Workstation / ESXi question - force vSphere Client to enter the CD-ROM drive

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• questions of vSphere Client Web - (noob)

  Hello! I'm not sure if this question goes here or not, if not could someone move it to the right forum? Thank you

  IM pretty new to VMWare, but have a number of hosts running ESXi 4 and 5.0, each is a separate host managed by the vSphere client. We recently received a new server and installed ESXi5.5 to findout we vSphere Web Client to manage the virtual machines. My question is can I use a web client of vSphere to monitor multiple physical hosts?

  Our facility is 4 physical hosts all versions the ESXi running, all independent - nothing fancy. We also have a San with two physical hosts in a cluster off site in another data center (a different IP address connected via WAN). This host is configured with the Id like to, at least temporarily, where I want to manage the new vSphere web ESXi5.5 Server client. Is this possible? I get errors when adding it.

  Thank you!

  You can manage everything from a single Web Client vSphere since all hosts are added to vCenter and hosts are compatible with your server vCenter... you must ensure all the required ports are open through your WAN link. To configure a new Web Client vSphere you still need a compatible version of vCenter.

• ESXI 5 download vSphere client locally?

  Hello everyone.

  I could have missed the option/setting, but I'm looking for a way to download the our local ESXI host vSphere client.

  When we type the IP address on the host in a browser get us an internet link to download vSphere, is possible to change this?

  Him forge alternativ to download the client separately from a computer to the internet and slap it on a USB key, but I was really hopeing to download from the ESXI host.

  The customer is not included in ESXi (it is still distributed with vCenter if you use that).  You can download the client on any portable media, so you can put it on a USB key if your management workstation does not have access to the Internet.

• Add ESXi hosts to vSphere Client

  We have 7 servers ESX and ESXi 8 servers.

  Six of the ESX servers are sitting in a cluster and the last of them is located in its own cluster.

  It's nice to manage all 7 ESX servers in a vSphere Client.

  8 ESXi servers, I've been managing each with their own vSphere Client connection.

  Is it possible to create a cluster of ESXi in vSphere and add each of the ESXi hosts to this cluster of '? Or even a "cluster"?

  I tried and I get the following error.

  "License not available to perform the operation. ESXi 4 for Host 192.168.1.10 Server license does not include the agent for ESX Server vCenter. Upgrade the license. »

  We don't have a budget to upgrade the more liceneses. I don't mean to make HA or DRS on the ESXi hosts. I'd just like to see servers running on them for purposes of inventory without having to have 9 vSphere customers open.

  We have a license entirely vCenter Server so I think we should be able to add these ESXi servers.

  Any help would be appreciated.

  You must have at least vSphere Standard license for each host you wish to manage with vCenter. Free ESXi cannot be connected to vCenter.

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  MCSA, MCTS Hyper-V, VCP 3/4, VMware vExpert

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• question of vSphere Client 5.5.0

  Hello toegether.

  We use the Web Client, and we must use the vSphere for Netapp customer and other tools.

  Now - on my client and another - the left with all virtual machines window refreshes all few seconds.

  "does" not allow this client.

  is it possible to "stop" this refresh?

  Thank you

  Hello

  Try the procedure described in this article:

  VMware KB: VI, hosts and Clusters tree customer flashes and refreshes every few seconds

  Regards,

  P.

• You cannot use vSphere client to change the settings of the virtual machine v10 or more

  Hello

  I just downloaded new version of Kali Linux to do some tests with my free version of ESXi update 5.5 2, the problem is that I can't change the settings of the virtual machine in vSphere Client.

  It's so good because of the independence of Web OS Client vSphere but what about the free version? Everyone knows you need a vCenter running successfully and a license for the vSphere Web Client.

  There is no free version of VMWare vCenter.

  Nice day.

  http://www.vmwarearena.com/2014/09/vSphere-client-5-5-Update-2-edit-hardware-version-10-VMS-using-vSphere-client.html

• Slow mouse (vSphere Client after open the Console)

  I have a brand new installation of VMware (more Essentials).  I'm also very new to the world of VMware, if I'm still struggling to catch.

