Re: Manually remove vSphere Client (ESXi 5.1) from a crashed vSphere Server 5...
Hi, Before I tried it, I did a recovery of the OS from a point at which vCentre had been removed. Re-installed vCentre and then added the hosts back into it. There were a couple of warnings with the...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 - Wizard/Config fails
Hello Guys,I go the same same problem but still not able to get a vmware server appliance over vmware workstation 8.0 when deploying the wizzard I getover database and sso field: Failed to execute...
View ArticleRe: How to make an HP EVA controller visible to a VM?
I went back and forth on this and could never get anything better than "Please setup VMDirectPath" after extensive discussion with HP. I'm aware that's a terrible answer because it means you can't then...
View ArticleRe: 3 vCenter SSO with single site or multi site ?
Two/more VC can be in linked mode if they are all pointing to the same SSO. Its not necessary to have multiple SSO servers to enable linked mode. RegardsGirish
View ArticleRe: VCenter 5.1 update 1 upgrade fails with "insert disk 1", now vcenter...
Hi ....had the same error at a customer today. Solution is as stated above to copy installation DVD to a disc and install from there. RegardsAndré
View ArticleRe: 3 vCenter SSO with single site or multi site ?
Hi,Ok.....On analysing I conclude that I will go with multisite SSO , which will help me to connect all 3 vCenter in a link mode as well as for future perspective if SRM comes in my environment then...
View ArticleRe: 3 vCenter SSO with single site or multi site ?
Good points from the other posters. You don't have to have multiple SSO servers for all the sites, but if you are going to, then you would need multisite mode. I should have stated that a little...
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Transferring Files From Windows Server to ESXi Host(s)
I'm trying to following the instructions HERE so that I can install the HP ESXi Utilities Offline Bundle for ESXi 5.0 and (hopefully) fix an iLO issue I'm having. Upfront, no I can not go to the host,...
View ArticleRe: Transferring Files From Windows Server to ESXi Host(s)
I would just use the datastore browser in the vSphere Client to upload the files to a datastore of the host. - Andreas
View ArticleRe: How to make an HP EVA controller visible to a VM?
This is pretty discouraging news - I have an open incident with both HP and VMware at this point, and am going back and forth. I'll post an update when there is one. In the meantime, VM Direct Path -...
View ArticlevCenter Database retention Policy when does it take effect
I am running low on my vcenter space. If I set database retention policy to 6 months, does it take immediately remove tasks and events older than 6 months, or does it just mark any new task and event...
View ArticlevCenter Appliance Stops working
hi guys all of a sudden my vCenter Appliance 5.0.0-455964 stops working I mean it works it stops and sometimes I have to reboot it or I just need to restart the vcenter service but most of the time I...
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Re: vCenter Appliance Stops working
For the log location and how to access the log file from the GUI, see VMware KB: Location of vCenter Server log files.If you do have an active support contract with VMware, consider to open a support...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Appliance Stops working
Would help if you could generate the log bundle for the appliance and share it across VMware KB: Collecting diagnostic information for VMware vCenter Server
View ArticleRe: vCenter Database retention Policy when does it take effect
Hi Stan, The DB retention policy will not help as the DB would be purged when the next roll up jobs and purge scripts are configured to run. You could try a manual purge of data beyond a certain...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Database retention Policy when does it take effect
thanks A, how often does vcenter run the purge scripts? is it an automatic process or configurable? i can run the manual purge as well.
View ArticleRe: vCenter Database retention Policy when does it take effect
Hey Stan, Purge scripts are set to run once a year, once a month, once a week and once a day as there are four procedures that run both to collect and purge data. You can manually run the purge by just...
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