Re: VMware vSphere Web Client - migrate option greyed out
There is probably some VM configuration in place that prevents vMotion.Please check Virtual Machine Configuration Requirements for vMotion in the vSphere Client.Do these VMs e.g. use raw disks?Can you...
View ArticleRe: Upgrading vCenter to 5.1, certificates expired
Thanks this is very detailed. The same exact thing happened to me, When renamed the SSl certficate folder and continued with the deployment, it failed while upgrading the database. I will try the above...
View ArticleRe: Creating a Host profile gives error "Unexpected language"
FIX :- If you have to login into the ESXi 5.0 Shell and the keyboard layout is not the one you are used to this post will show how to quickly change it.As always in vSphere 5 we are going to use esxcli...
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Extra Disk Created during Clone/Sysprep for Windows Server 2012
I am running vSphere 5.1 with all patches applied to everything. When Windows Server 2012 was RTMed I started building a primary server to use for clones for all of our other ones. This worked fine...
View ArticleRe: Extra Disk Created during Clone/Sysprep for Windows Server 2012
Do you see any disks in the Edit settings of the VM ? Do you see anything interesting here C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\Panther
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Re: vSphere HA detected a possible host failure of this host
Hi, Had the same issue with a lab created from cloned esxi hosts; Everything seemed ok until i tried to enable HA and than I got errors like:Reconfigure vSphere HA host Operation timed out.Cannot...
View ArticleRe: vSphere HA detected a possible host failure of this host
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View ArticleRe: Creating a Host profile gives error "Unexpected language"
Thanks for your answer. This solved my problem. It seemed that the keyboard layout was not set on our hosts. I used the following PowerCLI command to set the keyboard layout on all of our vSphere 5...
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Re: Extra Disk Created during Clone/Sysprep for Windows Server 2012
As a followup to my post, here are the settings and disk from my original template: From here, I convert to template and deploy from template. Select standard cluster settings, etc, and at the final...
View ArticleRe: Extra Disk Created during Clone/Sysprep for Windows Server 2012
An issue with VSS providers maybe...? Leaving disks behind with a size of 0MB is seen before... An example here: http://forum.commvault.com/forums/thread/22998.aspxWe use CommVault too, but I've not...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 Linked Mode Question
Hello, Please excuse for any points missed as I am a newbie trying to learn vSphere in lab environment. I have two vCenter servers VC01 and VC02. VC01 being the primary. I was able to successfully...
View ArticleRe: vCenter 5.1 Linked Mode Question
What you are seeing is how Linked Mode works. I don't know of a way to get all VMs from both vCenters into a single inventory object that could be viewed.
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 lab environment without AD
Hi guys, I am attempting to perform a sanity check of our vCenter 5.1 server to the most recent version of 5.1. To accomplish this I have created an isloated lab and cloned the production vCenter and...
View ArticleRe: vCenter 5.1 Linked Mode Question
There is no way to get the same Inventory in both the vcenters. Basically we can add the host only to 1 VC at a given point of time. If you want a redundancy the better option to go for vcenter...
View ArticleRe: vCenter 5.1 Linked Mode Question
Thanks JD. When you say replication, could that be having a vCenter installed as a VM and setup F/T for it? Thanks.
View ArticleRe: vCenter 5.1 Linked Mode Question
Here you go for more information http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/09/17/back-to-basics-install-configure-and-use-vsphere-replication/VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 Documentation Library
View ArticleWeird login issue specific account
hi guysI have vCenter Appliance 5.1 U1a build 1123961Active Directory W2012 I have this account for read-only access - controlit - . All of a sudden the person reported he was not able to log in error:...
View ArticleRe: vCenter is going down regularly due to Oracle DB Temp table space issue.
Same issue here.It started happen when I add a VDP appliance on vSPhere 5.1.U1. what is the script you are running to clean the temp tablespace? I have a sql snippet to monitor the issue.select...
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