Kitaab

Faced an issue where in a ESXi host keep disconnecting form the vCenter When we reconnect , it does connect back however loses connectivity again after few minutes Although we could still ping and connect (RDP) to the VM's on the host. It felt somehow the heartbeats form the host to vCenter were lost as the Host was behind the firewall We needed to enable UDP/902 between the host and vCenter to get the issue fixed Hope this help

We encountered this issue while installing vCenter 5.1 The error was as shown: The following port numbers are either invalid or already in use. VMware VirtualCenter HTTP port: 80 Once we stopped the World Wide Web Publishing Service , we were able to continue the install. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1030445 The information provided in this KB helped to resolve the issue in our case , although we dint have SSRS installed . Only thing i could think of was of the World Wide Web Publishing Service. Hope this Helps.

vSphere 5.1 vCenter Virtual Appliance AD Integration When i tried to enable Active directory in  vCVA 5.1 it failed at various stages Firstly i was not able to enable Active directory in vCVA as it gave an error shown here: Once i was able to fix this error and enable it successfully , i still couldnt see the domain while adding permissions in vSphere Web Client or vSphere Client Here is the Sequence of steps i followed to make it work in our test: 1.Created a Host and PTR record for the vcenter Appliance in our Domain DNS 2.Made sure the Time zone on vCVA is set correctly 3.Make sure the Hostname of the vCVA is the one we created in the step 1 (Under network Tab) 4.Mention the IP address for DNS servers correctly 4.The username to enable Active directory should have permissions on AD and we need to specify it as user@domain.com format 5.All Services showuld be Stared and Running 6.Rebooted vCVA and the ESXi host on which it was deployed I dont...