Top 10 most useful things to use in vCops 5.7 and above?
What are the top 10 most useful things you can do in vCenter Operations Manager.
View Articleonly one nic on esxi
i found only one nic on esx and when i fail to add another one like this image any one can help me to add another nic
View ArticleStorage VMotion stuck at 86% for 48 hours.
Hello, I tried to move on of the VMs vmdks from one Data store to another Data store, the task started 2 days a go and it is stuck on 86%, Both data stors are FC LUNS. I canceled the task but is still...
View ArticleDatastore 'datastore1' conflicts with an existing datastore in the datacenter...
Hi,I'm new to vCenter Server, so you can assume that I'm missing something obvious. I've installed vCenter Server 5.5, and connected one of two ESXi baremetal 5.0.0 hosts successfully. When I attempt...
View ArticlevCenter Single Sign On user local account from cmd
Hello, Is it possible add a vcenter local user from command line (powercli, cmd, ,,,)? I know only adding it from vSphere Web Client. Thanks.
View Articlevcenter gateway
I have vcenter installed at a main hub location. There are hosts at the main location and a remote colocation. There is a site vpn between the main location and remote. When i try to access vcenter...
View Articlecannot enable scsi disk device
I am in windows Device Manager and I see I have three disk drives, which it should, the first being a Citrix Virtual Hard Disk, the second being a VMware Virtual Disk SCSI Disk Device, and a third...
View ArticleDuda sobre EVC
Buen día a todos. Estoy configurando un cluster con dos servidores ESXi 5.5.0 U1 y vCenter 5.5. u1c El problema es que los servidores tienen procesadores distintos, uno es un AMD Opteron 6344 y el otro...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5U1 -> U2 & vSphere (C#) client issues
Hi! I upgraded my two vCenter servers from 5.5U1 to U2 yesterday. The update process worked without any issues, but now the vSphere Client (C#) only shows "Loading" if I click on an object, or just...
View ArticleConfiguring Virtual Flash Host Swap Cache
hello i have ssd card in my esxi 5.5, i have to configure Virtual Flash Host Swap Cache, how much gb do i have to use ?in there a minimum ? thank you for your answer
View ArticleAny news on when VMware will kill the pig... er web client?
Many of us have lamented this piece of trash the day we started using it. Just today I had a session open to my prod VI and one to my dev VI. Just those two sessions of Adobe Flash consumed 1G of...
View ArticlevCenter Server Essentials
I'm confused on what the "Essentials Kit" licensing gives me for vCenter Server. Does it allow me to run vCenter Server (single sign on, web client, server) on a dedicated physical server outside of...
View ArticleAMD Opteron 6282 SE and NUMA
Hello, Here's my question, and I will get into discussion after: How many NUMA nodes are on the Opteron 6282 SE, and how many Cores per node? We're trying to fine tune some small performance problems...
View ArticleError Upgrading to 5.5U2
Trying to upgrade to 5.5U2 form 5.5U1 and having several issues. First, when I click on the web client install button I receive "file not found.. E:\\vSphere-WebClient\Vmware-WebClient.exe" Second,...
View Articlea few virtual machine unable to backup .
I deployed two VDP server, and one server always can't work normal. so I deleted it. and Redeploy it .but now I have a trouble that I backup virtual machines , when I backup virtual machine, it always...
View ArticleMigrating vCenter to a new domain
Hi, Wondering if anyone has any tips or advice with regards to migrating vcenter server to a new domain, either using the ADMT tools, or simply drop off one domain and re-add. It is running 5.5 with...
View ArticleLowest permissions to allow file/folder moves between datastores?
Hi I am trying to set up granular rights to allow a systems administrator to manage the VM's and datastores that he is responsible for.I created him a resource pool under our production cluster which...
View ArticleAn error occurred while saving the snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual...
Hi Guys, We appear to be having some issues with a couple of our machines snapping shotting with netapp, has anyone encountered issues like this: 1371505107 [backup2 f516705a1f60190a25bb2b0d3fa6cb81]...
View ArticleAlarm is triggered only once even if there are multiple instances of event
I created an alarm to trigger when host enters maintenance mode. It gets triggered first time if I change the host to enter maintenance mode. If I repeat the same second time (changing back to exit...
View ArticleScript to add DSN in order to autodeploy vCenter
Does someone know a script or command (from powershell, command line, ..) to add a System DSN in order to autodeploy vCenter?
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