Migrating from vCSA to vCenter for Windows
Hi All, I am trying to migrate an existing vCenter Server Appliance to vCenter Server for Windows.I want to make sure I follow a documented procedure to make sure I am doing everything correctly,...
View ArticleHow to Disable Network Connectivity Alert for only one vSwitch
Hi, I have the situation, that i need to disable Network -redundacy and -connectivity Alerts for only one vSwitch. Bit these alerts are at Host-Level. Any Ideas?
View ArticlevSpere Entr. plus HA mechanism ??
Hello ,Well i have been working with VMware for only 4 weeks so …bear with me ! Hopefully I posted this question in the proper channel.I need to set up a small View deployment that composes of 2...
View ArticleVMWare VirtualCenter Server Service will not start
Hi, I am running VMWare VirtualCenter Server on a Windows 2008 R2 machine. I noticed the other day I was unable to log into Server using the VI Client. When I try to start the Service I get this...
View ArticleUnable to retrieve health data from https://localhost.fqdn:8443/vws/Health
Hi, I have had various issues around web services since upgrading from vCenter 5.0 to 5.1 947673. I have 2 sites with a vCenter at each, they are in linked mode. vCenter 2 is working fine though...
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Is a partial DRS possible?
Hi to all, We have two physical datacenters with one VMware vCenter with one VMware Datacenter and one Cluster. Four ESXi hosts are stored in datacenter 1 and four ESXi hosts stored in datacenter 2....
View ArticleUpgrade/Migrate 4.1 to 5.1
My current enviroment: 2 ESXi 4.1 with vSphere Essentials. One VM is running vCenter. I have just purchased a new server as a third host and want to upgrade my enviroment to 5.1, keeping the vCenter...
View ArticleVMware Orchestrator Java API SSL Cert issue
Hello everyone. I am not sure if this is the right place to be asking this question, but I didn't see a discussion area for vco. I am writing a Groovy/Grails web application that uses the VMware...
View ArticleVisio Stencils required to show ESXi networking
Hi All, I'm looking to find Visio stencils that I can use to show how our ESXi server is configured for networking. I require icons/shapes to show port groups/vmnics and distributed switches that...
View Article"Cannot access the health service!" after installing custom certificates on...
vCenter Service Status page in the virtual infrastructure client displays "Cannot access the health service!" after installing custom certificates on virtual center server.
View ArticleHost Connection Failure
We are constantly getting an error "host connection failure" for different ESXi host across the cluster and it last only for milliseconds, and there no significant impact in the enviroment. ESXi host...
View ArticleScript to extract only WINDOWS SERVER vms from Vcenter no vcm.
I am tasked with audit and remmediation. I am really in need of a script that can get me the VMs in my Vcenter or any other virtualization product used by my company. I am wondering if there is any...
View ArticleIs it possible to set default disk format to something other than Lazy Zeroed?
By default Thick Provisioned Lazy Zeroed disk format is enabled in vSphere 5.0. Our organization has been 'experimenting' with disk reclamation on storage array but that does require Thick Provisioned...
View ArticleDeafult ODBC connection on vCenter 5.x with Express SQL
I'm preparing process to move express database to the Full version of SQL.To do this I have to have backup plan if something goes wrong.I wonder for that moment how vCenter connects to SQL Express...
View ArticleVM consoles are slow to open
Is there some way to accelerate the connection to a VM console? When I try to open them, they can take as long as 30-40 seconds to open and occasionally it shows multiple connection at the top if...
View ArticleSSO HA or multi site configuration issue
Hi Guys, I`m still on trying to upgrade my second vCenter to 5.1, I have to put the SSO in Multisite mode but when I get an invalid credentials in the attached screenshot .... The access are the right...
View ArticleMigrating vCenter SSO database
During the initial install (upgrade) of vSphere 5.1 the person that installed it chose the SQL 2008 express (local) database for SSO. The vCenter DB was installed on a Oracle DB.Now they want to...
View ArticleShared storage; network switch upgrade?
Hi.I have a 3 host cluster (5.1) with 1 datastore on shared storage (iscsi) over 1GB network. I want to replace my network switch to a new one. I only have 1 NIC on the iscsi storage, I have 2 NICs on...
View Articleesx host cannot see the datastore
Hi team, I have vcenter 5 managing 2 esxi5 hosts. now added a esxi4 in the cluster and added iniitators for the filers. i can see the paths under this esx4 host showing the luns of the filers. but I am...
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