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How do i get to be part of corp beta testing for vmware

tonyjpone123 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:06:54 GMT

How do i get into the beta tesing for corp beta testing i just finished beta testing windows server 2008 r2 I can be reached at tonyjpone@hotmail.com

is there any beta version of VMware MVP??

tnpapadakos — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:05:00 GMT

now would be a good time as all the android phones have come out and there's no flash support...would be really nice to see MVP come out so i can dual boot windows and android...and thereby get on with my life:_|

Did vCap work with vCenter 4?

small_man — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:15:09 GMT

I have open config.xml and there only configered until vCenter 2.5 client.

If I manually add vCenter 4.0 clien, will it work OK?

any further versions of VCAP planned?

pfuhli — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:42:58 GMT

No, because of additional licensing costs.

One Virtual center shows no data

SpiderIce — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:31:01 GMT

One of my 3 Virtual centers is not showing any data, it is using the same login info from the other VC that is working. I can get to the /sdk as well from a different window. Any ideals?

vCenters with different logins?

SpiderIce — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:27:57 GMT

nevermind i found this http://communities.vmware.com/thread/175111?tstart=30 the second post. Its is a furture request.

Where is vcap-1.0.war

RDPetruska — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:23:15 GMT

On this page http://communities.vmware.com/community/beta/vcadminportal (which you should already be at to post this). In the announcement at the top of the page, it's the first link to download.

ESX upgrade from ESX 3.5 U3 to ESX 4

alex555550 — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:43:44 GMT

Hy,

thats how you could do it.

LINK => Thanks to DEEPING

VC Administrator Portal

cpfcg — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:16:48 GMT

Will this ever be a full release and not just community preview?

Don't suppose there's way of adding in your ESX3I Servers?

Shigura — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:42:01 GMT

I suspect the answer is a no on many levels - but just in case there is a way!!

to join future vmware beta

lgray — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:03:26 GMT

Hi Tony,

Thank you for your interest in VMware Beta Programs. Please complete the Beta Mailing List form to receive notifications of future betas: http://www.vmware.com/resources/communities/beta/mail_list.html

Best regards,

VMware Beta Team

VCs with zero data

ZippyDaMCT — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:14:48 GMT

I to am having a similar problem, Ihave configured the .xml file to reflect the vCenter Servers, I then rebooted the Appliance. I am able to log in as root and can see the correct information with regards th the vCenters but all the values are blank in the main pane and I cannot see any clusters, datacenters or virtual Machines -- I'm at a bit of a loss what to look for.

How to change hostname of the appliance

ChrisRu — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:40:40 GMT

Hello Guys,

can anybody help me ho can I change the hostname of the appliance.

If I edit /etc/hostname or /etc/hosts the new hostname is away after a reboot .

Thanks for your help.

Chris

Error no VC servers showing up

estadler — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:28:26 GMT

I am running into a simular problem. I am trying to give some users that only have rights to a few virtual machines access thru the admin portal. I get a "Loading Inventory failed" error. Should it be possible to allow these users access via this portal?

Error when opening any console within VCAP

gr1pp3rjay — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:22:07 GMT

Hi all.

I am not able to view any consoles using this tool, which is ashame as i'd really like us to use this.

I am using the linux version and within config.xml am connecting as https with a non standard port of 4443. (this may be the reason?)

Everything else in VCAP works, but just the console doesnt. Getting the following error once the VMware remote Console window pops up:

"Error Opening the remote virtual machine 192.***.**.*** A4443\vm-1057: The Hostname could not be resolved."

Any ideas?

Cheers.

Enable SSL ?

kimono — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:31:06 GMT

Who are the Tomcat Guru's in here?

I wish to enable SSL for the VCAP main page, that's on port 80, presumably get it going on 443.... SSL is already enabled for the administrative port, but the documentation only says "read this apache.org" document to enable SSL for everything else. So presumably the SSL key generation steps can be fixed and I only need to edit server.xml.

Too much for my small brain...

/kimono/

Remote Console on Linux, help!

SillyRegistration — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:11:11 GMT

Interesting.
I can call the console from command line, in the Firefox addons folders as per the links you sent.
I manually connect to an ESX, select a VM and I have KVM working fine.
So the culprit is NOT the Remote Console addon as I suspected.

Still when I click on "Remote Console" from the VCAP, I get no result, so I assume the Remote Console call is wrong from within VCAP, on Linux platform.
I don't know how to grab some more info, I'll try to grab some network traces to see if I get anything meaningful.

Thanks for the help.

