Intermittent vCenter/ESXi host disconnect issue
Configuration: vCenter Virtual Appliance running 5.1.0. 2 x identical ESXi hosts running 5.0U1. VCVA is running on ESXi host 'a'. Symptom: vCenter complains of a disconnect in communication with the...
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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 Articlethe server could not interpret the client's request - 503 error vmware 5.1 -...
When I click this Storage View<tab> from within vSphere client, I get this error all the time....anyone know a fix for this? The server 'my.host.name' could not interpret the client's request....
View ArticleEnable EVC Mode from VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Hello, I am fairly new to vSphere. I have two hosts running ESXi 5.1 One of those hosts is running the "VMware vCenter Server Appliance" with vSphere version 5.5. I currently have a single cluster...
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 ArticleVcenter Appliance 5.5 Network
Hi All, I have vcenter 5.5 setup but when I try to manage it via the weclient it just constantly hangs (the client) I couldn't even enter the foundation license. Is there a common task that has to be...
View ArticlevCenter Server Appliance - no web interface on port 5480
Dear VMware Community!I don't have any web interface after install. Could you help me to solve this issue?I installed successfully VMware-ESXi-5.5.0, and then downloaded and deployed...
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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 ArticleAdding/Viewing ESX hosts local datastore in vCenter
Hey all, I'm glad to join these forms and hope I don't get shot down for not having a VM cert (I'm trying hard to find out where and how to get it) I have recently graduated with a Network Managing...
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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 ArticleCan't update vCenter
i have vCenter Server 5.1.1064983 and I wanted to update to 5.1.0-1235309.step one - updating SSO. I enter master password and get an error - Provider password is wrong or empty.I try to login to...
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Vcenter (VCSA) update failed
Hello, i'm running the VCSA since a couple of months and tried to update it to 5.0 Update 1a...
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...
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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 appliance 5 and SMTP Configuration
hi guys I setup the SMTP Server IPand Sender Account in my new and shiny vCenter Appliance 5 server SMTP Server: 192.168.1.xSender account: vcenter@mycompany.net now testing for the email alerts I get...
View ArticleUnable to open console in vSphere Web Client after 5.5 upgrade.
We are unable to open the console of any VM through vSphere Web Client following the upgrade to 5.5 This goes for all user groups including administrators.When you right click on the VM to get the menu...
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VMware vSphere Web Client - migrate option greyed out
When selecting a VM to migrate the option to migrate is greyed out. In fact, Power On, Migrate, Revert to Current Snapshot are greyed out. I would like to migrate this VM to another host and...
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VMware VirtualCenter Server Service not starting
I've been fighting with this issue for a while now and haven't been able to find a solution - even with checking the posts on this forum. I am running VMware vCenter Server 5.1.0.32743 on a Windows...
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...
View ArticleWhat permissions are needed to deploy from OVA/OVF
Our environment is vCenter 4.1 U1 and ESXi 4.1 U1. We have a multi-tenant Lab environment where users are isolated with separate Resource Pools and separate VM, Storage, and Network folders. The users...
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