VLAN Setup
Hello guys,I'm struggling my head to correct understand vlan setup on esx host and physical switch.Please could you help me to understand the things and correlate them?I would like to configure some...
View ArticleVcenter 5.1 without Active Directory?
Hi all, I have a quick question. All installations I did over the time were done with active directory on a domain environment.Now I need a quick vsphere infrastructure on a small network with do...
View ArticlevCenter installation with Single Sign On - local users only
Hi, Has anyone installed a Single Sign On server on a new vCenter server, specifying the local users on the vCenter only (no AD, LDAP, etc.)? If so, how did you specify that choice during the...
View ArticleHow to copy a whole folder to a Datastore?
Hi, I am using the new Web Client to access my vCenter Server. I see a way to upload an individual file to a datastore, but not a whole folder. With the traditional (C#?) client when you click on...
View ArticleUSB drive not connecting to VM in vSphere 5.1
I am running vCenter 5.1 build 799733. I created a Windows 2008 Server R2 VM. When I plug in a thumb drive (sandisk) into my desktop PC and then go to the VM and click on the icon to connect USB...
View ArticleVCenter Can't start after My Host restart
Dear:I Use Esxi5.1I instal vsa Manager OK and run.BUT, I shutdown 2 Host ,retart the host that contain Vcenter.But the VMware VirualCenter Server can start（in service ,it set as delay start）.. I...
View ArticleVMware Products Multiple Vulnerabilities (20130222) - vCenter 5.1
I am looking for patches for vCenter 5.0 VMware Products Multiple Vulnerabilities (20130222) - vCenter 5.1 and cannot find them. HELP!
View ArticleNeed ESXi Scripting help
HI Guys, I am preparing for VCAP-DCD, I just need your help here. I would like to have some scripts which can Break some thing in the environment,.To be more specific i need scripts which can take ESX...
View ArticleAdding new evaluate license - Invalid license key: license file not found
Hello folks, I've been using an old version ov vSphere vCenter. I've now upgraded it an want to add my new evaluate license key, since the old one is out of date. When I try to do this by going to...
View Articlepowershell command to take remote session and execute .bat file``
I'm automating Vcenter 5.1 on specified host.For that i need to invoke .bat file on command prompt of destination host.so how can i take session of destination windows VM and execute batch file on cmd...
View ArticlevCenter without SSO ..
Hi Guys, I wanna implement vCenter 5.1 .. But .. I don't want to install SSO neither on vcenter server or another separat server..I don't want to install SSO at all ... Is that possible ?if it's...
View Articleverify NIC teaming config
Hi, I have ESXi 5.1 server (free edition) with 8 NIC's in which 4 nic's will be used for LAN traffic and other 4 nic's will be used for iSCSI traffic. I also use an iscsi storage box were my datastore...
View ArticleHosts briefly disconnecting from vCenter
I have an issue where several hosts will briefly disconnect from vCenter (5.1), causing it to throw a host connection state alarm, but the hosts re-connect just as fast. This has been happening for a...
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Server Migration Issues
Afternoon all.... I hope someone can help me out. Background:We have a 3 host vSphere setup with the hosts running ESXi 4.1. There is a dedicated SAN for the setup. These sit in one cluster. I have...
View Articleproblem in permissions
Hi,I installed and configured vCenter 5.1.0b with 2 Hosts (Host1 and Host2 both are ESXi 5.1). They are working fine. vCenter joined the TestDomain.local.I added permission for a Domain User called...
View ArticleLöschen einer virtuellen VCenter Server Maschine
Hallo, wir setzen einen VCenter Server ESX4 ein welcher virtuell läuft. Zusätzlich sind drei ESX4 mit jeweils einem virtuellen Server installiert Das VCenter ist fertig konfiguriert und die ESX sind...
View ArticleUpdate VUM host
Hello I have following situation:I am using Vmware Essential with 3 vmware 5.1 hosts. On one of these hosts I have installed the vCenter and the Update Manager. I don’t have any shared storage and no...
View ArticlevSphere Web Client: Identity Source ADS failed
Hello, I having problems with identity source of Active Directory type. I don't know why, but after delete the first identity source ADS create during the installation of vCenter 5.1 SSO, when I try...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1 VCDB performance tuning...max degree of parallelism
Hi All, In the document "VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.1 Database Performance Improvements and Best Practices for Large-Scale Environments" located here...
View ArticlevCenter 5 SQL Server Express access
I need to back up the SQL Server Express DB on a vCenter 5.0 server as we're moving it to a new VM and SQL Server full as we're going to blow the limits. I can't get the data migration tool working so...
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