vSphere 5.5 web console works on windows but not mac
I'm having trouble getting the web console to work on Mac/Firefox 28. If I login on a Windows 7 PC with Firefox it works just fine. On the Win7 pc the launched url looks like this...
View ArticleUnable to assign ipaddress to virtual machine from IP Pool
Hi, I do not want to configure network details such as ip, DNS & gateway for each VM I create.So, I am trying to use vApp IP Pool. I have followed the document but I coant get it to work.When I...
View ArticleWindows2012 R2 on VCenter 5.5 gives VMware Image Customization....and waits...
While starting Windows2012 R2 from the template on VC 5.5, virtual machines it repeatedly display the message at every VMware Image Customization in progress and waits for user action for restart of...
View ArticleCustomize email alarm subject lines in vCenter Server 5.1.0?
Is there anyway to modify the subject lines for emailed alarms in vCenter Server 5.x ? I want the subject lines to include what host/VM the alert pertains to, something very similar to this:...
View ArticlevCenter 5.0 Update 2 to Update 3
Hey guys, I have 2 vcenter (1 physical and 1 virtual) servers with vmware heartbeat 6.5 clustering.My plan is to update the vcenter from update 2 to update 3. What would be procedures be?1 - Do i need...
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 ArticlevSphere Authentication Proxy and Auto Deploy
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.install.doc%2FGUID-EA920335-2608-4127-9B57-DB3809BA4BB9.html Hello, I am attempting to use Authentication proxy to add hosts...
View ArticleChanging tomcat http port per vmware instructions, still yields error
According to this doc, vSphere 5.5 Documentation Center I should be able to change the http tomcat port. But, after I do, I see the errors below. I am guessing there are some other conf files to...
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 Articlecan not install vcenter 5.5
Hello, I can not install my vCenter Server. I already install vCenter Single Sign On but when install Web Client, Inventory Services..it is required Single Sign On then i enter the password i got the...
View ArticlevCenter Server Appliance 5.5 won't join AD domain
I am trying to join vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 to Windows Server 2012 AD domain authentication but I am getting following error messageAD Authentication settingsError: Invalid hostname. FQDN is...
View Articleusing ip pools to assign ipaddress dynamically
Hi does using ippools to assign IP address to virtual machine dynamically with vapp options and properties require a 'glue code' ThanksHarshit
View ArticleVmware Horizon to Vcenter
I currently have an environment that involves using teradici thin clients to connect to a horizon view broker. On the vm that is displayed to the end user there is the vcenter client installed, as...
View ArticleHow to migrate from 32bit vcentre server to a new 64 bit VM
Hi all I am upgrading to vcentre 5.5 Our existing vcentre server is win server 2003 32bit. I have created a new VM running server 2008r2 64bit and done an install of vcentre 5.5 on it. What is the...
View ArticleResource Pools
Hi Guys, I've read a few blogs on resource pools and got a bit confused. Basically we want to use resource pools to control customer resources. We have a total of 264 GHZ of CPU and 2TB of RAM. If for...
View ArticleVM intermittetly responds to ping requests
Good afternoon all, I am running a ESXi 5.5 environment U1 with vCentre 5.5, we have around 20 servers deployed over 3 hosts (This is a 3 week old deployment). I have an exchnage 2013 mailbox server...
View ArticleSharing Datastores across vCenters
Hi, I have two parallel clusters. One in vSphere 4.1 and the other in 5.5. I need to migrate all the VMs from 4.1 to 5.5. Can I share the LUNs in 4.1 cluster with the cluster in 5.5 cluster so when...
View ArticlevCenter New installation
Hi There, I have setup a VM machine with Windows 2012 64 Bit Standard which is called vCenter on a Workgroup. I am trying to install vCenter 5.5 but having a few problems. I have gone with custom...
View ArticleHost Profile Network Disconnect with Autodeploy
I am using Autodeploy to deploy hosts in the environment (5.5). The server has a DHCP reservation and seems to pick that up without issue. When it goes to apply the host profile, the host reboots and...
View ArticleHow do I move a single virtual disk form one data store to a different data...
I have one host running vSphere 4 enterprise that is part a a vCenter 5.5 foundation cluster. I need to move all the guests off this host to upgrade it. This host has a guest that is using the local...
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