Changing IP address of an already deployed vcentre 5.5.
Hello there, I've deployed a new vcentre 5.5 installation on windows 2012 standard. I should start by saying that this is an automated install via microsofts MDT toolkit, although in the grand scheme...
View ArticlevSphere Replication within one site
I have been looking into vSphere Replication recently and I have been thinking of using it in a one site environment, meaning I only have 1 vCenter with just 2 hosts but I want to utilize vSphere...
View ArticleSQL 2014 Compatibility
I've consulted with the VMware interoperability matrix, however SQL 2014 isn't listed. Can anyone advise if SQL 2014 is support with vCenter 5.5?
View ArticleDisable IPv6 in vCenter?
We currently have vCenter 5.5.1 / vSphere 5.5.1 / ESXi 5.5.1 in our VMware environment and we notice in the vCenter (vCenter Server Appliance) two IP's:http://puu.sh/97TFg/5f85ac8075.png It appears...
View ArticlevCentre Alarm for disk space
Hi, I keep getting a alarm for one of my hosts HDD's reaching it's maximum capacity. However when i go the the VM itself it has only used 560GB of the 1TB HDD. It has been set to thick provision and...
View ArticleVms within vApp not getting IPs from IP Pool assigned to them
Hey there, I'm currently just getting my environment up and running. I'm using vCenter server 5.1.0. Basically, what I'm trying to do is create a vApp, put some VMs cloned from templates in it, and...
View ArticleUnable to login to vSphere Web client 5.5 - SSL verification error
Hi, The issue is in a testing environment:I changed the vCenter Windows 2012 R2 IP from 192.168.114.128 to 192.168.0.113.I changed all the vCenter configuration files to the new IP.However, I can't log...
View Articlevmware vCO complex data types
Hello, I am developing a workflow (made of more workflows) to create a vm and then provision it with "Chef". To provision the newly created vm, for instance with Apache, I'm adding as input parameters...
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Colud not Start VMx : msg.vmk.status.vmk_limit_exceeded.
Hi Techies, Need your urgent help. Today morning when i tried to booted some of the vms in my environment its fails with the below error. My environment is : vcenter 5.5 with Esxi host 5.5Also i tried...
View Articleuploadvmdk file and ofv tamplates with vmware c# api
Helloi triyng to create an automatic uploader to data store of vm tamplates can u point me out how to apload to vcenter with vmware api c#,i have heard that it can be done with httpweb.writ()Thx
View ArticlevSphere Web Client does not show a new host
Hi, I have been using ESXi from 4.1, 5.1 through the latest 5.5 for several years. Recently, I purchased the vCenter Server license, installed the vCenter Server Appliance, upgraded all ESXi hosts...
View ArticleHA
Hi all, I have 3servers and plan to install VMware vSphere Essential plus on it. On top of the 3servers, I need to Active directories(active active). For this to work, I need that when doing the...
View ArticleVsphere Essentials Question
We currently have 2 systems, both with enterprise licenses (test/live).These systems are both available in our vsphere client under 2 different datacenters, we have a license for essentials plus, and...
View ArticleHow to obtain the context object in a vSphere web client service
Hi, I'm writing a vSphere Web Client plugin and I need to obtain the context object in my service layer. How do I go about doing that? For instance, in my client if I navigate to vCenter A >...
View ArticleHow to generate an usage report by customer (hierarchy)?
Hi, I am very new to vCenter Chargeback (or vmware). I have recently been tasked to generate an usage report by customer for our Enterprise Managed Services division. I have to integrate this report to...
View ArticleReset vCenter Network Configuration
Hi, I'm wondering if there is a way to reset the vCenter network configuration without re-deploying the appliance? Recently I've been playing around in a lab with Distributed Switches and I managed to...
View ArticlevCenter Upgrade versions
Hi, We are running vCenter Server 5.1.0 and all of our ESXi are running the same versión. We want to start the upgrade to versión 5.5.0. Maybe it is nonsense but we do not know the difference between...
View ArticleSNMP Trap ALERT for newly created VM's
Hi all,I just looked at divisiond: Creating a vCenter alert for newly created VM's .and was wondering if it's possible to make VMWare VCenter sends a SNMP trap for a newly created VM. Tks in advance...
View ArticlePatching: I need help!
Where can I find the downloads for the latest ESXi Host updates/patches? I have Googled, searched, etc and I get everything except where I download them from the order that I need to do it in. Help?!
View ArticlevCenter Server 2008 R2 In-place Upgrade to Windows 2012R2
We currently have two vCenter servers which we are looking to upgrade from Windows 2008 R2 to Windows 2012 R2, has anyone successfully completed this on the forum?Our database is currently on a...
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