VMware Knowledge Base Weekly Digest: New KB articles published for week ending 1/25/14
Socialcast On Premise
Deleting or wiping all community data in Socialcast On Premise (2070108)
Date Published: 1/23/2014
VMware ESX
Host using Distributed Switch disconnects from the network after changing the DV-Uplink name (2009105)
Date Published: 1/20/2014
VAAI hardware acceleration status appears as Unknown on HP XP20000 series arrays (2016018)
Date Published: 1/24/2014
Support for Zerto Replication (2069900)
Date Published: 1/21/2014
HP Server memory Sensor might not be automatically reset after replacing a fault DIMM (2070006)
Date Published: 1/21/2014
Accessing VMware vCenter Server 4.x/5.x fails with the error: Value cannot be null (2011390)
Date Published: 1/23/2014
Disconnect of Packet VLAN on Cisco Nexus 1000V between VSM and its VEMs causes CDP-based port-channels to fail (2012881)
Date Published: 1/20/2014
VMware ESXi
VMware ESXi 5.0, Patch ESXi500-201401401-BG: Updates esx-base (2065691)
Date Published: 1/24/2014
VMware ESXi 5.0, Patch ESXi500-201401403-BG: Updates misc-drivers (2065697)
Date Published: 1/24/2014
VMware ESXi-5.0, Patch ESXi-5.0.0-20140104001-standard (2065700)
Date Published: 1/24/2014
VMware ESXi 5.0, Patch ESXi500-201401101-SG: Updates esx-base (2065702)
Date Published: 1/24/2014
VMware ESXi 5.0, Patch ESXi-5.0.0-20140101001s-no-tools (2065705)
Date Published: 1/24/2014
Non-existent portgroups appear under a cluster in network view in vCenter Server (2008098)
Date Published: 1/20/2014
Configuring software iSCSI via Host Profiles fails with: Failed to set CHAP authentication configuration (2008737)
Date Published: 1/20/2014
After upgrading to ESXi 5.5, virtual machines protected with vSphere Replication show status as Not Active (2066230)
Date Published: 1/24/2014
VMware ESXi 5.0, Patch ESXi500-201401402-BG: Updates tools-light (2065696)
Date Published: 1/24/2014
VMware ESXi 5.0, Patch ESXi500-201401404-BG: Updates net-e1000e (2065698)
Date Published: 1/24/2014
VMware ESXi 5.0, Patch ESXi500-201401405-BG: Updates scsi-rste (2065699)
Date Published: 1/24/2014
VMware ESXi 5.0, Patch ESXi-5.0.0-20140104001-no-tools (2065701)
Date Published: 1/24/2014
VMware ESXi 5.0, Patch ESXi-5.0.0-20140101001s-standard (2065703)
Date Published: 1/24/2014
VMware ESXi 5.0, Patch Release ESXi500-201401001 (2065814)
Date Published: 1/24/2014
Removing a file from VMFS volume fails with the error: Resource temporarily unavailable (2063629)
Date Published: 1/22/2014
Understanding IP Hash load balancing (2006129)
Date Published: 1/20/2014
ESXi/ESX hosts using Cisco fnic HBAs no longer appear in the vCenter Server inventory and become unresponsive (2050463)
Date Published: 1/20/2014
Adding a bnx2 network interface card fails with the error: Unable to add uplink! The MTU setting used by this virtual switch is not support by the NIC being added (2066229)
Date Published: 1/24/2014
VMware Fusion
Uploading diagnostic information for VMware through the Secure FTP portal (2069559)
Date Published: 1/25/2014
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 guest operating system option is not available (2069889)
Date Published: 1/23/2014
Uploading diagnostic information for VMware using FTP (2070100)
Date Published: 1/25/2014
VMware Horizon View
Installing VMware Horizon View Security Server fails with the error: Unable to connect to server connection_server_fqdn on TCP port
Date Published: 1/20/2014
VMware Horizon Workspace
Joining the Connector Virtual Appliance in VMware Horizon Workspace to a domain fails with the Access Denied error (2064042)
Date Published: 1/23/2014
VMware IT Business Management Suite
Negative numbers exported using Export to Excel appear as strings in VMware IT Business Management Suite 8.0.0 (2069985)
Date Published: 1/21/2014
VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
Creating a Collection Filter Set for vCenter Server specific data filters in vCenter Configuration Manager (2062560)
Date Published: 1/23/2014
VMware vCenter Operations Enterprise
Importing users in a LDAP group with more than 1500 members to VMware vCenter Operations from Active Directory fails (2031586)
Date Published: 1/22/2014
VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vApp)
Creating space remaining alerts for the virtual machine guest file systems in the vCenter Operations Manager vApp (2045000)
Date Published: 1/20/2014
VMware vCenter Orchestrator
Java 7 Update 51 blocks vCloud Director and vCenter Orchestrator features (2069664)
Date Published: 1/24/2014
VMware vCenter Orchestrator wrapper-server.log file grows rapidly and configuration settings do not apply (2067002)
Date Published: 1/21/2014
VMware vCenter Server
In a mixed vSphere 5.1/5.5 environment, logging in to the vSphere Web Client fails with the error: Client is not authenticated to VMware Inventory Service (2065195)
Date Published: 1/20/2014
Security scan returns Oracle GlassFish vulnerabilities CVE-2011-1511 and CVE-2011-2260 (2005483)
Date Published: 1/21/2014
Storage View tab in VMware vCenter Server 5.0 displays the error: An internal error occurred (2019833)
Date Published: 1/24/2014
Starting the VMware VirtualCenter Server service fails with the error: 1053: The services did not respond to the Start or control request in a timely fashion (2069296)
Date Published: 1/22/2014
Logging into VMware vCenter Server using Windows session credentials fails if VMware vCenter Server is not a member of the same domain (2070029)
Date Published: 1/22/2014
