vCenter 5.5 Appliance - Cannot see any AD users/groups after setting up SSO
I am playing around with the vCenter 5.5 appliance (investigating whether it is feasible to move to the appliance from Windows hosted vCenter). We are currently running vCenter 5.0, so I have no...
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Does anyone know of a way to remove/delete old patches from the patch repository in Update Manager ? I'm running all ESXi 4.1 and I want to remove all the old ESX 4.0 patches, and other os patches that...
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vCenter 5.5 Installation failing.
Hello Guys, It's a brand new server with Windows 2008 R2 installed from scratch with all updates. vCenter Single Sign-On, Web Client, and Inventory Service gets installed with no issues but during the...
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Unable to start the vCenter / Management Web Services
Hi All, I recently moved our vCenter installation to another server "vCenterServer" from the original server "Win12-ban", I have left the database on "Win12-ban" and created a DSN on "vCenterServer"...
View ArticleNo Inventory in WebClient (while vSphere Client is fine)
I am a VMWare Newbe.I installed VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5.0b released. (followed the TinkerTry instructions Deploy VMware's vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 in a home lab, without SSO...
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vCenter Service Status - Database storage is running low.
vCenter (v5.5.0.2001466) Service Status alert - " Database storage is running low. Refer to VMware KB2078305 for details"I've looked at KB2078305 -- but it is generic SQL/DB troubleshooting tips.The...
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Redirecting vCenter server to new SSO instance
I have a 2008 R2 5.5 vCenter server with SSO installed. I just built a new 2012 R2 5.5 U1 with a new SSO instance on it. All hosts are now migrated to the new 55 U1 server. The decision to build the...
View ArticleNewly deployed vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 failed to authenticate against AD...
I deployed a whole new VCSA 5.5 to test its new feature. System joined AD successfully, and I can see and add users into data center using Web client. But if I want to login as AD user, Web Client...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5.0 upgrade to vCenter 5.5 Update 2
All,My Environment:vCenter 5.5.0 and Full SQL Server 2012 on the same box (Windows Server 2012 R2 with latest patches).When i want to upgrade to vCenter 5.5.0 Update 2 all components are installed...
View ArticleUpdating vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 to 5.1 U1 fails
Waited about an hour after it started installing... still not up. Wen into the updatecli.log, and see that there's an error constantly repeating... any clues? ./etc/init.d/vami-sfcb: line 238: 7385...
View ArticlevSphere Web Client on OSX no mouse pointer issue
I have upgraded vCenter server to 5.5.0a which makes available client integration tools for OSX, which means that virtual consoles through vSphere web client are supposed to be supported on Mac. In...
View ArticleWeb client on esxi 5.5 hangs with Loading.... editing vcenter server settings
Hello, Anytime I use the Web Client ( chrome or IE) and try to edit items from vcenter server - manage - general settings tab , like Mail or Timeout settings it just sits there with Loading........
View ArticlevCenter Inventory Services
Hi, I want to install the Inventory Services, but when I enter the password for admin@system-domain, I receive this message: The user hasn't got enough privileges to perform administrative actions....
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 unattended installation documentation?
Is there any documentation for doing a command-line (unattended) installation of vCenter 5.5? For 5.1 I followed this guide...
View ArticlePurge data from VCSA 5.5 postgres database (vpx_event & vpx_event_arg tables ) ?
Does anyone have any instructions for removing entries from the vpx_event & vpx_event_arg tables for the postgres database in VCSA 5.5? Due to someone's poorly designed monitoring scripts, we now...
View ArticleUpdate Manager patch repository
Does anyone know of a way to remove/delete old patches from the patch repository in Update Manager ? I'm running all ESXi 4.1 and I want to remove all the old ESX 4.0 patches, and other os patches that...
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Esxi 5: Hardware monitoring service on this host is not responding or not...
Hello, Sometimes we have the phenomenon that when we open the Hardware Status Tab we can not see any information.In return I only get the following message:Hardware monitoring service on this host is...
View ArticleInstalling CA-signed SSL certificates on vCenter 5.1 (Server or Appliance)
I recently upgraded my ESXi 5.0 hosts to ESXi 5.1 and they all kept the CA-signed SSL certificates I previously installed. I did a fresh install of vCenter 5.1 Server where the same box ran SSO,...
View ArticleNo AD authentication after vCenter upgraded from 5.1 to 5.5
I have just performed the above upgrade, to vCenter 5.5 (Windows) and am struggling to get AD authentication working. After the upgrade the identity source relating to the Windows domain was present in...
View ArticleInternet Explorer 11 and vCenter 5.5 web client
I am testing in preparation to upgrade vSphere from 5.0 to 5.5. One thing I have noticed is the web client seems to have a problem with IE 11. I get this message in a bar at the top of the browser:...
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