Make sure you have your default domain added within the web client an it is the top option
See the end of my blog posting heer: http://nutzandbolts.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/vcenter-5-0-to-5-1-u1-upgrade-while-splitting-out-services-part-2-web-client-upgrade/
Hi Loordlsp
Thanks for the reply.
Please tell me what should i do with this file.
I run this file but no result. Please suggest me the way.
Thanks
PravinU.
There are two license one is for the vCenter and other are for the ESXi host.. All the features including VDP are licensed to the host.
Since you are have vCenter Standard I assume that you have vSphere Standard and above so VDP is included with these
Check Compare VMware vSphere Editions: Managed Virtualization & Cloud Computing
I actually just did this if you want to reference my blog, but I split services out. You will want to unlink your vcenters first. I didn't document the Multisite mode for SSO, but you will most likely need this for your setup and linked mode.
This should be good to go and you also need to have some hands on vMA and vCLI so if you have these setup as well it should be good.
All the best!!
Agreed with the posters above. The only thing you can do in the web clent with Update 1 is see the compliance status. You will still have to use the VI fat client for your VUM tasks.
Hi,
From working a 5.x vcenter environment for the past 6 months and having a few 4.x clusters haven't noticed any limitations as well to be honest.
Take a look at yellow-bricks HA/DRS URL http://www.yellow-bricks.com/vmware-high-availability-deepdiv/ - the interesting piece relates to the new vsphere FDM agent under the basic's section which is new.
regards
Hi,
I would recommend just practicing everything on the blueprint in your lab until you can do it without thinking and via the gui,cli and vMA. If you are interested I did a blog posting around all the resources I used for my DCA http://thesaffageek.co.uk/2012/10/30/my-vcap5-dca-experience/
Good luck
Gregg
Most of the time, when our users go into a pool using either the View client or a Zero client device, when they connect to the pool they are automatically logged in and get to the desktop. Occasionally, not very often and with no consistency I can detect, the login process will instead show the user the standard Windows 7 CTRL-ALT-DEL screen. Once they do CAD, they are logged on automatically with no other input required from them. Mostly everything works OK. I have seen at least once instance where the user had to hit CAD and while they got to the desktop OK, the Thin Print GPO failed to run and failed to map their printer to the zero client device. Logging out and back in again, the user this time was NOT prompted for CAD and logged in normally and the GPO did it's thing as well. I see the same thing happen in my lab concerning the CAD. I have a small three desktop pool in my lab and at least once a day in my testing I'll have to do CAD and then the next time will not. In both lab and production I have the pools set to log the user out immediately and to refresh the desktop. Any thoughts?
I downloaded the latest vCenter Server - filename: "VMware-VIMSetup-all-5.1.0-1123966.iso", which according to the docs on VMware's download site should be build number 1123966. However after doing the update successfully and restarting vCenter Server, in vCenter I highlight the vCenter server at the top of the tree on the left and across the top right it says: VMware vCenter Server,5.1.0, 1123961! Looks like I lost 5 builds somehow? <G>
If I do a "Help | About VMware vSphere" and look at the top fro the VMware vCenter Server, it also shows the Version as 5.1.0 and the Build as 1123961.
Any idea where the other 5 builds went?
Also, is there any logical reason why VMware always talks about the versions as updates such as 'Update 1', 'Update 1a' for vSphere but no where on the vCenter server or the info on the ESXi host can you find the 'Update' versions. Instead you can only find 'build numbers'? Why not just always refer to the versions, everywhere as the build number so it can be easily compared?
Thanks,
Dan
I dont have the answer (explanation) to this yet, but I came across your question as I was researching the following fact:
In the View 5.1 Architecture Planning Guide, I noticed that the VM configuration for all types of the View Connection Servers consistently listed E1000, not VMXNET3, but provided no explanation of why. I am working on researching this further
Interested to hear from anyone using Tegile's HA2100 or HA2100EP with VMware View.
We're looking at a VDI storage solution for a 500 seat deployment of VMware View with Windows 7 64-bit running as guest OS.
We're considering Nimble's CS220-X4, Equallogic PS6100S (All SSD array) and Tegile's HA2100EP
I believe that all 3 solutions will give me good performance but my concern at this point is the amount of disk space that i need to support 500 desktops. Tegile offers great features including NFS and CIFS protocol support as well as compression and inline dedup which makes me leans toward their solution.
I expect to make a decision within the next week but before i do, I would like to hear feedback from anyone using one of those boxes.
Thanks in advance for your responses.
Have a look at Using vmrun to Control Virtual Machines and place the following option in the VM's .vmx configuration file.
msg.autoAnswer = TRUE
Note: I do not know which choice will be chosen when using this option so you should make appropriate backups and test that the automatically answered choice is okay for what you're doing.
It should work.
About collation you should use such with case insensitive (CI) like Latin1_General_CI_AI
Heartbeat is really your only good option other than using the built in HA, but a powered off VM is an option, but then you ahve to keep it up to date if any changes are made. That being said, Heartbeat can be a bit flaky in my opinion and we just use vmware HA for our redundancy because even Heartbeat is a short downtime while the services restart, so in essense it is the same type of failover as when a host fails.
