vSphere Profile-Driven Storage Service - Question about Restarting it
Hello,I would like to know if anyone has restarted that vSphere Profile-Driven Storage Service and not effected vCenter and/or production services.I currently do not use VM Storage Profiles, which is...
View ArticlevSphere Web Client Fails
I'm not sure of the correct forum for this question. I'm trying to connect from my workstation to the Web Client for a vCenter 5.1.0 Server. All I get is "This page can't be displayed" or a close...
View ArticleVM connection failed
Hi,We have a vSphere 5.5 environment, Two VMs from 30 VMs have a rare problem, At morning when the user wants to connect to it throw Remote Desktop it sees an error like there was no network...
View ArticleESX 4.x to ESX 5.x migration
Hi, one of my client is using esx4.1 with old hardware. Client is planning to buy latest server and want to install fresh 5.x. Without downtime , he wants to move all the 4.1 vm to ESX 5.1 hardware. If...
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vCenter Guest has changes Host Guest does not
I know it sounds weird, let me explain.Client had a power outage. They powered on the Host afterward, I got on a users computer, downloaded and installed vSphere on the users machine, logged into the...
View ArticleCloud setting from Web interface changes Sockets not cores, how to change it?
I've got cloud vm's that need many CPU's, so I go add some for a total of 4, only 2 show up in task manager on client, so I go look at the vm settings and notice the vm has 4 sockets with one core...
View ArticleVMWare virtualcenter server service wont start
Hi Gurus I have the following problem, my vcenter was upgraded to 5.1 but once the server was rebooted the following service did not start and I cant get them to start. VmWare Virtualcenter...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 upgrade to 5.5 U1
Quick question.. 2 x 5.5 vCenters, not using Linked mode... SSO at secondary vCenter was installed using the 2nd option when the SSO was initially installed... so it will get updates from the primary...
View ArticleVcenter 5.1 to 5.5 on new machine
I have a physical vcenter 5.1 which i am looking to upgrade as well as vitalized. the existing server is 2008 R2 and looking to go to 2012 r2 in the process. I see there are a couple paths to take and...
View ArticleHost permissions - conflicting group permissions.
I'm trying to create 2 groups that have different access to 3 hosts, but folks in group B are also in group A. group A permissions then override and do not allow access. Here's the set up...
View ArticleCannot see Hardware Status of Host ESXi 5.5 anymore in Web client 5.5.
Hello, I can no longer see the Hardware Status of the Host ESXi 5.5 using the web client. I can however see it under Health status using a direct connection to the host using vSphere client.If I...
View ArticleVCenter start fails after demoting Domain Controller
Hi. Instead of hijacking other one's thread having the same problem I decided to start a new thread, so sorry for double posting. After promoting a new DC and demoting the old one we have the problem...
View ArticleHost memory usage , when host is not in over committment state
Hi, My ESX host has 256 GB physical ram, I have 17 vm running in it. Total allocated memory to vms :176 GB. When I generate a performance chart for host memory usage (1 month), the percentage is coming...
View ArticleOptions grayed out in Webclient
I built a vcenter in develpoment added two hosts with no shared storage and I was able to use enhanced vomotion. I provided the instructions to Operations andverified everything is correct. However a...
View ArticleRe-adding templates to vCenter inventoru after vCenter reinstallation
Hello All, I have reinstallaed vCenter Server. Before reinstallation, there were a few VMs marked as template but now after adding the host, they are not listed in the inventory under the host, However...
View ArticleShorten wait time before powering on host (Distributed Power Management)
Hi I have a dev and test setup running 3 hosts with ESXi 5.5 and a vCenter appliance. On the cluster there is no HA active, but we do use DPM to power on/off our hosts. However the business is not...
View ArticleUpgrading existing vcenter4.1U2 to 5.5U1, from Windows 2008 R2 to 2012 R2,...
Hi all, **********************************************************************************Test Environment 2x ESX4.1U21x VM running vcenter 4.1U2 (Windows 2008 R2)1x VM running vcenter VCDB on SQL 2008...
View ArticleVMware Tools Status "Out of Date"
Dear Team, In vcenter server inventory list, VM Tools status is displayed as "Out of date", just want to know what does it mean (vmware tools functions will work or not), regardsMr VMware
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move Vcenter to another SAN
Hello All, We have built another VMware environment with a SAN and 4 host. It's an iSCSI SAN. The old infrastructure has also 4 hosts with a iSCSI SAN. The iSCSI SANs don't see each other. To move VMs...
View ArticleVmware LAB issues
Hii Guys, I have a W7 on my Pc and I installed Vmware Workstation and I create 3 virtual machine ( W8/WindowsServer 2012/Ubuntu). On WS2012 I have AD/DHCP/DNS. I can not add the Windows8 /Ubuntu to...
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