Re: Adding Hosts With Existing VMs to "Greenfield" DRS Enabled Cluster
I would do option C as well. Do you know with any measure of certainty that this will not delete the actual data that is stored on the pre-existing datastore when I add the hosts to the cluster?
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I can confirm that adding hosts with non registered VMs existing on their datastores to an HA/DRS cluster will not delete the VM files from the datastore and the machines can be added back after...
View ArticleGetting continous event on vCenter
Hi, We had implemented vSphere 5.1 in our environment along with heartbeat and vCOPS. Now the issue is we are getting continuous events in our vCenter server as 'Cannot login username @127.0.0.1'. I...
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Welcome to the Community - I have move your query to a more appropriate forum.
View ArticleRe: Configuration Tab
I have installed vSphere 5.5 and I cannot find the "Configuration" tab to install my evaluation license. The instructions I find at VMware online say "Select the host in the inventory, click the...
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What are you using to connect host ? VI Client or Web Client ? If your using WebClient follow below stepsClick -> Host -> Manage Tab -> Settings -> Licensing
View ArticleRe: Could not start vCenter Server appliance
Moving my vCenter Appliance's drive to NFS storage from iSCSI fixed this issue for me as well.
View ArticleRe: Adding Hosts With Existing VMs to "Greenfield" DRS Enabled Cluster
Yes, I do this operation all the time. All joining a cluster does is pool compute and memory. Has no affect on any storage operations.
View ArticleRe: Enable EVC Mode from VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Thanks for the responses guys, I will try that this weekend. I have what is now probably a couple of academic questions: I have a spare ESXi server (free version) that I could take out to the site...
View ArticleRe: Enable EVC Mode from VMware vCenter Server Appliance
You can install vCenter as either a virtual machine (either the appliance or the Windows based version) on any ESXi host you like or even on a physical Windows host. It communicates with the ESXi hosts...
View ArticleRe: Enable EVC Mode from VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Thanks Andre, I was thinking I may want a second vCenter server for redundancy. Perhaps I have not quite wrapped my head around exactly what vCenter does. Is it simply a web server for a user...
View ArticleRe: Enable EVC Mode from VMware vCenter Server Appliance
vCenter is used for a variety of management tasks. Anyway, with the storage/SAN you mentioned, it might already be sufficient to configure HA (High Availability) which will restart the VMs (including...
View ArticleRe: Create Host Profile from Reference Fails 5.5b Device Alias duplicated...
This issue is with the duplicate entry in the esx.conf file. There is a faulty entry in the esx.conf file which needs to be deleted. For Example :- /vmkdevmgr/logical/pci#p00:47:00.0#0/alias =...
View ArticleRe: Enable EVC Mode from VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Thanks for the help guys. This did the trick Jeff
View ArticleVcenter Appliance 5.5 Network
Hi All, I have vcenter 5.5 setup but when I try to manage it via the weclient it just constantly hangs (the client) I couldn't even enter the foundation license. Is there a common task that has to be...
View ArticleRe: Vcenter Appliance 5.5 Network
Assuming the prerequisites are met (e.g. DNS entries, ...) and the installation went through without issues, there shouldn't be any issue with accessing the Web Client. Do you have any Internet...
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Thanks Andre I re-installed the appliance as it crashed, the new install has no issues, only difference to this point is I haven't added any other authentication realm. thanks
View ArticleRe: The VMRC console has disconnected.. attempting to reconnect
Hi all, today I received the same error,only my Win7 workstation seems to be affected, we use a test environment with ESXi 5.5.when I try to open a console from one of our W2K8 servers, it still works,...
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Re: Unable to open console in vSphere Web Client after 5.5 upgrade.
Install Java on your client computer and it should work
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