My recommendation is to run your Vcenter servers and all component servers on an isolated VM cluster or setup DRS rules so you know where they are and rely on the vsphere HA. Heartbeat can protect from service failures, but in my experience when this happens you usually have a problem with your DB that a failover won't really resolve.
Hi All,
I have a host with 32 physical CPUs (with hyperthreading disabled to make the math easier). How do I determine host level co-stop percentage?
From vCenter:
Using Host Co-Stop Values (ie sum of all cores)
Avg Co-Stop for Host: 4500
Duration of Window: 20000ms
To go from Co-Stop summation to % I do the following:
Avg_Co-Stop * 100 / 20000
=4500*100/2000
=22.5%
Is my host spending on average 22.5% of time in a co-stop state? (Tuning docs say anything above 3 shows CPU contention on the host.)
Looking at pCPU Co-Stop Values (ie core average)
Instead of looking at the summation value for the entire host (which was 4500), I'll now assume each pCPU had an average of 4500/32 = 140.
Avg_Co-Stop * 100 / 20000
= 140 * 100 /2000
= 0.7%
Is my host actually spending only 0.7% of time in a co-stop state?
As you can see this has a huge affect on determining root cause of performance on vSMP boxes.
Thank you for any insight!
Actually... I'm not sure if there is a technical misunderstanding here. I have ESX running on "some other server hardware" I simply want to use the vmrun utility to perform commands against my vm's running under my ESX based servers. The version of vmrun that installs with Fusion seems to be a neutered version that only controls Workstation and/or Fusion systems (running on the localhost?). From the vmrun usage:
AUTHENTICATION-FLAGS
--------------------
These must appear before the command and any command parameters.
-h <hostName> (not needed for Fusion)
-P <hostPort> (not needed for Fusion)
-T <hostType> (ws|fusion) <------------------------------------------- The only valid Host Types are "ws" or "fusion" ?
-u <userName in host OS> (not needed for Fusion)
-p <password in host OS> (not needed for Fusion)
-vp <password for encrypted virtual machine>
-gu <userName in guest OS>
-gp <password in guest OS>
The version that installs under Linux gives me this usage:
AUTHENTICATION-FLAGS
--------------------
These must appear before the command and any command parameters.
-h <hostName> (not needed for Workstation)
-P <hostPort> (not needed for Workstation)
-T <hostType> (ws|server|server1|fusion|esx|vc|player) <------------------- lots of host types including fusion.
for example, use '-T server' for Server 2.0
use '-T server1' for Server 1.0
use '-T ws' for VMware Workstation
use '-T ws-shared' for VMware Workstation (shared mode)
use '-T esx' for VMware ESX
use '-T vc' for VMware vCenter Server
-u <userName in host OS> (not needed for Workstation)
-p <password in host OS> (not needed for Workstation)
-vp <password for encrypted virtual machine>
-gu <userName in guest OS>
-gp <password in guest OS>
But all these host types supposedly support the vix API. So....you wouldn't think that contacting any host type would be different than any other.
Indeed the usage of vmrun on Mac OS X lists EXAMPLES which include sending commands to ESX -- which is exactly what I want to do. When I try to do that.... vmrun says "invalid host type". The issues doesn't seem to be networking related. It's a limit of vmrun that installs with Fusion. I wonder If I can install a version of vmrun on my mac that will accept the "-T esx" type.
Since migrating from standard switching to distributed switching, I've seen these alerts appear sporadically. They appear, and then they clear seconds later. They only mention the affected host, not the affected distributed switch. All hosts seem to get this alert.
We have three separate distributed switches; the hosts run on two different physical switching networks and the first of the physical networks has our critical VM, management, vmotion and fault tolerance networks. The first network has two separate distributed switches so I can separate management and critical VM traffic from vmotion and fault tolerance traffic.
Is there a way I can enable alerts for a specific distributed switch so I can tell which one is causing the alerts? Right now it's enabled globally and it seems to be a host alarm as opposed to a distributed switch alarm.
I already have health monitoring enabled on all distributed switches, and I have beacon probing turned on to monitor the connections on the first two distributed switches. The third one connects to a single switch so beacon probing doesn't seem to make sense there.
I'll post drawings and other details if needed for troubleshooting, but I first want to know if there's a way I can enable alerts for each distributed switch so I can narrow it down to one.
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Hello,
I'm running OSX ML 10.8.3 and Fusion 5.0.3, and am running ML 10.8.3 and Server.app as a guest for Netboot and DeployStudio.
I have added additional virtual hard drives to this VM for image storage.They are IDE, single file hard drives - standard stuff. Many times when I start the guest the additional drives do not mount. In Disk Utility I see them but cannot mount them, and if I do a Disk Repair it just spins forever, doing nothing I think. If I restart the guest they sometimes mount and are fine, no damage. Other times I have to restart several times to get them to mount.
Has anyone else seen this?
thanks,
chris
Thanks chaps.
