New installation on 2 hosts
Hello all! A bit new at Vmware, would like some help on figuring out my install plan, here it goes, I have 2 physical hosts in a data center, sonicwall behind the hosts with static ip's assigned to the...
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Please, let me know if I understand you... do you already have two hosts with VMware vSphere ESXi with static IP assigned (and behind a Sonicwall firewall) and want deploy the vCenter Server from...
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Re: Logging into the vSphere Web Client 5.5 fails with the error: Provided...
Thanks linotelerafor replying.Here I am attaching the all screenshots or error and configurations. Looking best answer.PLEASE RENAME THE FILE WITH .PDF
View ArticleRe: Logging into the vSphere Web Client 5.5 fails with the error: Provided...
seems to be ok... try these:1. Because is set as default domain, try to login without MYDOMAIN prefix2. Try to login with user@mydomain.com3. Try to revoce group under sso and set up permission...
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Watch here to check what ports to open:http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp#com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-ECEA77F5-D38E-4339-9B06-FF9B78E94B68.html#GUID-ECEA77F5-D38E-4339-9B06-FF9B78E94B68
View ArticlevSphere 5.5 : "The storage service is not initialized"
Hi, When i'm going to Storage Views for any object (vm or cluster or host...), i have this popup "The storage service is not initialized". And the windows is empty...I'm in 5.5 (1891313). When I'm...
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If you are running vcenter server under a service account, then you will have to use the same service account for VMware vSphere Profile-Driven Storage Service service as well and that should fix your...
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I ever tested this but it's doesn't solve my problem.
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Hello goyer, can you post content of these (or entire) logs:-vws.log-sms.log-sps.log Can you explain what you have already done to resolve this issue...in short. (KBs ...etc.) ThanksP.
View Articlemultiple vcenters or single vcenter
I have a vcenter with single sso that have multiple datacenters added. Then I have installed another vcenter in a different location and added a colocation datacenter to that new vcenter then I added...
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What is version of vsphere are you currently using? SSO 5.1 is pain to deal with and scale, you best option would be to go SSo 5.5 as this is backward compatible and it is much simpler to design....
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Thank you for replying! last question..... if i have a 3rd host offsite, can that be added to the cluster as well? if so what would be the best method of connection? just asking, because we would like...
View ArticleRe: Using Update Manager to upgrade ESX 5.1 to 5.5 - ERROR Conflicting VIBS
Hi I've ran into the same problem upgrading 5.1u2 to 5.5u1. Problem was the broadcom driver. Building a new image was one option and deploy using Update Manager. Or install other broadcom drivers....
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I just read some KBs about the service "VMware vCenter Server Storage Monitoring Service" that fails to start but i never try to do something except the change of the service account. The different KBs...
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- please post screen with list all VMware services with "Log On As" column...- which database are you using?- which account is configured to access this database?- are you using self-signed...
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Re: vSphere 5.5 : "The storage service is not initialized"
I'm using SQL Server Express included with vCenter Server. I'm only have 3 hosts with 40 VMs.I guess the account used for the connection is a_sydubois. It's an account admin of the server. In ODBC,...
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using special characters is not something which vSphere products likes... change the name or try to use another account:See:VMware KB: Changing the vCenter Server database user ID and password VMware...
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Re: vSphere 5.5 : "The storage service is not initialized"
All the admin account of our domain have an underscore. There is a big domain and i can't change that. We forget this for this problem because I don't think there is the reason. This worked before the...
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