Re: Licensing Question...
Few points here. 1. You can connect 5.x ESXi only to 5.x vCenter, you cannot add them to 4.x vCenter.2. Whenever you perform upgrade, it is suggested to first upgrade the vCenter and then the ESXi...
View ArticleRe: Windows Server 2012 _R2_, when will VCenter 5.5 support it?
Ah, sorry. That wasn't quite clear. I'll try it out and see what I get.
View ArticleRe: Deployment of a 2008 R2 template, without sysprep?
The sysprep steps seem to take a lot of time and I have not done it for my VMs(maybe around 20 servers) over past couple of years. Just did not know if I should send out an email and advise other...
View ArticleRe: Error when install VCENTER 5.5
Hello, MSI (c) (DC:F8) [16:58:49:060]: SOFTWARE RESTRICTION POLICY: E:\vCenter-Server\VMware vCenter Server.msi is permitted to run at the 'unrestricted' authorization level.MSI (c) (DC:F8)...
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Error when install VCENTER 5.5
Hi, I try to install a vcenter server 5.5 over w2008 R2 and I found an error and the installation go to rollback action. I see the log but I didn't found the problem. Can yo help me please? I'm...
View ArticlevCenter Virtual Appliance - Certificate Regeneration
Hi,Our new VCSA 5.5b dumped it's SSL certificate earlier this week so I turned to the option to regenerate certificates as we are just using self signed ones. This worked fine after the reboot except...
View ArticlevCenter Server fails to start after reboot
I recently experienced an issue where my vCenter Server Service failed to start upon reboot. After examination of the vpxd.log I noticed the vCenter service was being forced to shut down due to a port...
View ArticleRe: Why every domain user can login to vcenter appliance via vsphere web client?
You did not misconfigure anything. I noticed the same thing and for the life of me could not figure out how to change this behavior. So I put in a ticket with VMware support. The answer I got back...
View ArticleRe: Why every domain user can login to vcenter appliance via vsphere web client?
*Addendum* We modified the Base DN and the Group Base DN of the domain identity source to a specific OU. That does not prevent any and all domain accounts from establishing a session with the vSphere...
View ArticleSSO conundrum
So the entire issue is as follows: Classic situation where information was not documented accurate and the Master SSO admin@system-online password was lost.I discovered this when I went to upgrade...
View ArticleRe: how to restore a Distributed virtual switch.
The answer to this was found in Vcenter 5.1 where there is an option to backup the DV switch . i have logged this bug few years back with vmware and this is fixed in vcenter 5.1 .
View ArticleRe: Why every domain user can login to vcenter appliance via vsphere web client?
Hi It is very good, that you replayed to my question.In that time I was sure, that I missed something. I will also open case on Vmware for that because I am not and I will not agree that "This is...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Server Service is not starting
Please try these things... To troubleshoot the VMware VirtualCenter Server service when it does not start or fails:Note: If you perform a corrective action in any of the following steps, attempt to...
View ArticleRe: vCenter appliance CPU Usage
Same problem here : excessive login/logout of VDP to vcenter increase vpx_event table size.A simple workaround is to reduce events retention policy to 1 day on vCenter Server Settings and wait few hour...
View Article2 independent vCenter Servers in one Active Direcory Domain
Hello, we may want to move all our ESXi servers with VMs to a new vCenter Server as the old one already had multiple updates installed.Is it possible to install another independent vCenter Server in...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Server Service is not starting
Dear Manfred & Jellas,Thank you for reply. Manfred, I have reconfigure the dependency service of vCenter Server against the SQL Server entry (Remove the entry ".\VIM_SQLEXP" and type the "...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Storage Monitoring Service Service Initialization failed after...
Hi all, Thanks for the tips but i always have the problem. My Datastore name contain 1 underscore but remove it didn't solve the problem.
View ArticleRun Command on Alarm Trigger
Hey everyone, I am looking for a method to run a perfstat command on our N-Series controller when a trigger is set off in vmware. I know that seems a bit intense but I have made a batch file that will...
View ArticleRe: 2 independent vCenter Servers in one Active Direcory Domain
Hi, Yes, if you are using different name and IP address. RegardsMohammed Emaad
View ArticleWeek long headache with CA signed certificates on VCSA 5.5
After a week of deploying VCSA 5.5 over and over again, probably 18 times, and seeing what must be every SSL related error possible, I am asking advice here for those who may have stumbled through this...
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