VCSA memory usage
Hi all.After installing VCSA and Data protectionthey(or rather, java on it,judging by thetop) usetoo much memory,although VCSA was madeonlybasic setup, and Data Protection onlytwo jobsadded.Is this...
View ArticleDRS powered on a VM immediately after OVF Import
We have some isolated clusters. I needed to move a VM from one isolated cluster to another and chose to export and import an OVF template of the VM. During the OVF deployment in the new cluster I made...
View ArticleVCSA Coredumps 100%
I had an issue this morning on vCenter server appliance where the coredumps were at 100%, which was causing sluggishness in VCSA. I deleted the coredump files via SSH command line, but is there anyway...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 SSO and a child domain as identity source
Hello, we have an Active Directory with 2 domain in the forest.One root domain "contoso.local" and one child domain "belgium.contoso.com" Only the child domain contains resources (users and...
View ArticleVCenter database bursting
HelloGentlemen,I have avery strangescenariohereinAngolaon a client, this clientis a financialbank andhas severalvirtual machinesdistributed across multipleserversinVMwarevCenterDatacentersuddenlybegan...
View ArticleVcenter storage question
Does Vcenter need to see all the attached storage that the hosts have access to? I tried googling it but couldn't find a definitive answer. Thanks!
View ArticleSuspend vm when system is inactive
Hello, we have about 330 virtual machines (vmware vCenter server 5.5.0) and often peaple doesn't suspend or shutdown machine. I would able to change power state (exemple from power on to suspend) after...
View ArticleVCSA 5.1 U1a stops on regenerating certificate
Hello guys, Yeasterday I deployed new VCSA and moved existing ESX servers to it. Then I shut down old vCenter and changed IP and hostname of new VCSA to IP/hostname that was previously set on old...
View ArticleUpgrading vcenter 4.1 on Windows 7 to Vcenter 5.5
We are preparing to upgrade our Esxi 4.1 servers to 5.5 and would like to start with the vcenter upgrade. Our Vcenter server runs on a dedicated VM. It has its own SQL 2008 RTM express for DB....
View ArticleVM Reboot Alarm
I would like an alarm when a VM is rebooted from within the OS and from what I have been reading is this is only possible with a power state alarm. So far I only get an email notification if the...
View ArticleCan't edit alarm conditional trigger "condition length" values?
I'd like to configure a "datastore usage on disk" trigger (which is a conditional trigger) but the "condition length" field for either warning or alert -- don't let me pick or type any values. What am...
View ArticleVCenter 5.5 deployment
Hi,Deploying a new vCenter 5.5 from scratch for our new datacenter. VC is added to AD domain (for example tcgms.int) and the FQDN is shown as VCentername.<domain name>. During SSO install...
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vCSA 5.5 web-client manage networking: virtual switches buttons disabled
Hi all, I can't access network configuration in vCSA 5.5. Virtual switches buttons are greyed out and I can't manage networking, create, edit...I tried to:- restart vsphere client- restart vcenter...
View ArticleMemory consumption on Vcenter 5.1 and 5.5 on Windows 2k8 R2
Morning, I have a quick question concerning the memory usage on a Vcenter server. I have created a new Vcenter 5.5, and started the migration of the all hosts/clusters. The both Vcenter are based on...
View ArticlePacket loss on all machines on network during vmotion
Hello, I'm having a serious issue with packet loss across my entire network when I migrate a powered up VM from one host to another. I'm not just talking about losing pings within my VMware...
View ArticleUpgrading to vCenter Single Sign-On 5.5 fails when the SSL certificate is in...
I have have tried the following with no good results.Upgrading to vCenter Single Sign-On 5.5 fails when the SSL certificate is in the PKCS12 format and reports the error: vCenter Single Sign-On Setup...
View ArticleMigrate VM from host 1 to host B
Hi Guys,i have two host and vcenter,on my host 1 i have 20 Vm up and running , those VM are created on a Sata HDD, however on my host 2 i've got SSD disk and want to migrate them to the SSD HD on host...
View Articleflash and RHEL6 ?
All. Has anyone succeeded in connecting to a vcenter 5.5 appliance with a RHEL6 workstation? If so, what's the magic incantation and ritual keystrokes? Made the mistake of upgrading to esxi 5.5...
View ArticleRecreate Host Profile after 5.5 Upgrade (Auto Deploy)
Hello. I am upgrading 100 hosts from 5.1U1 to 5.5 using auto deploy. I would like to reuse the existing host profiles as I do not know all the settings contained in them. Can I simply apply the host...
View ArticleMemory counter to be used for checking Guest Machine's actual memory usage?
HelloI've been looking into Guest VM's memory performance counters, which confused me alot. Here is a question that pop-ups in my mind:-What counter shall I be considering to check the guests ACTUAL...
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