National vCenter deployment
I have over 100 sites across the USA. All have decent bandwidth connectivity back to the HQ. I am fairly new to VMware, but have a long IT background. Someone decided to roll out vCenter Appliances...
View ArticlevCenter 5.0 Guest Customization - default to Power on Virtual Machine
Greetings, So, now when I utilize a template and Guest Customization, the check box for Power on Virtual Machine after completion is not checked and I have to manually do this and "remember" to do this...
View ArticleMost efficient Anti-Affinity Rule
I'm wondering if anyone has an opinion on what the 'best' anti-affinity rule would be, between VM-to-Host & Keep-VMs-Separate. Here is my situation: 6 ESX servers in 1 cluster~100 VMsHA, DRS, &...
View ArticlevCenter Service Status and Hardware Status plugin errors in vSphere 5.1 -...
When I tried to enable the VUM for vSphere 5.1 (another issue I'll address in a different thread but if anyone has information on that, by all means chime in here), I also noticed there were 2 other...
View ArticleBest way to move VMs between two clusters: HP and UCS
Hello,We have to move VMs from the UCSChassis cluster: 6 ESXi hosts into an HPChassis Cluster. I am just wondering how to do it with the minimum downtime. Thanks for your help,
View ArticleVDP 5 restore always fails for all backups for single VM with error E30931...
In our vSphere 5 setup w/ VDP (6.1.80-179 aka 5.1.0.56-179) a datastore failed.There a critical VM is now shown with disks w/ 0 Byte on the failed datastore. When trying to restore the impacted VM we...
View ArticleLinkMode Conflicts
basically I am getting the following error when trying to join a new vcenter, I get to the Conflicts step in the wizard and check the file conflicts.txt:- [RoleId: 4 --> 469762254] if I say yes to...
View Articlehow to migrate view 5.1 to vcsa?
Hi everyone, I had deployed a VIEW 5.1 service in the windows version of vCenter Server, including the VIEW connection server, VIEW composer server and so on. All works well. Later, I replaced the...
View ArticleUnable to connect to the MKS: Failed to connect to server address:902
Hi allI'm having some problems when trying to connect the console in vmware vsphere web client.My data:Arch Linux or Linux Mint (tried here and there)VMware vSphere 5.1Browser: Chrome v28, Firefox v23....
View ArticleCreate an alarm to turn off a VM on host performance
Hi, I would like to create an alarm that monitors the HOST cpu/memory/datastore usage and triggers an alarm if say the cpu usage hits 95% for 5 minutes. I want the host to then turn off a specific...
View ArticleDelegating admin permissions for departments
Hi, I've got a request from one of our department leaders to give them access to their specific folder within vCenter 5.1.So far, so good. The problem is that they need to be allowed to deploy new VMs...
View ArticleCustomize email alarm subject lines in vCenter Server 5.1.0?
Is there anyway to modify the subject lines for emailed alarms in vCenter Server 5.x ? I want the subject lines to include what host/VM the alert pertains to, something very similar to this:...
View ArticleCredentials for the vCenter MHM Service
Trying to install vCenter MHM so I can control multiple ESX hosts with one client. Problem is, when I'm installing vCenter MHM it's asking for credentials with rights to start a service. no matter what...
View ArticlevCenter Resource Pool Permissions
My goal is to have a group of users be able to create VMs in a resource pool. Have them test what the need on the VM then if it works as they expect I want to move the VM into another Resource pool...
View ArticleQuerying the vCenter Database....
This might be a little out of the box but, does anyone know how to query the vCenter DB and return the "Attributes" from within the "Annotations"?There were custom fields added in the annotations but...
View ArticleSMTP username and password on Vcenter
Want to configure SMTP and using a hosted exchange which requires SSL and port 587 to be used. Updated the port on the Vcenter advanced setting and want to know what will be the key parameter to add...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 - Can't log in vSphere client and SSO can't register vCenter server
I have created an LDAP connection to AD, and the "Test Connection" comes back successfully. I have it set for LDAPS, and imported the cert from the CA, and the connection points to the same DC which...
View ArticleTaking VMware Performance Monitoring Beyond VCops - 7 Steps for...
Hello - I would like to invite you to the upcoming live webinar "Taking VMware Performance Monitoring Beyond VCops - 7 Steps for Virtualization Success" on August 21 @ 2:00 pm ET | 1:00 pm CT | 11 am...
View ArticleVMWARE VIEW MANAGER LICENSE
Good afternoon guys! I need a free license of VMware View Manager, but where have vmware site of the trial license, I could not find! For this I need to be able to continue in my virtualization...
View Article"Vcenter alarm: ESXi 5.1 Host connection failure/ Host not responding"
Hello Everybody, I am facing a strange issue with my Vsphere environment and VMware Technical support hasn't been able to help me so far. The case is still pending with them for about 2 weeks now. We...
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