How to split vCenter components?
We're starting clean in a new environment with vCenter 5.1 (u1 b), and trying to agree on a design (and sizing). All servers will be VMs on HP blades. vCenter will manage about 50 hosts and 800 VMs...
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Displayed "Provisioned Storage:"
In the attached pic, there is a field called "Provisioned Storage:" with the value 190.01GB.Where does the vCenter Client get that value? I'm trying to query the vCenter DB and get the same value but...
View ArticleLost power during install... how to proceed?
Hi all, I was installing vCenter 5.1 Latest on a server when I lost power. The SSO and Inventory Service installs completed successfully, but I was maybe 80% through the vCenter Server install. I came...
View ArticlevCenter Server Service stuck on Starting
Hello All, I ran in to a problem yesterday. One of my ESXi 5.1 hosts hung up. I had to hard boot it. As a result all the VMs on it were powered off which included my vCenter 5.1 server. AFter I brought...
View ArticlePVSCSI w2k8r2 cloning BSOD
Hi All, I'm having a issues cloning windows 2008 r2 vm's with para-virtual scsi controller i get blue screen error 0x0000007b which is a general hardware failure.If i clones other vm's with LSi...
View ArticlevCenter 4.1 U2 Performance Charts
Hey Buddies, Got a query here and need your suggestions... Is it feasible to Deny access to performance charts for a virtual machine user in vSphere 4.1 U2? Regards,Krish K
View ArticleQuestion with Clustering
Hey guys hopefully this is the right spot for this. Anyway, I'm fairly new to this vmware stuff and i was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. So we are starting to move our servers...
View Articleexport of VM fails
Hi, whenever I try to export a powered down VM, the export fails. (by right click export...) The VM's log states (very briefly):start export --> export from datastore to fileshare (NTFS) -->...
View ArticleMigrate but DO NOT restart VMs with HA?
I have a scenario where I want HA enabled, but on certain VMs, I don't want HA to restart the VMs on another host if there is a failure, but I want the VMs accessible. The closest option that I saw...
View ArticleDoes VCENTER control access to external objects
Going through the database STIG I am attempting to find out what controls access to the external objects referenced within the VCENTER database but stored externally to the database. I need to know...
View ArticleDo you like the web vShpere admin client better than the old C# client?
I know the new web client works on any platform, etc. and I have downloaded the new web apps, because of the plug-in failures, but do you guys really like the new web client better than the old C#...
View Articlevmware update manager download service
Hi, I'm not sure why, but I can't find this utility anywhere.... I wanted to give it a try and learn how to configure it, but putting update manager download service into the product downloads search...
View ArticlevCenter with Windows 8 with Hyper-V (WP8 SDK) loses network after cloning
Hey! We have vSphere Server Version 5.1I have added the Windows 8 machine and managed to enable Hyper-V and installed Windows Phone 8 SDK.Now I see 3 network adapters: Ethernet, vEthernet and vEthernet...
View Articleobserved IP ranges seen in the networking settings.
Hi Folks,I am not really a VMware guys but more into networking. We keep getting these queries from the VMware folks about the observed IP ranges in the network showing wrong entries. example if the...
View Articletoo high memory consuption
Hello i have a vm with a cisco call manager upon itwhen i open the resource allocation on the vcenter i can see that there are 5.4gb of mem consumed but on the realtime performance i can see that only...
View ArticleCannot power on VM.
Hi All, Recently I always encounter the issue that one or several VMs cannot be powered on after deployment. In the VMWare.log it will contains the following error message: VMWare.logAug 12...
View ArticleUpdate manger IP address issue
Hi all, I really hope someone can help here. We have 3 ESXi 5.1 hypervisor boxes. They are all external to our office location. They are located in 3 DC's.We run vcenter server on a box within our...
View ArticlevCenter Web Service Authentication Fails
Hello, I am having an issue authenticating to the web service on vCenter 5.0. Here is the situation: Case 1: vCenter 5.1Setup a Windows account in vCenter with read-only permission.The authentication...
View ArticleReuse vCenter SSO Certificate
I am have been banging my head against deploying the single sign on certificates with my vCenter 5.1 installation. I think I finally have a handle on how to accomplish it using the SSL Automation Tool....
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