Last week I had trouble upgrading a customers VMware vCenter server from 5.0.0 build 623860 to 5.1b. To be sure I had, of course, taken a snapshot of the VM before starting the upgrade, but I thought I would still see if I could fix it since some of my readers might have a physical vCenter […]
VMware vCenter Single Sign On install error 32010. Failed to create database users
Today I was helping a customer upgrade vCenter from 5.0.0 build 623373 to 5.1.0 build 947939. First step was to install the new VMware vCenter Single Sign On service. However during installation I was prompted with the following error: Error 32010. Failed to create database users. There can be several reasons for this failure. For more information, […]
Unable to login to VMware vCenter with domain accounts: A general system error occurred: Authorize Exception
Today a customer called me because they were unable to login to their VMware vCenter using domain accounts. They saw the following error message: A general system error occurred: Authorize Exception I asked if they had made any changes and they had created two new Windows Server 2012 domain controllers and given them the IP […]
VMware vCenter SQL express database full? How to #fixit!
Last week I had a customer running on a SQL express database with a 10 GB upper limit. The customer called us in because the vCenter service was crashing almost daily. Upon inspecting the event log I saw the following: Source MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS Event 1105 Could not allocate space for object ‘dbo.VPX_TEMPTABLE0’ in database ‘VIM_vCenter’ because […]