Re: Migrate Host to New vCenter
If you want to upgrade the host in its current vCenter environment vCenter will need to be upgraded or leave the ESXi host at 4.1 - vmotion the vms to it remove it from the 4.1 vcenter and then add it...
View ArticleRe: Moving VM from esxi 5.5 to VMware Essentials Plus
There shouldn't be any issue with this. The ESXi binaries are the same for all editions and it's only the license key which makes the difference with the available features. You can even enter the...
View ArticleRe: VMware 3.5 to 5.5
Basically you don't need to convert the VM's in order to use them with ESXi 5.5 (see VMware KB: ESXi/ESX hosts and compatible virtual machine hardware versions list). Upgrading VMware Tools as well as...
View ArticleRe: Moving VM from esxi 5.5 to VMware Essentials Plus
You could do it without any worry. The VM's are all the same. Its just the license ket that will enable/disable features in ESXi. If it was different versions you should have thought about the the...
View ArticleRe: Migrate Host to New vCenter
We actually have the current vCenter upgraded to 5.0. We are hoping to migrate the 4.1 hosts to the new vCenter with as little interruption to the VM's as possible.
View ArticleRe: Migrate Host to New vCenter
Yes - then the plan you outlined will allow you to move the host with minimum downtime to the VMs the only other suggestions is to make sure you disable HA and DRS if enabled becasue it will force you...
View ArticleRe: Migrate Host to New vCenter
Ah good point, thank you. And thank you for the confirmation, this will hopefully allow us to work with a lot less downtime.
View ArticleRe: vSphere ESXi 5.1 (free) Installation Error
I have the same Motherboard and CPU combo - my way around that error was to hit F11 during the MSI splash screen to enter the boot menu and manually select the USB drive I wanted to boot from. (NOT the...
View ArticleRe: vSphere ESXi 5.1 (free) Installation Error
Sometime it can be possible you have corrupted ISO files, make sure you have proper ISO image files and check your hardware compatibility with ESXI 5.1
View ArticleRe: VMware 3.5 to 5.5
Hi, Nope you can actually use the VMware converter from a standalone machine or any machine. it does not need the new Host it requires a windows machine that's all.and as Andre said, you can have an...
View ArticleRe: 5.5a SSO and LDAP - unable to add users
Hi Mike, I am having the exact same error, doe you already have a solution for this? Thanks,Patrick
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L2 / L3 Cache problem when 5 or more CPUs asigned to a VM
Hi people, i'm having a nice purple screen problem with ESXi 5.5 1331820. When i put on any VM more than 4 cores (that can be 5, 6, 7 or 8 CPUs) assigned to a VM with Windows, Linux or without SO, the...
View ArticleRe: vSphere ESXi 5.1 (free) Installation Error
Adding the old driver to the new ISO got the installer to work, but it couldn't find the DHCP host after installation so I'm not sure it was actually a viable driver. I'm giving up for now.
View ArticleCheck my upgrade? (Network & Security question)
Hi Guys, We currently run ESXi 5.1 U1 with Network & Security for VMWare Edges and vCenter. That's all. I just want to confirm that I need to do the following, in the following order: 1) Install...
View ArticleRe: vSphere Essentials Plus upgrade from 4.1 to 5.5
From a design perspective, one key rule is to keep it as simple as possible. You do not want to introduce complexity in your environment. I am assuming this is only a small environment (from the...
View ArticleRe: vSphere Essentials Plus upgrade from 4.1 to 5.5
I would also suggest a VLAN implementation, the HP 2510 supports VLAN and as rh5592 says, create a vSwitch with 4 NICs and one with two NIC for the management each with at different VLAN ID. The rest...
View ArticleThe requested resource is not available
New installation of vSphere 5.5a on a Windows 2008 x64 VM with all componenets (SSO, Web Client, Inventory and vCenter)Cannot get Web Client to work, unless I install it to a path with no spaces, ie...
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Good for you that you were able to get it to work installing in a different path. I usually install web client in the default directory due to bug from that same KB article. So I would normally install...
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Re: vSphere Essentials Plus upgrade from 4.1 to 5.5
rh5592 and GFK, This is a relatively small environment. VLANs are already applied for a few smaller networks like voice and other connectivity. I also agree with the KISS Technic My hope was that I...
View ArticleRequired client support files missing, prompting the user to run the...
Hi I have installed vsphere client 5.5 on my win 2008 machine, whenever i am trying to access a ESXi host it's asking me to RUN or Save the installer? Can you enlighten me about why this problem...
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