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Hi, you could Veeam are offering a basic backup program now for minimal cost. You can use Vmware DataProtector to backup your vm's as this comes with vSphere and you do not have to pay for it \o/ Rgs Pete

Hi, can you tell us more about the vm? OS/ Network Driver? Also it his a new VM or Is tis a problem that just happend? Is there sufficient addresses available on the dhcp scope? Rgs Pete

Alessandro wrote: Hi everybody, when i try to register my storage provider (both 3PAR and Lefthand) i see the error:" A problem was encountered when registering the provider" Anyone have encountered this problem bofore? Where i can find the storage providere log on vcenter? My infrastructure: 3 esxi 5.0 clustered vcenter (windows) 5 lefthand (iSCSI) and 3par (FC) connected. There's no firewall between vcenter and vasa plug-in, hostnames are correctly resolved. Thank you Ale An update: I've imported the certificate and uploaded in insight control, but nothing happen. in attachment the log (sms.log) Did you manage to solve this?

Hi Traffic between VM in the same vSwitch and in the same port group goes internally over the vswitch: without going out to the physical layer > this can be easily demostrate doing a tcpdump of the pnic and you will not see any traffic. In this case, even traffic goes internally in the vswitch, you should see the traffic on the VM where you are taking the backup from > if the backup is a normal file agent backup. If you are backing up at VM level, things goes different. Regards

Hi I do agree with Joao, check that your DHCP server has fee ip to serve. Also check that the VM doesn´t have fixed ip configured: won´t be the first time it hapens to me Other question i have is: are all VM connected to the same vswitch/portgroup? Regards

Hellos pmslic. The UPS sends the shut down to esxi directly, to all server listed on VMA. The configuration of Power Shute in the VMA apply to all server. The vms shut down you have to control from the configuration of ESXi virtual machine startup / shutdown. I'm not sure if this takes an order, I think not. In my test environment worked correctly. Regards.

Hello, I have 2 host esxi in cluster and 2 UPS APC, 1 UPS with management card Power Shute. Each Host is connected to different UPS. The UPS A with the Power Shute management card sends the shut down to all ESXi wich are listed on VMA. You have to add all host on VMA to shut down. Regards.

I think you have used iptables to do that. I would double check on my side, right now I may suggest you 2 links about firewall: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vcli.ref.doc_50/esxcli_network.html http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2005284 and one about routing (but I think this would be useless) http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vcli.ref.doc_50/vicfg-route.html my 2 cents Sam

Hi, you can't use linux command to manage ESXi configuration. You may use esxcgf* commands which are going to be dismissed or esxcli. Useful info may be found in: https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-pubs.html (bottom of the page) and http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vma.doc_50/vima_Preface.html My 2 cents Sam