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HamishStiller
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‎09-07-2014 02:32 AM

vCenter 5.1 error: The virtual machine settings cannot be edited at this time

Hi Team,

Recently upgraded vCenter server 5.0 to 5.1 in lab, but after logon to vSphere if trying to edit VM settings get the following error.

"The virtual machine settings cannot be edited at this time. The host may be heavily loaded or the datastore on which the VM resides may be inaccessible.

If I log on directly to host using vSphere I have no problem modifying VM settings.

I have tried un-installing and re-installing vCenter server, but same error and am about to remove all but database and start again with fresh install.

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I have also tried removing host's and re-adding, removing datacenter and re-creating, increasing memory and CPU to vCenter server, moving a VM to another brand new host and datastore.

If trying to edit VM settings from web agent there is no error but opens blank.

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AdrianoGarcia
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‎10-29-2014 06:25 AM

Hello HamishStiller,

You found solution to your problem? Recently I had the same error, and finally today I could fix it.

The Oracle DataBase would be used?

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HamishStiller
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‎10-29-2014 01:23 PM

> Version of Oracle Client installed on vCenter Server.

  1. 12.1.0.1.0

> Version and Build number of Oracle database.

  1. 10.2.0.5.0 Patch: 12827745
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AdrianoGarcia
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‎10-29-2014 03:45 PM

Hello HamishStiller,

I had the same problem here with the same components, this is a incompatibilite  between oracle drivers and vcenter. The solutions is:

Stop all vCenter services

Delete ODBE System DN vCenter connector

Uninstall Oracle Components:

Open the prompt as administrator

DRIVE_LETTER:\> cd \directory_path

DRIVE_LETTER:\> setup.exe -deinstall -home "C:\app\oracle\product\12.1.0\client_1"

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC and expand all subkeys and remove all keys under here which are related with the "Oracle ODBC Driver"


Reboot the server.


Download and install Oracle instant client 11.2.0.4 version.

Create ODBC connector with the same name as before

Open vSphere Client

For Each host:

Right-click the host and click Disconnect.

Right-click the host and click Connect.


Done.



Good lucky and let me know the results.


Best Regards

Adriano Garcia

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