  When I connect via vSphere Client and select "Open Console" for any of my virtual machines, the mouse becomes too slow and nervous.

  Data sheet:

  • I have 2 guests;  Total 12 VMs
    
  • I see the slow mouse even if my client is installed on XP - Pro or Server 2003.
    
  • All virtual machines are Server2008 R2.  All the parameters of servers run by default.
    

  I saw an old discussion of similar on this site trouble but no final resolution.

  Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

  Jim Nachbar

  Welcome to the community,

  solutions for Windows XP/2003 and 2008 R2 are different. Unless already done so, install VMware Tools in the virtual machines.

  for Windows 2003 and XP follow http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1002450 to enable hardware acceleration

  follow http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1016770 for Windows 2008 R2

  Don't forget to adjust the video RAM as described in the article, otherwise you can end up with a black console!

  André

• Control an ESXi server with vSphere client on the internet?

  I work for a company who manage multiple servers, most of which run ESXi. There are times where the machine virtual which is y executed is insensitive, or the crash. When this occurs often we have no other choice than to see and access the console from a client within the network. I was wondering if it was possible for me to open a port like 12345 and move to the ESXi host, giving me access to his inventory and power VM States and all the usual stuff, only remote rather than within the network. I want to know if it's possible, and what are the ports are necessary for me to do. I am aware that you can install as a virtual machine and the remote client in this, but I prefer to keep things as they are. I just want access to host servers ESXi by opening the Client vSphere on my own machine remotely and feeding the external IP address of customers and manage that way. Thanks for your time.

  Hello..

  Yes, it is indeed possible... All the ports that are required to achieve this are listed in the KB below:

  TCP and UDP Ports required to access other network, ESX hosts and vCenter Server components

  / Rubeck

• vSphere 4 install ESXi questions what files should I all the other files next to VMware-VMvisor-big-171294 - x86_64.dd?

  I install the vSphere, ESXi on Dell 2900 III Poweredge Server.

  By document, I wonder to decompress the following two files

  install.tgz

  image.tgz

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  # ls - ltr

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  drwxr-xr-x 2 201 201 4096 June 11 15:47 Core

  rrr - 1 201 201 189 June 11 15:47 ThinESX.py

  -rrr - 1 201 201 3618 June 11 15:47 ThinESXInstall.py

  drwxr-xr-x 3 201 201 4096 June 11 15:47 ThinESX

  -rw - rr 1 201 201 943718400 June 11 15:52 VMware-VMvisor-big-171294 - x86_64.dd

  #

  I copy only the VMware-VMvisor-big-171294 - x86_64.dd.bz2_x86_64.dd USB flash.

  DD if = VMware-VMvisor-big-171294 - x86_64.dd of = / dev/sdc

  DO I NEED OTHER FILES?

  Thank you for your help.

  bndwork

  Boot you from the installation CD and let it install on your supported hardware.

  Whatever it is, however, causes the same thing.

  -Matt

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• VMware vsphere client is in the "inventory loading" for a long period, then received a message from "time out

  We have two type network connection in my lab, one is internal net, all computers on this network type internet access themselves, but they could access the internet through a proxy server. one is external net, all computers on this network type internet access themselves.

  If my connection to the computer's internal network, the client is responsible for the inventory for a long time when I use VMware sphere client to connect to the VMware Server and give a message "connection error". below two screenshots are for the description of the error. But if my connection to the computer is net externally, I can connect to vmware server successfully.

  

  Here is the description of my VMware Server infrastructure:

  My vmware server has two network adapters, vmnic1 and vmnic0. vmnic1 is used for the internal network, vmnic0 is used for external NET. I put a serval host in my vmware server, one of them is used for the proxy, all the computers in my lab can access internet through this proxy host via vmnic1.

