Change vCenter IP
We need to change the IP address of our hosts & vCenter server, Has anyone done this already & can anyone tell me if there will be any issues in changing IP's?
View ArticleVMware VirtualCenter Server Service not starting
Hi everybody, I am running VMware vCenter Server 5.1.0.33762 on a Windows 2003 virtual server (not on a domain). I've upgraded the vm's ram from 3GB to 5GB and after i made this change the vCenter...
View ArticleUnable to Discover Orchestrator in vSphere 5.1 Web Services
I hoping someone might be able to help me here. I recently installed a brand new vSphere 5.1 environment including Orchestrator on a separate Windows 2008 R2 server (separate from the vCenter server...
View ArticleVirtual to Physical migration of a VM
Hi , I have a scenario where i want to migrate a mount point on the virtual machine which is carved out from a Data store and data store is created from storage LUN.Please suggest me which API do i...
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I kicked my vCenter server out of network
Hello Everybody, I have a vcenter 5.1 server running as a VM (win2k8R2). We have all the VMs on distributed switch. I had to upgrade the vnic on vcenter server vm from E1000 to VMXNET3. I made a...
View ArticleVMs that mysteriously change Port Groups (Network Connection: Network label)
In one of our environments we have over the last few days experienced issues where VMs mysteriously had their Network connections changed to a different port group on a vdSwitch. When we leave at night...
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3PAR - Add vendor provider problem
Hi, We have a 3PAR F200 and we try to Add a vendor provider in our Vcenter but we encourt a problem. I followed the following procedure: see image1.Went I try to follow this procedure "HP 3PAR...
View ArticlevCenter Server in linked mode versus consolidating vCenters
Hoping for some advice... I'm weighing the pros and cons of consolidating 6 remote vCenter Servers and having their ESXi clusters managed from the central headquarters vCenter server.So far I see the...
View ArticleTime synchronization issue vCenter
hi guys vCenter Appliance 5.1 build 880146the thing is I was having issues among two vmware apps, Vmware Data protection was not able to log in since time sync issues. After checking I found my vCenter...
View ArticleVM autostartup with vsphere HA 5.1
Hi, My site have 2 ESXi5.1 host configured with HA cluster. The host and Virtual Machine shutdown is control by UPS when ever there is a power failure. The Auto startup / shutdown was disable when HA...
View ArticleAdded a linked vcenter but unsure on how to migrate my VM's to it...
Right, so I have a vcenter server already (windows based) and have just added another vcenter server and joined them in linked mode. However im confused on the best migration path to take to get some...
View ArticleCreate a vMachine from api in a Cluster chosing the end node
I need create a vMachine from api (or cli tool) in a Cluster (without HA and DRS) chosing the end node. Is posible? Thanks.
View ArticleManually copy VM to USB and back to storage
I need to copy a VM from one piece of storage to another. Sounds simple enough but I've never done it where I'm not moving it from two SAN's that can see each other. In this case, I need to shutdown...
View ArticleThe Ajax request from vClient to vCenter Server will not get response sometimes
When developing plugin, I set a timer to send Ajax request from vClient to vCenter Server.Sometimes the Ajax request will get no response. I believe it is not the problem about cache, because I have...
View ArticleVCenter 5.1 update 1 upgrade fails with "insert disk 1", now vcenter won't...
I’m having a problem with updating VCenter 5.1 to 5.1 update 1. I downloaded the ISO then mounted it on the VCenter server at our D/R site (it’s not gone “live” yet, so it makes a good test). I opened...
View Articlevcenter appliance crash / reinstall - how to reinstall running VMs + networking
Dear community,I had to re-install my vcenter virtual appliance and I am now wondering how to recover/re-install the running VMs and the networking configuration (DVswitch) I had created on the "old"...
View ArticleVcenter Icons
Hello,I'm looking in particular for explanations of the Snapshot Manager icons against snapshots but have found it very difficult to find anyuseful round-up of the icon meanings in vCenter.Can anybody...
View ArticleVDP: Out of Memory and configuration not saved
Yesterday I manually renamed a few virtual machines (which contained special characters) and reconfigured backup jobs with the new names.During night no backup happened at all.This morning I rebooted...
View ArticleUpgrading from vCenter 5.0 to 5.1 and receive installation failed error
I am attempting to install vCenter 5.1 on my current vCenter 5.0I currently am using SQL Express as the database. I have tried simple install and single sing on separately with same result.I have...
View ArticleSQL 2012 Application Consistent Snaps?
So now that 5.1U1 supports SQL 2012 can vmtools effectively quicese SQL 2012 for an application consistent snapshot?
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