vCenter upgrade from 5.0 to 5.5: Add DNS domain name as a native Active...
I am planning to upgrade a 5.0 vCenter to 5.5.The vShpere environment is used for testing and is not integrated with Active Directory, so users log on to the vCenter using local vCenter users and...
View ArticleCoexistence of different versions of ESXi
I am planning the upgrade of a vSphere 5.0 infrastructure (vCenter 5.0 and ESXi hosts 5.0) to version 5.5 u2.We will start from the vCenterFor some times (days or weeks) we will have different...
View ArticleHP smart array b320i
Hi, I had configured my esxi host to use the HP Smart Array B320i in a raid 0 mirror. I am having issues currently with the HP ESXI 6.0 installer. It simply does not see any logical volumes even...
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Migrating from Embedded SSO 5.5 to External PSC 6.0 via uninstall/reinstall...
I understand that the "official" procedure for migrating a vCenter from an "embedded" SSO 5.5 instance to an "external" SSO 5.5 instance is to follow the KB to "re-point" the vCenter, Inventory...
View ArticleCan vCenter upgrade take more than 3 hours?
I started vCenter upgrade to upgrade a vCenter 5.0 VM to vCenter 5.5 u2.The vCenter is a Windows Server 2008 R2 VM with 8 cores and 16 GB RAM.The vSphere infrastructure have about 500 VMs.The upgrade...
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Error in Host Profile checks after May update.
I recently applied ESXi550-201505002 (may update) to all of my host and now my host profile checks will not work. I tied creating a new host profile and also updating my existing profile and still no...
View ArticleInfrastructure Client
I'm new at this.... I have a free license of VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.0We need to download VMWare Infrastructure Client All the places I find that has the download link says I don't have access to...
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VCenter 6 Install
I am having two issuesWhen trying to install Vcenter 6 I get the following msg The user group "NT Service\All SERVICES does not have the "log on as a service" user right. What am I adding into the GPO?...
View ArticleUpgrading ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.5 with Zero VM Downtime
Hi guys I had recently upgraded to vCenter Server 5.5 U2 and I would like to upgrade my remaining PROD cluster with ESXi 4.1. What is the recommended approach in upgrading it to ESXi 5.5 with ZERO...
View ArticleMigrating vSwitch to vDSwitch
Hi guys Can someone point me to existing procedures & approach on migrating creating and migrating vSwitch to vDSwitch with Zero VM downtime. I have 4 uplink per host, what is recommended practice...
View ArticlevCenter upgrade steps
I attempted to upgrade a vCenter server VM from version 5.0 to version 5.5 and the upgrade failed.During the upgrade I saw that SQL Server 2008 R2 was upgraded with a service pack.Which service pack is...
View ArticleAdd "domain" as a native Active Directory identity source
I am upgrading a vCenter 5.0 VM to vCenter 5.5.The vCenter is not member of any Active Directory domain even if the FQDNof the vCenter belongs to the same DNS domain used by AD.In other words, my AD...
View ArticleHost profile applied, but not applying Network Label
I'm using VCSA Vcenter, vsphere 6.0 for both the Vcenter and the ESXi hosts. I can create and apply a host profile OK, with the exception the network label doesn't get applied on the new server....
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Upgrade from vcenter 5.5u3 to 6.0 with database error
Hi,if I upgrade vCenter 5.5 to 6.0 on my Windows Server 2008 R2 then I get this error unfortunately in German: WARNING: Cannot execute statement(rc=100).DELETE FROM VPX_TABLE^^^^^^^^^^ WARNING:...
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Moving ESXi host from lower EVC mode cluster to higher EVC mode cluster
Hi I have two clusters with both EVC enabled and planning to move hosts from old cluster to new cluster. Old cluster (EVC mode baseline Intel "Merom" Generation (Intel Xeon Core 2) )6 x IBM x3850...
View Article"Uninstallation of 5.x products failed with error code '3010'. Check the logs...
Hi all, I am trying to upgrade my lab vCenter from 5.5 to 6.0 but keep hitting this error any ideas? Thanks James
View ArticleESXi 6 install screen glitches
Hi, I can't install vmware vSphere on my Supermicro X10SLL-F, because the video output is glitched (see attachment). Even without a monitor and just using the IPMI remote console, the output is still...
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vSphere 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...
View Articleconfusing upgrade patch...
I currently have a VDI infrastructure that looks like this...vCenter 5.5Hypervisor 5.5Horizon 6.0.1Composer 6.0.1VSAN 5.5 Can someone guide me in the correct order to upgrade these components. Having a...
View ArticlevCenter Upgrade from 5.1 to 6.0 with external SQL 2008 fails during schema...
We have:- vCenter 5.1 on Windows 2008 server- external SQL2008R2 SP2 We are trying to upgrade to vCenter 6.0 on the Windows server, but during the validation we get this error: "Source vCenter Server...
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