IPMI Requirements in vCenter 5.0
Greetings, We are chasing down the use of IPMI with in our organization in response to a CERT security bulletin - TA13-207A: IPMI TechAlert. I see where IPMI can be used on the host with regard to...
View ArticleRemoved LUNs still showing on one FC path
Hi, I have a vmware cluster with 4 hosts running ESXi 5 upd2. Recently i have removed some LUNs and i have noticed that in the Storage Adapters section, for two hosts, on one FC card on each host,...
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Did you remove/unpresent the LUNs without first detaching them from each of the hosts?Were these LUNs used/formatted as VMFS datastores? André
View ArticleRe: Removed LUNs still showing on one FC path
Hi. Yes i have deleted them first. And rescanned the HBA on the hosts. If i try to rescan the HBA it takes forever and returns an error.Can this be fixed somehow?Best regards!
View ArticleRe: Removed LUNs still showing on one FC path
Hi. I get: An error occurred while communicating with the host. Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryAvailableDiskForVmfs" for object "datastoreSystem-31" on vCenter Server <server_name> failed.
View ArticleOld Sessions
Anyone else see really old sessions in the vSphere client? There are so many connections, even my own not too mention other admins' connections... I have some in there over 30 days old. Does vCenter...
View ArticleRe: Removed LUNs still showing on one FC path
What i did was to restart the host. I did manage to log on to the vms, take them down and power them up on another host. After that:Reactivate the zone on the san switch for the affected hosts. Take...
View ArticleRe: Distributed switch problem
Thanks, the issue came up for me in esxi 5.1. Remove hidden vmkernel port through command line and re-add kernels and iscsi bindings. ~ # esxcli network ip interface listvmk0 Name: vmk0 Enabled:...
View Articlelogin issues with vSphere client
Hello Everyone,I am working on an issue that I was interested in getting some feedback on. We have a new installation of vCenter 5.1 that we are working with. However, we are having issues logging in...
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Is that vCenter server configured with DNS servers pointing at domain controllers (and only domain controllers).
View ArticleRe: Some VMs not showing in vcenter
guys i have a similar problem as well with 1 VM. I have had to migrate our vCenter VM from Hyper-V to ESXi so I used the vmware convertor but I had to migrate it a an ESXi host that wasn't added to...
View ArticleRe: Workaround for long update delay on vCenter Server Appliance
Thanks for posting this! Ran into this problem just now, and this fix got my vCSA back in business. mike
View ArticleRe: MKS error on port 902
Bumping because I'm now having the same problem on the VirtualCenter server appliance (vsphere 5.1), and still have yet to see someone actually post a fix to this particular scenario: It started...
View ArticleConsole/MKS connection problem; Port 902/TCP not listening on VCS appliance
Virtual Infrastructure clients are unable to open consoles on VMs managed by my VCS 5.1 appliance. I see lots of people with this same issue, but they don't mention if they're running vcenter server...
View ArticleRe: Move into resource pool Cannot complete operation due to concurrent...
Did you tried restarting the management agents . Do you see anything related in hostd logs
View Articlehi All! When I try to add vNIC as an uplink port from a UCS Blade to a...
hi All! While trying to add vNIC as an uplink port from a UCS Blade to a Virtual Distributed Switch through VC, problem is when I try to add one vNIC as an uplink port to 14 th vDS Switch there is an...
View ArticleRe: Difference between vmware HA & vmotion
Hi, this thread is bit confusing. But it is absolutely correct that vmotion and HA both are deferent Technology. HA responsibility is to restart the VM only. Now my question is , lets say in cluster...
View ArticleAdding ESXi 5.1 to vCenter buy FQDN rather than IP
We have ESXi 5.1 and I have it added to vCenter 5.1 by IP (everything's running fine) but I wanted to add it by name. I have DNS resolving its name and IP(reverse) correctly.1)I didn't know if I could...
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I believe you will have to remove the host and readd by the FQDN and since it will resolve by FQDN no other changes will need to be made to the host.
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