vCenter Single Sign on Installation Fails (Could not contact lookup service)
I am trying to install the first vCenter server in our organization and it keeps failing with the error "Could not contact Lookup Service. Please check VM_ssoreg.log in system temporary folder for...
View ArticleConverter Hangs at 1%
I've got a machine that I've been tasked to virtualize, but I never get any farther than 1%, which is wierd because a collegue of mine P2Ved this server a couple months ago and it went through. (we had...
View ArticleCredentials for the vCenter MHM Service
Trying to install vCenter MHM so I can control multiple ESX hosts with one client. Problem is, when I'm installing vCenter MHM it's asking for credentials with rights to start a service. no matter what...
View ArticleVm won't boot after moving to another server
Hi all, After our production server went down with a broken mainboard, we setup another server (different hwardware) and installed vSphere 5.1. The existing virtual machines (database) (original...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Settings Window Freezes With Multiple NICs
I have VMware Player 5.0.2 installed on a Windows XP SP3 host and any time I attempt to view the virtual machine settings on a VM that has multiple NICs installed on it the settings window freezes and...
View ArticleWho deleted this datastore ? - a script ? - a bug ? - misconfigured tool ?
I have a quite strange issue - I need to find out what or who deleted a VMFS volume by first deleting the partitiontable - then recreating it and formatting it the following entries can be found in...
View Articlewindows 7 high idle cpu until VM brought into focus
I've seen other treads on this, but no solutions were given other than "check for background processes in the VM" and "suspend instead of letting it go idle". These are not solutions. I have a window 7...
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vSphere host reports less reserved GPU memory than View pool configuration
Hello, I have a View pool configured to assign 512 Mb of video memory to all VM's. My Dell R720 hosts have an Nvida Grid K1 card in each. However, when I run GPUVM on a putty session with my host, I...
View ArticleVMA Build 1062361 not pingable
Hi, I am trying to deploy a VMA to help on my VCAP-DCA exam. I have gone through, and deployed the virtual machine from the ovf file. I also went into edit the settings of the VM, under the Options...
View ArticleVCB error
Hello, I've got strange error in the VC console when trying to backup one vm using VCB When VCB is trying to create a snapshot following erorr occur : General system error occured: Protocol error...
View ArticleAsset Extensions Refresh
Asset Extensions, I created some new fields under the Administration/Asset Extensions Settings. When I got to view them under Console/Asset Extensions/VCM Devices they do not show up. Any ideas ?
View ArticleHow to move VM's from 1 host to a new HA Cluster without Datastore access
I just finished setting upa 3 host cluster with a SAN. I have my old (5.1 esxi) host with local storage on the same network but cannot access the SAN from it. I want to migrate or move all the VM's...
View ArticleGuest Customization - HTTP NFC Error
When I turn on Guest Customization for any virtual machine using vCloud Director, I get the following error. Internal Server Error - Unable to start vApp "pegusus". - Unable to start virtual...
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ten maximum vnics on esxi5.1virtual machine
Hello, I have a maximum vnics message reached when I want to add the eleven virtual nic?? is there a limitation?What is wrong?On...
View ArticleVirtual Hardware Upgrade Mess
Has anyone run into issues upgrading vHardware version 4 to 8? The VMWare KB indicates that you can use the batch file vmupgradehelper.bat to save your network configuration but i'm seeing other...
View Articlecertificate error occurs when running software updates
Running build 1140353 on OEL 6.4 x64. Select Help->Software Update Generates an error:Update Server: https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds-wsfus-2013-previewProxy Server: noneConnection Status:...
View Articleconfig.vpxd.filter.vmfsFilter
I am trying to configure the Storage Filter in my test lab, I am using vSphere 5.1 in lab. After following the KB LUN filtering mechanism during RDM creation (1010513)Still i am not able to see the...
View ArticleMerging clusters?
I have 2 clusters I am considering merging into 1 cluster. Cluster 1: 10x256GB ram Nehalem boxesCluster 2: 6x512GB ram Westmere boxes(currently in EVC Nehalem to move between clusters) HA is on each...
View ArticleSRM with vCenter Server Appliance 5.1
How do I install SRM with the vCenter Server appliance 5.1? thx
View ArticlevCenter Resource Pool Permissions
My goal is to have a group of users be able to create VMs in a resource pool. Have them test what the need on the VM then if it works as they expect I want to move the VM into another Resource pool...
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