vMA5.0 has firewall?~ how can I close it or add port to a application.
My host is vSphere 5.0, I have vMA 5.0 and vMA4.1 on the host. I install a appication in vMA5.0 and vMA4.1, vMA4.1 is work fine, but the appication can't work fine on vMA5.0, I guess that it's the...
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 Articlevdf equivalent in vSphere 5.0?
Hi,I have installed Nagios on vMA 5.0, which is useful extension of vMA functionality beyond managing UPS (PCNS) or Adaptec RAID (Arcconf). However, I would like to monitor Datastores (warnings on...
View ArticlevMA 5.0 - PCNS auto startup?
Hello guys,We have a ESXi 5.0 host with a vMA 5.0 VM running.We have successfully installed PCNS 3.0 on the VM. We can access the PCNS management page just fine. If we restart the vMA, the web page is...
View ArticlevMA vi-logger why was it removed?
Does anyone out there know the reason why VMware removed the vi-logger functionality out of the vMA appliance in vSphere 5? I can understand adding an easy to use facility on vCenter as this is a great...
View Articlevifp addserver: failed to add users
All, I've got a weird problem I wish someone could help me with. I have google this and found the error, but all the info is regarding vMA that is active directory enabled and mine is not. I have two...
View ArticleUpgrade Path from VMA 5.0.2 to VMA 5.1.0
I've recently upgraded our ESXi hosts and vCenter to 5.1 -- I see that VMA 5.1.0 is available as a separate appliance deployment (.ovf), but I'd prefer to just upgrade our 5.0.2 installation to 5.1.......
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 ArticlevMA 5.1 fails with fsck problem
I am running a vma 5.1 on every esx 5.1 host in a local store with installed APC shutdown software. Everything worked fine for some weeksI did a backup of the vma with veeam after installing every...
View ArticlevSphere Management Assistant (vMA) 5.1 VMware Tools
The vSphere Client is showing that VMware Tools is not installed. Does the VMA need VMware Tools? The vSphere Client Install/Upgrade VMware Tools is not working? I assume I have to do a manual install?
View Articlevifptarget command not found
I just downloaded and setup the vMA vapp this week and while trying to get things setup I have added server using the vifp addserver command. I can list the 6 hosts that I have setup but I cannot use...
View Articlevifptarget missing in vMA 5.1 after update
A 5.1 I saw the Kb article on how to fix this issue. My question is how to do i edit the .bashrc file. I tried using winscp, but got access denied. The KB states to login to the console as root and...
View ArticleInstalling VM like Vima.
Hi! How can I install a virtual machine with the characteristics that the Vima? I want to install this in a linux 32 bits becouse I don't have nothing in 64 bits yet. What steps I need to do fo do...
View ArticleHaving issues with "vmclone.pl" and "vmreconfig.pl"
I'm running into an issue when trying trying to execute the RCLI command "vmclone.pl" located on VMware's VIMA Here is quick look at the environment: [vi-admin@vima-primp-industries vm]$ uname -a...
View ArticleNew VIMA release announced: vMA (vSphere Management Assistant) 4.0
On April 21, VMware announced VMware vSphere 4.0 (see http://www.vmware.com/go/vsphere). As noted on http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/overview.html , "VMware vSphere will be available for...
View ArticleHow to get any VM's hostname using Remote CLI [ESX Server] ?
Hi, I am trying to automate some testing where in i need to depoly some packages on the VM's on the ESX server. I need the hostname information for the same. i know that we can get the Vm location...
View ArticleFirewall Ports needed for VMA
Hi,my VMA VM does not reside on the same subnet as the vCenter or the ESX Servers, however, the network department can create firewall rules to allow it manage the vCenter and the ESXi Hosts.what...
View ArticlevGhettoLinkedClone Customization failing
Hi all, I just recently started playing with vGhettoLinkedClone for ESX4; it works perfect until I try to use the --customize_guest option.This is the command line I am using: vGhettoLinkedClone.pl...
View ArticlevSphere CLI: Can not specify dvsName, dvportId parameters for --add operation.
Anyone, I am really getting frustrated with this issue. I am trying to create a VMkernel port on DVS with an MTU setting of 9000. I followed some instructiuons from...
View ArticleAccess host datastore from vMA
Hi Guys! I haven't found the way how can I access the EXSi host datastore and copy files from there to the vMA guest. Do you know something about it? Thanks,RobertJ
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