Memory HotAdd for vCenter Server
Are there risks associated with hot adding RAM to vCenter Server running on Windows 2008 Server?SQL Server is on a separate VM from vCenter. Are there risks associated with hot adding RAM to the VM...
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If you are running vCenter Server in a VM, is there a reference guide for determining the number of vCPUs that should be assigned to the VM?
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cannot find SSO users and groups
Hi all i have installed VCSA 5.5 with AD authentication . once i finished installation i logged into vsphere webclient and cannot find "SSO users and groups" under administration most of the blogs...
View ArticleMerge identical ESXi hosts into cluster after being used seperately
While I did not play any role in their setup or early beginnings, I've inherited responsibility of our modest VMware hardware stack, consisting of two identical Dell r710s and an r610. The two 710s...
View ArticlevCenter Server Appliance and certificate replace
Hi all Maybe this is something someone has written about before but i take a shot again. Im comming from a vCenter 5.1.x in Windows and now im going for the vCSA 5.5, vmware have a KB explaining the...
View ArticlefindByUUID does not seem to be working
Hi All, I am using VMWare SDK 5.0 Java APIs with VCenter Server 5.0.0. The findByUUID documentation says "Finds a virtual machine or host by BIOS or instance UUID.".But in my case it does not seem to...
View ArticleSSO users and groups Error
When I try and display Users & Groups I am getting this error "Error: Idm client exception: Failed to establish server connection" Cant for the life of me figure out why. Using vCenter Virtual...
View ArticleCant connect to https://vcenter/sdk/vimService
Trying to run Dell's dpack by connecting to our vcenter server. I add our vcenter URL and after trying to connect I receive: "Failed to connect with the VMware VCenter Server...
View ArticlevCSA with Windows 2012R2 AD controller, LDAP search not working / SSO broken
Hi, After upgrading vCSA to 5.5.0a and Windows AD to 2012 R2, AD logins to vCSA no longer work. sso/vmware-sts-idmd.log shows: 2013-11-05 17:08:57,135 WARN [LdapErrorChecker] Error received by LDAP...
View ArticleFailed insertion of statistics - vSphere 4.1.0
Hello,I have a problem, when viewing the "events" shown in my vCenter I get the following error "Stats insertion failed for entity XXXX due to ODBC error".I get this error for a bunch of my ESX's. I...
View ArticleInstall new vCenter Server and Migrate Database
Running vCenter 5.1 U1 on Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine.SSO, Update Manager and SQL is running on this server also.Want to create new vCenter 5.5 Server, running SSO and Update Manager with remote...
View ArticlevCenter Single Sign on Fails to install and rolls back
I'm trying to install vCenter on a Windows 2008 Server and the installation is "interrupted" and rolls back. This is not on a domain controller and we are only managing three ESXi servers. Here is the...
View ArticleUpdating vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 to 5.1 U1 fails
Waited about an hour after it started installing... still not up. Wen into the updatecli.log, and see that there's an error constantly repeating... any clues? ./etc/init.d/vami-sfcb: line 238: 7385...
View ArticleAbout the customization for vSphere Web Client
Dear all, Help! who can provide some documents or tips for the customization for vSphere Web Client.e.g.1. Change the logo2. Chenge the layout.3. Add my other app's linkand so on... Thanks a lot.
View ArticleUnable to Connect to MKS:
Hi All. I'm hoping someone might have an answer, I tried the VMware blog where I found a "solution" but it hasn't helped. I hope this will make sense. I have a nested environment in VMWorkstation...
View ArticleError 25004.Setup failed to create the vCenter Server repository.
Hi everybody, after searching this forum and a lot of other sites I decided to ask directly - unfortunately I didn't find any help elsewhere. I'm running a vCenter Server 5 under Windows Server 2008 R2...
View ArticleWith Safari 7.0 on Mavericks HTML5 Console does not open anymore
Hi, since upgrading my Mac Air to Mavericks I have problems with the included Safari 7.0 Browser: When I click on console in the web client the HTML5 console does not open anymore. No new tab is opened...
View ArticlevCenter Server 5.5 SSL certificate update
Hi there We have a Problem with updating our ssl certificate for the vCenter Server with the ssl certificate updater tool 5.5. All Services are installed on a 2008R2 Server. I created all the necessary...
View ArticlevMotion and NICs
I am working in an environment that has multiple standalone ESX and ESXi hosts. Our goal is to bring all of the hosts into vCenter to manage them and also implement DRS and HA clusters; however,...
View ArticleUpgrade vCenter 5.5 to 5.5.0a
I'm new to vCenter 5.5 (who isn't?). It must be fairly easy, but I can't find clear directions for updating vCenter 5.5 to the newest release 5.5.0a. Could someone point me in the right direction?...
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