cannot login after upgrade to vcenter 5.1
after upgrade to vcenter 5.1, I cannot login vcenter and web client. when I login venter by "use windows session credentials", the error is "you do not have permission to login to the server", when I...
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Windows Server 2012 Guest Customization
Hi All, Has anyone managed to get guest customization of Windows Server 2012 working? From what I can tell it doesn't work at all. I am running the latest version of everything (vCenter 5.1, ESXi...
View ArticleUpdating vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 to 5.1 U1 fails
Waited about an hour after it started installing... still not up. Wen into the updatecli.log, and see that there's an error constantly repeating... any clues? ./etc/init.d/vami-sfcb: line 238: 7385...
View ArticlevSphere Web Client - Do not have access to a vCenter Server 5.1 system
Using vSphere Web Client 5.1Trying to access vcenter 5.1 server Logged in as admin@system-domainNo vcenter server listed.Suggested troubleshooting steps:Verify that the vCenter Server system was...
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Solution to full transaction log for database VIM_VCDB
Hi, after having struggled to solve the reason for above error-message over the past weeks, i want to share my experience and the solution. The information to (really) get rid of the well known error...
View ArticleVM shows alert icon with no alarms triggered
I have been having phantom alarms lately. Virtual machines will show the red alert icon with no alarms triggered. I checked the VM, the host, the cluster, the folder, the datacenter, and vcenter but...
View ArticleCannot Start vCenter Server Appliance - "Waiting for vpxd to initialize:...
I am stumped. At first, I was able to at least login to vsphere and do operations. The client would close like every 15 minutes so it got really annoying. Now I am stuck with no launch to vsphere. I...
View ArticleCannot login to VCENTER using domain credentials, authorize exception
Hi Guys, I am running vcenter version 5.1 and my esxi servers are also 5.1.Now, obviously the vcenter server is joined to the domain. As we are upgrading the entire infrastructure, the old DC must be...
View ArticlevCenter Appliance 5.1 Active Directory no longer functioning
I had a vCenter appliance in my home lab running 5.0 and I had AD working just fine. I upgraded to the 5.1 appliance according to the documentation and now it seems that my AD integration isn't...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 delay when opening vm console
Last week we updated our vCenter Server from 5.0 to 5.1. And since that moment we experience some delay while opening vm console windows.We used to have a black screen for about 1 or maybe 2 seconds...
View Articleerror 26002. Setup failed to register VMware vCenter Server to VMware vCenter...
Has anyone seen this error when upgrading vCenter Server from 5.0 to 5.1? The install process for Single Sign On and Inventory Service appeared to complete successfully, but we see this error when we...
View ArticleRemove Snapshot Hangs in VC
I have 4 hosts, all connected to a central iSCSI storage system. When I try to remove a snapshot from a VM, its only snapshot, it goes to 95% and then sits there. This prevents me from being able to...
View Articlevpxd consuming all memory -- vCenter slooooooow and cannot connect
As reported in http://communities.vmware.com/message/2020222 we are still experiencing the issue with vpxd consuming huge amounts of RAM and causing severe vCenter slowness. This has gotten much worse...
View ArticleCannot Register vCenter Server
Hi Experts, I tried to register a vCenter Server through vSphere Web Client Administration Tool and got the following error mesages: VMware ESX and VMware ESXi servers are not supported with vSphere...
View ArticleProblem with vCenter 5.1(W2K8) & SSO without AD
Hi all, I am having problems with my first experiences with vC 5.1 / SSO. I have a vm running W2K8 + DNS but no AD. That's what I want and need. 5.0 had no problem with this but with 5.1 I cannot get...
View ArticleProblem with quiesced snapshot on Server 2008 R2 with ESXi 4.1 U1
Hello Since we have updatet from ESXi 4.1 to Update 1 we have problems with taking quiesced snapshot. Before we have installed the update 1 quiesced snapshot worked witout problems. When we take a...
View ArticleVMware vCenter and Windows Server 2012 (Server 8)
Hi,I just installed vmware vCenter Server on Windows Server 2012 but Vmware services not started so I cannot connect to the vcenter via vClient.When I try to start VMware services manually I get an...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 SSO and failure to successfully authenticate users
I have experienced this problem with the 5.1 upgrade including the latest 5.1.0b. In fact the latest patch makes it impossible to add users explicitly via the vSphere client whereas previously I could...
View ArticleInstalling vCenter Server 5.1 on Windows Server 2012
Hiya, ---First of all, I would like to use this topic for experiences running vCenter 5.1 on Windows Server 2012. Hopefully I will manage to get this all running and others will find answers in this...
View ArticleThe VMRC console has disconnected.. attempting to reconnect
Seeing this error on my Virtual Center client while tryign to get to the console.. We are running Virtual Center 5.0 Build 455964 Anyone now how to fix it?
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