Re: Adding/Viewing ESX hosts local datastore in vCenter
Welcome to the Community - I would try removing the host from vCenter and reading to see if you can see the local storage.
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I am currently involved in an evaluation project for Hypervisor 5.5 and vCenter. Existing are 2 physical servers with redundant everything and 8 SAS hot swap hard drive bays. Initially, of the 8 bays...
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Can the 2 hosts ping each other? Also, vi the /etc/hosts file on the vCenter server and the ESXi server adding the addresses of the other machine as: XX.XX.XX.XX hostname to make sure both...
View ArticleRe: "Reset Alarm to Green" not available
I had the same issue, and I just resolve it. I have a VM with CPU usage alarm.I can "Acknowledge Triggered Alarms", but there's no "Reset Alarm to Green" option when right click the alarm. In...
View ArticleRe: SSO fails to start after upgrading to vCenter 5.1 Update 2
Hi, Did you mange to get this sorted?If you delete the jre folders it wont upgrade because the SSO service is stopped and the upgrade cant start with this services stopped.Is it best to uninstall SSO...
View ArticleRe: SSO fails to start after upgrading to vCenter 5.1 Update 2
For me was posible xD I stopped ALL vmware services, not only SSO, all of them (vcenter, web interface, etc...), deleted JRE folder, and started the upgrade without problems.If you uninstall SSO (I...
View ArticleRe: Adding Hosts With Existing VMs to "Greenfield" DRS Enabled Cluster
When you add the host to the cluster with that first option it is just saying to import all the registered machines etc into the "root" of the cluster instead of using existing resource pools. It...
View ArticleRe: Adding/Viewing ESX hosts local datastore in vCenter
Hey, Thanks for the reply. Just to Note HA is currently enabled on vCenter... and Should I disconnect, or actually remove it.. and is there a difference? 1) Disable HA2) disconnect/remove ESX 2 from...
View ArticleRe: Adding Hosts With Existing VMs to "Greenfield" DRS Enabled Cluster
Thanx Mark. I understand the doc that you sent me, which speaks to the last point, in that I have not registered the existing virtual machines in the 5.5 yet in anticipation of testing the vstorage. I...
View ArticleRe: Adding Hosts With Existing VMs to "Greenfield" DRS Enabled Cluster
I guess i am confused on what you mean implement vstorage. Are you talking about reformatting it to a VMFS datastore? If so, I would take option 1 and do a cold migration onto the new storage and then...
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Re: Adding Hosts With Existing VMs to "Greenfield" DRS Enabled Cluster
I was referring to this: VMware vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) for Shared Storage, but I guess I meant to say Virtual San) - wow the site is changing quickly these days.
View ArticleRe: Adding Hosts With Existing VMs to "Greenfield" DRS Enabled Cluster
I am trying to see if there would be any benefit from implementing a 2 host failover/HA cluster and if the DRS would give any practical benefit over the current hypervisor only configuration of 2 hosts...
View ArticleRe: Adding Hosts With Existing VMs to "Greenfield" DRS Enabled Cluster
Well, VSAN requires at least 3 servers, at least 1 SSD and 1 HDD. So, i don't think you can use that with your current setup of 2 hosts.VMware KB: vSphere 5.5 Virtual SAN requirements On another...
View ArticleRe: Adding Hosts With Existing VMs to "Greenfield" DRS Enabled Cluster
Yeah, I was reading that myself. It looks like on the new product the requirements have changed. Before there was a lot of docs about setting up a 2 node cluster with vStorage acting as the third...
View ArticleRe: Adding/Viewing ESX hosts local datastore in vCenter
Could server ESXi2 local storage be formatted with VMFS3 from an upgrade situation? Did you ever see the local storage in ESXi2 in the cluster storage in vcenter or never? Also, have you previously...
View ArticleRe: SSO fails to start after upgrading to vCenter 5.1 Update 2
It seems that since the move was made away from vCenter server running on top of a Windows box and towards a standalone appliance (.ova import) the thinking is that the server is becoming like a...
View ArticleRe: Adding Hosts With Existing VMs to "Greenfield" DRS Enabled Cluster
I would go with option C. VSAN i would agree has some silly requirements, but what they were aiming for is almost enterprise class SAN at a decent price by using SSD's for caching like arrays, but like...
View ArticleEnable EVC Mode from VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Hello, I am fairly new to vSphere. I have two hosts running ESXi 5.1 One of those hosts is running the "VMware vCenter Server Appliance" with vSphere version 5.5. I currently have a single cluster...
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Re: Enable EVC Mode from VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Hi welcome to the communities, this one is a bit tricky You have to: 1. Power down all VMs on Host1 (while vCenter Appliance is on Host2)2. Move Host1 to Cluster, enable EVC in cluster.3. Power down...
View ArticleRe: Enable EVC Mode from VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Welcome to the Community, what you may need to do is:create a cluster and add the second host (the one with no powered on VMs)use the vSphere Client and connect directly to the host on which vCenter...
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