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Thanks guys for the replies and information!  It has helped a lot. :smileygrin: Cheers...
Hi guys, I've been asked for my opinion and honestly, I don't have one due to my lack of experience with vSphere Replication; so I thought I would ask you for yours please. I understand ... See more...
Hi guys, I've been asked for my opinion and honestly, I don't have one due to my lack of experience with vSphere Replication; so I thought I would ask you for yours please. I understand that application level quiescing requires either Windows 2008 Server or Windows 8 Server.  The 'Introduction to vSphere Replication' document states that VSS quiescing should work with applications such as SQL Server or Exchange.  But what are peoples thoughts and/or experiences with VSS quiescing for applications like SQL, Exchange and AD?  Has the replicated data been consistent when recovered at the DR site?  Do the database writers get flushed correctly/as expected? Basically, does it work well and has anyone had any issues or problems with replicated transactional based data?  Is it suitable for purpose? Also, I presume that if one were to have issues with say SQL on a recovered virtual machine, that this wouldn't be supported by Microsoft?  Since VMware Tools only invokes VSS I wouldn't see any reason why not? Thanks for your time and hope to hear back with your thoughts/opinions! Cheers...
The problem is down to certain licensing information being lost after reboots. Specifically, it was the Dell customised ESXi image that was pre-installed at the factory. The latest version on t... See more...
The problem is down to certain licensing information being lost after reboots. Specifically, it was the Dell customised ESXi image that was pre-installed at the factory. The latest version on the rescue disc from the Dell website mentions this and fixes the problem. Hope that helps!
Hi Guys, I've got vCenter 4.1 and SQL 2008 R2 installed on the same Windows 2008 R2 host. My issue is that the vCenter Service fails to start upon reboot. I can start the service manually, b... See more...
Hi Guys, I've got vCenter 4.1 and SQL 2008 R2 installed on the same Windows 2008 R2 host. My issue is that the vCenter Service fails to start upon reboot. I can start the service manually, but it will not start automatically upon reboot of the server. I have created dependences on the vCenter Service for MSSQLSERVER and ADAM_VMwareVCMSDS but this has made no difference. SQL starts fine, as does Update Manager, but vCenter does not. I've delayed the start-up of the service but this makes no difference. My ODBC links are OK as I can start the service manually once the host has booted up. Here are the extracts from my log files... Section for VMware VirtualCenter, pid=2920, version=4.1.0, build=build-258902, option=Release Current working directory: C:\Windows\system32 Log path: C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs Initializing SSL Using system libcrypto, version 9080CF Vmacore::InitSSL: doVersionCheck = true, handshakeTimeoutUs = 120000000 Starting VMware VirtualCenter 4.1.0 build-258902 Log directory: C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\VMwarevpx. Account name: SYSTEM Total virtual memory available for the process 8589934464 KB Enabled low-frag process heap. Enabled low-frag crt heap. Calling: InfoDeclSchema(gDB) Calling: VpxCallbackDesc::Init(MakeFunctor(this, &ServerApp::RequestShutdown)) Calling: VpxCryptInit() Calling: VpxLRO::Init() Calling: VpxLroList::Init(ltud) 512 max LROs 12 reserved internal LROs 12 reserved blocker LROs 12 reserved short LROs 8 reserved long LROs 600-second task lifetime Calling: VpxdCharacterizeThreadpool(ltud) Calling: VpxdCertificate_Load(gDB, CERTIFICATE_VMDBPATH ) Calling: VpxdVdb::Init(VpxdVdb::GetVdb(), false, false) ODBC error: (28000) - [http://SQL Server Native Client 10.0|http://SQL Server Native Client 10.0][SQL Server]Login failed for user 'virtualcenter'. Error getting configuration info from the database Init failed: VpxdVdb::Init(VpxdVdb::GetVdb(), false, false) Failed to intialize VMware VirtualCenter. Shutting down... Forcing shutdown of VMware VirtualCenter now Any help or advice would be great! Thank you... Regards, BlackMesa
I've just tried using standard vSwitches and the same thing happens. As soon as I reboot the box, any options I've selected such as vMotion or FT are no longer selected. Does anyone have any ... See more...
I've just tried using standard vSwitches and the same thing happens. As soon as I reboot the box, any options I've selected such as vMotion or FT are no longer selected. Does anyone have any suggestions please? I'll log a support call this morning and see what VMware find. Thank you. Regards, BlackMesa.
Hi guys, I'm using ESXi 4.1 and I've created a dvSwitch and VMkernel Port Group for use with VMotion. It's been assigned with an IP address and the VMotion box has been ticked and works a tre... See more...
Hi guys, I'm using ESXi 4.1 and I've created a dvSwitch and VMkernel Port Group for use with VMotion. It's been assigned with an IP address and the VMotion box has been ticked and works a treat. However, if I reboot the ESXi host the VMotion option is no longer selected and will not work until it is selected again. One thing I've noticed is that if I configure the dvSwitch, test VMotion and create a Host Profile from the host and check it's compliance on the same host it was created from, it will state that the selected options are not enabled on the dvSwitch such as VMotion etc when they are. It's like the options are are not being saved to the host configuration. Something is up and I'm not sure what the issue could be. I've recreated the dvSwitches and it's the same. I'm having this same issue on all four hosts in the cluster. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you... BlackMesa.