By default your VirtualCenter logfiles are stored in a temp folder(as of 2.5 they are stored in: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs). VMware Wolf wrote a nice article about all the locations these log files are stuffed. For some reason I don’t get a pleasant feeling when I store my VirtualCenter (VPXD) log files [...]
Posts Tagged ‘2.0.x’
VirtualCenter 2.0.2 Update 5
August 13th, 2008
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Besides ESX 3.0.3 also a new VC version has been releaded! I did not notice this one yet.
Security Issues
Updates the Apache Tomcat Server
This release of VirtualCenter Server updates the Tomcat server package from 5.5.25 to 5.5.26, to address multiple security issues that existed in the earlier releases of Tomcat server.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project [...]
VM’s automatically renamed
April 24th, 2008
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Yesterday evening I witnessed a weird phenomenon. We had to bring down a complete environment to move a 19″ rack to a different location. We switched the SAN on, waited a couple of minutes and switched the ESX hosts on. When the ESX hosts finished booting we booted the VirtualCenter. Everything looked normal in the [...]
Swapping and/or ballooning
April 14th, 2008
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Today a customer called about a problem with the Exchange VM. For some reason the ESX Host where this VM resided was always swapping/ballooning. They checked and double checked the settings but could not find the problem. After a quick scan I noticed that there were limits set on memory for each VM. This particular [...]
VirtualCenter 2.0.2 Update 3
February 18th, 2008
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VMware just announced VirtualCenter 2.0.2 update 3:
Resolved Issues include:
Virtual Machine Management Issues
PR:219126 – Virtual Machine Alarms Not Triggered This release fixes an issue where VirtualCenter alarms are not triggered when the alarm conditions are met.
PR:225357 – Host and Virtual Machine Alarms Stop Updating Over Time This release fixes an issue where some alarms that are [...]
Issue with performance stats in VirtualCenter?
February 11th, 2008
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I noticed at a few customer sites that the Performance tab of VirtualCenter was getting sluggish but never got the chance to really pinpoint the problem. A couple of days ago user “jterpstr” posted about this on the VMTN forum and it seems that the old rows aren’t deleted from the database for some reason. [...]
Installing VirtualCenter 2.0.2 on a Windows 2000 SP4 server
February 11th, 2008
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Today I encountered a weird problem. When I started the installation of VirtualCenter 2.0.2 on a Windows 2000 Server I received the following error notification:”Setup cannot continue. The “VMware VirtualCenter Server 2.0″ requires Update 1 Rollup for Windows 2000 SP4. Please see KB article 816542 at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816542/.”
I checked the server but the patch was installed, [...]
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