VLAN across hosts
Hi all, I've been tasked with introducing a test environment within our virtual infrastructure. This test environment will eventually have more than 1 ESXi5 host.Currently, we have 1 data center with 2...
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In my automated build process, using orchestrator, I place VMs in a folder based on certain criteria. If each creator had there own folder you could apply the permissions at a folder level rather than...
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Welcome to the Community - You are correct the traffic will need to be tagged at some point - it can be done at the three points you indicated - You will only have to do this at on of the three points....
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Hi, You would have to configure inter-vlan routing to have VMs from different VLAN talk to each other. If you are using Cisco switches you may refer to...
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Thanks for your updates.At the end of the day, this isn't something that can be managed entirely within vCenter? It will require action at the physical switch the hosts are connected to?
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Re: vSphere Web Client on OSX no mouse pointer issue
I'm still using the web client daily and I will say at 10.9.2 it works the most consistently in Safari. The mouse pointer bug is still not fixed and I spent a lot of time trying to figure out if it...
View ArticleProperly decommissioning a VMware Data Recovery appliance?
I'm trying to decommission an old VDR 1.2 appliance, and rather than just powering it down and deleting from disk, I was wondering if there's a best practice for this. Since it's so old I'm not having...
View ArticleRe: Web Client operations very unreliable? Many tasks seem to stall or never...
After upgrading vCenter to 5.5.0, 1476327 and all hosts to 5.5.0, 1474528 (latest versions at time of download) I'm finding that some things simply don't work properly. After this type of upgrade your...
View ArticleRe: Web Client operations very unreliable? Many tasks seem to stall or never...
To update my own original post and in reply to award9051 as well: I opted to reboot our vCenter server this weekend after having so many issues. This is probably the first reboot since the upgrade...
View ArticleRe: Web Client operations very unreliable? Many tasks seem to stall or never...
I actually did reboot it about a half hour ago. I can say the "Starting Task" issues have disappeared but I'm running out of non-production VMs to upgrade tools and hardware on. I'll need to schedule...
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Most of my VMs are Linux servers, but the few Windows servers (including 2008 R2) that we run seemed fine on the automated tools upgrade. The only one giving me trouble is a Linux server that...
View ArticleScheduled Tasks One Hour Off After Change to DST
We are on vCenter Server 5.1.0 Build 1064983. Since the change to Daylight Savings Time, our scheduled tasks are running 1 hour late. We're in the Eastern Time Zone, so we went from GMT -5 to GMT -4,...
View ArticleRe: vCenter 5.5 Evaluation Licenses Expires before the 60 day Eval period
Decided to download and deploy the vCenter Appliance. Everything seems to be up and running now. Problem solved. Thanks much.
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Re: Unable to retreive health data from sps and sms - using vCSA appliance
Hello All So I ended up solving the issue myself. After a few hours of sleep and a little more banging of the head against the table I need to take the blame on myself for not reading and checking...
View ArticleAdding USB controller freezes Host
Hi community,I run in a problem when adding an usb-controller to an w2k8 host (other hosts work fine, even with an usb-controller added). When adding the usb-controller, the host freezes and finally...
View Articlenot compatible question?
When I go to the map tab on my vcenter 5.1 it shows a couple vm,s that are flagged with incompatible cpu. see screenshot. what is this telling me exactly. I have 5 esxi 4.1 servers with 2 = Athlon and...
View ArticleCannot add previous hosts to vCenter Appliance
Greetings. We are in the process of migrating our hosts to new hardware. We had three working hosts running ESXi 5.5.0-1331820 with the vCenter Appliance on one of them. Everything was working fine....
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