Tag: vCenter

  • Host Cannot Download Files From VMware vSphere Update Manager Patch Store

    You may see following error when you scanning ESXi hosts by vCenter Update Manager. Host cannot download files from VMware vSphere Update Manager patch store. Check the network connectivity and firewall setup, and check esxupdate logs for details. You also see similar logs in /var/log/esxupdate.log. [Errno -2] Name or service not known The root cause…

  • Migrate vCenter Server 5.5 Windows to 6.0 Virtual Appliance 

    Virtual appliance is future of how VMware delivery their product to customers. It’s pain to migrate from vCenter Server Windows version to virtual appliance. The only way was build up new virtual appliance and move everything out of Windows vCenter Server. The challenge is you lost data if you have integrated vCenter Server with other VMware…

  • Cannot open vSphere Web Client on IE11 on Windows 8.1

    Tips: You may see that error message “To view this page ensure that Adobe Flash Player version 11.5.0 or greater is installed. ” when you open vSphere Web Client 6.0 on IE 11 on Windows 8.1. The login fields still visible, but the page go to blank after you login.

  • Inventory Service无法启动

    某日,vCenter Server突然无法搜索虚拟机了。在vSphere Client中搜索时会提示 Unable to connect to web services to execute query. Verify that the ‘VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices’ service is running on https://vCenter_Server_FQDN:10443。没过几个小时用户就开始抱怨vSphere Web Client也出问题了,总是提示错误 Client is not authenticated to VMware Inventory Service – https://Inventory_Service_FQDN:10443。

  • Inventory Service Cannot be Brought Up

    One day, my vCenter Server suddenly lost search. It popped me “Unable to connect to web services to execute query. Verify that the ‘VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices’ service is running on https://vCenter_Server_FQDN:10443” when I did object search on vSphere Client. Few hours later people starting complaint they got error on vSphere Web Client, it show…

  • VMware critical notification alarm

    The title looks scared, is it? Actually I don’t want to talk about any problem of VMware product but just a feature. 标题看起来吓人吧?其实这次打算只谈谈功能。

  • How to identify datastore alignment 

    I just found an article show how to check alignment of Windows virtual machine and datastore. 刚找到一篇关于 如何查看Windows虚拟机和ESXi datastore是否和存储扇区一致 的文章。

  • Domain account locked out on vCenter Server

    That’s a very small problem but it struggles you if you are enterprise datacenter administrator. As you may know the best practices to run application is by service account. But sometimes  you may testing applications by your own domain account and forget remove it. Few days ago, my domain account locked out on domain controller.…

  • How to change password of vCenter Server service account

    Many company use service account for vCenter Server database and services. To compliance with security policy, you may need to change password of vCenter Server at regular period. This is a way I used to change password: 1. Change the password of service account of vCenter Server and database in AD. 2. Change the password…

  • vCenter Server Heartbeat 5.6 – Installation

    I have to say you’ll not able to get what you anticipating if you follow VMware document. After referred few blogs and videos, I finally deployed the production in HA and DR mode both, it consumed a lot of time since I had to clone the VM from US to India over WAN. It’s pain,…