Re: Need Help - Migrating from vCenter Server 4.1.0 on a Windows XP 64-bit...
yes, i've reviewed that document but it is really more geared toward upgrading the existing vcenter server (same hardware and just doing an upgrade). What I really am trying to accomplish is two fold...
View ArticleSSO problem
HI All,For some reason my SSO stopped working last night. Found this out when my backup jobs failed. After talking with the support tech, her suggestion was to reinstall all the components. My...
View ArticleRe: ESXi hosts in vCenter Server
It all depends on the host versions. Basically you can add up to 3 hosts with 2 physical CPUs each to vCenter Server for Essentials. For supported host versions, see VMware Product Interoperability...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Server 5.5 fails to start after server reboot
Hi, I got the same issue and met the errors when I started vCenter service. I found many friends got the same issue, and obviously they got the errors in different ways, I checked the my vCenter log...
View ArticleRe: ESXi hosts in vCenter Server
hi andre, thanks for your response. btw, what i mean is if i run vcsa as vm in esxi03 (host), is it possible to add esxi03 it self into vcsa?
View ArticleRe: SSO problem
Hi Super6VCA, SSO will stop working in following situations, 1. When the primary DC mentioned in the SSO Identity Source is decommissioned or down for some reason.2. When vCenter server service isn't...
View ArticleRe: ESXi hosts in vCenter Server
hi fatihsolen many thanks for your answer. will test it after the new server coming :-). thanks a lot
View ArticlevCenter alert on virtual machine with no role set
An odd request but I'd like to be able to alert/report on all virtual machines that do not have anything set for the 'role' attribute in vCentre. Is this possible?
View ArticlevMotion - Prevent migration to and from a particular DataStore
Hi guys, I wondering if it's possible to prevent vMotion from moving .vmdk files in and out of a particular vmDataStore. We have some super fast storage that we only want to store specific .vmdk files...
View ArticleRe: vMotion - Prevent migration to and from a particular DataStore
Hello, yep its possible. have you tried to implement storage profiles? vSphere 5.0: Profile-Driven Storage, what is it good for? - Yellow Bricks Thanks,Avinash
View ArticleRe: SSO problem
Well i can't really say what happened because I really don't know. We had our backup jobs fail and when we looked intot he issue we found that it was an SSO issue. Long story short, vmware suggested...
View ArticleRe: Issue vceinter update from 5.5 to 5.5a
I went through the same thing with ours and it got corrupted to the point that it wouldn't work. I had to deploy a new 5.5u1 appliance. A couple weeks later I'm having issues with java consuming all...
View ArticleVC appliance 5.5u1 - java consuming all cpu resources - is this thing ready...
Greetings, I've been running the 5.5 appliance since it was released last Sept. For the most part it worked well in our small Dev environment. I've now got a production implementation I'm working on. I...
View ArticleHelp with Host/Datastore re-assignment
Howdy all, I am attempting to move an existing Host from one Datacenter to another Datacenter (maxing out resources in one Datacenter) and remove the existing Datastores and re-assigning new...
View ArticleCustom Permissions to edit custom fields in annotations
I have a user that helps with keeping track of charge back of our virtual machines. she needs to be able to edit a custom annotation that holds the billing id for each vm. the role so far has under...
View ArticleRe: VC appliance 5.5u1 - java consuming all cpu resources - is this thing...
Opend a case with vmware... we'll see how it goes. Inventory service and vpxd. 18202 root 20 0 3792m 2.1g 9936 S 140 27.4 284:24.43 /usr/java/jre-vmware/bin/java...
View ArticlevCenter Appliance 5.5 high wait and CPU
hi guys I have a vCenter Appliance 5.5 build 1476327, which is behaving very slow, VMs takes a long time to power on for example, I see using top high CPU overall usageand wait is 70%-80% which us very...
View ArticleRe: VC appliance 5.5u1 - java consuming all cpu resources - is this thing...
We found that vflash of all things could be a culprit. I have vflash enabled on my hosts and also enabled it for the vcenter database vmdk file. Sure glad we spent the money on Enterprise Plus! VMware...
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