  Proxy host, I add two configurations for iptables as below:

  iptables - table nat - append POSTROUTING - out-interface eth0-j MASQUERADE

  iptables - append forward - interface eth1-j ACCEPT

  Further, I have another server in vmware, I also can connect to vmware server successful if my connection to the computer's internal network. and this server network two are the same.

  How can I debug this problem? Thank you very much!

  Management is necessary for both networks separately?

  Because if not, you can move the Group of management to the internal network on vmnic1 ports...

  Create a vmkernel port and turn it on to management, assign an IP address and it should be possible to connect to the internal network.

• ESXi 4.1 VSphere and size of the file on the data store

  Hello

  I'm new to VMWare and have been reading on maximum configuration for virtual machines and

  Warehouses of data in this forum.

  If I have a computer virtual (Server Win2K8 R2) that in the future may reach 2 TB is true while

  I need to create a data store on the SAN network with a block size of 8 MB, so it can accommodate

  the increase in the size of the virtual machine?

  What is a correlation one between the size of the VM and the VM file size?

  Example: If the Win2K8 server reaches 1 TB, the size of the VM file also to 1 TB?

  And finally, if the maximum of 2 TB is reached on the Win2K8 server how to add

  more space for my VM?

  Thank you

  VM3434

  If I have a computer virtual (Server Win2K8 R2) that in the future may reach 2 TB is true while

  I need to create a data store on the SAN network with a block size of 8 MB, so it can accommodate

  the increase in the size of the virtual machine?

  Fix

  What is a correlation one between the size of the VM and the VM file size?

  Example: If the Win2K8 server reaches 1 TB, the size of the VM file also to 1 TB?

  There are two types of vmdk (the VM disk):

  • thickness: file is allocated in advance... so in your case, the file is already a file of 2 TB
  • thin: file is dynamic and reach the size max

  See also: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-10854

  And finally, if the maximum of 2 TB is reached on the Win2K8 server how to add

  more space for my VM?

  You can't... 2 TB is the max disk size.

  You can add more drives.

  André

• ESXi host running 6 VCSA disconnected from the vCenter

  Hi guys,.

  I have a weird problem with my vCenter build 6. Single cluster of ESXi hosts. Running VCSA 6.0 and 6.0 ESXI. Making a storage of the vCenter vMotion initially got stuck at 77% and the ESXi host running the disconnected from vCenter vCenter. But I can connect directly to the ESXi host with vsphere client and see the vCenter VM works perfectly well. If I try to manually connect host ESXi and vCenter, I get the error "Failed to contact the host specified") both are in the same subnet and VLAN. I can migrate to other virtual machines without problem. I even restarted the host and yet I am not able to connect to vCenter. The host connects to vCenter if I reboot vCenter, but after a few minutes, disconnects again (even if no task does run on this topic.) I have no HA or DRS enabled at this point that I build this new environment and only presented a single LUN as a store of test data to the cluster.

  Any ideas?

  OK, I think I fixed that or have at least a work around. So the underlying question was hiding ID mode/CPU EVC. I'm under the cluster to a level of EVC to reduce until I have migrate workloads from old environment and I think that this created a problem for the unit vCenter. To resolve this problem, I turned off the unit, directly connected to the ESXi host that had the camera running, edited the virtual machine and reset the masking of CPUID. Also, I've hidden the flag NX/XD of the guest. It's temporary (I hope) as once I increase the EVC to the Haswell, I will expose the NX/XD comments and test. For the moment, it is of the workaround I did. It may be of some use to someone.

• Unable to connect to esxi using the vsphere client

  Hello friends,

  I need a little help.

  a 2 5.0 esxi host and a vcenter than VM.

  My laboratory worked well for days, but all of a sudden do not know why I am not able to connect to ESXi hosts with vSphere Client.

  Error: The request failed because the remote server has taken too long to respond.

  Call "ServiceInstance.RetrieveContent" to "ServiceInstance' server '192.168.1.101' object failed.

  Yes, I am able to connect to vCenter server, when it is connected to vCenter and open the console of the virtual computer, nothing shows up, it's a black screen, as if the virtual machine is turned off. It is with all the virtual machines on both hosts.

