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Entries Tagged ‘Virtual Center’

HA Error ‘An error occurred during configuration of the HA Agent on the host’

Please refer to the following post for troubleshooting HA Errors.
We recently just changed an IP on our second service console in ESX. After this we changed the DNS record to reflect the new IP. We then re-configured the ESX host for HA, and received the following error ‘An error occurred during configuration of the HA [...]

ESX 3.5 Update 2 Health Status Missing

After upgrading one of our ESX 3.5 Update 2 host I noticed the Health Status was missing. So after digging into this further disconnecting the host and re-connecting the host the Health Status re-appeared under configuration. This seems to be an issue with VC not picking up the new feature.

Remote Virtual Center Database with Windows Authentication

In all of VMware’s documentation, it says that you must use SQL Authentication with a Remote SQL Database.   In our environment all of our MSSQL servers are setup with Windows authentication. So we decided to try a remote Virtual Center Database with Windows Authentication installation. It seems the only thing you need to change [...]

Renaming a VMDK in Virtual Center

Yesterday a colleague of mine asked how to rename a .vmdk file ,so it matches the VM’s name in Virtual Center.  This is actually the first time I had to perform this operation. So at first I thought I might just V2V the machine, but thought there must be an easier way to rename a [...]