Login to VCSA 5.5 console :5480 fails - However VIC and WebVIC work?
Hi All, Running 5.5 VCSA, we can login to the VIC using the user name and password set when we deployed VCSA. Of course with SSO in 5.5 we now need to use need to use administrator@vsphere.local and...
View ArticleIncrease or Extend DataStore Type
Dear All, Just Like to know how this is work. When Extent/Increase a DataStore using a new Disk/LUN, what happens in the background, is it using Logical Volume using Stripe set 0 (LV Striping RAID 0)?
View ArticleDistributed Port Mirroring across hosts in same vDS
Hello: I have two hosts (esx01 and esx02) running ESXi 5.5 that are connected to the same vDS 5.1. I have no issues passing traffic between VM's that are on the different hosts and in the same port...
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Expanding DIsk on virtual machine through vSpehere
I need to expand a drive on one of our VM hosts. I went into the SAN and expanded the volume and now need to increase the size of the drive on the VM file server.the problem I am having is when I am...
View ArticleTrying to understand the differnt VMware SSO options
Hi guys, I am trying to understand the different SSO options and also get a better feel for best practices for installing it. As you're all aware, there are three options: vCenter Single Sign-on for...
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Unable to read / write to NFS datastore
Hello all,I am having an issue with an NFS datastore within Vcenter. I have a NFS share on a Win2k3 server which I am able to successfully mount. However.. I cannot write to it even though the...
View Articleclient integration plugin bundle redhat 6.5 and chrome/flash
First time using chrome. Would not be my first choice, and not at all familiar with it. I try to open a guest console, says "this webpage is not available".Google says need to install 'Client...
View ArticleUPS shutdown in VMWare HA Cluster
Hi all, I am tasked to study UPS signal to shutdown guest OS then ESXi host in HA Cluster, should it have any reference? Thanks Regards
View ArticleSingle forest, single domain, geographically dispersed ESXi hosts; All under...
Hi All, I have a single forest single domain structure globally.I have two sites that I am installing ESXi hosts in (5.5).sites are 40ms away from each otherI have redundant connection between...
View ArticleAfter Upgrading vCenter Sever Appliance to 5.5 the connection to AD no longer...
After Upgrading vCenter Sever Appliance to 5.5 the connection to AD no longer works. Re-Entering the authentication details give the following, "Error: Enabling Active Directory failed." I have tried...
View Articleesx 5.5u1 nic copy very slow
on my test: i have esx 5.5u1 and i want copy iso file on local interna datastore ssd send file iso of 100gb stored on ssd disk with windows 7 64bit "and use webclient or winscp" and speed is 15Mb/s and...
View ArticleUpdating proceedure for Vcenter and ESXI without Update manager
Unfortunately I can't run Update Manager since I dont have a stand alone 64bit server. I need to up date my Virtual Vcenter and (2) ESXI Servers that are running 5.0 Update 2 to Update 3. I am trying...
View ArticleCone vms to a ESXI host that located behind the firewall
Hi guys need help we have 2 ESXI hosts one with public ip(A) and other with private ip(B) address , both these esxi hosts are connected to the Vcenter which have private ip , ( all private ip...
View ArticleVery WEIRD issue that I cannot solve
I just recently upgrade Vcenter to 5.5 from 5.1. I have 3 hosts on 5.1 and so I decided to start upgrading the hosts 1 by 1. I started with host 1 when I did the upgrade via Vcenter the host never came...
View Articlecrash process vpxd.exe vcenter
Hi , We have various crahs vpxd.exe process along a day , some day more and others no .We are in version 5.5 vcenter , and dont know why , someone did suffer this issue ? some clue ? Faulting...
View ArticleAnyway to easily get listed / alerted of the hosts which are not running...
I have a environment of engineer's who maintain their own environment generally. However I noticed most of the hosts don't have vmware tools installed. I would like to see or be alerted at least of the...
View ArticleAlarm Script failures
I'm trying to test basic functionality of alarm triggering scripts. I have 3 versions of a simple script containing:echo "data" >> data.txt Two for windows: a bat file and a cmd file. One for...
View ArticlevCenter appliance : unable to execute script on alarm
Hello everybody, I use vCenter Appliance (Suse). I would like to execute shell script on one alarm, and it does not work. What I have done :- Create a very short and simple shell script - name :...
View Articlenot able to login to vcentre server 5.5 using vsphere client
i have installed vcentre 5.5 and when i tried login using vsphere client it is giving an error "Cannot complete login due to incorrect username and password" . I am giving FQDN and my domain userID and...
View ArticleAnother P2V conversion failure....
Had another conversion fail on me at 97%......Gave me the error "an error occurred during reconfiguration" I looked at the logs but they never make it easy to decipher (they are attached). Any one...
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