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vSphere Client forgets view settings (status bar etc)
Hello, the vSphere Client 4.1.0 forgets the settings performed in menu > view during a session. On next application start, the status bar etc. are shown again in default view/layout again. Hence,...
View Articlevcenter upgrade from 5.1U3 to 6.0U2 fail
Hi all, We are unable to upgrade our vcenter. It runs on a Windows 2008 server with an SQL database on another VM.Here are the log of the Export_com.vmware.sso_2016_06_01_xxxxx file According my...
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vpsphere.local\vpxd-extension- ?? vcenter 6.0 Update 2
Hi, Upgraded from vSphere 5.1 -> 6.0 Update 2 and I have noticed in the sessions now there are 5 connected uses using account vsphere.local\vpxd-extension- Can someone please tell me what they are...
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Custom HPE ESXi 6.0 U2 (April 2016) breaks PXEboot with Kickstart Approach
Hello Community, I have developed a small Linux Appliance to serve as a DHCP and PXEBOOT server in order to stage small to large numbers of esxi hosts at our customer's sites leveraging the kickstart...
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Copying 4.1 vm to 5.5 cluster
Hello, I've been powering off vm's in our old 4.1 cluster and copying them down to my pc and uploading then to the new 5.5 cluster / datastore. I register them - fire them up - upgrade tools then...
View ArticlevSphere for Linux.
Hello.How can I have VMWare vSphere for Linux client? I need a GUI tool. Thank you.
View ArticleUpgrade from vSphere 5.0
Hi, We are planning to upgrade our vSphere 5.0 infrastructure (around 30 hosts and 3 vcenters) to either 5.5 or 6.0.Few of my friends suggested to upgrade to 5.5 as they think that, it is the stable...
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Login to the query service failed. vcenter 6
I cannot do a search on vcenter 6 on the thick client. When I search it just bring up this box any idea? I checked this kb and my fqdns are fine VMware KB: Searching for a virtual machine using the...
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Windows vSphere 5.5 to 6.0 Appliance
We're interested in upgrading our vSphere environment from 5.5 to 6.0. At the same time we're interested in switching from a Windows based vCenter Server with embedded SSO and external MS SQL database...
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Isolated vsphere network
So over the years I've isolated my vsphere environment from the production network with the exception of Active Directory. I have placed an RODC in the management network of my vsphere 5.5 deployment....
View ArticleHide Boot Local Storage
Greetings All, I have reached a point with a recent upgrade that I have about 50 hosts between a few clusters in vSphere. We also do Boot from SAN as the hosts have no local storage. All of the Local...
View ArticlevCenter Upgrade Plan
Hi, We've a vSphere 5.0 infrastructure with its vCenter working as a VM. This VM is suspected to have some OS issues. The database is SQL, which is a hosted in a different server.We will be upgrading...
View ArticleMigrating a vCenter 6.0 server with PostgreSQL
Dear all,i'm migrating my current vCenter 6.0 to a new 2012 R2 server.the server is embedded PostgreSQL server.i see tons of tutorials on how to migrate an MSSQL server, but how do i migrate the...
View ArticleESXi cannot see a iSCSI LUN
Hi, I'm installing ESXi on a bunch of servers via iSCSI, and discovered a weird trouble: all of my servers are booting via iSCSI; in order to do this I have a preconfigured iSCSI target in each...
View ArticlevCenter appliance 5.0 to 5.1 upgrade
Help all - I've been trying to upgrade my vCenter 5.0 appliance in my lab to 5.1, and am failing miserably. Currently the upgrade fails with this error : 1 [23502](7) ERROR: column "small_icon_url"...
View Article2 WebSphere clients 1 ESXi host
Working on a simple deployment where I will run ESXi on a bladeserver for storing multiple OS hosts, while rest of blades on DC will have other bare metal OS.My company is closing in in Security, and...
View ArticlevCenter Cluster v5.1 Enterprise to *new* vCenter Cluster 6.0 Essentials Plus
We are currently planning on making a move from Enterprise 5.1 to Essentials Plus 6.0. I've been looking at doing this type of "Move". I'm hoping When we deploy our new vCenter cluster we can easily...
View ArticlePlanning VSphere Install
I am new to VMware. I have to host computers - HP DL360 and HP DL380. I have full ver SQL 2016. I will install Windows server 2012 as my gust os. Was thinking to do this way:DL360 - 2 VM's - vCenter...
View ArticleInstalling Update Manager
Morning Guys, I am currently running VSphere 5.1, and ESX 5.1 on 8 hosts. I need to get Update Manager installed on these for a pending upgrade to 6.0. Could someone point me in the direction of how to...
View ArticleVM Consolidation
I just manually moved a VM from VCenter 4.1 to 5.5 with all new hardware. This VM had two separate folders that were named the same. I copied both folders to the new volumes and registered the VM....
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