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Host Profiles playing up in vSphere 5
Hi all, Ive recently upgraded about 200 hosts to ESXi 5 from ESX 4.1 and 2 vcenters 5 also.Ive noticed a problem with host profiles when it comes to storage, and wanted to see if anyone else has come...
View ArticlevCenter and ESXi free version
Hello, I have been using VMware for a couple of years now. I have been in an environment that was already established and did not require that much attention. The hosting facility did a lot of the...
View ArticleBest Practices for vCenter 5.1 with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
I am looking for a best practices, or really any documentation on configuring vCenter 5.1 with a SQL Server 2008 R2 database. I see that SQL Server 2008 R2 is supported but that's about it. Any help is...
View ArticleEvent ID 7024 - The VMware VirtualCenter Server service terminated with...
I've recently grown to MAX database size on SQL Express deployment. I've migrated the DB to SQL 2008 per VMware KB, but I am getting the above error after re-installing VC. During the installation,...
View Articlehow to convert ova to ovf & vice versa
Hi any advise how i can perform such actions? Thanks for any info
View ArticleCannot start VMWare VirtualCenter Server service - error 1067
Hi.Our VC service has been running for about 2 months.Today I made a change the license file loaded on the license server.I restarted all the services, but now the VC Server service does not want to...
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 ArticleDifference between Vsphere and Virtual Center Foundation
Hi everyone,Were looking on purchasing Virtual Center Foundation, then upgrade to Standard edition next year, to gain the HA component as $$$ is tight this yr.I noticed V Sphere is out as well...Is...
View ArticleIntermittent vCenter/ESXi host disconnect issue
Configuration: vCenter Virtual Appliance running 5.1.0. 2 x identical ESXi hosts running 5.0U1. VCVA is running on ESXi host 'a'. Symptom: vCenter complains of a disconnect in communication with the...
View ArticleODBC 64bit on Windows 2008R2 - how can I tell if it is 32bit or 64bit
Hi, how do I know if the SQL Native client is using a 64bit ODBC connection ? I believe I installed the SQL Natvie Client 64bit for connecting to our external SQL Server 2005 SP2 DB and I can see the...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 - Hardware Status tab (No Data)
We are completing our migration in our TEST environment to our new vCenter 5.1 server. We have migrated our ESXi 4.0 U2 and 4.1 U2 hosts to vCenter 5.1. We are using the latest version of the HP CIM...
View ArticleLocal users on vCenter Server Appliance?
I have a small (2 host) cluster which is firewalled off from the rest of our network, and has no NIS or AD servers visible. Only three of us are allowed access to administer the cluster and we need an...
View ArticleVMotion stuck in progress
Hello, I recently had a vmotion get stuck in progress for over an hour when the high cpu resources of a host caused the esx host to become unresponsive to VC. I tried restarting the vc services, I...
View ArticleError 25004.Setup failed to create the vCenter Server repository.
Hi everybody, after searching this forum and a lot of other sites I decided to ask directly - unfortunately I didn't find any help elsewhere. I'm running a vCenter Server 5 under Windows Server 2008 R2...
View ArticleVcenter Foundation vs Standard vs Essenstials
Hi, I have checking around the net o find out the technical diffrence between Vcenter Foundation vs Standard vs Essenstials, but not able to find it.The only diffrence I can find is that Vcenter...
View Articlevpxd.exe uses up to 99% of available physical memory and prevents vSphere...
We have an issue with one of our vCenter servers using VMware vCenter Server 5.0.0.16964 This server is running on Windows Server 2008 R2 in a virtual machine with 4 vCPUs and 8 GB of memory. It...
View ArticleWhats in the VirtualCenter database?
I did some research on this to better understand how VC uses it database. Below is the results of this if anyone is interested: What data is stored in the VirtualCenter database?[/b] As of version...
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vCenter 5.1 does not see Host CPU Host Mem or Guest Mem on 4.0 hosts
Pretty much in the title. vCenter was upgraded back in September or so to 5.1, and there are mixed clusters running: 4.0 esx, 5.0 U1, and 5.1. On the 4.0 ESX hosts, we do not see the CPU/Host Mem or...
View ArticleSQL native client v10
I am installing vcentre 5 on a windows 2008 r2 64 bit system, and need a sql native client v10 to connect to remote sql server. I cannot see anywhere to download the sql native client v10 anywhere. I...
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