Error 29107 Upgrading vCenter to 5.1
I get the following error at the end of the vCenter upgrade/install while Registering with vCenter Single Sign On. What can I do to overcome this? Error 29107. The service or solution user is already...
View ArticleUpgrade 4.1 USB Boot or Reinstall v5?
I have a couple standalone ESXi host servers that are booting to version 4.1 from a USB stick. I want to run the latest vSphere v5. Is it possible to just create a new bootable USB stick with ESXi...
View ArticleUpgrade to 5.1 Failed and resulted in a corrupted DB
Hi,i tried to upgrade vCD 1.5 to 5.1, the VCD upgrade itself went ok but it failed on the DB upgrade: Unable to upgrade the database: java.sql.SQLException: Violation of UNIQUE KEY constraint...
View ArticleNo Patches
Trying to create a baseline in vsphere5 i have no version 5 patches or upgrades. Just updated datacenter to version 5 recently and now need to patch and/or upgrade to 5.1. When i create a baseline I...
View ArticleCannot install any thirdparty products on ESXi 5
Hi there, I have a strange behavior of the ESXi5 free version. I installed the ESXi5 and it runs. Next I would like to install a LSI driver package. So I copied this with WIN SCP on the host root...
View ArticleI am trying to make a VM and I am having some trouble.
The converter errores out when I connect to the server. I will be totaly honest I have no idea what is wrong, any help would be totaly appreciated, Thanks!
View ArticleCannot connect to host when deploying VM from template
I have a W2K8 template that will not deploy a VM. The error is "Cannot connect to the host". I have tried numerous tricks - Convert back to VM and power up; Remove from inventory; Migrate to a...
View ArticleMoving a vApp (Ops Mgr) from one cluster to another?
Is there a way to move a vApp (vCenter Operations Manager, in this case) to another cluster? I saw there was a way to clone it, but I received an error when trying to do this. Obviously there's a...
View ArticleSlow NFS (VM) performance after upgrading to ESX 5.1 (799733)
Upon upgrading from 5.0U1 to 5.1 and doing a fresh vanilla install of 5.1, I've noticed a significant slowdown on Windows VMs (didn't test Linux) running on NFS datastores either using a Standard...
View ArticlePossible Player 5 Bug!
Hello everyone, I installed Player 5 on the E:\ drive of my W7U 64-bit OS. Since I had never used the product before, I clicked on the Help button. No Help. Clicked the button again; nothing...
View Articlevcenter upgrade to 5.1 single sign on
I have a vCenter 5.0 server and am trying to do an inplace upgrade to 5.1. The Single Sign On portion runs up to the point that it is supposed to start the Single Sign on service. It pops a message...
View ArticleP2V Fedora core 5?
Hi, I have to convert Fedora core 5 to ESXi. Which vmware converter version support Fedora core 5? ThanksPreeda S.
View ArticlePersona Management slow response
After we enable Persona Management we see sluggish response times in opening windows inside of the desktop? When we turn off Persona Management via the GPO, everything goes back to normal. Any ideas?
View ArticleCannot start VMs from vSphere but I can from the ESXi client.
So I'm trying to start a VM from the client connected to my vCSA and I'm getting this error; “Power on Virtual MachineThe operation is not allowed in the current connection state of the host”. If I log...
View ArticlevCenter Server 5.1, SSO and Inventory Service on one Server?
It says in vmware articles that all 3 roles can be installed for small deployments on one Server with enough hardware requirements (2 cores and 10GB RAM and 100GB Hard Drive recommended). Question is...
View ArticleGuest OS Hangs or Fusion 5 Crashes
I've used Fusion 4 without any problem and recently upgraded to fusion 5. I'm regretting jumping the gun to Fusion 5. I'm running lion and mountain lion guest OSs with fusion and it has been nothing...
View ArticleVMware View ESX 4.0
Hello All Need to Clarify a few things around View Im going to be doing a upgrade to ESXI 5.0 . Currenlty the site has the following . vCenter Server 4.0 U3 385281ESX 4.0 Update 1 208167View 5.0.0...
View ArticleESXi root password change and vCenter connectivity
I found a problem which describes as follows: 1. I installed a ESXi host, set password as A, and use vCenter to manage it. Everything is fine. 2. I changed ESXi host password to B, and thought vCenter...
View ArticleInstalling Type 1 fonts (.PFM / .PFB)
Hey there, I'm trying to create a ThinApp package that contains fonts that are only available to the packaged app and not the OS. A lot of the fonts are Type 1 fonts (.pfm + .pfb) and a few are Open...
View ArticleISCSI slow after esxi 5.1 upgrade
Hello all Prior to esxi 5.1 upgrade, I could have all 7 virtual machines (Windows 2008 R2, 4GB each) running simultaneously without any hiccup.Since 5.1, the performance has degraded significantly....
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