Fault Tolerance takes very long
I have got vCenter server with 2 hosts configured with Fault Tolerance. All the primary machines are on 1 host and all the secondary's on the other host.However, when i pull the power cord of the host...
View ArticlevCenter Password Change - Broke Pools
Good afternoon. Due to one of our administrators leaving, we had to update / change our passwords throughout the AD domain. One of these PWs, was our 'admin' account that we have used for any VMware...
View ArticleUnable to connect to the MKS: Could not connect to pipe...
Hi,Afterasimple installationofVcenter, I try to use theconsoleviavSphereWeb Clientand Ireceive the following errormessage :Unable to connect to the MKS: Could not connect to pipe...
View ArticleFirewall ports for esxi to connect to vCenter
I have a vCenter on one network, and the ESXi hosts I want to manage are on another network, these are separated by a firewall and I have port 902 opened on the firewall. I'm unable to connect my...
View Article"Maximum Number of Database Connections to be Created" Setting
Does anyone know anything about the "Maximum Number of Database Connections to be Created" setting in vCenter Server? It is set to 50 by default, and my vCenter is currently using all 50 of them....
View ArticleCustom Alarm Definition to monitor Failed Login Attempts
Is there a way to create a custom alarm definition to monitor and email whenever a failed login attempt is detected? I have scoured through the new alarm trigger settings but can't seem to find...
View Article"Hardware Status" is blank when viewed using the VCenter.
Hi, "Hardware Status" is blank when viewed using the VCenter but okay when viewed using direct host connection (Configuration--> Health Status). Host: vSphere 4 Essentials ESXi 4.1.0,...
View ArticlevMotion -Time Sync causing DB failover
Hi All, We are having issue due to VM syncing time with host after a vMotion, which is causing DB failover.( VM is DB server).Every time vMotion is occurs, vm container is syncing time with esx host,...
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Arquivo .mdf (data) do vCenter ficando cheio muito rapidamente
Bom dia pessoal, Estou tendo uns problemas com meu arquivo .mdf (Data) do vCenter. Ele está enchendo muito rapidamente. Estava acontecendo o mesmo com os arquivos ldf (Log), mas foi resolvido conforme...
View ArticleHow to check VM disk Consolidation process
The consolidation has been started like 3 weeks ago (about 1.5 TB of data), i couldn't find any running tasks from vcenter (Consolidation is not completed), because vcenter services were restarted. How...
View ArticleRDM Disk Migration
Hi Teams I need you support as below situation Infra:-Running ESXi 5.0 Enterprise and vCenter 5 Standard-storage using IBM DS8800-one of virtual machine attach with RDM disk direct to LUN DS8800-eg:...
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Snapshot Consolidation Options with Insufficient Disk Space
After deleting all snapshots for a particular VM, I am alerted that disks require consolidation, presumably because there was not enough disk space to properly delete the snapshots. Sure enough,...
View Articlevcenter does not support hosts of this type (vmware vcenter server 5.5.0)
GreetingESXi installation using V5.5 u1: VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.5.0.update01-1623387.x86_64.iso vCenter installation using V5.5 u1: VMware-VIMSetup-all-5.5.0-1623099-20140201-update01.iso on...
View ArticleClone VM
Hi, i have an issue while cloning a VM. It doesn´t matter if it is a Windows 7, 2008 or 2012 maschine.The Cloning start successfully and sysprep runs as expected. But then, when i open a console to my...
View Article"Network connectivity lost" alert - how to find which NIC is this ?
Hi, We have HA cluster with VCenter 5.5 and 2 X ESXi servers.Each host has 4 NIC.One of the host has "Network connectivity lost" alert that was triggered 02:00am in the morning. Is there anyway to...
View ArticleCreate VM using XML and iSO Images
Hi Expert. I am havinga challenge to automate Creating VMs on my test ENV .I have below requirement.1.I should be able to provide inputs like no of disks,RAM size and Hard disks size in XML.2.I should...
View ArticleProtecting vcenter,,,heartbeat EOL?
I have had protecting vcenter on my todo list for a bit(of course I do backups). I have toy around with vsphere replication and heartbeat. I know that vcenter heartbeat went EOL last year:...
View ArticleConfiguring Local & Remote Syslog as well as a Persistent Scratch location
Looking for some understanding on all the various logging we can do with ESXi 5.5. U2. Traditionally we have just used a remote host for our logging (i.e. Syslog.global.logHost =...
View ArticlevCenter database, which authentication method?
Hi experts, i installed a vCenter 5.5 after the DB administrator had created the vCenter DB (SQL) on a separated VM.For the installation, he activated the SA account for this DB.Before the...
View ArticleHow to copy vmdk file from datastore to another machine
Hi i have 8 hosts and one ibm storage v3700 and morethan 55 vms in our infra , now i want to take vmdk file of one vm to external usb, I hv powered off that vm and entered that corresponding datastore...
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