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Possible to browse ESX 5.5 drive in Windows Explorer?
Quick question: Is there a way to browse, in Windows Explorer, the contents of a Windows Server 2008 directories, installed on a VM in EXSi 5.5, in order to recover some data files? Very small...
View ArticlevCenter server 5.0 U3 upgrade question
Just upgraded to 5.0 u3. vSphere Profile Driven Storage never finished installing, sat there for two hours, I finally cancelled the install. I looked at the install log, no errors or failures were...
View ArticlevCenter not showing up under "vCenters' in webclient
Hi all, I am using vCenter server 5.5 on a Windows host. Hence, I had to install SSO, the inventory service, all the tools etc. also in the same host. When I login to the web client (also on the same...
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 Articleno more VMware vSphere Client after ESXi 5.5
Hello, I've seen somewhere, but can't remember where, that vCenter will not support the windows based vSphere client and will only be usable from the web based client after ESXi 5.5. Is there any...
View ArticleNetwork cards and VMware HA compatibility
Hello,I'm setting up a cluster between two machines, the machines only have one integrated network card.To create a cluster you need a redondant network if i don't mistake. So can I add a random pci...
View ArticleDeleteing mutiple VM's in Virtual Center 5.1?
Does anybody know of a way to delete multiple VM's at a time in virtual center 5.1?Looking for an easier way rather than searching for one VM at a time and deleting one at a time.I have done A LOT of...
View ArticlevSphere 5.5 Flash Read Cache
Hi, I have updated my vCenter to 5.5 and of course one of the interesting improvements is Flash Read Cache. I installed SSD drives and was able to see it in vSphere Web client and now need to assign...
View ArticleUpgrade vcenter to 5.1/5.5 or only up to 5.0 update 3??
vCenter v5.0.0 v755629ESXi5 Hosts - v5.0.0 U3 1489271 Hi All Thanks for reading my post. I am currently working on a patching project to get all of our clusters up to a certain degree of updates and...
View ArticleSSO configuration issue
Hi gurus If you have read my previous posts you will know that I am very new to all this , so go easy on me , still learning. I would like to integrate AD authentication on my cluster, so I can...
View Articlewhat are the best practices to convert my vcenter vm to physical machine....
what are the best practices to convert my vcenter vm to physical machine. Please help......
View ArticlevCenter Single Sign On service
Hi, On many VMware forums if I want to change database server for SSO it says restart SSO service. But i looked at least 15 servers and this service doesnt exist. Is it under different name hidden...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 and vCenter 5.0 !!!
Dear, I have an environment with vCenter 5.0 and ESXi 5.0 hosts 3, but installed a new host with ESXi 5.1, my question is: - Can I add that host to ESXi 5.1 cluster with vCenter 5.0 and manage it like...
View ArticleAPI path to get UUID where datastore name is the input
Hi All, I am trying to find the correct API links (using vCenter APIs) to get the UUID of the lun associated with a particular datastore. input:datastore namecluster namevcenterSDKconnection...
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Updating vCenter Server 5.1 SSL certificate - error
Hello everyone, we setup a new Windows Server 2008 R2 as a vCenter Server 5.1I'm now trying to install new certificates for all vCenter parts (server, inventory service, web client, ...) with Windows...
View ArticleVcenter 4.1 to 5.5
We currently have Vcenter 4.1 running on sql express 2005 with server 2008R2. I want to migrate away from my phyiscal box to a virtual running 5.5 and sql 2008 r2 and Server 2008 r2. (Plan is to bring...
View ArticleStateful AutoDeploy
We try to install an esxi server with autodeploy. the installation must be a stateful installation. when we select the disk with local or remote the installation fails. what do i have to define for a...
View ArticleRole Manager
Hi Its me again. I finally got the sso config. done and tested the connection and it was successful, but for some reason when trying to get the role manager to come up so I can do my role members and...
View ArticleEmail reporting for when Snapshots exist on a VM
Hi I was wondering if there is a mechanism that is straight out of the box in vSphere 5 that will allow me to receive email alerts for certain events that the standard alerts and events built dont...
View Articlevix error code = 3009
I created 3 dv switches in vcenter 5.5, and now I can't access vcenter and vspere won't let me reboot...gives me the vix error 3009. Are there any power cli commands that would get me out of this?I...
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