vSphere 5.5 Web Client on Linux not opening console
I am testing the vShpere Web Client on Linux ( OpenSuse 12.3 and Ubuntu 13) and when I try to open a console to a guest I get the following.A new window opens withDirectory: /console/WEB-INF/ 0bytes...
View ArticlePCI express NIC disabled due to insufficient resources.
Hello, My esx 5.1 box can't see the realtek 8168 NIC. The adapter is disabled with the following messages on vmkernel.log 0:00:00:04.313 cpu0:2048)PCI: 1047: scanning pci bridge 0x4100111e2f30 @...
View Articlehost upgrade policy
We know that we use the update manager to upgrade the hosts from ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.x but can’t do 4.x 50 5.x using the same hosts by the update manager. Then in that scenario how can we upgrade the...
View ArticleNew Server and Install
Just purchased a new dell server with 8 1tb drives configured in a raid. We are running vmware EXSi 5.1 and vSphere 5. By default dell had configured the drives into 4 virtual drives at 1.80 tb for 3...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 Installation local or domain user?
Hello all, in the past I've installed the vcenter 4 and 5.0 with a local administrator on a windows 2008R2 server.The server is member server of a domain and has a fully qualified domain name. The User...
View Articleupdating vcenter 5.0
I have a vCenter 5.0 with View Composer (also a vCenter for View 4.6) & using SQL EXP as database which had not been updated since its 1st release. What would be a good way to update vCenter in...
View ArticlevSphere 4.1 (ESX) to 5.1 (ESXi) using New Hardware
After reading lots of documentation via the Update Center site and some other posts on this community I wanted to see if the plan I have is ok or is there a better way? I've upgraded 3.5 to 4.1 before...
View ArticlevSphere Client won't connect to any vCenter :...
Today my vSphere client (5.x) randomly stopped being able to connect to anything. It gives an error: The type initializer for 'VirtualInfrastructure.Utils.ClientsXml' threw an exception. I tried to...
View Article1st install OK, on 1st boot: prompt with error: “no DEFAULT or UI” on boot
It is a HP Proliant ML 310e Gen8 server.from two disks created RAID-1 and installation can see the RAID ok.Used VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.5.0-1331820.x86_64.iso for installation.MD5 and SHA-1 hash are...
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Error when extracting the Webclient msi from vSphere 5.5 vCenter Installer
Getting quite desperate here... I'm trying to self-study vSphere, based on a setup of version 5.5 in VMWare Workstation 9. This all on my quadcore 16GB RAM laptop. And after two days of struggling, I...
View Articlewe are implementing strectched clusters in our environment. can i set the...
i would like to be able to configure this setting as part of the build, we are currently deploying ESXi 5.1U1. i am not aware of a command line method for setting this. all documentation i have seen...
View Articlewhere are the centos download urls
im trying to install vmware exsi server but i cannot find the download links i only find the windows ones
View ArticleUpgrading ESXi host 5.1 to 5.5 with depot.zip
Hi, I tried the following command, but the update was failed. ~ # esxcli software vib update --depot=/vmfs/volumes/NFSDS/VMware-ESXi-5.5.0-1331820-depot.zip [VibDownloadError] Failed to download VIB....
View ArticleWhat to buy to use vSphere with PowerCLI
Hi, I am somewhat new to ESX but have used PowerCLI extensively over the last six months. However, I find it difficult to figure out what I need to set up a vSphere infrastructure, however small, at...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 server
Guys, I have a Windows 2008 R2 Dell server, I want to install VMware ESXi on it, is the best option to use the VMware convertor to create a virtual server and then rebuild the server? Or is there any...
View ArticleUnable to install vsphere client 5.5 on Win7 VM
Hi, when I launch VMware-viclient-all-5.5.0-1281650.exe , window named "Extracting" pop ups and hangs with 0 progress, run as Administrator with all the possible compatibility modes. -tried to extract...
View ArticlevCenter Server showing 0 in vCenter Home
I'm very new to vmware. Actually this is my first attempt to install a trial version to hopefully test a little before purchasing in 2014. My question, I installed ESXI 5.5. I logged in and created...
View ArticleHow to monitor the Performance of VMs
Hello, I am a newbie to the virtualization world. I have a Vshere 5.0 and NetApp FAS 3210 NAS box. The Virtual machines are residing in this NAS (SAS disks). The Protocol used is iSCSI. Please let me...
View ArticleUpgrade from vCenter 5.1.0 to 5.5.0 admin password query!
Hi All, We are planning on running an upgrade very soon from vCenter 5.1.0 to 5.5.0, a colleague that previously installed 5.1.0 doesnt recall setting the administrator@vsphere.local password on SSO...
View ArticleSSL Certificates?
Is it mandatory to configure/install CA signed SSL certificates when upgrading from vCenter 5.1 to 5.5? I dont remember doing that for the 5.1 install. Thanks. Dan M.
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