Move VCenter Server to New Datacenter
Hi All, I have a question that requires a little help if you will. We have a 5.0U3 vcenter and we would like to move it to another datacenter at the same site. The new datacenter resides on new SAN...
View ArticleAnyone using AMD Opterons in your environment?
Trying to decide between going Intel Xeon or AMD Opterons. Of course AMD's are cheaper and on the surface they typically match up with comparable Intel's . However, it would seem that information...
View ArticleAdding vCenter Server Appliance to AD
Building up a brand new VMware environment and attempting to setup the vCenter Server Appliance. It was successfully imported into a host, it runs, I can connect to it over the network on both 5480...
View ArticleNo Inventory in WebClient (while vSphere Client is fine)
I am a VMWare Newbe.I installed VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5.0b released. (followed the TinkerTry instructions Deploy VMware's vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 in a home lab, without SSO...
View ArticleWhat happens IF we don't replace the default certificates for the vCenter 5.1 ?
Does anyone have specific vmware documents stating what happens IF we don't replace the default certificates for the vCenter 5.1 SSO, Inventory, Web Client etc....services? I found this below on page...
View Articledatastore migration failed - now there are two vm's - one powered off??
I was migrating a fw vm's to different datastores when a failure happened. They may have been canceled or it may have been the fact that our vcenter server was rebooted. I'm not sure if that would...
View ArticleWeb Client support for MacOS
Does anyone know when the vSphere Web Client will fully support MacOS? In particular, when we can launch a VM console from within Firefox on MacOS?
View ArticleReplace vCenter Server 5.5 SSL certs using vC-CAT fails
I've seen other threads related to 5.1 and failing to replace SSL certs on vCenter Server, but I'm not able to use any of those solutions to fix my problem. This is a 2008R2 host that originally had...
View Articlevcenter app deployment
Hi, thish is harish, i am involved in deploying vmware infrastructure for a company, as per current setup have installed ESXi5 on 2 blades with 5 vm's on it of server2012 Datacenter 64 bit among which...
View ArticlevCenter Server Foundation features
Hello, I am looking into purchasing vCenter server and I see they come in two editions: Foundation and Standard. I am planning on managing 3-4 servers and I would like to have high availability,...
View Articlevsphere upgrade ; " VMFS3 to VMFS5 upgrade support more than 2 TB"
I am planning to upgrade my datacenter from ESX4.1 to ESXi5, But bit confused whether VMFS3 (after upgrade to vmfs5) will be able to support more than 2 TB. "Upgraded hosts, which keep the older...
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Windows Server 2012 Guest Customization
Hi All, Has anyone managed to get guest customization of Windows Server 2012 working? From what I can tell it doesn't work at all. I am running the latest version of everything (vCenter 5.1, ESXi...
View ArticleFull control/permissions ONLY to VMs created?
Hi All, I am trying to create a custom VCenter role that allows a user to have full control of a virtual machine (shutdown, clone, delete, turn on, snapshot, etc...) to the VMs the user created...
View ArticleVLAN across hosts
Hi all, I've been tasked with introducing a test environment within our virtual infrastructure. This test environment will eventually have more than 1 ESXi5 host.Currently, we have 1 data center with 2...
View ArticlevSphere Web Client on OSX no mouse pointer issue
I have upgraded vCenter server to 5.5.0a which makes available client integration tools for OSX, which means that virtual consoles through vSphere web client are supposed to be supported on Mac. In...
View ArticleProperly decommissioning a VMware Data Recovery appliance?
I'm trying to decommission an old VDR 1.2 appliance, and rather than just powering it down and deleting from disk, I was wondering if there's a best practice for this. Since it's so old I'm not having...
View ArticleWeb Client operations very unreliable? Many tasks seem to stall or never start.
This past Friday I upgraded our 5.1 VMSA to the latest 5.5 using the standard process (deploy OVF, exchange keys, etc). Everything seemed fine aside from a timeout issue on login that I resolved...
View ArticleScheduled Tasks One Hour Off After Change to DST
We are on vCenter Server 5.1.0 Build 1064983. Since the change to Daylight Savings Time, our scheduled tasks are running 1 hour late. We're in the Eastern Time Zone, so we went from GMT -5 to GMT -4,...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 Evaluation Licenses Expires before the 60 day Eval period
I recently downloaded the vSphere ESXi 5.5 evaluation ISO the vSphere Client .exe file and the vCenter Server 5.5.0b and modules ISO. I was able to install the ESXi on my HP Proliant DL360 G5 host...
View ArticleAdding USB controller freezes Host
Hi community,I run in a problem when adding an usb-controller to an w2k8 host (other hosts work fine, even with an usb-controller added). When adding the usb-controller, the host freezes and finally...
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