Missing Virtual Machine Fields
Recently we noticed that when looking at the virtual machine tab in VCenter Server there were certain machines that had information missing. For example, the DNS column had a number of machines with no...
View ArticleWeb client not working after Simple Install option for vCenter Server 5.5
I'm trying to get into the web client after a fresh install of vCenter Server 5.5. When I go to the url of http://vcenterservername/ it brings me to the page to log into vSphere Web Client. When I...
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 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 ArticleVMwareVCMSDS unable to start, unable to connect to vCenter server
I have a vCenter server problem. It was working fine last week, this week I could not connect. I think it is a problem with VMwareVCMSDS, because in the vpx-xx.log files it was complaining about...
View ArticleSnaphots & virtual hardware
Does reverting to a previous snapshot bring back the old virtual hardware the VM had and remove the hardware which has been added after the snapshot .? For example,1. I have a VM with 1 NIC.2. Now I...
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 ArticlePrivileges with user in multiple groups
Hi all, I'm having a problem regarding privileges on a farm at my job place. The problem is this: my user is part of a group (authenticated against an Active Directory domain) that has the role of...
View ArticleEvents notification email is posible in vcenter 5.1
I want to receive the events notification via email, just like Alarm notification. is it possible in vCenter Server 5.1? Note:- When new VM will be created by any user then its notification should be...
View ArticleHost Profile non-compliance error related to CIM Indication Subscription
I have this error against one of my esxi 5.0 server(build 768111) under Host Profile Compliance."Found extra CIM-XML Indication Subscription on local system for query SELECT*From CIM_ProcessIndication...
View ArticleFresh install of vCenter 5.1 - "Invalid license key: License file not found"
I did a fresh install of vCenter in my lab, starting at 5.1. Installed everything on D:\ without any errors (vCSSO, Inventory service, vCenter, Web Client, etc), and it all worked fine. I entered in...
View ArticlevCenter Server Appliance update and VMware Tools
I've just updated VCSA to 5.1.0.10000 Build 1065184. I had to uninstall VMware Tools first 'cause update failed with "VMware Tools cannot install because it appears that another installation ofVMware...
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 ArticleI can't install vmware vcenter sign-on because i have an error message
I need to know how to install the vmware web client, because i install an virtual machine with version 10 and i can't edit from vmware client as usual.. plesae help me with that.. I tried to install...
View ArticleEvent ID 7024 - The VMware VirtualCenter Server service terminated with...
I am currently running VC 2.5 virtualized. WIndows 2003 SP2 with SQL Express 2005. Everytime I reboot the server I received Event ID 7024 - The VMware VirtualCenter Server service terminated with...
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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 ArticleHow to go from vCenter Server 5.1 on Windows to vCenter Server Appliance
I have a vCenter Server 5.1 environment running on a windows server 2008 for testing. I let the Windows Server 2008 server demo elapse because we wanted to go to the vCenter Server Applicance instead....
View ArticleHow to add an ESXi 4.1 in a vCenter 5.5?
Hi We are involved in a migration project since ESX/ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5. Now all my infrastructure is managed by a vcenter 4.1 and it manages several ESX 4.1 and ESXi 4.1. Recently we've bought a new...
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template actions grayed out
Hi, Today I've found out that for one of my templates some of the actions are grayed out. I can successfully deploy vm from this template, however I can't convert it to vm, nor rename it, nor remove it...
View ArticlevCenter server 5.5 Installation issue
New, clean, install of vcenter server 5.5 on a new win 2008 R2 sp1 guest (on a new Dell host server), after Simple install successfully completes I can log into the web client but don't see SSO options...
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