Removing Local Administrators from the vCenter Server Administrator role (2016639)
Date Published: 1/24/2014
Unable to log in to vCenter Server 5.1 with the error: Incorrect username or password” although the correct credentials are provided (2055994)
Date Published: 1/23/2014
Manual export or import performed on the secondary node of a vCenter Single Sign-On Multi-Site cluster fails with the command-line message “Bug” (2070507)
Date Published: 1/23/2014
Virtual machine consolidation needed alarm (2061896)
Date Published: 1/24/2014
SSO installation may perform a rollback or hangs indefinitely at “Configuring SSO components” (2065329)
Date Published: 1/20/2014
VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Performing a vMotion using vCenter Appliance 5.1 fails with the error: pbm.fault.pdm.fault.summary (2062112)
Date Published: 1/21/2014
Network connectivity issues after applying a host profile in vSphere 5.1 (2062581)
Date Published: 1/23/2014
Upgrading VMware vCenter Server Appliance from from version 5.0.x to 5.1 fails with the error: Unexpected error during the upgrade process (2056080)
Date Published: 1/23/2014
Virtual Center appliance does not start service after shut down or after upgrade to 5.1 (2063954)
Date Published: 1/22/2014
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
Best Practices for Upgrading vCenter Server when vCenter Server Heartbeat is installed (2070181)
Date Published: 1/21/2014
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager service fails to start and reports the error: TerminateHandler called (2041658)
Date Published: 1/21/2014
Installing VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager on Windows Server 2012 reports an MsiExec.exe error in the Windows event log (2061852)
Date Published: 1/22/2014
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager fails to create a pair connection with the error: Wrong server type found on target ‘x.x.x.x’ (2045637)
Date Published: 1/21/2014
VMware vCloud Automation Center
Load balancing requirements for vCloud Automation Center (2063220)
Date Published: 1/20/2014
When adding fields to Entitlements in VMware vCloud Automation Center using Internet Explorer 8, the data is added twice (2065887)
Date Published: 1/21/2014
VMware vCloud Automation Center for Desktop
When provisioning a KVM machine in VMware vCloud Automation Center and specifying a network name, the machine is provisioned without a NIC (2065883)
Date Published: 1/22/2014
Clicking a menu in the VMware vCloud Automation Center Appliance web page running in Internet Explorer fails with the error: An internal error has occurred (2065878)
Date Published: 1/21/2014
VMware vCloud Automation Center for Server
Registering a virtual machine with Xen Desktop 7.x in VMware vCloud Automation Center fails with the error: XenDesktop integration request unexpected error (2065870)
Date Published: 1/20/2014
Provisioning a machine on a Linked Clone blueprint in VMware vCloud Automation Center fails with the error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object (2065881)
Date Published: 1/22/2014
Provisioning a machine in VMware vCloud Automation Center fails with the error: Allocate reservation operation failed (2065882)
Date Published: 1/21/2014
Cannot remove an unused datastore from your KVM reservation in VMware vCloud Automation Center (2065886)
Date Published: 1/21/2014
Cannot install the VMware vCloud Automation Center Prerequisite Checker (2065568)
Date Published: 1/21/2014
The time displayed in the VMware vCloud Automation Center Identity Appliance web page does not match the time on the appliance itself (2065874)
Date Published: 1/21/2014
Provisioning a machine in VMware vCloud Automation Center fails with the error: CloneVM : Sequence contains no matching element (2065880)
Date Published: 1/21/2014
A machine that was moved from one cluster to another in KVM appears as missing in VMware vCloud Automation Center (2065885)
Date Published: 1/22/2014
Clicking the Business Management tab in VMware vCloud Automation Center reports the error: Unable to reach remote host HTTP status 401 (2069652)
Date Published: 1/23/2014
VMware vCloud Director
Fast provisioning a Virtual Machine in vCloud Director fail with the error “The specified delta disk format ‘nativeFormat’ is not supported” (2041555)
Date Published: 1/20/2014
Unable to Suballocate Ip address, Ip address already in use (2056770)
Date Published: 1/20/2014
Deploying vShield Edge Gateway fails with the error: VSM response error (10105) Failed to publish configuration on vShield Edge. Operation failed on VC. (2060542)
Date Published: 1/24/2014
Consoles and KVM switches for VMware vCloud Director 5.1 and 5.5 (2070361)
Date Published: 1/22/2014
Deploying vShield Edge Appliance or vApp fails with the error: Hub “Resources” doesn’t have enough “
Date Published: 1/24/2014
Creating an OVF template or uploading media fails on organization vDCs backed by datastore clusters (2038921)
Date Published: 1/20/2014
VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions
HDP 2.0 patch installation for Big Data Extensions 1.1 (2069237)
Date Published: 1/23/2014
VMware vSphere Replication
Collecting the vSphere Replication standalone appliance logs (2037065)
Date Published: 1/22/2014
VMware vSphere Storage Appliance
VMware vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) 5.1 FAQ (2040481)
Date Published: 1/22/2014
Manually deleting a VMware vSphere Storage Appliance 5.1.x cluster (2048063)
Date Published: 1/20/2014
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