Error message shown up when 80% adding ESXi 4 to vCenter

[tsd_david]

Dear all,

I just installed a keyless evaluation vCenter 4.0 and alternated the HTTPS port to 8448 and HTTP port as 8088 (vc4-ports-output.png). Then I add (licensed) ESXi 4 to my vCenter and it appears error while it is running 80% and shown the error message: "Cannot install the vCenter agent server. Unknown installer error" (vc4-esx4i-add-error-output.png). Should it the problem from alternated TCP/IP port number? Thanks!

-david

[admin]

Hi David,

Looks like there is some problem to install agent in ESXi host. Can you upload the log files? You can go to File->Export->Export Systems Logs from vSphere Client.

Thanks.

Max

[Igor_Nemilosti1]

Hi!

I have a similar trouble. How do you decide it?

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Igor Nemilostivy

[tsd_david]

My problem has not been fixed yet.

[Igor_Nemilosti1]

I just fixed my trouble. My ESXi not have enough RAM for this task. A small correction, and everything is OK.

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Igor Nemilostivy

[tsd_david]

Really? Did you just shutdown the Virtual Machine or did anyhthing to increase the kernel memory on ESXi? thanks!

[Igor_Nemilosti1]

Yes. Need to do everything possible to make hypervisor got more physical
memory. I chose the easy way - reduced memory allocated to
one of my VM. Another way, I think it is also possible to make System Resource Reservation for memory in System Resource Allocation.

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Igor Nemilostivy

[pcmanning]

Had this too, had to reboot ESXi and prevent autostart of a couple of Vms to release some ram - more on order now! Only has 4GB!

Thanks for the heads up

Paul