How to set up Advanced Conditions in vcenter alarmsI(Vsphere HA failover in...
looking at this alarm, 'vSphere HA failover in progress', i see that there are advanced settings in the condition. What exactly do we enter in the conditions to get this alarm to work?i just want to...
View ArticlevCenter server upgrade with View Composer on the same machine
Are there any tricks or things I should be aware of with this? I will be moving from vCenter 5.0.1 to 5.5 and the View Composer is 5.0.
View ArticleCannot take snapshot - causing RedHat guest to hang
Hi, I have a RedHat 6.6 VM and whenever I try to take a snapshot (Manually or from a backup, in this case Symantec BackupExec 2014), the vm becomes unresponsive and eventually crashes the webserver...
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 Web Client and "Use the Customization Wizard to temporarily adjust...
Has anyone else noticed that the option to "Use the Customization Wizard to temporarily adjust the specification before deployment" that exists in the C# client when deploying a machine from a template...
View ArticlevCenter 5 install : Could not connect to DB with specified JDBC URL
I am trying to get vCenter 5 installed on Windows 2008 R2 severSql express 2008 R2 installedWhen I try to connect to install it I receive:Could not connect to database with specified JDBC URL I also...
View ArticleI can ssh to vCenter server (VCSA 5.5) using putty, but not my normal ssh...
I was working with support to be able to ssh to the our vCenter 5.5 VCSA. No matter what account we were trying to reach, we would immediately get a popup saying: "Server responded: Algorithm...
View ArticleHigh memory usage on server - java.exe and tomcat.exe
Hello I have vCenter Server, vSphere Client, vSphere update manager, and vSphere web client installed on my server. I see that there are 3 java.exe processes taking up 2.3GB (all together), and...
View ArticleSSO Issue - gss_acquire_cred failed?
Just had to stand up a fresh VCSA - 5.1 U2. SSO has been configured to use secure LDAP and works fine in that I can login via the web client or with VI Client using DOMAIN\Username or Username with my...
View ArticleInteroperability ESXi and vCenter Server
Dear, You can use the vCenter 5.0 or 5.1 with ESXi 5.5?
View ArticleUnable to manage VM'S from Vcenter server
Hello, Please I am unable to manage virtual machines from my virtual center server.Each time I try to carry out a task for example like selecting Edit Settings on the VM,I get the error message below...
View ArticleSSO fails to start after upgrading to vCenter 5.1 Update 2
After trying to update the vCenter server from V5.1 U1 to U2 the SSO service fails to start. The following information is registered in the event log with event id 7031:The vCenter Single Sign On...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 says windows 2012R2 guest has VMtools out of date
I have a rather unusual situation. I just installed a Windows 2012R2 guest VM on my ESXi5.5 host in vCenter5.5. vCenter says the following: VMtools is out of date on this VM BUT, when I try to...
View ArticleMoving vCenter 5.5 Appliance to New Cluster
We are moving from older servers to newer servers and I have built the new cluster using the same vCenter. The storage is different and the old cluster does not have access to it so I am shutting down...
View Articlehow to force VMRC in vCenter web client 5.5 Update 2b
Hello, I'm more than happy to see VMRC being usable with the Web client. I would like to set it as the default console for our VMs. with right click "launch console", etc... is it possible? is it also...
View ArticleMigrate hosts to new vCenter without maintenance mode (vCenter 5.0 to 5.5)
Greetings,I would like to move some ESXi 5.0 hosts that are in a cluster on vCenter 5.0 to a new 5.5 vCenter without powering down the guests. Is this possible? I've read a lot about requiring...
View ArticleCannot Start vCenter Server Appliance - "Waiting for vpxd to initialize:...
I am stumped. At first, I was able to at least login to vsphere and do operations. The client would close like every 15 minutes so it got really annoying. Now I am stuck with no launch to vsphere. I...
View ArticlevCenter SDK install for XenDesktop 7.5 provisioning services
Hi everyone.. Just wondering if somebody can help me.. We are trying to get the XenDesktop 7.5 installed in our environment and link it with our vCenter 5.5 server.. This requires installing the SDK I...
View ArticlevCenter Installation failure
first time we have install vCenter 5 app on virtualized windows 2008 machine successfully.because of some data migration we have removed, when we are trying to install next time unable to install....
View ArticleWhich option I need to Select Standalone SYSLOG Collector or intergrate with VC
Dear Team, we have already installed VC /SSO /SQL / Inventory service, running fine from last 18Months. Now we are planning to install Vmware SYSLOG collector feature , while installing it give two...
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