Do i need to put my vCenter APP 5.5 on my VDS?
I am running 3 hosts with ESXi 5.5 and vCenter Appliance 5.5, now i wish to setup a VDS for all 3 machine but was wondering if i really needed to put my vCenter Appliance on the virtual distributed...
View Articlevcsa or vcva (Linux appliance) will not start - file system has errors
So I have the vCenter linux appliance latest version (5.1U1) but I have seen this before on earlier releases too.On the console I have errors like below=========================================fsck...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 LACP - LAG with HP a7506
Hello all,I'm trying to setup LACP using LAG between vCenter 5.5 VDS and a HP A7506 physical switch, somehow the LACP is not being activated..... Do I absolutely need running VM and / or traffic of...
View Articleinstall vcener server on windows 2012 foundation or essential
hiis it possible to install vcenter server on windows server 2012 foundation or essential?does it lost any feature on vcenter?does it recommended?tanx
View Articleorphaned vmdk's that I can't remove
I used the script from the following link below to identify orphaned vmdk's in my environment. I was able to remove all the orphaned vmdk's except for a series of them for a virtual machine. We use...
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Anyone else having problems with VCSA 5.5B not starting?
Looking over the threads here, I noticed that FQ13 posted earlier that they had problems VCenter 5.50B crashing, others were having problems with 5.50b on Windows. We were running 5.5A with little...
View ArticleFailed to connect VMware Lookup Service? Unable to connect to Vcenter webclient?
Dear all, I got the solution for this error, but I wanted to know why this happens, I configured VCA appliance perfectly, AD activation was also done properly, but yet I wasn't unable to connect to my...
View ArticlevCenter Server Service is not starting
I have performed all the changes to migrate the vCenter Server database from SQL Express to full SQL Server following the Knowledge Base ( that is posted by VMware ) its URL is mentioned here for...
View ArticleIssue building a 5.5 test environment
Im trying to build a test environment with 5.5 and having an issue installing vCenter on a VM. The host is a ML110 G7 and has plenty of disks and RAM.I have ESX 5.5 installed on it and it works fine.I...
View ArticleExtract who has logged in/out of vSphere
Hi, I've been asked to produce a report of the people who have logged into the vSphere client for the past 6 months. Looked on the web but i wasnt able to find a great deal of information. Does anyone...
View ArticlevApp VM Advanced Properties
So I have a VM I have built as a vApp, setting the vApp properties and creating the scripting internally to the VM to read the OVF environment variables. This works great, I can deploy the VM from OVF...
View Articlevcenter 5.5 - unable to install Directory Services
I keep getting the following error installing vcenter on Windows 2008 R2. See attachment. Jointool.log 2014-02-12 07:13:30,729 com.vmware.vim.jointool] Operation Mode: initialize[2014-02-12...
View ArticleAlert when Host nic utilization reaches 80%
hi, i want to configure an Alert when Host nic utilization reaches 80%.
View ArticlevCenter Heartbeat 6.6 & vCenter Single Sign-On 5.5
Hello, Knowledge Base 2058239 indicates the following as it relates to SSO & vCenter Heartbeat, "vCenter Server Heartbeat 6.6 is only supported in environments with a single vCenter Single Sign-On...
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vCenter appliance CPU Usage
hi guys I have an instance of vCenter appliance build 799731. I see how the CPU Usage have been increasing in the last month and I get alerts about that (we have configure an open source alert system)...
View ArticleDeployment of a 2008 R2 template, without sysprep?
Hey guys, I know it has always been common practice to run sysprep to create a unique SID for new servers. I recently read an article by Mark Russonivich of Microsoft that said this is really not...
View ArticleDomain authentication coming in funny, and generating failure messages
We have a monitoring solution running on Scientific Linux 6.2 authenticating to the MOB URL of vCenter 5.0.0, 913577. On an irregular basis, we're getting authentication failures because the UserName...
View ArticleAdd host test The host 10.10.9.10 is already connected to this vCenter Server .
I have VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 running. I had a few issues with it one being "Add host test The host 10.10.9.10 is already connected to this vCenter Server ". I was getting this same...
View ArticleAfter vMotion of domain controller (win2008R2) problems with sysvol share
Hi all, we always run into trouble when migrating a domain controller (win2008R2) with vMotion. Eventually after the vMotion is finished successfully the sysvol share of the migrated dc becomes not...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 unattended installation documentation?
Is there any documentation for doing a command-line (unattended) installation of vCenter 5.5? For 5.1 I followed this guide...
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