Backup a production vCenter 5.5 to restore in a lab?
I am looking for help to backup a production vCenter 5.5 and restore in a lab. Is there any documentation pertaining to this process. Has anybody here done this before? I'd appreciate it very much if...
View ArticleHorizon View Client - Connection Error
Hi AllI am hoping there is someone out there can can help me...I have a working VMware Horizon View environment set up and working. The issue i am having is allowing access to the agent via the...
View ArticleLost connection to ESXi 5.1 host
I was doing some testing on one of our hosts in preparation for moving from Essentials to Essentials plus when I noticed that most of the vmnic's were only reporting 100MB Full Duplex connection...
View ArticlevCenter Guest OS Compatibility
Dear team, Want to do a fresh install of vcenter5.5 U1 , but before that how to check which Guest OS is supported for vc5.5U1 Need ur asisstance on the same. regardsMr VMware
View ArticlePermissions Issue
I'm having a permissions issue with a couple of my vCenter systems. First, this is how I got here. We are running a Windows domain. Our domain controllers were Windows 2003. A couple of weeks ago...
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SDRS moves to same datastore
Greetings, We're running v5.5u1 esxi and vcenter appliance with SDRS clusters setup using only space thresholds at this time. We do not restrict our VM's to placing disks on same datastore thus and...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 Client Integration plug-in not working under IE and Chrome
Has anyone encountered a problem where the Client Integration Plug-in doesn't work even though it has been installed? I have upgraded vCenter to 5.5 (from 5.0) and I am seeing the same problem across...
View Articlehow to redirect vdp server /space
My VDP server : /dev/sda2 always display:no space, I need to cleanup it manually. please following error: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 7.9G 7.9G 0...
View ArticleLooking for tool to document physical, virtual and logical infrastructure
Hi.I need to produce a document describing my organizations infrastructure; physical and Virtual switches, physical and Virtual storage, physical and virtual servers, WAN links, VLAN and such. I think...
View Articleshutdown the guest OS and host by SDK perl script
Hi all:I want to shutdown the host and all the VMs on the pointed host in the vcenter though the perl script(as attachment): shutdownESXi_vcenter.pl --server vcenter_IP --username vcenter_username...
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Unable to convert a Red Hat Entreprise 5.8
Hi all, I'm trying to convert a virtual Red Hat Entreprise 5.8 from a Xenserver to a vCenter Server 5 Essentials but I have an error. I use a vCenter Converter Standalone version 5.52. I have an error...
View Articlevcenter licence
HiCan u pls help me understand what dose mean the assigend tab and instance numerb in vcenter licensing.Thx
View ArticleHow to export vCenter 4.1 performance chart settings
Hi everyone, I am looking for a way to export my custom performance chart settings from one computer to import on another computer. Both computers are connecting to the same vCenter server through the...
View ArticleUpdate vCenter Appliance 5.5 to Update1c
I have a vCenter appliance 5.5 in a Lab, so not a real production system.In attempting to update from 5.5.0 build 1312298 to 5.5.0 Update 1c we were having issues with Internet connectivity, so it was...
View ArticlevSphere Client Login Query
I have just setup a new environment and everything is working great, I've added active directory to vsphere via the web client, I noticed something on our current system which I am unsure how you...
View ArticleVsphere Client Server DNS Login Query
I'm in the process of setting up a new system, rather than using the long computer name to connect into vCenter, is it possible to create a DNS entry to point this to the word "Sandpit", so when...
View ArticleBest Practice for Microsoft Clustered setup in Vsphere 5.5
This is the first time I have set this up and I have a question for best practice for configuration of Cluster Heart beat Network The setup is for Microsoft Clustered Services on Windows 2012 for SQL,...
View ArticleTemplate migration from one datastore to another
Hi all, I am in the process of moving virtual infrastructure from one physical site to another. The sites have a direct connection to each other. My current task is to move our template repository...
View ArticleMoving large VM to new datastores
Read some of the other discussions on this topic .... I have a slight twist... can someone offer guidelines\options on the best way to relocate a very large VMfrom a NetApp array to a EMC VNX array....
View ArticleNo ctrl character passthrough in the Web Client
OK, ran into another web client problem this morning. Ctrl-C isn't being passed through to the VM when using the web client's console application. Tried Ctrl-C, Ctrl-Z, and Ctrl-D (to invoke the...
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