Inventory Service Failed to Start
Hi, We upgraded vCenter Servcer from 5.x to 6.0, Which was working fine. As we had to upgrade ESXi also we shut down vCenter [one of Vm ] and brought it back, Our Single Sign On Windows Domain was also...
View ArticlevSphere Licensing
Apologies if I've missed this being answered. I contacted support an they asked me to use the forum. I have a HP DL380p Gen 8 server. The processor is the E5-2630. It's listed as having 6 cores,...
View ArticleConverting Thick to Thin disk
Hi All,I have esxi box with 1.8 TB space and it has VM that has HDD that is 1.1 TB, this HDD has only 50 GB used space.I want to convert this 1.1 TB HDD to thin but max free space on SAN storage I have...
View ArticleSEEKING FEATURE FEEDBACK: vSphere Web Client PM seeking Log Browser users'...
Hi all, I'm the Product Manager for vSphere Web Client, and I'm seeking feedback about a specific feature. If you currently use the Log Browser function in vSphere Web Client ([Host] -> Monitor...
View ArticleProblem on CentOS7 and RHEL7 templates customization
So here is the problem. I've been trying to deploy and customize CentOS7 and RHEL7 templates. But I'm facing issues with that. My vCenter version is 5.5 Update 2 After reading some articles about this...
View ArticleHTTP Status 404 - / type Status report message / description The requested...
Hi All, Installed the vcenter 5.5u2 on windows 2012R2, when accessing to the vcenter via webclient by https://fqdn-vcenter:9443/, got the following error message: HTTP Status 404 - / type Status...
View ArticlevSphere Web Client integration plugin problems in Windows 8.1
I don't know whether anybody else have come across this: When you access the vSphere Web Client on Windows 8.1 - 1)Using Google Chrome in Desktop Mode, the web integration plugin works fine and you can...
View ArticleConsolidation power cli script for vms
We are getting a number of consolidations needed every morning when coming in on our test environments, does anyone know the best way to setup a script to run to consolidate any vms that needed it?...
View ArticleAlerting on guests that are running with snapshots
All, I've recently setup an alarm on my vcenter 4.1 that notify me when VMs are running with snapshots, it's setup like this: Trigger Type: VM Snapshot Size (GB)Condition: Is aboveWarning: 1Alert: 2...
View ArticlevCenter web Client 5.5 fails to log in using Active Directory
I installed vCenter Web Client on one host and Active Directory(Windows 2008 R2) on another host. I was able to add the identity source successfully without any errors. However, when I log in I get the...
View ArticleCannot delet licences on vCenter 6.0
I have installed vCenter 6.0 and some ESXi 6.0 hosts. I added licences to every host. Then I changed ip addresses on ESXi host without deleting it from inventory. Host's status was "not response"....
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How to Modify the DVS Uplink Security Policy?
I'm trying to use a DVS to play pcaps out of a physical interface, then back into another physical interface on a different DVS. My pings are going through just fine, but when a pcap is replayed, the...
View ArticleOnline VM vMotion between clusters
Can you perform an "online" VM vMotion between 2 different clusters (different host, different datastore) ? Performing this vMotion (host and datastore) when the VM is offline is working fine.
View ArticleAutodeploy 5.1 stateful installation - Problem determining "disk"
Hello, I just finished up setting VMware Autodeploy on our environment which involves Cisco UCS.Currently, I am able to boot the ESXi on B200 M3 blades through STATELESS installations. Our requirement...
View ArticlevCenter 6 FT Multi CPU
Hi there I'm messing around with a trial of vCenter 6 Standard with some ESX hosts running vSphere 6 Enterprise Trial. I'm trying to enable FT on a test VM that has 1x Virual CPU and 2x Core's, so in...
View ArticleiSCSI connection question
I want to create a datastore on our storage server running windows server 2012 storage server. Would I be able to create an iSCSI connection from our host ESXi servers to this Windows storage server?
View ArticleTransfering vCenter Server to a new server
Hello,I am in the process of doing an upgrade from 2008 to 2012r2 server. I was wondering how to go about moving my vCenter server. We are currently running the essentials plus package. I was...
View ArticlevCenter services not starting
VMware VirtualCenter Server and VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices are both unable to start. Everything was operational just recently. Currently after reboots and some testing, VMware...
View ArticleRedundancy of vCenter server.
Hello All, We have two vcenter servers in different Geo Location lets call it A & B in server 2008 R2 . Both are Virtual. HA & DRS enabled. Issue : Management wants that we should create some...
View ArticleVcenter 5.5 installation issue
Hi, I am installing Vcenter 5.5 on windows 2012, i installed VCSSO/VSpaere web client/VCenter Inventory and finally started installation but it looks hung, its been while but still same thing ,please...
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