Upgrade path for vCenter 5.5 U2 appliance to vCenter 6.0 appliance
What is the upgrade path for vCenter 5.5 U2 appliance to vCenter 6.0 appliance? All I can find so far is the following:For major upgrades to the vCenter Server Appliance, you can deploy a new version...
View ArticlevSphere 6 not detecting my LAN card.
Where can I get or how can I make a tgz or vib file for my LAN to patch vSphere iso to support my LAN? My computer is HP Pro 3330 Micro Tower Hardware ID is: PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168 Thanks
View ArticleShould I bother with UEFI
I've hit a brick wall getting ESXi to installed using an UEFI boot. Both USB and CD give me issues (see my other post for details). I can get a BIOS boot going and have installed ESXi on a thumbdrive...
View ArticleThe measured L2 cache miss cost 0 is not within the expexted range...
VMware ESXi 5.5.0 Hi, I'm trying to load SBS 2011 on a HP ProLiant DL160 G6 Server It has 2 x Intel Xeon E5520 CPUs ( 2 x 4 Cores) Now then, if I select anything other than 2 CPUs & 2 Cores I get...
View ArticleBest Practice for Windows Security Updates on VMs
Hi, I'd like to know what is the best practice for applying monthly MS Windows Security updates. Just like we've been doing this before, we apply the patches by logging in to each VM, and run the...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1u1b -> 5.5u2 multi-site SSO fresh install or upgrade
Hello, I inherited a multi-site installation of 5.1u1b that wasn't done in accordance with the recommendations outlined in KB 2042849 (VMware vCenter Server 5.1.x Multisite Single Sign-On deployment...
View ArticleWilling to tell us about your install or upgrade to 6.0 reference?
Hi all community participants, we are very eager to hear if your upgrade went successfully and what you upgraded from?I am trying to get a feel of who completed it successfully and a general "feel" -...
View ArticlevCenter 6.0 VMCA as a subordinate CA - error during certificate-manager Cert...
HelloI've been trying to set the VMCA as a subordinate CA, using certificate-manager.The Cert replacement operation works fine, but then I get an error during the starting service operations.No errors...
View ArticleVMWare 5.5 Upgrade - Cannot see Datastores
Upgraded an HP ProLiant BL490c G7 blade from vSphere 5.0 to 5.5 U2. After restart host indicates no datastores are configured. In the configuration tab the Brocade-804 storage adapter shows up, but...
View ArticlevCenter VCSA6 Upgrade from 5.x Error -> Upgrade Export Failed
Hello, I just wanted to point out a piece of information regarding VCSA upgrade to version 6 which should be more visible and documented. The ESXi host which you are using to host your VCSA 5.x has to...
View ArticleUnable to deploy VCSA 6.0 with external HA PSC
I am performing a vSphere 6.0 test deployment using 2 VCSAs connecting to a pair of external PSC appliances load balanced behind a Citrix Netscaler. I followed the vSphere 6 deployment guide for...
View ArticleNICs Failover team Active Standby - How to see which physical adapter is...
Hi, simple question. I have a vSwitch with two portgroup VMKernel. The switch is bound with two nics. The failover policy is set at Portgroup level. PG1 has nic1 active and nic 2 standby. PG2 has nic 1...
View ArticlevCenter Linked Mode (5.0)
I am looking to implement linked mode in our vCenter 5.0 environment but have role conflicts I have resolved most of these but still have role conflicts for the default built in roles (which i cannot...
View ArticleVMWare ESXi License
Hi All, Once we assign a license to ESXi host , can the same license be used for another physical server(not in vmware cluster)?
View ArticleCant launch VM console from vSphere Web client i get a grey console screen...
WMRC works as well as the thick client any ideas
View ArticleUpgrade ESXi 5.1 to 6.0
Hello everyone I'm looking into upgrading my home ESXi 5.1 to 6.0. First question: Is it possible to invoke the Upgrade from the vpshere Client without vCenter?Second question: Is it possible to...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 unattended ks.cfg script to copy and import ova to localhost
I used ESXi Image Builder to create a custom installer with the appropriate drivers needed. The iso installs as expected. I have successfully copied files from the CDROM ISO to the local datastore....
View ArticleVM Setup - Newbie Question
Hi, Here's a simple 'newbie' question.... I'm fairly new to the VM world so please be gentle. I've got hold of an old HP ProLiant DL320 G6 Server which I'm just going to set up at home to 'play' and...
View ArticleVCSA server upgrade to 6.0 question
So I partially posted in another thread but now think it's worthy of it's own question and explanation. I have 2 sites with a VCSA 5.5 deployed to each and now want to add vRA to the environment so...
View Articleesx 5.5 pxebooting tftp request file "/localdisk"
hey all I am pxebooting an ESX installation for a remote that has no gui, and when I monitor the tftp via wireshark I see for some reason, my remote host is asking for /localdisk. Has anyone seen this...
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