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vCenter SSO + vSphere questions
1, When installing the SSO service it doesn't pick up AD as a valid identity source, but according to the documentation, it should. I'm running the installation as a local administrator, and the box ...
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Joining a vSphere host to Active Directory if it is already part of an AD enabled vCenter cluster
Currently our vSphere 5.1 hosts are part of a vCenter 5.1 cluster. vCenter is already AD enabled so I just need to do a windows authentication to get access to our hosts.
I was wondering, is it also ...
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Can't Start VM, VMDK Locked due to Aborted Transfer Between Datastores
I was copying a VM between datastores last night when I looked away and then the vCenter host started restarting due to Windows update... The VM transfer between was aborted, but now the VMDK file it ...
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Why does VM Guest Memory Utilisation Differs Memory utilisation report in vCenter Server
I am tricked with the results seen from the Memory performance report in VM Guest Server (Windows 2008 R2); taken with the Perfmon Counters are no way related with the performance reports I got from ...
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Migration in the vCenter changed network interface in a CentOS virtual machine
I have a vCenter 5.1 and two hosts with ESXi 4.1 (Host1) and ESXi 5.1 (Host2). They are working fine.
I migrated a CentOS from host1 to the host2. The state of the virtual machine was "powered off", ...
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Two vSphere Essentials Plus Kits: can all hosts be part of same cluster/data center?
Say you have 6 hosts and two vSphere Essentials Plus Kits: can all 6 hosts function as part of the same vCenter (cluster, data center) umbrella or is there a restriction with licensing (i.e. you'd ...
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Small Datacenter Setup - vCenter and OpenVPN
I, as well as two other students, are creating curriculum for a new datacenter course at our university. We have 16 Sun servers that are several years old with decent specs (2x Dual-Core AMD Opterons ...
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iSCSI SAN for vCenter Cluster
I'm looking to setup a SAN for a VMWare vCenter cluster of ESX hosts. I'd like it to be the primary storage device for VMs. There will be up to 10 hosts in the cluster eventually.
I'm creating a ...
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Using API to get info about VMWare datastore
I need to create a report of datastore capacity, provision and usage. What is the best tool to do that? Vcenter API seems more concerned with creating VMs and such.
Is this the right tool for the ...
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VMWare 5.1 Datastore in use when trying to unmount?
When trying to unmount a datastore from one of my 4 ESXi hosts, I receive a message that it's in use.
The full error stack I see is:
Call "HostDatastoreSystem.RemoveDatastore" for object
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“The Directory Server detected that the database has been replaced” on vCenter Server
I'm seeing an error I don't understand in the event log on a vCenter 5 server running on Windows Server 2008 R2 and which has the VC database hosted on a local instance of SQL Server 10.50.1600. The ...
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VPN connection is open. But can't ping internal network
I have run into a problem with my VPN.
At home i have set up a test lab. I Have a server running VMware ESXi and vCenter server, so in my internal network i connect to the vCenter server to manage ...
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Creating a new local user from vCenter (with vSphere 5.1)
I am trying to add a new local user from vCenter. I could not find how to do it.
I dont have the "Users & Groups" tab.
Important note, I do not want to join the vCenter to the domain. I really ...
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Can I let my users create VM's as they wish?
In my dev team now, there has risen a request to be able to create/run VM's on demand.
What they are asking for is a system/method/tool that they can select the following: CPU's, RAM, OS , Hard disk ...
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Veeam/VMware - Creating a virtual lab folder/resource pool error
I am trying to create a virtual lab, but have an error with the host options. We have 2 production hosts and one host I'm using for testing. When I try create a virtual lab, I get and error under the ...
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VCenter Migration
I am in a catch 22 position. I need to do some work on a SAN that hosts our VCenter but due to the client only having Essentials Plus licence they do not have Storage Vmotion and can only cold ...
