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...
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 ArticleUpdate Manager patch repository
Does anyone know of a way to remove/delete old patches from the patch repository in Update Manager ? I'm running all ESXi 4.1 and I want to remove all the old ESX 4.0 patches, and other os patches that...
View ArticleCan't add a host - You do not hold privilege Add Standalone host
I am trying to add a host to my datacenter that was in there before (taken out to troubleshoot a problem) and I can't get it back in.I get the error:Permission to perform this operation was denied.You...
View ArticleMKS error on port 902
Hello, I am getting the MKS error connecting to port 902 error when trying to use the vCenter and vSphere client or web client, and accessing the console of any vm. I'm using the vCenter OVF appliance...
View ArticleWindows License on ESXi
Hi,Apologies if this isnt the correct place for this. Basically we are trying to sort out our licensing on our ESXI Cluster We have 6 x ESXI Hosts with 4 Processors each (6 Cores) Im being told by...
View ArticleVCSA 5.1 U1a stops on regenerating certificate
Hello guys, Yeasterday I deployed new VCSA and moved existing ESX servers to it. Then I shut down old vCenter and changed IP and hostname of new VCSA to IP/hostname that was previously set on old...
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...
View ArticleWeb Client throws Error #2032 when accessed through any sort of reverse proxy...
I've been trying to publish the Web Client through our SSL VPN which has a nice workspace to publish web links. Unfortunately, something in the vSphere web client breaks very badly if you do not...
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 ArticleWhy does template customization make the NIC disconnected??
I've been testing template customization with a Win2k3 Enterprise 'gold' template.Every time I deploy from this template, the newly created VM does not have its NIC set to connect at power on.How do I...
View ArticlevCenter Server Service is not starting
I have performed all the changes to migrate the vCenter Server database from SQL Express to full SQL Server following the Knowledge Base ( that is posted by VMware ) its URL is mentioned here for...
View ArticleWeb client doesn't show storage devices or paths
When I click on a host, manage, storage and then storage adapters, I don't see anything on the Devices or Paths tabs when clicking on an HBA. I've tried both the 5.1 and 5.5 web clients, with Chrome...
View ArticlevCenter server suddenly stops working
Hi all, Every once in a while (about 2 times a week) vCenter service stops with the following error in event viewer: Faulting application name: vpxd.exe, version: 5.0.0.29542, time stamp:...
View Article"An error occurred while communicating with the remote host" while migrating
vSPhere ESXi 4.1 U1 While trying to migrate suspended VMs to a new datastore, I very frequently receive the following error: "An error occurred while communicating with the remote host" Sometimes it...
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...
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 ArticleVM invalid state
Hi Team, The VM is in Invalid state and if i try to power on the VM it's throw"Failed to find a host for powering on the virtual machine.the following faults explain why the registered host is not...
View ArticleWeb Client connection problem
Hi,I got problem that Web Client is not able to connect to vCenter. It is showing message: HTTP Status 404 - /vsphere-client/...
View Articlequestion in installing vcenter sever 5.5 first time
Dear Team I am installing vmware vcenter server versionVMware-VIMSetup-all-5.5.0-1750795-20140201-update01 DVDI install active directory & DNS server on win 2008 R2 VMI install vcenter server...
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