vSphere 5.0 web client on Firefox > 21.+ hangs during startup..
While officially these more secure and later versions of Firefox are "not supported" for the vSphere 5.0 web client, there are so many security holes in these older revs, that VMware really should step...
View ArticleDatastore LUN Number is different when present to new hosts
All, I am migrating VMs to new hosts. One VM has RDM mapping LUN. I presented this RDM LUN to the new hosts so that I can migrate the VM. But, after I presented the RDM LUN, the LUN ID changed. It was...
View ArticlevSphere HA - Admission Control
I am struggling with the understanding on ACP. I usually just disable it because it always gives me errors when its enabled. I have a 4 host cluster so what are some tips or best practices with ACP?...
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VMware vCenter Server Insatll 5.5, Hangs
After installing SSO, Web-Client, Inventory Services, then configured all the settings for vCenter Server and hit install at the last portion all I get is the following has hung there for over half...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 Install - Error 1603
I keep getting error 1603 while trying to install vCenter 5.5. Please see the log === Verbose logging started: 9/23/2013 11:30:04 Build type: SHIP UNICODE 5.00.9200.00 Calling process:...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 AD Authentication Help
Hello, I was successfully able to install my vCenter Server 5.5. For identity sources I have vsphere.local as default but I have also set-up AD (Integrated Windows Authentication) under configuration....
View ArticleSSO 5.5 upgrade fails
I wanted to update our vCenter Server in the test lab to 5.5 and it's failing at the very beginning, at SSO upgrade. The update starts and after a short while it begins to rollback actions. After...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1.0U1b update to 5.5 fails (Error 1603)
I keep getting errors while trying to install vCenter 5.5 Single Sign-On which results in a rollback.I tried it with Simple Install and Custom Install.I already tried to delete the CIS Folder and...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 architecture
When I was building a vSphere 5.1 environment. The prevailing recommendation seemed to be to install SSO and vCenter on seperate servers. Some recommendations were based on environment size while other...
View ArticleLink status failover detection behavior
We are using a“Route based on the originating virtual switch port ID” LB policy with "failback" and "link status" failover detection. We had an outage recently where a planned switch reboot turned into...
View ArticleUpdate Manager
Hi folks, forgive me if this is the wrong place. We are running vCenter Server 5 Essentials with three hosts all running ESXi 5.0.0, 504890. I attempted to install a VM with the guest operating system...
View ArticleMap Relationships Blank?
Hi, I've just upgraded my VirtualCenter to U3, and I have noticed that my Map Relationships are now blank for all clusters/hosts etc? Anyone know what's going on? Thanks Mike
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 Web Client shows incorrect inventory
I upgraded my vCenter to 5.5 from 5.1 and it works except the Web Client has incorrect inventory data. It is missing some VMs and has some ghost VMs that don't actually exist. There aren't any error...
View ArticleTopology maps blank
My map relationships are blank for everything (data centers/clusters/hosts/VMs ect). There is an error report and a screenshot of the error attached. They are from storage views maps. I'm on version...
View ArticleVM Template & deployed VM share same VMDK
Hello everyone, I'm having an issue with templates. I created a Windows Server 2008 VM and then I converted it to a template. From there, I deployed a VM and customized it to have the proper hostname,...
View ArticleVC Server licensing
I have a number of hypervisors running with the vSphere Essentials license. I set up a VC server in trial license mode and added all these hosts. Once I purchase and apply the VC server license, and VC...
View ArticleIssues with Deploying a VM from template
I am having some issue deploying a VM from template with guest customization. I have not been able to find any answers on the web.Here is my setup: vSphere 5.1.0Build 1064983 1) Create a VM (WIN2K8R2)...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 cannot connect to VDP 5.5.1
Hi, I'm trying to make VDP work in my env.I installed and configured it - but after restart there were no VDP visible in vSphere Web Client.So I unregistered VDP extension, restarted VDP and Web Client...
View ArticleVCenter 5.1 update 1 upgrade fails with "insert disk 1", now vcenter won't...
I’m having a problem with updating VCenter 5.1 to 5.1 update 1. I downloaded the ISO then mounted it on the VCenter server at our D/R site (it’s not gone “live” yet, so it makes a good test). I opened...
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Datastore Space Utilization - 'Other' File Types
Hi, All. We have a SATA FC LUN, presented to 3 x ESX 4.1 hosts and 1 x ESXi 4.1 host (all fully patched) from an IBM DS4800 SAN. We wanted to provision some new test VMs and noticed that the...
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