  1. I thought that it might have to do something with vCenter and I tried connecting to Host individually which I wasn't able to.

  After completing a few KBs on vmware and some articles, I checked the status of the firewall on both hosts. (attached screenshot)

  

  Checked if my computer can talk to esxi host on port 80, 443, 902. all ports are accessible.

  Disabled the Symantec endpoint protection and checked. no positive results.

  Finally, I tried the ESXi web navigation browser host http://ESXi-IP-address which redirects me to HTTPS connection with Certificate error, when I continue with the cert error, loading of the URL guard and the host page doesn't appear as it should.

  This questions are on both hosts. :-(

  You guys can point me in the right direction to solve this problem.

  Thank you.

  Finally things started working now.

  The problem was with the configuration of the workstation's NETWORK adapter.

  The link on the NETWORK adapter speed was set to Auto negotiate (default), but the speed was detected as 100 Mbps instead of 1 Gbps and MTU has been set at 9014 which I defined manually long back.

  Things use to operate in this configuration that I have configured hosts with MTU 9000 and cisco SMB switch default Jumbo.

  the LinkSpeed of 100 Mbps is bugging me, after changing to 1 Gbps (manual setting) the card NETWORK has deactivated, and it reminded me to switch!

  So I put the LinkSpeed Auto negotiation, MTU 9014, stop the two hosts, restart the switch. restarted my computer.

  Since it uses for things were in a normal state.

  Even the question of the console (black screen) disappeared. :-)

• vSphere Client Ip address/host name

  Hello, newbie here.  I downloaded the vSphere client and in the process of setting up it request a host name or IP address in order to directly manage a single host.  I have no idea what hostname or IP address is it refers to.

  Thanks to all those who will respond to this newbie question.

  Yes, your esxi install on any of your virtual machine in your VMware Workstation during installation, you will get the details to specify a static ip address and once installed, when you want to manage this esxi in your vsphere client, that you must use the same username ROOT and password defined during installation and the IP address to connect through your vsphere client.

  Please mark this as correct/useful if that answers your query.

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  Frédéric Sudre

• Impossible to connect to vCenter Server 5.5 using the vSphere Client

  Hello

  
  

  I'm trying to configure VMware Lab home using the link below and I have reached a stage where I need to connect to vCenter Server using the vSphere client.

  
  http://boerlowie.WordPress.com/2011/12/13/building-the-ultimate-vSphere-lab-part-9-ESXi/

  
  

  I installed the package of 5.5 full vCenter server using the simple installation option and it includes vCenter server, single sign - on, Webclient vSphere, vCenter server and vCenter Server inventory service. All the the latter is installed on a virtual machine that is running Windows server 2008 R2 guest OS.

  
  

  Whenever I try to open a session on the vCenter Server uses the vSphere client, one of the following error is displayed.

  
  

  1. you do not have the permissions to connect to the server 'vCenter server IP address.

  2. cannot complete the connection incorrect username or password-, this error is visible when I do not specify domain\username domain user name and simply enter the user name.

  
  

  For the details of the error, please see the screenshots - vSphere_client_1, vSphere_client_2 and vSphere_client_3.

  
  

  As suggested in the link below, I tried to create an SPN and then set the SPN (Principal of Service name) and the UPN (User Principal name) in the Active Directory identity Source using the web of vSphere client (please see screenshot vSphere_Webclient_2)

  
  

  http://vinfrastructure.it/2014/01/issue-in-logging-into-vCenter-server-using-Windows-ad-credentials/

  
  

  To fix the permission error, I tried to add the domain user to the Administrators group on the server vCenter (see screenshot vSphere_Webclient_1).

  
  

  However, none of the above-mentioned resolution has worked.

  
  

  So can someone please help? I am stuck because of this problem and badly need help to move forward.

  
  

  Thank you

  AJMAL
  

  Able to connect to the vSphere Client do you use the [email protected] account?

  Have you already set up permissions on the server vCenter object?

  André