vSphere 5.5 SSO and AD Authentication
I recently upgraded from vSphere 5.1 to 5.5 and have not been able to get AD Authentication working right. In the Web console as the 'vsphere.local' admin, I set up the Active Directory Identity...
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Hi folodia,Welcome to the communities! If the item you placed on the ESXi host's datastore is an ISO file, you can simply right click the VM, Edit Settings and configure the CDROM drive of the VM to...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Storage Monitoring Service Service Initialization failed after...
Hi, I'm in the same boat. I've upgraded from 5.0 to 5.5 and the sms.log file hasn't been updated since the night my upgrade. I've tried both steps above, but neither has made any difference. Does...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Storage Monitoring Service Service Initialization failed after...
@six4rm @goyer Check if any of your datastores names contain special characters like $, # or &, correct it and restart the VMware Profile-Driven Storage service. It should fix your problem, it...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Storage Monitoring Service initialization fails in vCenters with...
@ rcporto - thanks, we're within those and all other limits published in the max config docs@ ph2013 - thanks for the update. Have VMware actually confirmed the >1200 datatores as being the...
View ArticleI can ssh to vCenter server (VCSA 5.5) using putty, but not my normal ssh...
I was working with support to be able to ssh to the our vCenter 5.5 VCSA. No matter what account we were trying to reach, we would immediately get a popup saying: "Server responded: Algorithm...
View ArticleRe: SSO fails to start after upgrading to vCenter 5.1 Update 2
VC5.1 U1a & VC5.1 U1c use the same JRE and hence upgrade is smooth & not likely to hit JRE issues. VC5.1 U2 has a higher version of JRE update which I think requires right JRE folder.
View ArticleNo Inventory in WebClient (while vSphere Client is fine)
I am a VMWare Newbe.I installed VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5.0b released. (followed the TinkerTry instructions Deploy VMware's vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 in a home lab, without SSO...
View ArticleRe: No Inventory in WebClient (while vSphere Client is fine)
Log in into the Web client using username root and password vmware and to see the inventory.If its not showing up with root the you can login into Web client using administrator@vsphere.local and the...
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Re: No Inventory in WebClient (while vSphere Client is fine)
Thanks for your quick answer. I locked on as administrator@vsphere.local and its the exact same situation like root. No inventory.(I can only see 2 extensions vServiceManager, vSphere Esx AgentManager)...
View ArticleRe: No Inventory in WebClient (while vSphere Client is fine)
With what user did you login into the vSphere client and add the DC and the host?
View ArticleRe: No Inventory in WebClient (while vSphere Client is fine)
It was all done with the "root" user.
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Re: No Inventory in WebClient (while vSphere Client is fine)
Is this maybe of any help?"Cannot obtain asset properties from vCenter Server query service"? What could be the reason for that?
View ArticleAnyway to get a weblink active in the MOTD ?
In the MOTD when logging into VC is there anyway to get a weblick so that its "clickable" in the Message of the day ?
View ArticleRe: No Inventory in WebClient (while vSphere Client is fine)
Sometimes the webclient will fail to sync the inventory from the vcenter.Restart the Services and try once. also check this KB articleVMware KB: Resetting the VMware vCenter Server 5.x Inventory...
View ArticleRe: Can't use Remote Console in Web Client: "SSL verification failure for...
Hi! I suppose this isn't a current issue anymore, but I'm answering anyway in case anyone else experiences this issue.I ran into this when testing an IPv6 setup. It occured once I configured an A and...
View ArticleCreating a cluster
I am researching how to create a cluster with our existing esxi host. I have 4 host with different version of 4 and 5. I was just wondering if there are any gotchas. My plan is that i want to upgrade...
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That is pretty much it - but you will have to start with vCenter 5 so you can manage all the hosts. I am also moving this to the vCenter forum as clusters are a vCenter feature
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 Integrated Auth 2012 Compatibility
Hi, we are interested in upgrading our AD domand and forest functional levels to 2012 R2. Before doing so, however, we want to check to see if VMware VirtualCenter 5.1.0 build-1235232 is compatible...
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