Clean Stale Lun entry from ESX4.1 host
Hi, We are observing issue in our client production environment, where the Lun has been removed from storage entry. Still ESX 4.1 trying to get the path for that lun. I have checked target, as well...
View Articleovftool 3.5.0 Redhat 5.10 support
Hello, even though the 3.5.0 readme file says that ovftool support Redhat 5.x it needs some newer libraries that are not provided with Redhat 5.1. The tool needs GLIBCXX_3.4.9 and GLIBCXX_3.4.11 while...
View ArticleHelp locating SSO database(5.1)
Hi guys, I have (2)VMWare environments. Both are 5.1u1. One of the vCenter servers has a SQL 2008 database on it named RSA and I figured out that is the SSO database for that environment. On the...
View ArticleVMWare View 105 - Broker Small Memory
With reference to View Connection Server 5.3, and the event log entry 105 advising the broker has been detected as having been configured with too small amount of physical memory. I was under the...
View ArticleMigrating to a new vCenter Server and bringing the vDS intact?
Hi. We need to abandon the old (physical) vCenter Server and move everything to a new (virtual) one. It's currently on 5.0, but will be upgraded to 5.1 before the migration. The problem is that all VMs...
View ArticleVCSA 5.5 U1 very slow?
I updates a ESXi server to 5.5 U1 yesterday and also updated the VCSA to 5.5 U1. Since then, when connected to the VCSA using the Vsphere Client, browsing any object is very slow. CPU usage for the...
View ArticleSSL Certificate Automation Tool 5.5 can do with some improvments
Hi, The SSL Certificate Automation Tool 5.5 is a real improvement for replacing certificates for vcenter. I use it in combination with Derek Seaman toolkit to update all certificates including the...
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No SSH for 5.5 vCenter Appliance
Anyone else have trouble accessing a vcenter appliance via SSH? (Administrator SSH login enabled: yes) I get the following error when I try, even after rebooting the appliance a few times. Been...
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quiescing the guest file system creating two snapshot files
Why would or should quiescing the guest file system create two snapshot files. In our environment we have the following vmdks. Syntest.vmdkSyntest_1.vmdkSyntest_2.vmdkSyntest_3.vmdkSyntest_4.vmdk When...
View ArticlevCenter Syslog Support
Hi We have a v5.5. vCenter, vSphere, vCloud Director system. vCenter is on Windows 2008 R2. We trialled the VMware Log Insight and felt that the log filtering value was not worth the price being...
View ArticleVM Specific vCenter Role and Permission
How to give role and permission to user for a specific virtual machine? If I assign Virtual machine Role to user he can play with all VMs; what if I want to give him rights for single virtual machine?
View ArticleQuestion about Expandable Reservation??
Hi, I have created the Resource pool in my Environment and set the VM Reservation value as 1024MB with Expandable Reservation option. Also Set 512MB Reservation for VM1 and VM2 respectively and moved...
View ArticleWhat keeps turning off SSH on my hosts?
So inherited an environment running 5.1 (vCenter and ESXi) I have one cluster that is I enable SSH from the security profile, it gets turned back off within a few minutes. This does not happen with new...
View ArticleSeparate SSO servers for small environments?
We have (2)different VMWare 5.1 environments for security reasons. We have (1)vCenter server with 6 hosts and 100 VMs and another vCenter server with 20 hosts and 500 VMs. The only reason we have...
View ArticleReplacing the VCENER VM with Physical VCENTER
Hi a Customer requested VCENTER to be installed on a VM due to budget limitations he had before but now want to have a physical Server to replace the VM the thing is it has multiple of applications and...
View ArticleUpdating rules of table vpx_guest_disk in vCenter database ?
Hello everybody, Does anybody know how is refreshed the table VPX_GUEST_DISK in vCenter database ??? My interrogation starts from the reflection that vpx_guest_disk contains 4 interesting columns :...
View ArticleESXi host shows "not responding" in vSphere web console after 60-90 seconds...
I'm not sure where to go next with this, hoping someone can offer advice... This is a fresh install of vCenter 5.5 and an existing ESXi 5.5 server. I see my ESXi host and all details in the web...
View ArticleWeb Client poor performance in RDP
I'm not sure is much people like my case, we P2V over 70% - 80% of our physical boxes in past few years, most of technicians coming from remote site to support VMs.People usually uses RDP login Web...
View ArticlePerformance Charts Display Issue
Hello, I have an Issue with the Performance Charts output for VMs. If I take a look on CPU performance for a week I see broken graphs. Please see the attached image.Do you know whats the root cause for...
View ArticleWhere can I enable copy/paste on a cloned VM in vCenter LabManager 4.0
Where can I enable copy/paste on a cloned VM in vCenter LabManager 4.0? Even using the console, I cannot copy-paste from an external environment to the VM. I would like to be able to copy/paste files...
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