SSO - Moving user to another OU breaks SSO
Hey all, Have been using vCenter 5.1 with SSO for about 6 months now without issues. Today though I have been testing some new GPO changes I need to make and realized my users were still in the...
View ArticleHelp needed for migration process
Hi guys and gals, Ok, picture the scene:Datacentre relocation required between 2 physical sites2 esx 4.1hosts to physically move5 guests to move18TB of allocated storage, thick provisioned (1tb max...
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vcenter risk assessment/tools
Can anyone provide details of some useful tools that would assist in conducting a risk assessment/compliance audit of vcenter and 8x vsphere (v5) hosts? Similar to Microsofts best practice analyzers....
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Strange vCenter Bug
I ran across a very strange bug in vCenter/vSphere. I partitioned 10 delta disks that all point back to the same backing. All of the disks insist that they exists in vCenter as seen below.However...
View ArticleDefect Report: SSO Users cannot enter a hyphen in their email domain
If you have an email address such as "my.name@my-domain.com", the vSphere web client will not accept the email address when creating or editing the user to the SSO Users.The error message given is: The...
View ArticleStop VMWare from recycling MAC addresses
Hey guys, I'm fairly new to VMWare and I'm trying to build 2008 R2 servers from templates but I have a major concern. I have run into issue in the past where I build servers in a lab environment ship...
View ArticleVCenter DB as a Virtual Machine?
I currently have a standalone boot from SAN(FC) SQL Server. It currently houses multiple VCenter databases(Server Cluster and a View Cluster), Composer Database, Events Database, and other databases....
View Articleesxi 5.1 pxe boot error -- Failed to load COM32 file menu.c32
Hello I need to install esxi 5.1 through pxe, for this I followed VMware document....
View ArticleFind ESX servers in vCenter
Hi All,I want to find out all ESX servers grouped under a particular vCenter programmatically(C#). If I can enumerate all data centers, I can extent that concept to find out ESX servers also.Could you...
View ArticleDeleting snapshots from all VM
Hi,I recently upgraded my vSphere 4.1 to 5.1 and used Update Manager to upgrade all VM to version9 and update the vmtools.I choose to perform a snapshot of the VMs before the updates and also choose a...
View ArticleCloning a VM
Can we create a clone of a VM which have snapshots in it. ??? I am getting error - a general system error occurred tools exited without quiescing vm
View ArticleData/Time issue
We have a VCenter with ESXi Hosts Version 5.1, Our Domain Controller is sitting In one of the ESXi Host and the host NTP settings is pointing to that Domain Controller which is sitting in the same...
View ArticleVmware View Horizon slow client connections.
I have a test enviromenment (want to set it up before purchasing to test the process and hopefully find flaws in my setup). I can connect up with to the vmware view connection server after about a 15...
View ArticleWhat is the difference between cloning a vm and v2v conversion of a vm
What is the difference between cloning a vm and v2v conversion of a vm
View ArticleData collection/polling intervals
Hello, What is the data collection/polling interval set up in vcenter 5.1, if lets say I do like this,setup an alarm to get triggered if CPU utilization is 90% for 10minutes1. In other words, how does...
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Host Raid Controller Memory Cache Module Failed - HA Failed to Restart VMs...
ESXi 5.0u2The host p410i Raid controller memory cache module had failed. The host console became unresponsive(could not enable ssh or restart mgmt agents), turned (disconnected) state in vCenter, the...
View ArticleAudit VCenter 5.x
Hi all, As you might perform an audit in real time or get a log of vCenter 5.x??In this audit do want to see all users all the time you are connected to vCenter. As could be done??Not interested in...
View ArticleMigrate VMs from old vCenter 3.5 to new vCenter 5.1
I got situation where I have old unmaintained (no maintenance license) VMWare enviroment running vcenter and esx servers in version 3.5. SAN is mixed iSCSI/NFS from two IBM N3300. All of this is going...
View ArticleStorage LUN Present
Hi, Please let me know, what is the process to present the LUN's more than 256 in single ESXi host, I hired some settings to be modified.. Is it true? if true please share the steps. Thanks in advance.
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