vCenter 5.1 and SQL Express 2008 R2
Hi, Just wanted to check against the limitations of SQL Express 2008 R2 and vCenter 5.1. We have a small environment with 4 hosts and 60 VMS, the recommendation for SQL Express is 5 Hosts/50 VMs....
View ArticlePerformance Graph required of last week or month through vCenter 5.0 u2
I need to get the performance graph through vCenter Server 5.0 update 2 but it provide data only one day. How can get the report of CPU ,Memory, Disk and network performance graph of last weak or...
View ArticleCannot open the disk Failed to lock the file
Error when attempting to share a disk across two vm's. I have two VM web servers and a shared disk for data, each web server has 20GB drives for OS and they share a 500GB drive for data. I will be...
View ArticleRecovering vSphere management after vCenter crash
vCenter server hardware has failed and two vSphere server are still associated with that server. Looking to disassociate both servers with the old vCenter and establish a new connection with the new...
View ArticleChange hardware acceleration for RDP client VMs
Is it possible to change hardware acceleration, if so how. This change settings option is grayed out. Didn't know if we need to try a different video driver for Windows 7.
View ArticleHardware Status tab update frequency
How often does the data displayed on the Hardware Status tab of the vSphere Client update? In the upper right-hand corner it indicates the last time it was updated and there is the option to manually...
View ArticleVCenter server service keeps stopping
Every 1-2 hours the vCenter server service will stop. In the event logs I find these two error msgs: Application Log: Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: VMware VirtualCenter ServerEvent Category:...
View ArticleHA failed
Have two ESXi4.1 servers (Dell R610) connected to shared iscsi storage. Have a few vms configed. Created a cluster and enabled HA. Everything is reproting as fine (able to ping hosts, dns is ok too)....
View ArticleHaving vSphere 4.1 reside on a VM
If I virtualize my vSphere server and that server would some how get deleted or corrupted how would I restore the image of vSphere? My VCDB is on our SQL 2005 VM. Thanks
View ArticleVops memory management
Hi All, I am struggling with something with a vOPS trial. We have a guest OS, DB server which consistently uses around 1.82GB of memory. It is allocated 5GB. In VOPS it shows the Active memory as...
View ArticleUser role does not apply properly
Hello - I have an issue that has me completely stumped - and it is as follows. Within our vCenter folder structure, we have a folder that is dedicated to one application team. I have created a role...
View Article"An error occurred while communicating with the remote host" while migrating
vSPhere ESXi 4.1 U1 While trying to migrate suspended VMs to a new datastore, I very frequently receive the following error: "An error occurred while communicating with the remote host" Sometimes it...
View ArticlevCenter cluster disaster site
Hello, I`m working on establishing a second server of every main service on our disaster location.Getting a second AD, second SQL server in a Enterprise cluster and so on is not a problem, but what...
View ArticleVcenter is very slow
There is some issue in our Vcenter .We have created the cluster and added 8 ESX host enabled DRS ,HA.The issue is two ESX host is not responding in cluster and we cannot do any task in the vcenter .It...
View ArticlePost-4.1 upgrade error in converter health status
I upgraded my vCenter 4.0 server to vCenter 4.1. After the upgrade I am seeing an error in the vCenter Service Status. The error is with com.vmware.converter, and the error is "Unable to retrieve...
View ArticleCannot start vCenter Server - vim.fault.ConcurrentAccess
Hello, I am running vSphere 4.1 with vCenter bundled with the database. Everything was working fine, until I upgraded the VMware tools on the vCenter vm. After the upgrade, I shutdown the machine,...
View ArticleDo I need to shut-down all VM's when enabling EVC and AMD Opteron Gen. 3 (no...
Hi, We have a cluster of older Dell PowerEdge servers, we need to introduce some newer Dell server hardware into the cluster (same CPU family etc). The newer hardware does not support 3DNow so we need...
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SRM and Heartbeat using the same VC?
Hi everyone, My team is looking to implement SRM and Heartbeat. Shouldn't be a problem, only my supervisor wants to try and use it in an... interesting way.Her idea is to have a vCenter Server on the...
View ArticleSolution: How to install vCenter Server 4.1 on Windows 7 (Vista) 64-bit
Warning: This hacking is not supported by VMware !!! 1/ extract iso image of vCenter (e.g. in 7zip) to any folder in destination machine2/ download application for editing msi file and installe.g....
View ArticlevCenter Foundation Maximum
Hi, Need your guys help. Kinda confused with the maximum CPU supported for the vCenter Foundation. vCenter Foundation support a maximum of 3 hosts.But what is the maximum CPU supported per host?...
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