Host successfully upgrades but remains at old ESXi release
Hi - I have a ESXi 4.1 host that I've tried to upgrade to ESXi 5.5 today, The upgrade went through successfully (no errors), but when the host was rebooted (after removing the image disk) it came up as...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1: Do vCenter Servers in Linked Mode Equal Management Redundancy?
Hi, folks. Quick question. Given the scenario of two or more vCenters successfully linked together, if one of the vCenters dies, can the surviving vCenters administer and manage the dead vCenter...
View ArticlevSphere Cilent 5.5.0-1993072 : Snapshots are not working - high risk of data...
VM Hypervisor (VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.5.0 Update 1) was set up with VMware-viclient-all-5.5.0-1618071 and migration of two VM comming from VMWorkstation 7.x was successful and everything was...
View ArticleCant install ESXi 5.5 U2 on hp 360G8p
Cant install Update 2 on esxi 5.5U1 hosts. I am upgrade vcenter and VUM, but cant upgrade hosts. I try upgrade by VUM and from CD - the result is the same (see screenshot) All hp firmware upgraded.
View ArticleESXi 5.5 PCI passthrough USB Controller DELL R620
I'm trying to configure PCI passthrough for USB controller because I want to improve backup performance on USB 2.0 external disk.- Server R620- ESXi 5.5u1- Guest SO: Windows 2008 R2 64bit I configured...
View ArticleSupermicro server and upgrade from 4.1 to 5.5
Hi to all! In our firm we have 3 supermicro servers, all running vmware ESXi software. The newest SUPERMICRO SuperServer 6027R-TRF is running esxi 5.5 software without any problems and we are very...
View ArticlevSphere 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 ArticleCreating a Pre-Maintenance Check of inventory, hosts, datastores and VMs
A High Availability 2 Data Center vSphere setup was recently made available to us running v5.5I am super excited to learn this stuff, recently the DCenter Group performed maintenance and we lost some...
View ArticleRe: Creating a Pre-Maintenance Check of inventory, hosts, datastores and VMs
You can use a free ware tool called RV tool from roboware RVTools is able to list information about VMs, CPU, Memory, Disks, Partitions, Network, Floppy drives, CD drives, Snapshots, VMware tools,...
View ArticleNot able to Select "Connected" after mounting the iso file ...
Have downloaded Ubuntu 14 and vmware 10 .after installing them ..it said operating system not found.going through one of the posts tried selecting connected but couldn't..can you please help..
View ArticleCold Clone Conversion Issue
VMware Gurus, I need your help. Issue:A domain controller running on a physical HP DL360 G7 server cannot migrate using latest bootable VMware Converter ISO. Errors:No network card are detectingUnable...
View ArticleNo upgrade option from 5.5.0 to 5.5 U2
I am currently running VMware vCenter Server 5.5.0 Build 1476327. I need to update it to the recently release 5.5 Update 2. I was told all I have to do is download/mount the ISO and do a custom...
View Articlelookupservice errors applying new certificate
Help. I'm out of ideas and have tried a lot. Our custom certificates expired a couple of days ago. Attempted to use the VMware certificate apply tool to update these and have received failures on the...
View ArticleProblem in upgrading Single Sign On
I unable to upgrading Single Sign On from 5.1 to 5.5 U2 into Windows Server 2008 R2. This machine is already joined to a domain.During upgrading of SSO, error message below appear, "Service 'VMware...
View ArticleChanging EVC Mode
Hello,I am downgrading the EVC mode to Westmere to comply with an older generation of host we are adding to the cluster. To do this, I currently have two clusters created, on which is production and...
View ArticleLocation of SQL Database instance, geographical, virtual, physical?
Hi, We currently have a VM environment in one DataCentre located in our office. We have vCenter Server install on a VM and it's DB instance is stored on different specified DB VM server. This...
View ArticlevSphere 5.5 : "The storage service is not initialized"
Hi, When i'm going to Storage Views for any object (vm or cluster or host...), i have this popup "The storage service is not initialized". And the windows is empty...I'm in 5.5 (1891313). When I'm...
View ArticleMigration of ESXi 5.0 to ESXi 5.5
Dear Support, I need your suggestion regarding the migration of ESXi 5.0 to ESXi 5.5, I know the migration is very straight forward process but we need best practice as per our scenario.Currently we...
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VSphere Planning & Install
Guys Planning our install of VSphere with 3 hosts the diagram below shows the proposed set-up of the new solution in detail, the main questions I have are around the distributed switch set-up? we will...
View ArticleMounting an ISO-Image with Web Client
I'm not able to mount an ISO image on the local hard drive within the vSphere Web Client 5.5. Is that even possible with the web client? I have two possibilities: connect with the CD drive of the host...
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