A ticket of type mks has been acquired?
In the Events tab on a VM that got hung this afternoon, we see these messages: Alarm 'Virtual machine cpu usage' changed from Gray to GreenMigration from host hostname.aaa.bbb.ccc completedA ticket of...
View ArticleUpdate Manager 5.1 / HP depot not working
Hi, I want to add the HP Online depot as a download source to the Update Manager. The URL http://vibsdepot.hp.com/index.xml gets validated, but no HP updates get downloaded after hitting "apply" and...
View ArticlevCenter 5 Web Client Service does not start
After the installation of the Web Client Server on the vCenter Server (with no errors) the Web Client Service won't start. In the windows log following error is reported The vSphere Web Client service...
View ArticlePorts 902 and 905
I've been capturing Virtual Infrastructure Client <> VirtualCenter Server <> ESX Server <--> Virtual Infrastructure Client network traffic lately to monitor the use of port 905 and...
View ArticleHow do you move a VM running vCenter from one ESXi host to another?
How do you move a VM running vCenter from one ESXi host to another? I am running VMware vSphere 4.1 Essentials with a vCenter VM running on one of the ESXi hosts that I want to move to the other ESXi...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 and AD authentication issues
Hello, A little bit of intro: 1. VC5.1, SSO, Inventory and Web Client installed on a single VM (clean installation).2. MS SQL is installed as a separate VM3. During installation of SSO an AD connector...
View ArticleAn error occurred while communicating with the remote host
Hi community, I have a problem with my VC2.5 and ESX3.5. 50% of all actions results in "An error occurred while communicating with the remote host". The 2nd try mostly works, sometimes i have to do...
View ArticleHigh memory usage on server - java.exe and tomcat.exe
Hello I have vCenter Server, vSphere Client, vSphere update manager, and vSphere web client installed on my server. I see that there are 3 java.exe processes taking up 2.3GB (all together), and...
View ArticleFile Transfer using vSphere
We have a VM that has been compromised with some malware and is now sitting with it's NIC cards disabled to cut it off from the network. We would like to get some log files off of it for analysis....
View ArticleVmWare VCenter Server service won't start
Earlier this week, we experienced some issues with our Vcenter that required us to reload our server from an image. Now that the server is back up and functioning, the VCenter Server Service and the...
View ArticlevSphere client login problem
Since the upgrade of vSphere server from version 5.0 to 5.1 some users are no longer able to login, but the vSphere web client works fine.They get the error: The server 'xxx' took to long to respond....
View Articlelogin credential issue on vcenter 5.1
Hey guys, Recently I upgraded my vcenter server from 4.1 to 5.1. Orginally (4.1 version ) I use my AD account to login without the domain name prefix, just like username and then password. But in...
View ArticlevCenter Server is unable to find a Master vSphere HA Agent -- upgrade to...
Hi all, Upgrading to vCenter 5.0. Have 6 ESXi 4.1 hosts in a Cluster. I try to activate HA and get the following messages: vCenter Server is unable to find a Master vSphere HA Agent in cluster...
View ArticleVCenter start fails after demoting Domain Controller
Hi. Instead of hijacking other one's thread having the same problem I decided to start a new thread, so sorry for double posting. After promoting a new DC and demoting the old one we have the problem...
View ArticleVCSA 5.1 U1a stops on regenerating certificate
Hello guys, Yeasterday I deployed new VCSA and moved existing ESX servers to it. Then I shut down old vCenter and changed IP and hostname of new VCSA to IP/hostname that was previously set on old...
View ArticleThe type initializer for threw an exception for...
When running VI Client 4 or 4 U1, on Vista SP1 x64, I get the following error message. The type initializer for threw an exception for 'VirtualInfrastructure.Utils.ClientsXml' threw an exception. and...
View ArticlevCenter Inventory Service does not start
Hi, I have installed vCenter Server 5.0 U1 on Windows Server 2008 R2 that have all updates. When the part of the vCenter Inventory installation, it creates vCenter Inventory Service but it cannot start...
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vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 - Wizard/Config fails
This is my inital step into the Vmware world and it isn't going well. Downloaded the latest vCenter Server appliance 5.1.0.5100 and created a new VM in VMware Workstation 8.0.4. Started the VM and let...
View ArticleSNMP Configuration in ESXi 5
Hican somebody help me and tell how I can config esxi5 for snmp monitoring .
View ArticleVMware vCenter service stops with SQL DB size errors
Hi, We run VMware vCenter 4.1 with 3 ESX hosts, and 50 VMs. vCenter is running on Windows 2008 R2, with SQL 2005 Express SP2. Yesterday our virtual backup failed, saying it couldn't connect to the...
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