vCenter 5.5 "Quick stats on is not up-to-date"
I just did an upgrade from 5.1u1 to 5.5 on an HP DL380 G6. I did a brand new vCSA 5.5 and added my hosts. Every host now says "Quick stats on <hostname> is not up-to-date" in the yellow...
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Ugh, the now-required web client in vSphere 5.5 requires Flash...
Upgraded the test lab to 5.5 today to check out the new features, only to find out that to make use of the new features, you have to use the web interface; the old client only gives you the same...
View ArticleFailed to execute processSetup for the Setup : Failed to execute createHOMObj...
Hi: Everybody! recently I was making the VMware certification test to the storage array for our company, now there is a problem about running the verify test,. now I make the SWISCSI certification...
View ArticlevCO workflow or script to add a local user account in a vm?
How can we add a local user account in a VM using powercli script or vSpehere api?Kindly help.
View ArticleNeed assistance regarding my query on vCenter DB
I have 4 esxi hosts and around 50 VMs but my vcenter database and transaction files are more than double what they should be for my virtual environment. I looked over KB article 1028356 and the tables...
View ArticleVmware Vcenter 5.1 not starting Up
Hi All, Today my Vcenter windows VM & Its DB running on Oracle on a Linux VM got crashed. But After recovery as per DBA its running fine.in vpxd.log i am seeing below errors....
View ArticleLocal Authentication on vcenter 'forgets' my credentials
ESXi 5.0.0 on a Dell R710 and 4.x . x on an hp and I think we are running the essentials edition (no vmotion or vstorage) Using Local Authentication After about a day of being able to access both...
View Articlevcenter server appliance license key or registration
Please i need to obtain license key for vcenter server appliance to activate the server.
View ArticleNeed some guidance for moving vCenter to another server
My current setup : Windows 2008 R2 physical server with local SQL 2008 64bit. vCenter 5.10 build 947673. We have 17 ESXi 5.1.0 (1065491) about 100 vm's I need to move vCenter to a new Cisco c220...
View ArticleVMWare Backup for Large Disk (Larger than 2 TB) ?
Hi All, I have a environment that have a large disk (>2TB) VM Guest with a requirement with perform backup. As I understand, VDP (Data Protection) has a limitation of backing up disk...
View ArticleForce a manual reinstall of broken 5.1 update?
I have inherited a vCenter Server Appliance that appeared to be working fine until it automagically updated one night to version 5.1. I find all kinds of information here on how to fix specific...
View ArticleSQL Server RAM Requirements
I have vCenter and SQL Server running on different VMs. My SQL Server VM is used only for the vCenter and Single Sign on Databases (VCDB and SSO). Is there a reference to help me determine how much...
View ArticleVMware powershell snapin, curious results order of cmdlet Get-VM.
Hi All, I found vmware powershell command get-vm which used to get vm objects, not ordered by name or MoRef, at first i thought the order is randomly. so i tried open 2 instances of powershell, connect...
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...
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vcenter Server 5.5 cannot login
Hi all, I cannot login using vsphere client into my vcenter server. I installed the simple install.I installed the VMware vCenter Server for Windows and related modules on a Windows Server 2008...
View ArticleCannot deploy template :unable to access file [datastore]...
HI All, when we deplaying the template on the cluster ,only one host have issue on template deplayment [Cannot deploy template :unable to access file [datastore] mytemplate/mytemplate.vmdk] but the...
View ArticleCannot deploy template :unable to access file [datastore]...
Hi The issue is if we are try to deploy the template [Ex:MYtemplate] to the Clustre A host ,all template deployment on host got successful except one host. As per the link ,if the last provision VM...
View Articlehaving problem with my datastore cluster
I have created a datastore cluster in my vCenter Server. After doing all the configuration, if i disable one datastore my VM's are not moving onto the second datastore.in the cluster. What could the...
View ArticlevApps, Inventory and Scheduled Tasks
I appreciate the fact that grouping similar virtual machines (in terms of functions, etc) using a vApp is something better than grouping them inside a folder. However, the only disadvantages I see areI...
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