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VCenter Upgrade Does not work
Task/Details
We need to upgrade our Vcenter enviornment from v4.1.0 Build Number: 799345 to v4.1.0 Update 3 Build Number: 816786
Problem
After backing up the database and the SSL certificates we ...
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Which hardware gives us better redundancy, performance, and cost efficiency for a large Enterprise Cloud Solution? [closed]
We are going to build a Large Enterprise Cloud Solution and would like to know in which configuration we would have a better redundancy/performance and cost efficient.
Here are 2 examples which we're ...
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How to change vcenter server appliance IP from command line?
I have installed a Vcenter 5.1 on a system netowrk, and gave it an internal IP.
This server (Dell R620) than had to go to a remote hosting location. That gave me a totally different IP and sub ...
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What is the correct way to remediate an HA Cluster?
Background / Goal
I have a VMWare HA cluster for production Machines with two hosts.
It is currently set up so that it can account for the failure of up to one host. It does not use DRS.
I need to ...
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VMware Virtual vCenter and High Availability
To continue with this question:
Should be Vmware vCenter server high available?
According to the response there even if vCenter is down HA will continue to work.
So, if my vCenter is a VM, using ...
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SNMP - Value of CPU processor load not reflecting reality
Trying to plot CPU load on my server, with the following hardware: ProLiant DL360p Gen8 (same behavior on ProLiant DL360 G7).
The machine is running VMWare ESXi5.1
To create a CPU spike I run dd ...
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vCenter 5.1 — adding v5.0 host doesn't bring in templates
I just set up a vSphere / vCenter 5.1 installation.
I added two older hosts (v5.0) to this installation.
I just noticed that while all VMs have been added to the inventory, none of the templates ...
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Potential VMWare 5.1 Fault Tolerance bug/issue?
Background / Setup
I've got a fresh install of vCenter Server 5.1 and associated components.
I've taken all steps (as far as I can tell) to enable FT, and it worked the first time (yanked a power ...
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vCenter appliance won't use mail relay server
tl;dr: - sendmail is configured to use a relay server but still insists on using 127.0.0.1 as the relay, which results in mail not being sent.
We have the open source vCenter appliance (v 5.0) ...
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vCenter Server: This host currently has no management network redundancy
Background
I'm on a new VMWare install consisting of:
1 vCenter Server (containing inventory service, SSO, vCenter server, and web client server)
2 ESX Servers configured in a HA group
Problem
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Increasing a Linux partition once VM size increased in vSphere?
I have a Ubuntu 12.04 VM running on VMWares ESXi 5.1.
The server (VM) itself has run out of space, the results of df -h are as follows:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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vSphere Replication Guest OS Quiescing
I am using vSphere Replication 5.1 to send virtual machines to a separate datastore every 24 hours. One option in configuring each VMs replication is the Guest OS Quiescing option. Options are None ...
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Steps after installing vCenter Server?
I'm working with:
Two new ESX servers that I'm configuring
A new Server 2008 R2 machine that I'm using for vCenter.
I took the following steps:
Installed the Hypervisor on the 2 ESX machines
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How to release a VMware unused license from a host? New licensing scheme?
I own VMware Essentials license (6 CPU's)
One of the hosts is going to be replaced with a new one. I am having trouble removing/changing the license on that host.
As you can see on the image: the ...
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Modify VM attributes from VMware CLI
There has to be a way to do this that I'm missing. I'm trying to modify attributes on a whole bunch of VMs at the same time from the CLI:
Look! 24 VMs:
$ vmware-cmd --server 10.91.1.1 --username ...
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PowerCLI: cancel all taks for current user
I would like to create a PowerCLI script that cancels all tasks initiated by the current user. I haven't been able to use Get-Task or a filter to get only my tasks, as I haven't found that property on ...
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LUNs disappear after rebooting the ESX/ESXi host
A single LUN among from a group disappeared following the ESXI host restart. Neither the host nor the Vcenter can see it.
