Upgrade from 5.0 - vSphere 6?
Hi.We are planing to upgrade vSphere 5 enviroment to latest version.Does enyone know when vSphere 6 will be released?
View ArticlevCenter 5.10b with ESXi 5.1 Update 1
Very close to rolling out a new environment. Currently vCenter 5.10b with ESXi 5.1.0 (build 799733). For several reasons we aren't quite ready to upgrade vCenter to Update 1 but, I am considering...
View ArticleVMware Vsphere License
Hi all Last year on mid , we have purchased VMware License for following products i) vCenter Server 5 Standard 1 instanceii) VMware Vsphere 5 Enterprise ( unlimited cores with 6 CPUs ) So my...
View ArticleIs Single Sign On required in a small deployment?
I'm reading through everything to upgrade my vCenter from 4.1 to 5.1. I use a single VM for my vCenter Server, and currently the local administrator to login to it with vSphere Client. Stupid question...
View ArticleNeed to use existing license for 5.1 install
We bought licensing for 3 hosts -- 6 physical CPUs total -- prior to 5.x release. We built 2 hosts and installed a vSphere 4 Essentials license on each. We just got a new, 3rd host, after 5.x came...
View ArticleInconsistent DAS performance ESXi 5.1
I am trying to set up a series of performance tests to run on 4 vms on a single host. Using various settings I have been able to get CPU and RAM to perform consistently across all vms, but not disk....
View ArticleCan't ping ESXi host after upgrade to ESXi 5.1
Hi, I've upgraded our host from ESXi 5 to ESXi 5.1,After upgrading, we can connect to our host by vSphere client but we can't ping that,Please help me. BR
View ArticleTime of upgrade relative to SQL Server database size?
How long does the upgrade sequence of vCenter (from 4.1 U2 which ours is) to 5.1 U1 take where any needed database changes/modifications are concerned, relative to SIZE of the database? Or put another...
View ArticleInstalling vCenter Server 5.1 fails on Registering with vCenter Single Sign On
Hi All, Server 2008R2. Both upgrade from 5.01b and fresh install gives the same error message. vCenter Single Sign On installed OK vCenter Inventory Service installed OK The installation of vCenter...
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vCenter 5 upgrade fails with "The wizard was interrupted"
Hi all, I'm trying to upgrade a vCenter 4.1u1 installation to vCenter 5 but keep running into the following error: I've taken a look at these log files but wasn't able to find the specific reason for...
View ArticleMoving VMs from VMFS3 to VMFS5 with local storage
Reading this: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/429617?start=0&tstart=0 It sounds like the best plan to go to 5.1 and VMFS5 is to not upgrade datastores from VMFS3, but to delete them and create...
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VMStartTomcatImmediate not starting 1603 error. Now ....MainEngineThread is...
Starting a New Discussion thread. So i started with this issue... TomCat reporting 1603, being unable to start.... But all i got from the logs was: CustomAction VM_Start Tomcat Immediate returned...
View ArticleHow to wipe and do a new install with attached iscsi luns?
I am planning to migrate two esx 4.1 hosts to esxi5.1 by wiping them and doing a clean install. Each host is connected to two iscis sans, with 4 luns from each san attached to each host. Each lun is...
View ArticleUpgrade Vsphere 3.5 to Vsphere 5.1
Hi allwe have 5 Vsphere 3.5 Esx servers with a vCenter server 3.5 in (HP EVA storage)shared storage. we are plaining to upgrade this in Vsphere 5.1 in EMC VNX5300 (Block Level) shared storage.Our Old...
View ArticleVirtual machine can't ping host on fresh vSphere5.1 install
Hi, I've done a fresh install to vSphere 5.1 (previously 4.1 installed which works well). No vCenter for the moment. One virtual machine on LAN is running Paessler PRTG under Win 2k3 x64.This virtual...
View ArticleSteps for changing network addresses of the cluster
Hi, we have 4.1U3 Essentials Kit Plus with 1vCenter+3 ESXi hosts. We are planning to change IP addresses of these 4 hosts. What would you recommend as further steps. My plan is: 1) Turn off Vmware HA...
View ArticleInitial network setup for ESXi
Hi all, New VMware user here, setting up my first environment. I have an ESXi host that has four physical NiCs (NiC0, NiC1, NiC2, NiC3). I have installed ESXi, the VCVA appliance, and several VMs...
View ArticleAdministration role assigned to users group with no users on vsphere client...
Administration role has been assigned to the users group which does not contain any users. Root (the only login on our system) is now read only. This renders the system pretty much useless. How can I...
View ArticleUsing 5.x license on 4.1
HI, We are currently in process of migrating all our server from 4.1 free version to 5.x essentials version. I would really like to take backup of my VMs before initiating the upgrade process but...
View ArticleUpdate Manager
Dear all, when I use the update manager in my vcenter 5.1 server to upgrade my 4.1 hosts ( to 5.1 esxi )and followed by my 60 vm`s do I need to disconnect the san,..???makes no sense to me but I keep...
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