vCenter Inventory Service won't start
Hello, The issue I have is with a newly built vCenter server. Having installed and configured the individual components, the vCenter Inventory service won't start. The event log entry 7024 is logged...
View ArticleLicenses Account
Hello everybody, I need to install Data recovery plugin for vsphere but my company bought the vcenter license a few years ago and don't know what is our vmware account ? Do you think if there is a way...
View ArticleDeleting / Removing a datastore
Hi, we are sun-setting a SAN, and therefore removing a bunch a datastores. I've read in an article that we need to do some volume Masking.Is that really neccessary? We've removed all vms and data from...
View Articledatabase information
I cant find the global.properties file in my virtual center server. even ODBC doest contains the information i want... Is there any file which contains all the information about my SQL database for...
View Article"Unclear" alarms
I have a host reporting a hardware alert. The alarm has been cleared so looking at the inventory of the cluster everything looks healthy. Looking at the host hardware though shows 2 alerts. Is it...
View ArticleHow much retention is there on the DRS and vMotion logs
Hi Experts,I have been asked to produce the last 6 months off all the vMotions between hosts in a cluster. More specifically, we are concerned with vMotions that originate from DRS. I looked at the...
View ArticleTrigger plug-in manager alarm
Hey all,I wonder if there is a way to send SNMP alarms of plug-in manager?For example I have an error on my update manager that says "plug-in is unavailable for the following server(s) :..."I want...
View ArticleUpdate Manager hangs at 75% downloading updates
I have several ESXi 5.0 hosts and I have update manager running on my vcenter server. However when update manager tries to download updates the download process stops at 75% and says scanning virtual...
View ArticleCan login via web client but not via vsphere client
Hi, I've come across a strange problem. I've configured AD connectivity on vcenter server appliance with no issues. Changed root password through :5480. Changed administrator@vsphere.local through GUI...
View Article4vCPU SQL VM - add another just for OS?
Good day all.We had an issue today that cause a DB server (4 CPU SQL VM) to run at 100% CPU load. I was able to get onto the RDP session but then it was too hard to navigate around due to slow...
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Upgrade Vcenter 5.5 to Vcenter 5.5 Update 1 fails
Today I've tried to upgrade one of our vcenter servers to the the latest version being update 1. This vcenter server has version 5.5 installed and certificates have been replaced with certificates from...
View ArticleError with datastore uploader in web client
Hi all. I have a problem with uploading files via the vsphere web client. Just upload process will not start and progress is 0% all time. JavaScript console output: VMRC Probe version is:...
View ArticlevCenter Web Client on High DPI Displays
I just received a new laptop, a Lenovo W540, which comes with a 3K display. The Windows 8.1 DPI settings were great and have resolved most issues with text and images being too small. If I use IE11 to...
View ArticleESXI 5.0 HP Power agent Install. RPM not found
hey guys I am new to the ESXi Vmware command line but am picking things up quickly. we have a UPS that runs all our servers and I am wanting to add my ESXi server to the UPS auto shut-down in the event...
View ArticleEsxi 5.0 Host is marked not responding on Vcenter
Hi all, I've got this trouble when adding Esxi 5.0 host to vcenter. This host right now is already added to vcenter inventory and on maintenance mode but everytime firewall on the host is enabled, the...
View ArticleEVENT ID 1000 - VCENTER / WEBSERVICES D'ONT START !!!
friends, I have the following problem in vCenter, all services are started except the vCenter server and webservices, seen in the server logs the following error: The description for Event ID 1000...
View ArticleMethod for Change physical vCenter 5.0 W2003 to VM vCenter 5.5 W2008 R2?
Hello, I want upgrade my vcenter from 5.0 to 5.5 and in the same time i want migrate from a physical machine windows 2003 to a VM W2008 R2.I have tried like this :- Stop vmware service on vcenter 5.0-...
View ArticlevCenter Server Memory Sizing
I have a 2K8R2 VM running vCenter Server, SSO, Inventory Service and I just installed the Web client on it. With the addition of the Web client I just can't throw enough memory at this box. I've...
View ArticleIssue with Web Client after upgrade to vCenter Server 5.5 U1: Empty inventory...
Hi, after upgrading from vCenter Server 5.5 1476327 to vCenter Server 5.5 U1 1623101 (including Web Client, SSO and Inventory Service) we are no longer able to manage our infrastructure with the Web...
View ArticleVcentre server stopped reporting host resources
Hi After a complete system reboot, due to the power being turned off, on 3 hosts (not clustered) one of the hosts has stopped reporting to vCentre server correctly. I can manage VM's, start and stop...
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