After changing our vCenter servers recently, the old vCenter server is still listed in the VMWare vSphere Client login dialog in the IP Address / Name: drop down. Is there a way to remove the old/invalid entries from this dropdown?
I'm using a Vsphere client on Windows XP over a VNC link (Vinagre) from an Ubuntu 10.10 desktop running WindowMaker. It all works pretty well, but I can't find any way to press the Magic SysReq key (used to reset Linux hard). Neither Vinagre nor Vsphere has any sort of keyboard that can be pressed; trying to use the SysReq key just results in the local system being reset. Running Vinagre in full screen makes no difference.
How do I press SysReq in this combination of software? I thought that sending a BRK would help, but there's no way to do that either. I thought PrScr would do it, but don't know how. Switching from Vinagre to xtightvncviewer didn't help at all.
Am I missing something or is sending a SysReq just not possible?
UPDATE: I found information about /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq-key (which allows you to specify the key) but that seems to have been removed sometime during the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x kernel lifetime. This was a feature in the mainline kernel at one time.
The vSphere client for the iPad is brilliant, however I'm having a bit of trouble determining the X-axis scale for the graphs.
What kind of time frame is that over? 5 minutes? 10 minutes? 1 hour? I've tried lining up its peaks in processor usage against our logging, but because VMWare only seems to be snapshotting every 60 seconds, and we snapshot every 10 seconds, it's pretty difficult to get any sort of average (plus the iPad is 10" and our normal performance graphs are 50" so you can't even kinda hold it up against the other graphs and squint, which I did try).
Does anyone know what time scale the performance graphs are over?
I am using vSphere Hypervisor 4.1.0 and vSphere Client and from the vSphere Client, if you go to the Summary tab of a VM, how do you change the Host name in the General box? I am stumped. I heard the hostname from the vSphere doesn't affect networking, but how do change it for asthetics? I have already configured the proper hostname inside the VM, but it doesn't show any new changes in the Summary tab.
When trying to connect to a ESXi server using the VMWare vShere Client I get an error:
Error parsing the server "server" "clients.xml" file.
Login will continue, contact your system administrator.
Followed by:
The type initializer for 'VirtualInfrastructure.Utils.HttpWebRequestProxy' threw an exception.
Any clues to fix this?
Windows 7 x64 RC Build 7100
vSphere client from ESXi 4.0.0 ReleaseBuild-171294
Thank you,
Keith