Replace SysLog and Dump Collector certificates with MS CA self-signed
Hi, I have successfully deployed VMware vCenter in my lab and replaced default certificates with self-signed SSL certificates with Microsoft CA. Except for the certificates for SysLog and Dump...
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VMware Certificate Toolkit: implement CA signed Certificates on vSphere video...
Hello community, I wanted to share with you a video tutorial on how to implement SSL certificates on vSphere 5.5 using VMware Certificate Toolkit, a tool that I develop to create certificate files...
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Replication errors after Migrating vCenter server to Windows 2012 R2 - which...
Since migrating our test environment to a new 2012 R2 server, we have been getting the below replication errors for ADAM (VMwareVCMSDS) in the event logs of the server: The attempt to establish a...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 U2 & Ms SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2?
Hi! Does anyone know if vCenter 5.5U2 & SRM 5.8 support Ms SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2. According to "VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes", Ms SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 & Ms SQL...
View ArticleUninstalling Link Mode
I currently need to remove linked mode from our Live environment which is linked to the test environment, will this cause me any issues to any of the current environments? VMware KB: Disabling Linked...
View ArticleHost hardware power status alarm fails to trip in vCenter Server 5.5
I have just installed a new 3 node cluster with vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 build 2001466. 2 ESXi nodes are 5.5 build 206810 and one is 5.5 build 1746018. The servers are Dell R620s. During...
View Articlevmotion across vCenters 6.0
I installed two Windows 2012 with two vcenter server 6.0 Beta and only one SSO. I'm testing vmotion of VMs across these two vcenters but an error...
View ArticleThick to Thin formating on the same datastore ??
hi allis it possible with vCenter to convert Thick to Thin disk format on the same datastore ?? and how ? thanks a lot
View ArticleCan I add new metrics to vcdb?
I want to add additional metrics to be stored in the vcdb. Is there a way I can add the new performance metric counters to the database and keep on updating via external scripts?
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cold migration, vmotion is slow
the cold migration (virtual machine switched of) and vmotion (virtual machine switch on) is slow, i read this article VMware KB: Cold storage migration of virtual machine data is slow with the log...
View ArticleMoving VMs from old vmware cluster 5.0 to a new one 5.5U2
Hello All, I have to move about hundred VMs from old cluster vmware 5.0 with vcenter 5.0 to a new cluster vmware 5.5 that will have vcenter 5.5 (the appliance).the new cluster will resides in the same...
View ArticleError in script execution PowerCLI change IOPS
Community'm wanting to run the script below, however when run got the following error in the output. Please could you help me? ######## SCRIPT ########## $hostesxi = Get-Content -Path...
View ArticleSituation related to vCenter in Linked mode
Situation related to vCenter in Linked mode. Few weeks back we upgraded the vCenter from 5.0 to 5.5 have 3 v Centers in linked mode like A, B & C now the issue is When i am logging from A and B i...
View ArticleDistributed Switch Migration
I am planning a migration away from the Nexus 1k and am trying to do this with zero downtime. I found a blog post that discussed switch migration and built a project plan around this, but wanted to...
View Articlecommand to view application installed into ESXI
i would like to know what all application installed on esxi also I want to install one monitoring agent application into it. Pls let me know the command to view them and install application
View ArticleHow to integrate windows AD user to already installed Vcenter server
I have installed and configured the Vcenter 5.1 and presently am using local administrator account to login vcenter server. But now i want to integrate my existing AD account to this vcenter login for...
View ArticleVCSA 5.5 vpxd fails to initialize
Hello, has anyone solved the issue of vpxd not initialized and in vpxd.log there is entry of Failed to add LDAP entry? 2014-09-26T15:54:54.679Z [7FB4CD0CF740 error 'linuxvpxLdap_linux'] [LDAP Client]...
View ArticleRemoving Snapshots
Question on snapshots.... We powered off a group of W2K8 guests and took snapshots. A few days later our developers asked us to put the guests back to the point in time when the snapshotswere taken....
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 Linked Mode Group
Hi, I have two vCenter servers at different locations. - Primary site was installed first. - Secondary site SSO was linked in a multi site SSO configuration pointing back to the primary SSO....
View ArticleHow to Fix BASH CVE-2014-6271 vulnerability
Hi, i have a VcenterSUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)VERSION = 11PATCHLEVEL = 2 it is BASH CVE-2014-6271 vulnerable. I have done a zypper up bashwithout fixing the problem: VCenter:~ # env...
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