Single Sign On (aka SSO) and LDAP
I am at my wits end and wish to query the masses for any assistance. I upgraded vCenter from 5.0 to 5.1 and have had the joy of fighting with SSO. I am able to configure SSO to authenticate Active...
View ArticlevCloud HTTP 500 Trying to read network with API (v 1.5)
Help! I've got a new installation and I'm having problems reading a network using the REST API. I'm getting a 500 Internal Sever error on a GET for a network resource. Here's the pieces of the log...
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Storage I/O latency at low activity times
My client is seeing storage I/O latency on there systems at low utilization times. messages similar to those references in...
View ArticleAfter VCD 5.1.1 upgrade from VCD1.5, the vCenter 5.1 is not communicating to...
Hi All, I upgraded the VCD1.5 to VCD5.1.1, after upgrading the vCenter 5.1 is unable to communicate to VCD5.1.1. vCenter is :- 5.1.0-880146 vShield:- 5.1.1-848085 VCD:- 5.1.1-868405 ESXi:-...
View ArticleVMware SAN performance issues [solved]
after several hours of horrible performance, identified and resolved an issue with VMware esxi 5.1 and our SAN infrastructure. Solution:Identify VMware hosts with "SCSI Target" devices having WWN of...
View ArticlevMotion Fails At 14%
Hi Everyone, Having a bit of a strange issue with vMotion today. It's been working in my lab for months, and was still working fine after I upgraded to 5.1 last week. Now, today, for whatever reason,...
View ArticleStrange super button behaviour in Ubuntu 12.04 with win7 guest
I'm running Workstation 8.02 on Ubuntu 12. When I run a Windows 7 guest os, if I hit the "super" (or windows button) in the guest OS, it causes the unity task bar to show the little numbers that...
View ArticlevCenter 4.1 U3 causes error in Performance Overview and Storage Views
I wanted to share this issue and workaround for the good of the order. Please be aware that VMware has been notified of this issue and the workaround described below may not be supported by VMware....
View ArticleNew !! Open unofficial storage performance thread
Hello everybody, the old thread seems to be sooooo looooong - therefore I decided (after a discussion with our moderator oreeh - thanks Oliver -) to start a new thread here. Oliver will make a few...
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Vmware ESXI within Hyper-v (server 2012) networking issue
I am trying to get esxi running within hyper-v and it won't recognize the virtual switch even though I got it setup properly and it works with any other VMs on this system. I only have one NIC but...
View ArticleAccessing shared folders within Ubuntu from Mac host
I have an external drive formatted as EXT4 which I connect to my ubuntu VM (12.10) runnign on Fusion 5.0.2 . Everything works perfectly until I started trying to access the hard drive from outside...
View ArticleIs VMWare Fusion version 4.1.3 compatible with the new Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain...
Does anyone know if VMWare Fusion version 4.1.3 is compatible with the new Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion that was release today? I don't want to upgrade to Mountain Lion if I will lose my VMWare fusion...
View ArticleMigrate virtual vCenter Server 5.1 to dissimilar ESXi hardware
Hello Everybody, I have a vCenter server 5.1, vCenter Database and vCenter SSO server all running as different virtual machines.My vCenter server, SSO and DB VMs are running on an ESX 4.1 host. I have...
View Articlevcenter service doesnt start
I get these two error messages: [03812 error 'Default'] [LDAP Client] Failed to add LDAP entry CN=4DB127F1-8E18-4FC6-BAD3-A909F2871926,OU=ComponentSpecs,OU=Health,dc=virtualcenter,dc=vmware,dc=int:...
View ArticleCable Connection errors since upgrading to VMWare Fusion 5
I upgraded to VMWare Fusion 5.0.1 and since have been having problems. I use a program on Windows XP that requires a connection to the internet. The program is set up to function for 8 hours....
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VMnet1 & VMnet8 missing from host
I have installed Fusion 5.0.2 on MAC OSX 10.8. I installed Windows XP Pro as Virtual Machine. Everything is working fine except i am not able to connect to any network.When i checked there is no VMnet1...
View ArticlevCenter single point of failure for View?
Hi, we are implementing a small View 5.1 deployment of about 200 virtual desktops. I have a design using 2 connection servers and 2 security servers with a load balancer to guard against a single point...
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Esxi 5.1 pci passthrough broken
I got a purple screen when I start up a vm with a pci device With Esxi5 was working fine. I tested it with 2 vm on different hosts ( but same hardware) i7 2600 32gb mb: dq67sw What can I try
View ArticleHost free memory
Our monitoring group is using /usr/bin/free -b and alert on that. Am I correct that this command run on an ESX Host is only reporting on Service Console memory? [root@esxHost root]# /usr/bin/free -m...
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