vCenter upgrade 5.1.0U1B to 5.5 fail - SSO install error 1603 when install...
Hi,I have a simple physical vCenter Windows 2008 R2 / 8 GB RAM / 1TB HD. Installed a simple 5.1.0 U1B center with a Horizon View 5.2 Composer.When I try to install the first upgrade (SSO), it fail with...
View ArticlevCenter Server 5.5 fails to start after server reboot
I am testing vSphere 5.5 in our lab and I am experiencing some issues with vCenter Server or SSO. After a fresh install all works about fine, I can add AD authentication to SSO and AD login works to...
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VMware vCenter Server Install 5.5, Hangs
After installing SSO, Web-Client, Inventory Services, then configured all the settings for vCenter Server and hit install at the last portion all I get is the following has hung there for over half...
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 ArticlevCenter 5.5 AD Authentication Help
Hello, I was successfully able to install my vCenter Server 5.5. For identity sources I have vsphere.local as default but I have also set-up AD (Integrated Windows Authentication) under configuration....
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vim.fault.HttpFault when sorting VMs in vSphere Client after 5.1 upgrade
Hello. I have recently completed a upgrade of vCenter from 5.0 > 5.1. I ran into some common teething problems with SSO but things look ok at the moment. I do have one problem that I'd really like...
View ArticlevCenter Server 5.5 SSL certificate update
Hi there We have a Problem with updating our ssl certificate for the vCenter Server with the ssl certificate updater tool 5.5. All Services are installed on a 2008R2 Server. I created all the necessary...
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 Articlehow to extend a disk partition in vmware virtualserver
Hi all, i have enough space in datastore. so i shutdown my windows 2008 server and expanded the disk. but how can i extend a partition now from disk management. the option is greyed out. there is...
View ArticleProblem adding second vmxnet nic - Windows 2008 R2 VM
I have a Windows 2008 R2 VM in my production environment currently with 2 virtual nics installed, one vmxnet3 and one e1000. I need to add a second vmxnet3 nic. The problem is when I add the additional...
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 ArticleFresh vCenter install -- vCenter Advance Settings page just sits on loading
Two issues: 1.) new install of vCenter 5.5 (on one server), runs fine, just sometimes the vcenter advanced settings page just sits on loading and never loads. I have to restart the vCenter services to...
View ArticleVM Template Problems
I am experiencing the same problem as - http://communities.vmware.com/message/964286 I have a VM template that worked well last week. This week when I try to deploy a VM from this template, I get...
View ArticleVCenter Server 5.1 show migrated VM on old and new Storage
Hello, we update 2 vsphere 5.0 Hosts to 5.1 and the vcenter too. Now we connect new Storage to the vsphere Hosts and migrate some of the VMs on the new Store.(all of them have latest VMtools...
View ArticleCould not start vCenter Server appliance
Hello, we have been using vCenter server (5.0 and 5.1) on Windows Server 2003 for a long time. Now, with vCenter Server 5.5 there is a need for Windows Server 2008 64-bit and accompanying database...
View ArticleCan't use Remote Console in Web Client: "SSL verification failure for...
I'm brand new to vSphere 5.5. I just upgraded a 4.1U1 install and everything went well. However, now that I'm trying to work with the web client, I can't actually connect to any of my VMs via the...
View ArticleError 1068 When trying to start vCenter Server Service
i am getting this Error 1068 When trying to start vCenter Server Service. Any Solution for this?
View ArticleVDP appliance don't show up in VCenter Web Client
Hi, Our VDP server had some DNS problems. After we solved them, we've found there is no way to manage the appliance through VCenter WebClient. Though the VDP plugin is installed there, our VDP...
View ArticleDistributed switch problem
I am configuring a new VMkernel distributed switch and trying to add a new vMotion virtual adapter. I input the correct IP address information and received the error - “Call...
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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...
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