vcenter Server 5.5 cannot login

[rschmid]

Hi all,

I cannot login using vsphere client into my vcenter server. I installed the simple install.

I installed the VMware vCenter Server for Windows and related modules on a Windows Server 2008 R2.

Installation finished successfully. I cannot login with vsphere client. It say I do not have permissions.

Only login which works, is by webbrowser https://server-ip:9443 but there I cannot add hosts etc. just viewing that its empty.

I am sure I missed something but don't know what.

Could you please help me ?

Kind regards,

Roland

[abhilashhb · Accepted solution]

Please login into the https://server-ip:9443/  with administrator@vsphere.local user and the password you set during installation. Your vcenter will then show up in the inventory. After that you will be able to add the hosts.

[rschmid]

thank you

[rschmid]

I have another problem. After adding my first host it does not let me add a second host.

It ends with an error "general error" cannot connect host, error connecting to host.

But when I connect using vsphere client to connect to mentioned host I can connect successfully.

I don't understand what's wrong. Our license key allows up to 3 hosts.

the host which fails is vsphere 5.5, the host which I could add to vcenter server is vsphere 4.1

Kind regards,

Roland

[abhilashhb]

How many processors do you have on 4.1 hosts? Are you able to ping the host from vCenter server?

Is the firewall up on vCenter server?

[rschmid]

on 4.1 host we have one 1 socket (4 cores).

yes I am able to ping the host from vCenter server (Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1).

yes the firewall is up on vCenter server. Even if I turn off the firewall on vCenter server I couldn't add it to vCenter server.

on the 5.5 host we have 2 sockets (each 6 cores) this is the host I am not able to add to vCenter Server.

we are moving exchange mailboxes from one local exchange server to another local exchange server.

could this be a reason, why I cannot add my vSphere 5.5 host to vCenter server ?

Kind regards,

Roland

this morning I notice a error message in the event logs of our vSphere 5.5 host. "The ramdisk 'tmp' is full, As a result, the file /tmp/.SwapInfoSys.lock.LOCK.33980 could not be written." Is this error the cause for my problem adding this vSphere 5.5 host to vCenter server ?