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ESX Vcenter not able to add clusters and datacenter after install vcenter

Virtualizeit — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:51:29 GMT

I just loaded ESX server and then I loaded a client to attach and download the sphere client and then I installed the vcenter on that client but I can't create the datacenter that I could the last time I did it I just don't have any options but inventory. I did this a few days ago and had no problems so any help would be great.

Features Wish List

harishd — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:58:06 GMT

The excitement surrounding vCMA is very encouraging. And we would like to know what else we could do that will make the lives our end users simpler.

If you're excited about the existing feature set...that's cool But please do let us know if there is anything that's not so cool and whether we have missed something that

should have been there all along. Thanks.

Database

MHAV — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:00:02 GMT

Well I've looked through the Install Document for the Virtual Center on Linux Product and have only seen support for a Oracle DB!!

I hope that'll not gonna be the only Database support by the time the RTM is coming up.

Regards

Michael Haverbeck

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

vCMA & SRM 4.0

amusica — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:41:00 GMT

Obviously SRM 4.0 is relatevly new to the market (under 48 hours after GA), I was wondering how long until vCMA will be able to work with SRM 4.0. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Saving login credentials - iphone, safari, cookies

foam — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:53:32 GMT

I am very new to the iphone. vCMA installed fine. VMTools updated no problem. System works great.

I don't seem to be able to keep a cookie for the server information on the iphone. When i logout I get the cashed page with server history. I can log back in. When I go back later its gone and I have to supply credentials again. The doc suggests that cookies should save this. I have enabled cookies etc on the phone, but I have to enter the information each time I go back to the app. Can anyone shed some light?

Thanks Matt

vCenter Update Manager "Unknown Failure" with VMA in operation

jaspain — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:09:06 GMT

I have vCenter Mobile Access running on ESX 4. When the VMware Update Manager attempts to download patch definitions, it generates the error message "VMware vCenter Update Manager has an unknown failure. Check Tasks and Events tab and logs for more details." Checking Tasks and Events, there are two related errors: "Repository address not set for vitual appliance vCenter Mobile Access, it doesn't support updates by VC" and "Failed to scan vCenter Mobile Access for VA upgrades".

Shutting down the vCenter Mobile Access appliance makes this error go away.

The release notes for VMware Update Manager 4.0 b162871 (http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_vum_40_rel_notes.html) describe a known issue that may relate to this:

VMware Tools Upgrade Remediation Might Fail with a Misleading Event Error Message
When you try to upgrade VMware Tools on a virtual machine with no installed VMware Tools, the remediation fails with a misleading error message:<code>VMware vCenter Update Manager had an unknown failure. Check Tasks and Events tab and logs for more details.</code>Update Manager does not support VMware Tools upgrade for virtual machines on which VMware Tools is not installed.

Busy as you no doubt are, if you get the chance to rebuild the vCenter Mobile Access appliance with the current ESX 4 VMware Tools, it would be interesting to see if that makes this error go away.

Thanks. Jeff.

/vim not working...

humbertoz — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:31:08 GMT

I've been using the mobile access app and it has worked great. I have just recently re-downloaded the 1.0.0.7 (newest) version of this app and I cannot get it to respond on the /vim page. The studio page at x.x.x.x:5480 works and the default page on x.x.x.x also works fine. Only the /vim page is dead. This is using the simple .ovf template import function. If I try uploading the .vmx based download with vCenter, the main vmdk file fails with an I/O error exactly in the same place, 463,404.80KB. I can upload/move huge 2-60GB files on the same host with vCenter. Is it possible for this download to be corrupt? Interested to see if other people are having trouble lately with this download.

Thanks for any help,

Robert Zarate

is there any beta version of VMware MVP??

ikalbeniz — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:18:29 GMT

Hi,

I want to know if there is any beta verison of VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform avaliable..

Problem when upgrading VMTools

Sochz — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:37:16 GMT

Hi All,

I have had this vCenter appliance beta running for a few weeks now on one of our test ESXi 3.5U4 hosts. We just patched the VM host and were upgrading the VMTools on this beta server as the VIClient showed that the tools was out of date. After upgrading the VMTools we can no longer connect to the vCenter appliance.

I checked the vmware-vpx status and it was stopped so I ran the start command and rechecked the status it ran for a brief two seconds then stopped again. I examined the vCenter log and found that there is an error connecting to the ODBC so the service stops. I have attached the log to this post.

I tried to re-run the ODBC config but it does not solve the problem. Any ideas of how to fix this outside of wiping this appliance off and starting over again? I would consider this to be a potential bug.