PatricNIX's Posts

Hi! I have a host with vSphere 5.1 and I need up upgrade to 6.5. This is a standard install and I need to upgrade to an HP custom install. When I tried to upgrade I got a message saying it couldn't determine what version is was on so it would have to do a clean install. My question is, are my datastores going to be formated if the drives are left in during the installation? Or can I just scan for new datastores when it's installed and it will find them as they where? EDIT: vSphere is insatlled on a USB drive so the system isn't installed on a drive used for datastore.

Hi! I have a .pfx-file of a wildcard certificate that we use for other stuff and I would like to add this to my vCenter installation so I don't get the warning every time I log in. My vCenter 6.0 is installed on Windows 2012 R2. I found some information about the "certificate-manager.bat" but it will ask for "custom certificate", "custom key" and "signing certificate of the Machine SSL certificate". The certificate and the key I can get but I don't know what it means by "signing certificate"? Can anyone explain how I can add my certificate if I have it as a .pfx-file? Thanks, -Patric

Hi, Today I ran out of space on my vSphere 5 host but I couldn't figure out why at first because I had the drive in Thick Provisioning and it was just half-full. I started to look around and couldn't find anything that took up all the space so I used SSH to get in to the host. There I found out that one of my machines had a delta-file what was about 180GB big.. Yet I couldn't see any snapshots in Snapshot Manager so I started to look for answers. I found out that at the time the original flat.vmdk-file stopped being updated was the same day I tried Acronis vmProtect 7 for the first time, it failed by the way if that has to do with anything. So the original flat-file is 650GB Thick Provisioned and then there's a delta-file at 180GB, I had recently put in a 2TB drive so right now I'm copying all the files to that datastore so I will be able to boot the machine up at least. Now comes the hard part. How do I "merge" the delta file to the original .vmdk-file without loosing any data? As I mentioned I can't see it in the Snapshot Manager so I guess I'll have to do it via SSH, but how? Thanks,

Hi! I'm a bit confused about the licensing. If I buy a VMware vSphere Standard license for 1 CPU, can I use it on mulitple servers with one CPU or do I have to buy one license per server? Also, what if I have just one server with 2 CPU's? Is there some sort of license where you can add 1 CPU to a current license? Thanks, -Patric

Hi, I have a Small Bussiness Server 2003 and a new server which I just installed vSphere 5 on (Free license). I want to convert that SBS2003 machine to a virtual machine and put it on the vSphere host. How do I do that? I've seen something about vCenter Converter, is that what I should install on the SBS2003 machine? How do I get it on the vSphere host? Thanks for any information!