Re: DRS powered on a VM with VM Monitoring disabled
DRS has nothing to do with powering ON the VM. Something else may be involved. Even HA itself will not power on the VM
View ArticlevCenter Server Appliance checking for update hangs
Hey all, I just wanted to update a vCSA appliance. Unfortunately it hangs in the status "Checking for aivailable updates..." as has no internet access. I changed the settings to CD-ROM updates,...
View ArticleRe: CPU Ready% Alarm
Thanks vNEX. I did a bit of experimentation that seems to confirm the alarms are based on the 20 second real-time collection intervals (which does make sense)...it's just a little off-putting that the...
View ArticleRe: Cannot see Hardware Status of Host ESXi 5.5 anymore in Web client 5.5.
I have a couple of test Dell R710 hosts (running ESX4.1U2) and I cannot see the Hardware Status neither on vSphere CLient nor on WebClient..... Restarting sfcbd service did NOT fix...... Which ESX(i)...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Appliance syslog rotation
Any news on this? We're in the process directing all host syslog files to our vCenter Server Appliance. Within a week or two, logging on the appliance filled up. Surely there are retention policies...
View ArticleRe: Cannot see Hardware Status of Host ESXi 5.5 anymore in Web client 5.5.
ESXi 5.5. I also have ESX4.0 at another location all running on R710's , hardware status works on all. You have to install the Dell OM stuff I believe to get it to work. Would really like to get this...
View ArticleVcenter Appliance 5.5 Single point of failure
Hey All, How do you get around using the Vcenter appliance and it not be a single point of failure? We rely on Vcenter heavily and downtime is unacceptable? There isno way to build a clustered...
View ArticleRe: How to add an ESXi 4.1 in a vCenter 5.5?
Sorry to revive an older post but we are about to do the same. We have two (Dell R710 and Dell R720) ESXi hosts running 4.1 and a seperate server thats running the vSphere client for both which is 4.1....
View ArticleRe: Vcenter Appliance 5.5 Single point of failure
Hey, when you run the appliance on a host inside a HA-cluster, the vCenter is protected by HA, as HA runs (once it its configured using vCenter) fully on the hosts and doesn't need vCenter to work....
View ArticleRe: Vcenter Appliance 5.5 Single point of failure
The best way to avoid failure is to backup the server or the DB frequently. This will let you restore the server when something goes wrong, Yes there is no way to do clstering of vCSA AFAIK.
View ArticleRe: Vcenter Appliance 5.5 Single point of failure
In addition to the earlier suggestions, you can think on vSphere replication/back & recovery or SRM if your datacenters are spanned across sites....
View ArticleBreaking a HA-DRS cluster in two cluster
Hi, My client has 13 node cluster which has two generation of servers and all servers are running windows. Server generation A (7 Servers): 24 logical CPU and 192 GB RAMServer generation B(6 Servers):...
View ArticleRe: Vcenter Appliance 5.5 Single point of failure
SRM is best solution in that case. Site replication and good bandwidth can reduce RTO as well. -A
View ArticleRe: Breaking a HA-DRS cluster in two cluster
HiAs long as the Clusters are in the same Datacenter (vCenter Datacenter), you do not need to reconfigure DVS.I did host & cluster movement / break for a couple of times before in a production...
View ArticleRe: Breaking a HA-DRS cluster in two cluster
Thanks for detailed explanation. Completely agree, in Same DC, we don't need to create any DVS as well. VMs are not need to migrate is not requirement, Since even in different Cluster, still vlans and...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Server Appliance checking for update hangs
Hello Tim, I would take a look at the log file in opt/vmware/var/log/vami/updatecli.logDo you have enough disk space on VCSA for update process? Regards,P.
View ArticleRe: vCenter Server Appliance checking for update hangs
Hello vNEX, Thanks for your answer. I already checked for that log.It doesn't exist yet as the update process didn't start start.HDD space is also available.
View ArticleRe: vCenter Server Appliance checking for update hangs
Only a thought. Maybe the current issue is related to the fact that checking for updates over the Internet was started without Internet access, which may have caused a process to hang or even die!? IMO...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Server Appliance checking for update hangs
Hey André, that's what I did. Selected CD ROM, rebooted the appliance. But it still says checking for updates after the reboot. Even though I didn't click the search button. Tim
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