Benefit to upgrading QLOGIC 4062C to Intel X540T2?
Hello, We are in the process of upgrading our Vmware environment next week from 5.1 to 5.5U2. Due to the way things were left by the previous sys admin I changed out all the network cards but have a...
View ArticlevCenter upgrade 5.5 to 6.0 fails
Trying to upgrade vcenter from 5.5 U1 to 6.0 on a w2k8r2 VM but it got failed with error message "installation of 5.x products failed with error code '1612'". I have attached the logs. Thanks.
View Articleclient 5.5 accessing 5.0 host.
I'm trying to connect to a 5.0 ESXi host with vsphere client 5.5. When I attempt to do so I get a pop box that says I have to download client files. gives me a URL of vsphereclient.VMware.com. this...
View Articlemigrate vcenter server 5.0 to new VM while upgrading to 6.0
Hello, We have multiple vcenter server environments that are all running vcenter 5.0 with esxi hosts running 5.0u3. The vcenter servers are currently running on windows server 2008 r2 physical servers...
View ArticleVmware 6.0 vmotion across vcenters
If i were to purchase 2 essential plus license and setup 2 vcenters to manage each clusters (3 hosts per cluster) ,... Am i able to vmotion VMs from clusterA to clusterB using Essential Plus license?
View Article"Out of resources" after upgrade to ESXi 5.5
I've recently upgraded two of our hosts (both ProLiant DL380 G5) from ESXi 5.1 to 5.5, and after the upgrade I have been unable to power on any of the VMs on either host. I get an "Out of resources"...
View ArticleVCSA 6.0 Deployment Fails - Starting VMware Single Sign-On User Creation
I am having problems deploying the a vCenter appliance using the vcsa-deploy.exe.- Deployed 1 PSC successfully (I know this PSC works because i was able to deploy VCSA using the web-gui)- Trying to...
View ArticleVmware Vcenter Installation Error - Windows Server 2012R2 - Standard Edition
I am trying to install Vcenter 6.0 on windows server 2012 R2 - Standard edition, below is the error. Any help is appreciated. VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus : Not able to install vcenter server on...
View ArticleBoot screen is gibberish
I've installed ESXi on a number on a number of machines, never had an issue beyond drivers. However I recently went to install ESXi 6.0 and the screen shows what I'm calling "alien brail", see the...
View ArticleUpgrade from vcenter appliance 5.5.0 to vcenter 6 appliance database error
Hello All, I am trying to do an inhouse lab upgrade to vcenter appliance 6. I first upgraded from vcenter 5.5 windows to Vcenter 5.5 appliance using the upgrade fling.Next i want to do the upgrade to...
View ArticleUpdate Manager 5.5 service crashing on Windows Server 2012 R2
Hello, I'm trying to get VUM 5.5 1c working on a Windows Server 2012 R2, but without any luck. Everything installs fine, setup finds the 32-bit DSN pointing to our SQL 2008 R2 server and database...
View Articlecouple of v6 upgrade questions
Right now I can fit into the small server specs. If I need to upgrade in the future, do I simply adjust the resources on the vCenter VM and that's it? (I think I read one someones blog that the memory...
View ArticleA random collection of what’s new vSphere eye candy
Ok, I'll kick things off with a new blog post and vSphere screen shots: http://www.boche.net/blog/index.php/2009/04/20/a-random-collection-of-whats-new-vsphere-eye-candy/ [i]Jason Boche,...
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Vcenter Application Update
Hi, I have the vCenter appliance installed within my environment and am trying to update it to 5.5 Update 2e, it's been running for nearly 80minutes now and it's not moving. I can still log into the...
View ArticleUpgrade vSphere from 4.0 to 5.5U1: strange general behavior
Hello,I'm updating vSphere cluster (2 hosts) from 4.0 to 5.5U1.The situation now is the folllowing:created a fresh new 5.5 vCenter Server on Windows 2008upgraded one host to 5.5U1second host is on...
View ArticlevSphere ESXi 5.1 to 5.5
Hi All, I am planning to upgrade ESXi 5.1 to ESXi 5.5 and add this host to our new vCenter with 5.5 Estate.vSphere upgrade doc says that "If a SAN is connected to the host, detach the fibre before...
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 ArticleRight way to remove a datastore
I am not sure this is the right forumr for my question. If it isn't, can anybody please point me to the right one?I need to delete two LUNs on a storage (HP LeftHand).The LUNs host 2 datastores used by...
View Articleneed some help- getting an error when trying to move from statndard switch to...
"The number of Physical adapters per host exceeds the number of uplink ports."error happens when you1. try to add manage host2. manage host networking3. attach host4. a. Manage physical adaptoer b...
View ArticlevSphere ESXi 5.1 (free) Installation Error
I'm attempting to install vSphere ESXi 5.1 (free version) from a USB thumb drive as this computer doesn't have a CD/DVD drive. I've created a bootable USB drive, copied the ISO to it and configured my...
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