Can't start VMWare VirtualCenter service
Hi All, Having issue when trying to start the above service. I get the following error message when attempting to: Windows could not start the VMWare VirtualCenter Server on local computer. Error...
View ArticleDocumentation for a vCenter being offline for 14 days
Looking for the effect on licensing, etc. for a vCenter that is offline for 14+ days. Have read some information on the web but have not found documentation from VMware. Thanks for any help.
View ArticlePerformance Statistics Rollup From Past Day to Past Week is Not Occurring in...
I am running the version of VCSA 5.5.0.10100 Build 1750781 and I am getting a warning in my vCenter Service Health saying: performance statistics rollup from past day to past week is not occurring in...
View Articlecannot add any host to vcenter
general system error occured failed to start vpxa cannot contact vcenter web client esxi host "how to fix please help" using all 5.5 versions
View ArticleDatastore DRS groups within a Datastore cluster
Hi All, So in the Hosts and Clusters view I can specify and define 'Hosts DRS Groups' within a Cluster say host1, host2 form that group 1. From here I can define a vSphere DRS rule that says vm1, vm2...
View ArticleFailed to migrate vm's from ESXi 5.0 host to 5.5 host .
Hi, I have upgraded vcenter/ vsphere from 5.0 to 5.5.With vcenter upgrade i have no problems, everything went smooth. The problem is in the hosts. I have upgraded 3 hosts from 5.0 to 5.5 without...
View ArticleSolution for vm vCenter w/ HW v 10?
Our vCenter (5.5U1) is a vm and is hardware version 10. To edit settings on it you must use the web client. Let's say we want to take the vcenter vm down for maintenance. Typically, you would login to...
View ArticlevSphere Web Client UI change request
I have been using the *new* web client for 6 months now... not exactly thrilled by it, compared to the older windows client; however, I can find my way around it finally. Some things I would like to...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 SSL Settings Verify
I'm deploying a test environment with (3) ESXi 5.5 hosts and using vCenter 5.5 Update1C. I'm currently using the default self signed certs on all systems, however, I can not manually verify the SSL...
View ArticleHow to deploy 2nd vCenter server within one domain
I am trying to deploy a second vCenter Server within one domain.The problem I have now is when I was installing the SSO component, how should I choose for the SSO deployment mode? 1. vCenter SSO for...
View ArticleWebclient is inaccessible with IP address and outside vCenter
Hi all, Hope you are having gr8 day. We have recently upgraded from vSphere 5.0 to 5.5. After upgrade everything is working find except Webclient. It is not accessible through the URL:...
View ArticleConfused about certificates (use of bought certificates)
Hi, I'm a little confused about changing the vCenter certificates. One customer of mine has bought to a CA a SSL certificate for his domain. The sent him a .cer file. The certificate says that was...
View ArticleVMFS Datastores showing inactive for some of ESXi hosts(ESXi 5.5.0...
The datastore status is Mounted for some ESXi hosts but for other ESXi hosts the status is Mounted (but greyed out). I took putty session and found that partition table is fine and on executing "~ #...
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what makes vCenter Web Client installation fail ?
I'm deploying a new View environment. The error message popped up in the way as follow snapshot. I've searched all day for this issue, but still not even a clue to fix it.anybody could help me out?...
View ArticleRe-assigning datastores to host
Hello all, I recently migrated one of our Hosts from one Datacenter/Cluster to another within vCenter. My issue is all the Datastores that were assigned to the Host in the original Datacenter/Cluster...
View Articlevmx file using absolute paths for scsi.fileName
Hi There I've noticed in some virtual machines .vmx files that the value for the attribute scsi0:0.fileName is using a full absolute path where in other cases it's just uses the name (see below)....
View ArticleConversion Question?
Convert a legacy Sun Box (SUN Fire Server V440) with Solaris 5.10 to VM. Is it possible anyone who tried this conversion?
View Articleget-scsilunpath issue
I'm not sure, but this might be a VMware bug. Running get-vmhost | get-scsilun | get-scsilunpath from PowerCLI returns errors such as "Variable Cannot be null". I successfully ran the command on...
View ArticleHaving Doubt in Assigning CPU socket and cores.
Hi All, Recently i seen a windows server 2008 R2 machine in my environment with having 4 socket with 4 core each (Means 16 Cpu).I can also see them in device manager of windows host. Now i am confused...
View ArticleThe server fault 'Invalid Argument' had no mesage
After cloning a VM I get a message saying that "The server fault 'Invalid Argument' had no mesage".The cloned VM looks to work fine.No upgrade happend on the vCenter (5.0.0) or on the ESXi (5.0.0)...
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