Connecting WD Network drive to ESX5i
We need to quickly copy VM guest files off a remote ESX5 i local hard drive onto a Western Digital network drive - then ship the WD driveback to corporate and add the VMs to inventory. We tried using...
View ArticlevCenter Converter 4.2.0 - Unable to contact the specified host.
Hi, I've searched all over the internet and been working with VMware tech support, but I am unable to find a solution. I am running vSphere 4.1 on Windows 2008 R2 and all is working well, except I am...
View ArticlevCenter 4.1 slow at navigating as a VM???
My vCenter server has been slow for some time now. Even after a clean install of Windows Server 2008R2 and change the vCenter Server settings for database retention to 15 days. It still is running slow...
View ArticleSupporting a mix of ESX/ESXi using vCenter
Can a single instance of vCenter be used to manage a mix of ESX/ESXi hypervisors running multiple versions? If so, can the management of the mixed ESX/ESXi environment also be performed via the vCenter...
View ArticleMaintain Oracle DB?
Hi we use oracle 11 as db for our virtual center. Now after 6 months the db size is nearly 20GB. ls -al /u01/app/oracle/oradata/vcenter/total 18069556drwxr-x--- 2 oracle oinstall 4096 May 23...
View ArticlePlan to upgrade vCenter
We are currently still running VI3.5 and VC2.5, and we are planning to upgrade to the latest version. My first question is if we have a new hardware for installing the new vCenter, can this hardware...
View ArticleMigrating the Vcenter server.
I have inherited a little job migrating from an old 3.5 server farm to a new 4.1 Vsphere farm running on Cisco UCS. The hardware/config has all been done by a third part. The two farms share access to...
View ArticleMoving vCenter Server 4.1 to another physical server
Hi all: We have vCenter Server 4.1 running on old server and now would like to migrate it to another server. It's managing 3 Esx hosts with HA/vMotion in the cluster. I am newbie in VM so not sure the...
View ArticleProblems after installing vCenter 5.1a - No vCenter Server found
Sorry, I'm new at this and I'm having a problem installing vCenter 5.1a on Windows Server 2008 R2 using the simple install. After completing the install without any errors, I start up the vSphere Web...
View ArticleError 25003. Setup failed to create the vCenter Server repository.
Hello, I am trying to install vCenter Server 4.0. When the installator tries to creator repository an error pops up: Error 25003. Setup failed to create the vCenter Server repository. I click OK...
View ArticleVIM_VCDB grows too fast
Hello, I'm using SQL2005EE for vCenter 4.1U1 with 4 ESXi hosts with ~50VMs including vilogger on a vMA (the vMA keeps quite a large number of logs - just in case that matters) The problem is, no matter...
View ArticleMigrated, upgraded, help....
Ok, so I need to run 4.1 on a x64 OS. So I purchased a brand spankin new Vcenter server and loaded it up. I used sql tools to migrate the database, then installed vcenter server on the new server. Then...
View ArticleDoes anyone know how to reset security on vCenter?
Hi, As of Monday something strange happened to my installation; I can't delete, relocate or otherwise manage my VM unless I connect directly to the individual servers. It's like someone change the...
View ArticleVMware vCenter on Linux
What became of VMware vCenter on Linux Technology Preview (vCenter on Linux), did it ever breakout of beta? http://communities.vmware.com/community/beta/vcserver_linux
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 ArticleInstallation VMware vCenter 5.1.0a
Hi all,I've a very big problem installing VMware vCenter Server 5.1.0a. This is my environment:VMware vCenter Server 5.1.0a (SSO, Inventory, vCenter Server) Microsoft SQL Server Standard 2008 R2...
View ArticlevCenter 4.1/ESXi 4.1 Hardware Status "Communication error with the server"
I am running a brand new install of vCenter with two brand new installs of ESXi 4.1 connected to it. I am running the ESXi servers on Dell PowerEdge 2950s. I have tired the Dell customized version and...
View ArticleIf install a vCenter server as a virtual machine.
If I install a vCenter server as a virtual machine in a VMware cluster, what is the potential disadvantage with it?
View ArticlevCenter to a VM – now with 2 VM disk
I was running our vCenter Server 4.1 on a Dell 2850..The server was needed on another project that went active on short notice. I converted the vCenter Server 4.1 Dell 2850 to a VM and increased the C:...
View ArticleP2V Servers, now cannot log in to domain
I've virtualized some servers in our domain and after a few weeks now i cannot login to them. Does this have to do with the SID? I didn't use sysprep when virtualizing them. How do I correct this?
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