Upgrade vCenter 5.0 to 5.5 on another machine
Hi all, I would like to migrate my farm form 5.0 to 5.5. At this moment, the "old" VC is on a virtual machine and the new VC must be installed on a new, physical machine. How can accomplish these...
View ArticleNo VCenter Server in Vsphere Web Client
I have logged in both as root and the sso administrator (administrator@vsphere.local) and neither one shows a Vcenter server or any inventory at all. Searching for this problem, I found this article:...
View ArticleUnable to register vSphere Web Client after SSL Certifcate Replacement
Hi all, I have been following Derek Seaman's Blogs on replacing all certificates in vSphere 5.1 and have since turned to the VMware KB Articles. I have replaced the certificates for SSO, Inventory...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 U1 to 5.1 Update 2 SSO Upgrade Question
Attempting to update VCenter from 5.1U1 to 5.1U2 and starting with the SSO server. When kicking off the install it immediately advises “Another version of this product is already installed....
View ArticleNetwork issues with HP 10GE card after upgrade from Esxi 5.0 to 5.5
Dear All, I upgraded my Esxi to 5.5 on a HP DL 380 G7. After the upgrade was in place, the 10GE (HP NC523 SFP by Qlogic) network card resets again and again. If I use the Broadcom onboard NIC's...
View ArticleHow to start with VSPHERE on a single server Dell PowerEdge T420?
Hi I am a realy new bigginer with virtualizations and have just worked with small invironments. I want to know if i can use Vsphere on my new server.I could not find any paper or solution for running...
View ArticleAdding new hosts to existing environment with ESX 4 hosts, which ESX version...
I have an environment with 4 clusters totaling around 50 hosts. There are 2 clusters with intel based processor hosts and 2 others with AMD based processors. All hosts are running VMware ESX 4.1. My...
View ArticleDatabase user name and password (vpxuser?)
Hi all, i'm in the process of planning an upgrade of vCentre server from 4.1x to 5.1x. vCentre is running on MSSQL 2005 32bit on Windows 2008 server R2. Once i've updated MSSQL 2005 to the latest SP I...
View ArticleESXi Host Not Responding after 5.5u1 upgrade
I am having an odd issue after performing a 5.5u1 interactive upgrade on one of my servers. Basically, the upgrade appeared to work and the server boots. I can ping it and connect to it long enough to...
View ArticleBoot Stateless / Diskless ESX i 5.X/5 using PXE boot
Hey I am trying to boot Host [ stateless ] with ESX i 5.5 image that mean ESXi boot without local HD .I found some solution , some of them not relevant for example "PXE manager" since it support just...
View ArticleESXi 5.5 + IBM x3100 M4 + MegaRaid M1015 SAS Controller
Hi all, I'm trying to setup a RAID 5, using this a PCI E Megaraid M1015 SAS Controller. The thing is that controller is notable to see the drivers while loading. 0 JBOD(s) found on the host adapter.0...
View ArticlevSphere works on 1 computer but not the other
I've been using vSphere on a recently built computer. It's got a ASRock P67 Extreme4 Gen3, i7, 16GB RAM, and a GTX 560Ti video card (running Win7). The issue is that I get that lovely error message...
View ArticleNeed Help on Up gradation from 5.1 to 5.5
Hello , I would like to know the below information for one my sites. 1. I would like to migrate my existing V center server from 5.1 to 5.5. For this do I need to get license separately for 5.5 or I...
View ArticleInstalling Profile-Driven Storage via vCenter 5.1 Server fails
3 Windows 2008 R2 servers (SQL Server hosting SSO and VCDB - SSO server - vCenter server) Create the SSO database and vCenter database without any issuesSSO service installs without any issuesInventory...
View ArticleNOT_IMPLEMENTED vmcore/vmm/cpu/fpu.c:452
I am trying to run ESXi on a lab box. I was not able to install 5.5 (purple screen of death during install), but was able to install 5.1. Now, in the vSphere client when I configure any VM to boot...
View Articlefour issues I encountered deploying vCenter and SRM 5.5 in a Windows environment
I would like to share some installation ‘gotchas’ that I encountered while deploying vCenter and Site Recovery Manager 5.5. Although relatively minor issues, I hope that you may found this useful and...
View ArticleInfrastructure Upgrade from 4.1U3 to 5.5
Hi, I plan to upgrade my system architecture :2 HP DL380G7 with ESXi1 HP P2000 with 3 datastore 1 vSphere Essentials plus 4.1U3 I want to upgrade to vSphere Essentials plus 5.5 but I don't know how to...
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Cannot install vSphere 5.5 on Server 2012 R2 DataCenter
Hi, I am having difficuly installing vSphere 5.5 components on a server 2012 R2 Datacenter Server. If I use the simple install method it installs the SSO components just fine, then it fails to install...
View ArticleIntel x520-sr1 not detected by VMWare 5.1
Hi, I have an issue with a Server, based on Intel S2400SC Board.I already upgraded to latest Motherboard FW and tried 2 different Intel X520-SR1 Cards. The problem is, that during BIOS Boot, I see the...
View ArticleLogin issue with domain accounts to vCSA 5.5
Hello everybody,I've a problem about AD authentication with vCSA SSO 5.5, these're my installation steps: - vCSA 5.5 ovf template deployed with standard installation and joining in AD (domain...
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