esxcli "not found"
Hi, Hopefully someone will take pity on a poor stressed administrator, having inherited a ESXi 5.0.0 build 623860 server, and trying to install Windows 2012... I know, I know! I don't have the Update...
View ArticleIsolate vCenter and ESXi5.1 host management traffic from LAN
I'd like to add two Dell switches to an existing setup, to create a private management network (192.168.x.x subnet) containing the hosts and vCenter server, so that management traffic is isolated and...
View ArticleVCENTER issues
I am seeing vcenter servers are getting harder and more complicated to use.I implemented auto-deploy server years ago using 4.1 and 5.0 versions to do a host boot from AD server however starting from...
View ArticlevCenter Database full after a few days
Hey I'm really new to VMware and just set up vCenter Server. Everything ran fine until vCenter was not reachable anymore.The reason: my Transaction Log is full (it was 9.9GB of 10GB max space available...
View ArticleAbout vSphere function question
Hi All, As we knew, VMware has DRS function for Host resourse and Storage.Why VMware doesn't develop network DRS or vMotion(not mean vSS to vDS)If ESXi host'network usage is having heavy loading,why...
View ArticleTurning vSphere on and off
Hi there, I have a reporting bug on my cluster and the official vSphere resolution is to turn HA at the cluster level off and then turn it back on again. My question is will this interrupt any of the...
View ArticlevCenter Remote Console does not ask for login
Hello VMWare-Community, in previous versions of the vCenter Webclient it asked for the user authentication, if the user isn't currently logged in. In the latest version, there only pops up a window...
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Help vcenter 5.1 SSO Multiple Domain Controllers
Hi I would like some information.We have vcenter 5.1 installed and when the installation took place, we only had 1 domain controller.Since then, we have installed a second domain controller, to avoid a...
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SNMP traps from vCenter
This is my first post. It seems that vCenter may not have sent this trap: esx.problem.vmsyslogd.storage.failureerrorVCesx.problem.vmsyslogd.storage.failure|Logging to storage has failed. Logs are no...
View Articleis it possible to add CPU if CPU hot add/remove disabled
I heard it is possible to change CPU counts and memory without having CPU hot add/remove enabled through CLI. Is it possible to change the CPU and memory count without having to power off VM to enable...
View ArticleSnapshot before an O.S. wipe?
In my vSphere 5.0 environment, I want to take a snapshot of a Windows 2008 E vm as a temporary backup. Then, on Saturday, I want to boot the running W2008 E vm to a Windows 2008 R2 iso and reinstall...
View ArticlevCenter OVA deploy fails to boot!
Hello,I am running Esxi 5.1(Essentials License) and I am deploying vCenter 5.1(Essentials License) as a VM on my system. My system has several HDD's as datastores such as a SSD, a SAS and a few SATA...
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Inactive Datastore
To start off, I am a student in a networking program that has recently implemented a virtualized infrastructure using a solution from vmware (obviously since im posting this here) to start teaching the...
View ArticlevCenter log of SNMP traps sent
I'm trying to sort out why our SNMP server did not get a trap from vCenter. SNMP is configured and working in/from vCenter, we are missing a specific alarm (type). Does anyone know if vCenter keeps a...
View ArticleHow many connections of Web Console can be handled by Web Client Server?
Do we have any data on Load/Performance of vCenter/Web Client server with Web Console connections? Or do we know how many Web Console connections can be handled by a Web Client server? Thanks,Nagesh
View ArticleVcenter 5.5.0b - Import OVA - The Virtual Machine is not supported on the...
Hello, I'm having an odd error when I go to import an OVA file via Vcenter to some new hosts that I have spun up. These hosts are on Cisco UCS B200 M3's running the custom cisco ESXi 5.5 ISO. When I...
View ArticleBest Practice - Adding RDMs to second node of MCSC (W2K3) Virtual Machine...
Adding RDMs to second node of MCSC (W2K3) Virtual Machine Nodes Across Physical Hosts Couldn't find any other thread on this When adding RAW disks to the second node in Cluster Virtual Machines Across...
View ArticleIssue with Guest Customization for Windows 2012 OS
I created a template and I have existing customization. When I try to deploy VM from template and once the VM gets powered on, it takes the Computer Name of old machine(template) but not the new name...
View ArticleAdd VLAN vSS in production Environment
Hi, Since we have installed VMware vSphere 5.1 in our environment, 2 virtual machines have already created and being in a production environment. But the time comes up to use advanced things like...
View ArticleAutodeploy 5.1 stateful installation - Problem determining "disk"
Hello, I just finished up setting VMware Autodeploy on our environment which involves Cisco UCS.Currently, I am able to boot the ESXi on B200 M3 blades through STATELESS installations. Our requirement...
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