So a few days back i had some problem with the VMware Windows based vSphere Update Manager (VUM) Server that didn’t start after rebooting the virtual machine (VM) where the service runs. All other VMware related services running on the VM started without any problem. vCenter Server (and VUM) version running was 5.5.U1b was running …
Category Archive: vCenter Server
vSphere 6.0 blog – vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)
As many of you know i have been using the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) in my home lab for years now and in some customer (both production & test) environments as well. It doesn’t require a Windows installation since it is just a virtual appliance (VA) and deployed as a ova or ovf. However, the deployment …
VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2 d
So yesterday, 2015-01-27, VMware released vCenter Server U2d. Quite a lot of minor versions being released for this version but the latest one was actually U2b and not U2c. The latest release now includes the following components: vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2d | 27 JAN 2015 | Build 2442329 vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2d Installation …
OVF Deployment failed in vSphere Web Client
So a few days back while preparing for this weeks job i failed to deploy a OVF in my vSphere environment. I have had problems in the past with, back in the vSphere 5.1 days but haven’t seen it since. The error i received was: I was running the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) version …
Update vCenter Server Appliance without internet connection
Last week i published a blog post where i outlined how to install an Apache web server on a CentOS virtual machine (VM). The web server was required to install, update and upgrade a few other applications and one of them was the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) from version 5.5.0 Update 1c to the latest available version 5.5.0 …
Set vCenter Server Annotations via vCloud Automation Center deployment
How can i update the virtual machine (VM) Annotations field in vCenter Server when requesting a VM via vCloud Automation Center (vCAC), soon to be renamed to vRealize Automation (vRA)? I have had this question a few times the last couple of weeks. This blog post will describe how you can solve this. The below figures shows …
Increase vCenter Server Appliance database disk
A few days ago my co-worker Phil Liou had an incident where the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 5.5 ran out of disk space for the vCenter Server Database. The default VCSA disk layout for the second disk /dev/sdb used for the VCSA database looks like: 20 GB Log 20 GB core 60 GB db We …
New VMware releases 2014-09-09
Today, 2014-09-09, VMware released new versions of many products included in vCloud Suite: VMware ESXi 5.5.0 Update 2 – release notes here VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2 – release notes here VMware vSphere Replication 5.8 – release notes here VMware vSphere Data Protection 5.8 – release notes here VMware vCenter Orchestrator Appliance 5.5.2 – release notes here VMware vCloud …
ESXi hosts disconnected in vCenter Server
While upgrading a VMware vCenter Server to the latest release, 5.5 Update 1b which can be downloaded here, i ran into two issues while trying to connect the ESXi hosts when the upgrade was completed. The ESXi hosts were all disconnected after the vCenter Server upgrade. The solution/s to my problem/s are documented in different VMware knowledge …
VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1b and vCloud Director 5.5.1.2 released
VMware released vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1b yesterday, 2014-06-12, and the main resolved issue i can see a lot of customers will benefit from is that the “OpenSSL libraries have been updated to versions openssl-0.9.8za, openssl-1.0.0m, and openssl-1.0.1h to address the CVE-2014-0224” The release notes can be found here and you can download the software here. VMware vCloud Director version …
Windows Server 2012 R2 preparation before vCenter Server 5.5 installation
This is a blog post dedicated to some of the steps you need to complete before installing vCenter Server 5.5 U1 on a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine. Since i have written one or more of the below described actions several times in emails to customers i thought it was a good idea to create …
vCenter Server 5.5 won’t start
Last week one of my customers vCenter Server 5.5 crashed because the ESXi host where it was running crashed. Unfortunately the vCenter Server, running on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, did not start when the virtual machine (VM) was brought up on another ESXi host by vSphere HA. This was a fresh installation of vCenter …
vCenter Server permission problem in vSphere 5.5
Blog post updated 2014-03-26: Today i received a message from VMware Product Engineering telling me that the default behavior in vSphere 5.5 is to entering the full child domain before the username meaning this was expected. However, i have encountered that if you type the entire child domain name before the userid (in my case xy.vcdx56.commagnus) …
vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1 released
Today, March 11, VMware released the vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1 and ESXi 5.5 Update 1 and some new enhancements includes: vCloud Hybrid Service vSphere Client Plug-in, is now available in vSphere Web Client vCenter Server is now supported on Windows Server 2012 R2 ESXi 5.5 Update 1 includes support for VMware Virtual SAN. I have …
VMware vCenter Server 5.1 Update 2 and VMware ESXi 5.1 Update 2 released
VMware released VMware vCenter Server 5.1 U2 and VMware ESXi 5.1 U2 yesterday. I got quite a few customers running vSphere 5.1 and some of the problems fixed in update 2 has been seen in my customers environments so this is great news. One thing i know will be really appreciated, at least among my …
vCenter Site Recovery Manager installation fails.
This post was updated 2014-01-22 since a KB solving the problem has been published by VMware and can be found here There is a first time for everything and this will be the first blog post on vcdx56.com with content not experienced by myself. I received this very useful information from a colleague, Patrik Ruthberg, …