Re: Snapshots?
It actually depends on the reason for the snapshot. If it's for testing where you plan to revert to the original state, then I it's usually better to do this with the powered off VM. This does not only...
View ArticleRe: Vsphere Web client and fat client cannot connect to Vcenter server...
The issue with not being able to access settings is a known issue , however they dont tell you how to access those advanced vcenter settings with the vsphere client. Can you please forward instructions...
View ArticleWhat are the steps to upgrade from vCenter/vSphere 5.0 Essentials Plus to...
We currently have VMWare Essentials Plus on 3 hosts, with 2CPU's each. We wanted to add 2 more ESX hosts, so we upgraded our license to Standard for vCenter/vSphere to version 5.5. We're trying to...
View ArticleRe: vCenter 5.5 certificate replacement issue
What special character are you using in your SSO password? I take this as a given but better ask than be sorry afterwasrds: FP-CSVC01.domain.loc is actually in the subject alternate names of your SSO...
View ArticleRe: What are the steps to upgrade from vCenter/vSphere 5.0 Essentials Plus to...
5.0 and 5.5 should use the same keys. So start by adding the new license key to your vCenter server so you are able to manage more than 3 hosts. Next step would be to update the vCenter server to 5.5...
View ArticleRe: vCenter 5.5 certificate replacement issue
Frank... The only special character is a single exclamation point which I believe is a supported character. I tried doing a vCenter 5.1 install with the same password and made it past this point. The...
View ArticleRe: vCenter 5.5 certificate replacement issue
This usually means that you don't have the correct subject alternate name in your certificate, did you include the IP? If yes, can you ran the same command but use the IP address instead of the fqdn?...
View ArticleHow to make snapshot of a VM with prohibitively large 'Mapped Raw LUN' disk?
We have a fileserver VM, which has a 7TB SAN disk attached as 'Mapped Raw LUN'.I am unable to make a snapshot from this VM due to the large disk (a D:\ disk in Windows OS, non-system, data only). Is...
View ArticleRe: vCenter 5.5 unattended installation documentation?
Looks like you have a space in your installation location. Either use quotes, or change the directory name you are pointing at so that it doesn't have any spaces. Let me know how it goes. Also, I see...
View ArticleRe: How to make snapshot of a VM with prohibitively large 'Mapped Raw LUN' disk?
How about changing the RDM LUN to Independent-Persistent mode? This way it will be excluded in snapshot operation.
View ArticleRe: vCSA 5.5.0a - Users with spaces are unable to authenticate
I can confirm that I am seeing this issue with all our AD users on cventer 5.5 u02 build 1623101 (latest vApp version with latest patch).I upgraded all of our VMware hosts to 5.5 latest patches at the...
View ArticleRe: vCSA 5.5.0a - Users with spaces are unable to authenticate
Slight correction, vcenter is at: Appliance Version:5.5.0.10000 Build 1624811 (update 1)
View ArticleRe: vCSA 5.5.0a - Users with spaces are unable to authenticate
No update on this. I filled out a "Feature Request", and have been trying to escalate the issue after they closed the ticket. Were you using the vCenter Appliance before and spaces in usernames...
View ArticleRe: vCSA 5.5.0a - Users with spaces are unable to authenticate
Yes. Work on vcenter apliance 5.1. I don't fancy having to change the usernames of all our users so that they can login to vcenter. (Before anyone asks - I am not to thrilled that we use spaces in...
View ArticleRe: vCSA 5.5.0a - Users with spaces are unable to authenticate
Wow, I can't believe VMware hasn't said this is a bug then since it worked in prior versions of vCSA. My old vCenter is version 5.1 running on Windows without this issue, so I thought it was related...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 Console through proxy
Hello. Essentially we have a 5.5 Cluster setup that works great. Local access works fine from terminals on the network. However remote users access the network typically via proxy over an SSH tunnel....
View ArticleRe: vCenter 5.5 Console through proxy
The problem with the WebClient Remote Console is that it doesn't connect through the WebClient Server as one would think, but instead connects directly to the ESXi host the VM is running on (on Port...
View ArticleRe: vCenter 5.5 Console through proxy
So I will treat this as two different issues then... vSphere vCenter Web VM Console vs. vCloud VM Console Interesting development... On my Windows7 test system... I upgraded my IE to IE11. Noted that...
View ArticleAdding/Viewing ESX hosts local datastore in vCenter
Hey all, I'm glad to join these forms and hope I don't get shot down for not having a VM cert (I'm trying hard to find out where and how to get it) I have recently graduated with a Network Managing...
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