Need script to move all host and virtual machines alarms from top vcenter...
Software:VmWare Venter 5.0 Hello guys I n eed a script to move all host and vm alarms which are located at the top of the vmwarecenter structure down to all Hosts or vm's which are exist in the...
View ArticleCan a VM template be inventoried by two distinct vCenter Servers?
I think the answer to this is "no", but I haven't actually tried it. I have an envrionment in which there is a desire to split off production VM infrastructure from non-production, in order to test...
View ArticleUpgrading vCenter 5.0 Windows/MSSQL to vCenter Server Appliance 5.5
Hello, We are currently running vCenter 5.0.0 under Windows/MSSQL (with a mix of ESX 4 and ESXi 5.0 hypervisors). We would like to upgrade to vCenter 5.5 but using the appliance instead. Is there a...
View ArticleVcenter 5.0 LDAP Health component entry cn=com.vmware.vim.inventoryservice...
Hi Experts all around here, I have an normal vshere 5 setup with vCSHB and a IBM management console plug-in for a IBM V7000 SAN. I received this with a lot of problems, but one I got not fixed....
View ArticleESXi - NTP from Windows
Windows member server configured as NTP Server (named WINNTP) - WINNTP gets it own time from external time source.ESXi hosts configured to use the WINNTP server as their time source. From the vCenter...
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vCenter SSO and Active Directory problems
Hello everyone, I'm completely lost with SSO and Active Directory.First i had an ESXi 5.1 standalone with vCenter virtual appliance with windows server 2008 r2 active directory, worked great.Later...
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"Update option values" - need to track down what's going on
Hey folks,We are seeing a strange trend here on our vCenter server (vCenter 5.5).Under tasks we periodically see "Update option values" being performed some of our VMware hosts (ESXi 5.1)At the same...
View Articlehow to config vcenter converter standalone 5.5 work with vcenter server 5.5A
I want try to convert a physical machine to a virtual machine with vcenter converter standalone 5.5. Every thing work well until i try chose destination system is a vcenter server (v5.5A).It allway...
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2 VLAN Showing for 1 Network card.
Hi All, I was upgrading my vms vlan. but later i find that some vms are keeping 2 vlans in their configuration. i have to use only one vlan not 2. attaching the screenshot. I have to remove one vlan...
View ArticlevCenter Server and SQL Express
I am creating a new vCenter 5.5 server that will manage 5 hosts in a cluster with 37 virtual machines at our primary site. At our DR site, we will have 4 hosts setup in a cluster for replication from...
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Bonjour à tous.je ne suis pas un expert, apprend en auto didact à me servir de Vmware et Vsphere. mon anglais est assez lamentable (pire que que mon français qui est blindé de fautes, je m'en...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 permission error
I just built the vCenter 5.5 from scratch. I can login to the web client without an issue, but it wouldnt let me login to vCenter through vSphere client. I'm getting the following error: " You do not...
View ArticleFailed to migrate vm's from ESXi 5.0 host to 5.5 host .
Hi, I have upgraded vcenter/ vsphere from 5.0 to 5.5.With vcenter upgrade i have no problems, everything went smooth. The problem is in the hosts. I have upgraded 3 hosts from 5.0 to 5.5 without...
View ArticleEssentials Plus with Essentials Robo licensing
Hi All, I've been using Essentials Plus now at our corporate offices and its been fine. I have no need/desire to ever expand past the three host limit. I do however have 13 remote office locations...
View ArticleHow to collect information of all esx hosts connected to vCenter server using...
I am collecting information of esx systems using vSphere API. By using this API, I am able to collect information of esx hosts by giving IP.try{ServiceInstance si =newServiceInstance(new URL(url),...
View ArticleScripting to start a VM after an event
Hi All We have a specific requirement to start a VM after an event in the event log. Reasoning behind this is:The VM is running on an ESX host that has specific hardware installed (Fusion I/O card)...
View ArticleAudit Changes in vCenter
Hello, I would know if someone has suggestions on logging change in vCenter. For example, we have a few machines that have CPU and Memory limits set on them which caused major issues. I would like to...
View Articleconfig fault tolerance in vsphere 5.5 with vmware workstation 10
I'm doing a lab with vsphere. I want config FT but i have a problem.- in summary, it show my ESXi dont meet the requirement for FT: host CPU does not support hardware virtualization with is required...
View ArticleVsphere 5.1 alarms not alerting on all ESXi hosts.
We have installed 7 new hosts in a cluster and when testing the functionality of the new host’s, alarms are working on some hosts and not on others. In testing we concentrated on Network uplink...
View Articlehow to retrieve access to esxi hosts
Hi All, I had to uninstall vcenter 5.0 due to software crash. after uninstall vcenter, obviously I lost connection to all ESXi hosts. is there anyway to retrieve access to those host? what's the...
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