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Host Profiles playing up in vSphere 5
Hi all, Ive recently upgraded about 200 hosts to ESXi 5 from ESX 4.1 and 2 vcenters 5 also.Ive noticed a problem with host profiles when it comes to storage, and wanted to see if anyone else has come...
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Need Help..problem booting up VM in HA cluster..
Hi Experts. We landed up in a strange bizarre scenario. Few of our VM complain to power-up in an HA clusterQuick lookup for vmware KB pointed me to...
View ArticleConverter 5.1 - Unable to detect disks or volumes on the source machine. Make...
Hi, I'm trying to convert a RHEL 6.4 virtual machine on KVM, pretending this is a physical system during conversion.After a while the conversion stops with the message "Unable to detect disks or...
View ArticleAlarm repeatedly triggered
Hi I am doing this on vCenter 5.1 U1. I have modified the default lost network connectivity/redundancy alarms to send me an email repeatedly (15 min) when status goes from yellow to red.I also...
View ArticleInventory Service registration with SSO fails after certificate exchange
Hi, I''ve installed vCenter 5.1 Update 1 on a fresh Windows Server 2008 R2. For this I've followed the description to replace the self-signed certificates by CA-signed ones (see...
View ArticleVcenter SQL Server Backup
Hi,I am trying to backup db on Vcenter using my domain admin id which is also in local admins on Vcenter server but its giving me access deniced error , Even i cant not access VC DB from Management...
View ArticlevCenter Performance charts
Hello,i've recently migrate my vcenter db from mysql express to mysql standard on a dedicated vm. Now part of my graphs are "corrupted". for example i can't see nothing in Performance - Advanced - CPU...
View ArticlevCenter System Change SSO
I was just curious if anyone knew if the bug identified in this kb VMware KB: After making a change or restarting Single Sign On server system, vCenter Server 5.1.x fails to start has a clever work...
View ArticleProblems installing vcenter 5.1.0A
Hi, I'm currently trying to install a new installation of vCenter 5.1.0A into a test environment before updating the live environment, I have successfully installed 5.1 before, so I can hopefully be...
View ArticleCPU Architecture Requirements for vCSrv5
Hi all We currently have vMware4(ESX) with 3 Windows vms on a Dell T410. (2 x Xeon® E5520 2.26 GHz Quad Core Processor) We have ESXi5 on two new Dell R420. (2 x Xeon® E52430 2.20 GHz Six Core...
View ArticleAccount permissions changed?
This morning we noticed that all of the administrative accounts within Vcenter can no longer do anything. A single user account can get in and manage the servers but can not modify the other admin...
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vCentre installation stuck during orchestrator set up on 2008 R2
Hi there, I'm having problems with vCentre 4.1 update 1 on a 2008 R2 VM. I always get stuck on the orchestrator part of the setup, the machine gets stupdly slow and nothing happens for hours... I left...
View ArticleHow to Check Time on Vcenter Appliance?
Simple question: how do I check what the time is on my Vcenter Server Appliance? I am running 5.1 Update 1a.
View ArticlevSpehre Web Client - IE page won't load. Starts up blank (white page)
Question about vSpehre Web Client.I have just finished installing a new vCenter server and everything is working just fine except the Web Client when accessed from the local server via...
View ArticlevSphere Licensing, ESX admins
In vSphere 5 licensingwe see 8 way, 32 way CPU model for virtual environment. What is this represents? How the ESX admins group exists? If doesn’t exist then are we allowed to create manually?What is...
View ArticleSSL Certificate Upgrade Gone Wrong
A bit ago I upgraded to vCenter 5.1 with two servers. The SSO and web client on one server and the vcenter service and the inventory service on the other. Had everything running great, no...
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vMotion disables even though it is licensed
Hi all I have a strange problem We are running vmware ESX 4.1 on two hosts (IBM blades) vMotion is licensed and I can enable it on the hosts but when I try to migrate a live server it tells me that...
View ArticleManually remove vSphere Client (ESXi 5.1) from a crashed vSphere Server 5...
Hi, I have some VM Hosts running ESXi 5.1. Their management server has crashed and is not recoverable. How do I go about removing the link the ESXi install has to its management server seeing as though...
View ArticleVCenter Migration - SSL Certificates
I am planning to move my VCenter 5.1a host following these steps. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=5850444 In step 14 it states: If...
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...
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