Error updating vcenter SSL certificate?
Hello folks, I've recently upgraded to vcenter 5.1 U1a successfully. I am following VMware articles and popular blog to prepare and run the VMware certificate automation tool...
View ArticleHow to deploy vSphere Web Client Integration Plugin?
Hi guys I need to deploy vSphere Web Client Integration Plugin to users of our Citrix farm (Windows server 2008 R2). I can't find any detail information for administrative installation. Have someone...
View ArticleSeting up alerts
I am setting up alerts on my vcenter I setup few alarmes like Host CPU usage and Host Memory usage etc. I would like to setup some alert on few more things.1. SWAP memory usage. 2. Memory balooning.3....
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Help! Distributed Switch in my LAB issues!
i setup a physical lab consisting of the following: two Optiplex 990 small form factors (all i had lying around) as my two esxi hosts ( one Intel 82579LM Gigabit NIC in each host no slots on the small...
View ArticleVmware error with storage vMotion failing at 14%, Error 0xbad010b
I've never had an issue with vMotion before, but for some reason I can't change hosts on my VM's. They all have Vmware tools, up to date, and everything is green with them. I have 3 hosts in the...
View ArticleSRM with RDM, PRO using FCoE and DR using iSCSI
Hi team, I am planning a SRM for a customer, hope to get your advice. the prod site using vcenter5.0 , netapp3210,SRM5,esx5.0. FCoE for RDM access for MS SQL server. but the DR site has only iscsi...
View ArticleHow to create alarm for a failed custom task
I have been searching for a while to find a way to create an alarm for a failed custom task. So far I can only create alarm for a specific custom task, but not based on its state. Here is what I have...
View ArticleAttempting install of vCenter OPS 5.7.
All: I am attempting to install vcOPS 5.7 in our environment. When going through the OVF deployment wizard I am receiving the error that "The operation is not supported on the object", when selecting a...
View Article"Invalid fault" on "VirtualMachine.Unregister" while trying to purge a...
I don't know the particulars of how the original was deleted or renamed, but I know this: - I have a VM named "VM19" (renaming it is possible, and doesn't help)- it THINKS it has a VM19.vmx and...
View ArticleHost Sharing using Vcenter
I have two host machines with ESXi on them, I created two virtual machines on each using vsphere client. Now, I want to share memory, core and hard drive of these two hosts. Is it possible ?Please...
View Articleproblem on vm update...
Hi all, We could not update windows and Linux VM through update manager on vsphere 5.0. on previous version (4.1) all updates are updated through shavlik.com. for linux (https://xml.shavlik.com/unix/)...
View ArticleAllow permission to delete VMs created by user
Greetings, I am using ESXI 5.1. I already have made it so that users cannot delete VMs. However, they are allowed to create VMs based on others (deploy Templates). How can I allow them to delete only...
View ArticleONLY "Session Credentials" work vCenter
I see plenty of threads for the opposite issue (can't log on using Session Credentials" check box), but we have the exact opposite issue: Manually typing in domain\username and password does not work...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 Memory Usage
Hi,I have installed vCenter Server 5.1 on a virtual machine with Windows Server 2008 R2 to manage my 2 ESXi hosts in a small environment with 15 virtual machines. This virtual machine use 5.5 GB memory...
View ArticleUpgrade vCenter from 4.1 to 5.1
We are planning on upgrading our vCenter server from 4.1 to 5.1 Last week we P2V'd the vCenter server so that we can now clone and test the upgrade. My plan is to clone the vCenter VM, ensure the NIC's...
View ArticleCD auto-eject
Hello, we've a clustered HA vMotion vCenter, serving a vCloud Director layer. We experienced some problems for vMotion (and HA) functions because of some customer's VMs that kept a CDrom mounted,...
View ArticleDeleting a VMFS datastore
Hi All, I'm looking to permanently delete (ie remove from each of my 12 esx hosts) one of my datastores (vmfs 3.31, single extent) which is currently being presented from an old RAID unit via FC and is...
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Add notes to a VM
I am trying to add notes (Annotation) to a VM while it is being provisioned through Orchestrator. I have looked at Burke's posted answer (http://communities.vmware.com/message/1836544#1836544) but I am...
View ArticleHost 5.1 on Vcenter 5.1 not responding and Vms are all disconnected
HelloI have a server dedicated on the cloudI have installed Vsphere 5.1All is working fine exept when I installed a Vcenter on a VMWhen I create my datacenter with my host inside, EVERY 1m25, my host...
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