Authentication failure in vCenter logs.
We have a problem currently where a user account from a person that has left the company is trying to authenticate every 5 minutes to vCenter. The problem is the logs doesn't show you where the account...
View ArticleIntel X520-T2 ESXI 5.5 not advertising correct speed
I have a system with 4 intel x520-t2. I'm currently having issues with ESXI seeing the correct advertised speed for these nics. I have contacted Intel and there is no firmware available for cardsCard...
View Articleapproximaly time to move a VM disk
Hello, Does somebody know how long it approximately take to move a 512GB VM disk file to another datastore? I will be a cold migration since we don't have vmotion storage yet. The move will be on the...
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 ArticleExport Custom Attributes from SQL
Hello Community, Is there a way to export the Custom Attributes for vCenter directly from SQL? I have a client that we just completed a migration from one vCenter to another. The custom attributes...
View ArticleMac Console: 7331, Already modified wrapper.conf
I was able to view the console from the appliance in all three OS X browsers. Can't seem to do it any more, just get a can not connect error. Has anything changed in the last few days? I have already...
View ArticleWhat's the data flow for the VDP backup
Hi Friends, What's the data flow for the VDP backup ? thanks.
View ArticleNew install of VCenter shows no inventory.
Been a long while since I last installed vCenter. I installed v5.5 it on a fresh Windows 2008 server. I open the web client and login, but there's nothing in the inventory. No vCenter servers, no...
View ArticleVMs are inaccessible, shared LUN is inactive? What is the problem?
Dear all, Hi I am working on Vsphere 5.5. My VMs are greyed out and are inaccessible, and my shared datastore is inactive, iscsi target server is up and working, all the paths and targets are visible,...
View ArticlevCenter upgrade 5.5a -> 5.5b. Empty Inventory in web client
Hi, I have upgraded our vCenter from 5.5a to 5.5b and now every "old" system-domain user is having an empty inventory in the web client. In the standalone client everything is fine. When I create a new...
View ArticleUnable to activate services on VMKernel adapter when using a custom TCP/IP stack
Hi, Very strange error. Unable to activate services on VMKernel adapter when using a custom TCP/IP stack. Added custom stack using this command : esxcli network ip netstack add -N="10GB" Using the...
View Articlevpxd consuming all memory -- vCenter slooooooow and cannot connect
As reported in http://communities.vmware.com/message/2020222 we are still experiencing the issue with vpxd consuming huge amounts of RAM and causing severe vCenter slowness. This has gotten much worse...
View ArticleUpgrade failed to update database
Database logs below [4/15/2013 10:58:28 AM] Info: Beginning upgrade process.... [4/15/2013 10:58:28 AM] Info: VMware VirtualCenter has been detected as a SQL server.[4/15/2013 10:58:28 AM] Info:...
View ArticlevCenter Appliance 5.1 U1c can't telnet port 902
Hello,I can't telnet vCSA v5.1 U1c on port 902. No Firewalls involved.How can I check, which service failed via SSH? Thanks,Thorsten
View ArticleDoing upgrades in DR/PROD environments vs a test env
Just curious, Is it documented somewhere that its good to plan the maintenance window or is it just one of those unwritten rules(read common sense) that we don't have any unwanted services/tasks...
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[Could Not Connect:vSphere Client could not connect to "172.17.9.100".]-(The...
Hi, ExpertsSooner or later, we are going to deploy vSphere and vCenter to LTE Datacenter server so that I'd like to self-experiment on its function(HA, vMotion) in VMware Workstationbecause I , sadly ,...
View ArticleIntermittent Virtual Machine Network Issues
Not sure if I should have posted this in the ESXi 5 forum, so my apologies if this is the wrong place. I have a four host (all ESXi 5.0) cluster in my vCenter (5.1) that has intermittent network...
View ArticleMigrated SQL Database; Error Recreating Some Jobs
I migrated my databases to a new SQL server successfully. I am now recreating the SQL jobs per article 2006097. All worked except for the following:...
View ArticleTrouble saving IPMI settings on one host in vSphere Essentials
We have vSphere Essentials using the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) with two Dell PowerEdge R805 hosts. Both have identical hardware configurations and are generally working fine. Because these...
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