Failed insertion of statistics - vSphere 4.1.0
Hello,I have a problem, when viewing the "events" shown in my vCenter I get the following error "Stats insertion failed for entity XXXX due to ODBC error".I get this error for a bunch of my ESX's. I...
View ArticleDoing upgrades in DR/PROD environments vs a test env
Just curious, Is it documented somewhere that its good to plan the maintenance window or is it just one of those unwritten rules(read common sense) that we don't have any unwanted services/tasks...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 unattended installation documentation?
Is there any documentation for doing a command-line (unattended) installation of vCenter 5.5? For 5.1 I followed this guide...
View ArticleVCSA 5.5 Hostname Change Problem
Hi, I am working on getting a new implementation of VCSA v5.5 up and running and I have the VM created and working, but I am having an issue changing the name of the server. I am running the...
View ArticlevCenter Log Name and Rotation Changes
I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to change the name of the vpxd log file and rotation/compression that vCenter performs. I want to have vpxd.log asthe only file that ever gets written to and...
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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Esxi 5: Hardware monitoring service on this host is not responding or not...
Hello, Sometimes we have the phenomenon that when we open the Hardware Status Tab we can not see any information.In return I only get the following message:Hardware monitoring service on this host is...
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[Could Not Connect:vSphere Client could not connect to "172.17.9.100".]-(The...
Hi, ExpertsSooner or later, we are going to deploy vSphere and vCenter to LTE Datacenter server so that I'd like to self-experiment on its function(HA, vMotion) in VMware Workstationbecause I , sadly ,...
View ArticleTrouble saving IPMI settings on one host in vSphere Essentials
We have vSphere Essentials using the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) with two Dell PowerEdge R805 hosts. Both have identical hardware configurations and are generally working fine. Because these...
View ArticlevCenter Inventory Services
Hi, I want to install the Inventory Services, but when I enter the password for admin@system-domain, I receive this message: The user hasn't got enough privileges to perform administrative actions....
View ArticlevCenter upgrade 5.5a -> 5.5b. Empty Inventory in web client
Hi, I have upgraded our vCenter from 5.5a to 5.5b and now every "old" system-domain user is having an empty inventory in the web client. In the standalone client everything is fine. When I create a new...
View ArticleMinimum required permissions for vMotion
hi guys Environment: Vmware 5.5 I need to set a user permissions for vmotioning VMs (one cluster 8 hosts). I found the minimum permissions for Storage vMotion but not for vMotion specifically which is...
View ArticleVsphere client could not connect to vcenter
An error occured login to vcenter the following error occured "Vsphere client could not connect to vcenter,An unknown connection error occured.The request failed because of connection failed (unable...
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 Server 5.5 Getting Started (with 4TB VMFS datastores)
We have 9 physical server nodes/hosts and we're preparing to setup a VMware vCenter test lab (for learning/practicing with using vCenter Server) for performance evaluation, prior to making a decision...
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Unable to start the vCenter / Management Web Services
Hi All, I recently moved our vCenter installation to another server "vCenterServer" from the original server "Win12-ban", I have left the database on "Win12-ban" and created a DSN on "vCenterServer"...
View ArticleCan we use vcac6.0 -Identity Appliance as sso broker for VC5.5 VA?
I need to install both VC5.5 and VCAC6.0.I was just wondering whether I can use the vcac6.0 -Identity Appliance for both VCAC 6.0 and VC5.5
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vCenter 5.5 Installation failing.
Hello Guys, It's a brand new server with Windows 2008 R2 installed from scratch with all updates. vCenter Single Sign-On, Web Client, and Inventory Service gets installed with no issues but during the...
View ArticleCommunication between two VM in two different Esxi Host
I have a little problem and I would like to know if it is possible to do this... I have two esxi host in two different networks (datacenter OVH) and I would like to communicate a VM from one host to...
View ArticleSSO 5.5 upgrade fails, from 5.1.0
Trying to upgrade VCenter to 5.5 - when upgrading the SSO portion, get an error saying that the VMware KDC service failed to start - verify that you have sufficient privs, etc. it is installing as...
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