ESX 5.5 HA confusion
Guys, I have a doubt. If I have a cluster with HA enabled, datastore heartbeat is set. Isolation response is set to shutdown VM. What will happen if my management network of the master server is...
View Articleipv6 issue after vCenter DB migration
Hey all, Having a weird issue after moving a vCenter DB from a dedicated SQL server, back to the vCenter Server with full blown SQL installed (Don't ask why!) The migration has gone OK, but the vCenter...
View ArticleCluster Issue
Hi, what could cause all hosts in the VMware cluster to lose connectivity to systems outside the VMware cluster? All the clusters are inside same VC Center.VMs within the cluster can see each other,...
View ArticleESX 3.5 under vCenter 5.5.
Hello, Can you run ESX 3.5 under vCenter 5.5? If not, does anyone know the minimum version of ESX/ESXi supported under vCenter 5.5.? Thanks,Scott
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vSphere Center Client not showing most of the options
I did the initial install of ESXi 5.5 on a subnet of 192.168.10.x, before migrating it to 192.168.1.x. Afterwards, vSphere Client is able to connect, but shows me a severely limited set of controls....
View ArticleCould Not Load File or Assembly VpxClient.SSPI
For whatever reason, I couldn't start a discussion in the vSphere forum so posting my query here. Had no issues installing the vSphere 5.5 client on a Win7 Ultimate box. However, getting the...
View ArticleVDP 5.1 configuration
Currently, we upgraded our Vcenter to 5.5 and it can't support VDR anymore.We planned to install VDP 5.1 in our new Vcenter. Here I have few question on the setup of VDP:1. Can VDP have 4 appliances in...
View ArticlePowerCli Script that returns Storage Views data in a CSV
First off, I'm brand new to PowerCli and Scripting. In vCenter Server 5.1 if I click on my cluster, go to storage Views tabs, i see the following fields:VM, Host, Resource Pool, Multipathing Status,...
View ArticleScheduled Clone of VM fails due to "File already exists."
I am trying to schedule a clone of a very important server. The schedule does run, but it fails because the file is already in the destination with the same name.When I try to schedule the clone again...
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I kicked my vCenter server out of network
Hello Everybody, I have a vcenter 5.1 server running as a VM (win2k8R2). We have all the VMs on distributed switch. I had to upgrade the vnic on vcenter server vm from E1000 to VMXNET3. I made a...
View ArticleWhat is the future of vCenter on Windows ?
Hi, I was wondering what is the vision of VMware about vCenter installed on Windows ? Should I expect to see vCenter for Windows a possible option for version vSphere 6... 7 ? Thank you
View ArticleEVC Mode - Intel Merom Gen - Xeon E5345 - E5-2690 - The host cannot be...
Hello everyone,I can not enable EVC mode on Cluster.The processors Xeon E5345 and E5-2690 are compatible with EVC mode for "Merom" generation. The error of a specific host in the cluster is:The host...
View ArticlePatch Repository in vCenter Update Manager.
Hi Experts, As a newbie to Virtualization, I am running vCenter 5.1 with ESXi 5.1 hosts. When I click on Patch Repository tab, I see patches related to ESXi 4.0 and 4.1 well. Why the patches are still...
View ArticleManagement Vswitch is showing broadcast networks
Hi, kindly assist below issue.after we have unplug and plug the lan cable of vmnic1 (part of management vswitch teamed) ; the Network adapter is showing broadcast network from Status. in which the it...
View ArticleMove files between Datastores in the web client
How can I move files in the web client?I used to be able to do it by browsing and using the move option.This is missing in the web client.Is there a plan to add this functionality back in a new web...
View ArticleFault Tolerance and backing up (ESXi 5)
Have a number of Fault Tolerance VM's and am looking to back these up the simplest way possible. i.e. flat file copy. Question I have is: If i 'power down' the VM's, 'turn off' FT on each of these...
View ArticleReplacing a server under Essentials Plus licensing?
VMWare Essentials plus licensing question: We have 3 servers, one of them is old and we bought a replacement. When I try to add the new server to vCenter it won't let me because we have our limit of 3...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 SSO
We just upgraded vCenter from 5.0 to 5.5 and it seems with the web client, you now need to login with domain\username. We have a multi-domain forest and even users in the same domain as vCenter have to...
View ArticlevCenter Server 5.5 SSO - how to solve "No mapping between account names and...
Hi all, I have a vCenter Server 5.5.0-1476387-20131201 with SSO running on the same machine.My domain is cloudlab.local. I have added the users I need to login into Single-On > Groups >...
View ArticleAuthenticate with vCenter via REST API
Is it possible to obtain an SSO token via the REST API for vCenter 5.1? This is possible in 5.5, but I currently need support for both versions. Thank you in advance!
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