VMware Virtualcenter roles and permissions are one of the most commonly misunderstood aspects of Virtual Infrastructure 3.  We constantly receive calls into tech support asking how-to assign the appropriate rights to users and their virtual machines, clusters, etc. A new article I saw on VIOPS today that helps one understand some of the basic premises [...]

If you ever have trouble starting Virtualcenter check the logs. C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\VirtualCenter Server\Logs Look for this message: [2008-01-17 01:05:43.917 'App' 304 error] Unable to get exclusive access to VC repository. This means there are some connections to the virtualcenter database (repository) that need to be freed before virtualcenter can use it. It will not start [...]

A few Virtualcenter users are reporting the following error when trying to start Virtualcenter: Failed to initialize: not well-formed (invalid token) The problem seems to happen if one or more ESX hosts being managed have Update 2 on them, but Virtualcenter itself is running Update 1 or earlier. The problem doesn’t show right away.  Not [...]