No Snapshots and No Virtual Machines and Templates View

SillyRegistration — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:48:27 GMT

I agree.
You can't start duplicating 80% of VirtualCenter and add new feature (multi-VCs consolidation) and not expect people to ask for the last 20%.
I very frequently manage my ESX / VMs on the road and the Web Based approach is excellent, the overall UI is light and fast (mmm, not like VC, not its Web Interface) and the remote console is great (light, fast). Once you gave me that, for sure I want in the 20% missing what I use most: shutdown, reboot, snapshot management...
If I have to go back to VirtualCenter for a mandatory task, VCAP is just useless.
For the monitoring part, it gives a simple overview but then you have to look at what's on the market yet (e.g. vKernel) and add more analysis, capacity planing... The VCAP price so far is excellent but again, you have to take the product one way or another (specific monitoring tool, then remove some existing features, e.g. power on and off of VMs) or full feature VC replacement then add currently VC-only features.
With the VMworld 2009 announcement that VC was going to be a Web-Based appliance I was under the impression VCAP was the 1st preview of what's coming. Can you clarify the design goals you had in mind when you created the current preview?

No Shuitdown nor Reboot for running VMs with VMware Tools running

SillyRegistration — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:11:11 GMT

Hi,

Besides the already mentionned Snapshot Management being missing, one major annoyance: the capability to shutdown or restart running VMs with VMware Tools running. I use this feature a lot to manage servers and turn them off / reboot them without logging on them. I don't want to power them off, of Reset them (which we can), just initiate that nice shutdown / reboot through VMware tools.

Other than that, it's a joy.

Thanks.

JP

can't find vcap-1.0 war file - please help

Rahul_VMware — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:34:22 GMT

Yes, this should work as well. Take a look at the Tomcat documentation on how to deploy a .war file. If you don't want to deal with it, configuring the appliance is the way to go.

First Login

madhadr — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:29:31 GMT

It appears ANY credential will get you in but you cannot see anything unless you are authenticated. I am logging in with my VC creds and I stil get:

Error:

RemoteException - Unable to connect to the Virtual Center service: http://192.168.0.99/sdk/

Error: Unrecoverable error - host connection state exception on VC server. Please logout and login again.

mbmw8268 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:10:02 GMT

But there are total of three VC servers with VirtualCenter 2.5.0 build-84767 in our environment and only this particular one (out of three) VC server with MSSQL2005 has this problem.

By the way, I have seen this error message on VC server = VMware VirtualCenter 2.5.0 build-119598 as well, but usually after log out and log in again, the error message will be gone.

Thx

Ports between VCAP and the VCs ?

OrionB — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:33:04 GMT

Depends on http or https protocol (specified in the config.xml file.)

https default - 443

http default - 80

Apliances is the way to go

Chemosh — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:36:27 GMT

.... or use PostgreSQL. I totally agree there should be a VC appliance, although I doubt VMWare will put it on Linux; for whatever bizarre reason, they wedded their product to Microsoft, and all it's dysfunctional glory.

bug?

@rno — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:39:42 GMT

I have the same problem. After making the changes the problem still exists. I also use IE7 and vc2.5 update 3.

Feature Request: display EVC mode

prashantprahlad — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:12:33 GMT

Do you mean the cluster summary tab? And you mean the current EVC mode, right? A screenshot of the location would be helpful.

Error messages when importing the OVF file

GalNeb — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:06:00 GMT

PS: Downloaded VIMA-ovf-108719.ovf and it's associated vmdk

OSX/iPhone/Blackberry

OrionB — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:52:55 GMT

We don't have a VMWare Remote Console for the iPhone -- hence the error.

The call failed on the server; see server log for details

OrionB — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:17:58 GMT

Please check the tomcat logs directory for localhost and multivcserver.log for the error message.

"Login failed due to a bad username or password." error

SillyRegistration — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:02:19 GMT

Yes, and now I am waiting for the Console Client, native OS X Intel, to be on par with Windows and Linux. It's the only missing link now.

SR

clickable events?

diazrube — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:10:48 GMT

I will like to have this capability also.

Default console user/password

Driffaud — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:27:33 GMT

Yes I use the appliance.

root/vmware is definitly the good default userid.passsword. The problem was a misconfigured keyboard!

Thanks

Great Portal

OrionB — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:39:22 GMT

One time server side install. Zero install for users.

Strange network behavior

tom howarth — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:22:23 GMT

Sometimes it's the simple things I am glad you got it sorted.

Tom Howarth
VMware Communities User Moderator

Reporting?

hsmith-vmware — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:09:41 GMT

ok, quick answer about the typo. This is only happening for me in IE6 (unsupported), not in Firefox. Maybe that was the issue. I have not tried IE7 yet.

future feature

hsmith-vmware — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:48:26 GMT

I think what they are experiencing is the same thing I am. I would like to add multiple VCs to the VCAP, but each of my VCs may have different Domains (and credentials). A single sign on won't work for this type of layout. Are there plans to allow us to connect to each VC once logged into the portal?

Welcome!

Rahul_VMware — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:29:56 GMT

Welcome to the VCAP Technology Preview site. To get started, please take a look at the VirtualCenter Administrator Portal (VCAP) Overview document as well as the Installation Guide that spells out the compatibility requirements for the release. Next, download the product, take it for a spin and let us know what you think.

Thanks for the interest,

Rahul Ravulur
VI Product Management

Installation Guide - Technology Preview: VMware VirtualCenter Administrator Portal (VCAP)

Badsah — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:27:31 GMT

Technology Preview: vCenter Administrator Portal

Badsah — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:20:06 GMT