How to perform self recognition ?
Hi VMWare gurus, I have a tricky problem to feed your mind; I am running a vMA appliance as a guest on an ESXi host. I want to run a perl script that will connect to an ESX/ESXi host (given as a...
View Articlemultiple vMa's ?
we have 7 admin in our environment, I was wondering do we meed to have multiple vMA for them to login? There are aroung 50 hosts and they are going to dump their logs, once they have esxi installed on...
View Articlekerberos/ktpass/kinit problems
I've set up a version of ghettoHostShutdownESXi41 to shut down my VMs and hosts when my Dell UPS's lose power. I'm using adauth, and everything works as planned (shuts all VMs, sends email, shuts...
View Articleghettohostshutdown vma 5 apc shutdown the cloud
Hi, we have two rooms with esxi hosts running in one cluster.if one room (or both) are in a power fault there are apc ups which have power for ~40minutes. Till now we had vSphere 4.1 with the...
View Articleis vma4 compatible with vsphere5/esxi5?
Hi,i cannot find any information about it.is there any document, that contains compatibility matrix with vma?In release notes there are information, that vma5 works with vsphere 4, but in the opposite...
View ArticlevMA 5.1 WebUI not working
Hi, I can't access to WebUI of vMA. The reason is vami-lighttpd is not listening to the ipv4 address: netstat -tulpen | grep 5480tcp 0 0 :::5480 :::*...
View ArticlevMA and vCenter together
Does it cause a conflict to have the vSphere Management Assistant and vCenter in the same environment?
View ArticleUnable to shutdown guest & host in vMA
Hi All, I installed ESXi 4 and then vma on esix.Now I am trying to shutdown all the guest OS and then host server through vM.I am using the script ghettoUPSHostShutdown.pl(check the link...
View ArticlevMA 4.1 Active Directory (AD) Integration Login Restrictions
Hi, I recently deployed the vMA 4.1 in our environment with Active Directory (AD) Integration. My question is how do I restrict login access? Any domain user can login to the vMA as it is now. Thanks
View ArticlevMA login issue
I just setup my vMA.. I didnt setup AD authentiction to my esxi host.. I added my target server as my vc Server... then I tried to add my esxi host via running add server commands.. and I am getting...
View Articlevma-update error attempting to update vma from 4.0 to 4.1
I am currentley using VMware VMA 4.0.0 BUILD-161992 and I would like to upgrade to VMA 4.1. When I run the command 'vma-update scan' I get the following error message at the console. "Failed to import...
View Articlehow to get vmci socket work in vMA?
The vMA VM can start and listen on vmci socket after I enabled it in the VM setting. However, the other VMs can't connect to the vMA's vmci socket CID. The same program works when I tried to connect...
View ArticlevMA Update Best Practice
Hi everyone,I apologise if this is a basic question but I had trouble finding any relevant documentation. Simply, what is the best practice for keeping vMA (v5.0+) up-to-date? I'm currently running a...
View Articlevifptarget: command not found since upgrading
I upgraded my vma appliance from 5.1.0.0 build 782391 to 5.1.0.1 build 1062361 this morning and now when I try to issue the vifptarget command to specify one of the hosts in my list as the target I...
View ArticleWith fastpass some commands work, some don't
I'm using vMA 5.1 with Active Directory fastpass enabled. This command works, without asking any password (fastpass is ok):vma:~[testvcenter1.mydomain.local]> esxcli -h esxi-e1b1.mydomain.local...
View Articlevilogger authentication failure in vMA 4.1
I have multiple ESXi 4.1 hosts and have setup a vMA 4.1. I have added all hosts with authentication fast pass, using vifp addserver. I can connect to individual target host and it works fine. I have...
View ArticleLicense key(s) for VMware vSphere 4 Standard for 1 processor (Max 6 cores per...
Actualmente tengo Vmware ESXi 4.0.0 build 171294 free, agregué una licencia para 1 CPU, en las especificaciones de las licencias aparece lo siguiente: Product Features:Up to 256 GB of memoryUp to...
View ArticleUpgrade vMA 4.0 to 4.1 using vima-update
In the release notes of vma 4.1 (http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vima/vma41/vma_41_relnotes.html) it seems possible to update the appliance from 4.0 to 4.1 using vima-update: Important: You...
View ArticleResxtop with VMA 4.1 batch mode capture not opening in perfmon
I've created an hour long batch capture using resxtop with the following command: resxtop -b -n 720 --server servername.domain > vmacapture.csv However when I add the Data Source to perfmon I get:...
View ArticlevMA 5.1.0.0 does not retain name/domain upon reboot
I'm trying to the latest vMA (5.1.0.0 Build 782391) build and cannot figure out why it will not retain it's hostname. I follow the 'Deploy vMA' steps completely and verify the name is updated, but when...
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