I have four virtual machines on the LUN hiden now showing just unknown from ...
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Is is possible to migrate a client from a disconnected VM host?
One of our VM hosts (5.0) got disconnected. All of our Clients are on Shared Datastore.
Is it possible to migrate the clients on the disconnected host (Vcenter Essentials) to a connected host?
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Import a VMware virtual machine with two disks into Amazon AWS
I installed the vCenter connector and it said "lol, can't upload VM with two disks."
So I disconnected one of the disks and uploaded the VM and now I need to upload the second disk and rejoin it to ...
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vCenter server with both academic and Federal licensing? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
Background
We have two servers running VMWare Academic licensing and just purchased two more under Federal licensing.
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VMWare vCenter: “incorrect username or password” when connecting to host
I have an existing vCenter server (v5.0) with two existing ESXi servers.
I recently installed ESXi v5.1 on two new servers.
I configured their hostnames, IPs, DNS, gateway, etc. and both pass their ...
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Revert a VM client from within the VM Client - is it possible?
I am creating a test VM (esxi V5) client for our QA department.
Once it's installed, my options will be:
Use a snapshot
Use non persistent disk on the hard disk.
For either options, I can give ...
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Cannot connect to Vsphere Webclient
I have a problem connection to the VCenter Web Client. I can connect and do some administration from the VLAN that the Vcenter server is on and this is working fine.
But if I connect from our client ...
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Orphaned VM client while migrating
While migrating (NOT Vmotion) a shutdown VM client, I got an error, that didn't fully complete the migration procedure.
After which the VM is now shown twice on my vcenter
As for the suggestion on ...
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Configuring vCenter alarm for loss of psu redudancy
Does anyone know if it's possible to configure a vCenter 5 alarm to monitor the loss of PSU redundancy of a host? I'm looking through the options to configure alarms and the Power State alarms on the ...
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Deploy ESX virtual machine from template with esxcli
I have an ESXi 5.0 and VirtualCenter setup. I've created a VM template (let's call it rhel-template) and I want to deploy it from the command-line (via esxcli).
How do I do so?
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Is there a faster way to deploy an OVA template?
I need to deploy vSphere Server Appliance 5.1. I have vSphere Client running locally and my internet upload is capped at 3 Mbps. It says it's going to take about 200 minutes to upload.
When selecting ...
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MS Exchange p2v process
Is that possible to virtualize MS Exchange Server 2007 without stopping it's services? In particular I'm interested in using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client for that purpose.
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Convert physical to ESXi machine using VMware vCenter Converter?
I want to convert a physical machine to a virtual machine using VMware vCenter Converter. According to the product page of VMware vCenter Converter I should be able to create a virtual machine for ...
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VMware vCetner tomcat log files missing
I have upgraded to a trial version of vCenter 5.1 from 5.0. Previous versions used to have tomcat log files inside the tomcat\logs folder. But since I have update I have noticed that tomcat is not ...
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How to Migrate vCenter Virtual Appliance
I am looking to migrate a vCenter 5.0 virtual appliance to another machine with DAS. Is it possible to do this without vMotion and without breaking anything?
If so, could one follow a similar process ...
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Since I migrated vCenter to 5.1, some vms are migrating again and again
Yesterday I upgraded my vCenter to the last version 5.1 and I had to reconnect the hosts (running esx 5.0, last patches)
Since I migrated, 5 vms (always the same) are vMotionned from host to host and ...
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P2V for Windows 7 fails on vmware vCenter
Today I started to convert my physical x64 Windows 7 laptop to using the tool vmware vCenter Standalone converter for my mac book pro.
The progress failed at the level of %98.
The error is :
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What do I need to download and how to I upgrade my vmware in order to get VDP?
EDIT: I leave the question as is. Apparently I missed the part that it was only announced, and was sure it's released, and I can't find it on my.vmware.com
VDP [vmware data protection] was recently ...
