Vsphere web client smart card login
Can smart card login be enabled on the Vsphere web client? I'm using 5.5I've searched everywhere and can't find any info. Thanks,
View ArticleHA High Availability Failed to move VMs
Hello. We had what we thought was a properly configured HA cluster but it didn't work as expected during a recent host failure. We have a stretched single cluster with two datacentres and a fully...
View ArticleAfter host memory fail and reboot, several unknown vm's..
I've run into this issue, as seen in the 5.x section of this KB article. However, after doing these steps, it still shows unknown state for many vm's. Many were fixed by migrating them to other hosts....
View ArticleVsphere Client Asking to donwload and install another client version
Hello everyone, how are you? This case heppened in the last week, when there was a power outage in a remote site. After the power outage, I couldn't start the inventory service due to some database...
View ArticleVM, 2003 to 2008 inplace upgrade is possiable
2003 and 2008 comes with different controllers if that is case if we do inplace upgrade on 2003 same controllers comes in for 2008 ?
View ArticleDisconnected Host in vcenter. Vm's are still on and running. How to register...
Hello all, We have a problem with one of our hosts in our enviroment. De host is disconnected, the vm's are still running on it, but we cant reconnect the host to vcenter. We can't connect to the host...
View Articlewhere is host profile option Net.UseHwTSO?
I have a host profile that I'd like to apply to a host, but there are some issues that need to be ironed out. I'm getting the compliance error "The options Net.UseHwTSO have been changed from their...
View ArticleHow to Remove a Node from HA Cluster?
Hello, I have hopefully what is a simple question. I have an 8-node ESXi HA configured cluster in vCenter and I would like to make one of the 2 following changes if I can. 1. Remove only 1 of the ESXi...
View ArticleTask names not displaying correctly in Web Client plugin
We are trying out the RTM build for vSphere 2015/6.0 and noticed that the task names are not getting translated to their friendly names. Thick Client: Under the tasks view, we see the user friendly...
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VMware ESXi failed on HP ProLiant ML350e
Hi Friends,I setup a server with HP Customised VMware ESXi 5.5.0 and running 2 Windows VMs, It didn't make any issue during the setup but failed to run in the middle and end up with this error.Can you...
View ArticleUnable to login via web client to vcenter server appliance
Hi All, We are using vcenter server appliance , now I m trying to login via web client to vcenter server but its showing error , at the same time I can able to login via vsphere client .For your...
View Articlehardware status error hardware monitoring service on this host is not...
Hi ,we have this error in vcenter with hardware status in esxi in version 4.1 , ww have enviroment vcenter 5.5 u2 , Only problem in esxi version 4.1 and all esxi 4.1 are in DMZ , and work ok in 5.5...
View Article12 TB(Two LUNS of 6 TB each) or 2TB x 6 LUNS
Hi Guys - What you recommend? Should I go with bigger LUNS or smaller LUN will reduce risk?I will have around 20-25 Machines on the datastore.Any VMware recommendation on LUN. Kindly suggest. Many Thanks
View ArticlevSphere 5.5 timing out deploying 8GB guest over slow network
Hello,I am trying to deploy an Avamar AVE OVA applicance over a slow network. vSphere gets about 75% of the way done then times out. Is there any way to force the system to be more patient when running...
View ArticleChanging to VMXNET 3:adapter type
Can I use powercli to change the network adapter type without interruption of vms?
View ArticleAdvice on vCenter Changes
So much joy coming my way. I have vcenter 5.5 running on a Win2k8 R2 VM with SQL 2005 Express. We have 6 vSphere 5.5 hosts - one cluster with 4 production hosts and another cluster with 2 test hosts....
View ArticleVMware Operating System Specific Packages (OSPs) repo Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Does anyone know how long it usally takes for VmWare to create .deb files for the OSP repository? According to the documentation Operating System Specific Packages Home Page | United StatesUbuntu Linux...
View ArticleTemplate to VM deployment is very slow on FC datastore
1. My environment is having vCenter Server 5.5 and couple of vSphere Servers 5.5 . I have couple of Windows and Linux templates with 20GB thin HDD, 1GB RAM, 1NIC card, 1 vCPU. 2. Entire setup is in...
View Articlevim.fault.InvalidLogin while querying kernel modules
I'm using VI API to query kernel modules of all the hosts (using "queryModules" method). But for some hosts it throws "javax.xml.ws.soap.SOAPFaultException: vim.fault.InvalidLogin" . Why authentication...
View ArticleSetting Active Directory preferred doimain controllers on an ESXi host
Hi all, Just got another blog post up on an issue I have been hitting recently with active directory authentication to an ESXi host. The error displayed is "Invalid user name or credentials" although...
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