5 questions
I am currently running vCenter 6.0 on a VM in my environment. My update manager server has crapped out on me and it looks like I will have to rebuild it. I was told the update manager is now native...
View ArticlevSphere client to vCenter - Object reference not set an instance of an object.
Good day, colleagues!There is 1 thing, that triggered me out.I`ve made a clean installation of Windows server 2012 R2, ClientIntegrationPlugin, and VMware-VIM-all-6.5.0-4602587.After that, i...
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