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Re: vCenter Server 5 Foundation HA

The vCenter Server Foundation license only limits the number of ESXi hosts which can be managed. Other features like HA are not limited. André

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Examining ESX server logs to determine vCenter Shudown?

I'm not familiar with VMWare however examining a situation where we need to determine if the vCenter at an office was shutdown.  The only data I have right now are logs from the ESX servers.Any ideas...

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Re: Examining ESX server logs to determine vCenter Shudown?

is it VCVA (Appliance) or windows VC? 

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Re: Catch-22 - how does one edit the vcenter server VM if you have already...

Thanks!NK

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Re: Shorten wait time before powering on host (Distributed Power Management)

Although your information is correct and I understand it, it's not to the point regarding my question (except for using iLO/IPMI/WoL and comparing these). Since it's a white-box lab without...

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Re: Examining ESX server logs to determine vCenter Shudown?

Well would be easier if you had the logs from the vCenter server itself  You can have a look at the /var/log/vpxa.log on the ESXi side and look for timeouts and backtraces as this is the service on the...

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Re: Examining ESX server logs to determine vCenter Shudown?

VCVA.I've reviewed the various KB articles on vCenter Logs "Location of vCenter Server log files (1021804)" but believe I'm looking for a needle in a haystack.We know something occurred that obstructed...

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Re: Examining ESX server logs to determine vCenter Shudown?

Hey, if you know on which host the vCenter was running, you could check the /var/log/hostd.log of the esxi for events. Tim

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Re: Examining ESX server logs to determine vCenter Shudown?

Thank you Tim, the vCenter is running on a dedicated appliance and the logs given to us do not contain any hostd.log

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Re: Examining ESX server logs to determine vCenter Shudown?

Thank you Frank, just saw your reply and exactly the path I was following.Having restored the vCenter post-incident before anyone else could get a look at it drastically hinders our ability to identify...

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Re: Catch-22 - how does one edit the vcenter server VM if you have already...

One option was forgotten, if you are using the windows vCenter server then you enable hot add on the VM then you don't have to shut it down to add more RAM or CPU.  That is the easiest in this situation.

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VM memory usage:

Hi All, In one of client environment they have following VM: -128 GB memory assigned to vm ( Host has 256 GB memory, no over commitment)-Running SQL and Reserve memory inside the Windows OS for SQL...

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Re: Host memory usage , when host is not in over committment state

Please find the screenshot, Host has 255 GB memory and no overcommittment 

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Re: VM memory usage:

Active memory shows memory that is being actively used by the guest OS and its applications so even if you reserve all 128 GB in the OS if it is not being used it will not be recognized by vCenter - at...

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Re: VM memory usage:

Weinstein, Can you provide some reference doc or white paper, it would be helpful, Since I explained same stuff to my client. Still he is looking for pointers. Thanks-A

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Re: Shorten wait time before powering on host (Distributed Power Management)

There are no other options to customize DPM behavior than I specified in last update at the moment. To incorporate your requirement, I suggest you to raise the feature request with your experiments....

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NPE on apputils ServiceConnection.connect

We are using the vSphere 5.0 Web Services SDK for Java (the most current version seems to be released on 2011-08-22) to connect to our vCenter server 5.1.0 (build 947673)When doing a...

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Can't add ESXi host to vCenter Server

Hello, I created a home setup of a VMware datacenter for studying purposes. I currently have 2 virtual machines: one with an ESXi host and one with vCenter Server Appliance deployed on it.I configured...

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High cpu usage on newly created 5.5 vcenter (build 1623101)

Hi Admins! I dont understand why my newly created vcenter use to much cpu resources.Java(TM) Platform Binary uses 50% of cpu resources Environment:6 ESX hosts (5.5)1 virtual vcenter (5.5)150 VMs My...

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Re: High cpu usage on newly created 5.5 vcenter (build 1623101)

So the crook seems to be the vmware inventory service.When i stopped it cpu went drastically down. Is it normal that the inventory service uses this much cpu? Regardstylor 

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