topic Re: VMware Virtual Center Appliance and OneView plugin in HPE OneView

VMware Virtual Center Appliance and OneView plugin

PetervdnBosch — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 12:24:01 GMT

Hi All!

I implemented the VCSA at a costumer. Next to the VCSA i setup a Windows server for Update manager and the OneView plugin for vCenter. Configured everything with no errors but the OneView plugin cannot be enabled in the Web Client and i do not see the HP Hardware tab. I cannot Download er enable the plugin in vCenter (see attached Screen shots)

Anyone else with this issue?

Re: VMware Virtual Center Appliance and OneView plugin

ChrisLynch — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 16:51:08 GMT

Setup and Configuration of the vCenter Plugin is performed through the VI Web Client, not the Win32 client. Once configured, there are some features exposed with the Win32 client. This is the architecture imposed on vCenter plugins by VMware, not HP.

Re: VMware Virtual Center Appliance and OneView plugin

PetervdnBosch — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:04:21 GMT

Hallo Chris! Thanks for the reply! Problem is that OneView or HP Hardware tab is not visible at all in the Web Client. The only spot i see anthing at all is the Win32 Client.

Should i de install everything an try again or am i missing something here?

Re: VMware Virtual Center Appliance and OneView plugin

ChrisLynch — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:18:55 GMT

In most cases, the source of the issue is DNS or name resolution. make sure that both the Windows hosting the plugin and the vCenter Management Appliance can resolve each others hostname and FQDN.

Re: VMware Virtual Center Appliance and OneView plugin

PetervdnBosch — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 12:05:41 GMT

After some searching i found the following problem. NS lookup response with a wrong servername. The IP Adresses the costumer thought where suitable are already registered in DNS.

Costumer is working on the solutions.

grtz Peter

@Chris Lynch, HP wrote:
In most cases, the source of the issue is DNS or name resolution. make sure that both the Windows hosting the plugin and the vCenter Management Appliance can resolve each others hostname and FQDN.

Re: VMware Virtual Center Appliance and OneView plugin

ChrisLynch — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 16:38:09 GMT

Excellent. Glad you have it working for your customer.

Re: VMware Virtual Center Appliance and OneView plugin

Aaron Stocker — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 16:50:44 GMT

Hi,

i need help with this case too.

I'm tryin in every way to enable the plugin in the classic Client, but nothing happens. It remains in "disable" state.

I've double checked on our management machine and nslookup resolves correctly the vcenter server and from vcenter CLI the same.

DNS and host are resolvable.

Tryed serveral times to completely uninstall the plugin, restart the vcenter services then reinstall and restart services again.

Please help, as i'm able to use only the Client plugin and not Web Client plugin.

Re: VMware Virtual Center Appliance and OneView plugin

ChrisLynch — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 17:53:28 GMT

@Aaron Stocker wrote:

Please help, as i'm able to use only the Client plugin and not Web Client plugin.

You can't use the Win32 Client. You must use the Web Client. This is a VMware restriction, not HP.

Re: VMware Virtual Center Appliance and OneView plugin

irs_admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 18:36:56 GMT

hi,

i installed VCSA 6.0u2 and also i have the HPE OneView for Vcenter Appliance 8.1 installed .

from some reason the plugin in the vsphere client is missing .

any ideas why,or i can solve the issue ?

thanks

Re: VMware Virtual Center Appliance and OneView plugin

RPMCanes — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 21:02:25 GMT

If the host is the HPE custom ISO for vSphere 6.5, is that why I can't see the icon either?

Re: VMware Virtual Center Appliance and OneView plugin

ChrisLynch — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 00:30:44 GMT

You need to make sure that the vCenter, VMware Platform Controller Services and the OV4VC appliance DNS Forward and Reverse resolve correctly. Without that, you won't see the HPE Management icons in the Web Client.

Re: VMware Virtual Center Appliance and OneView plugin

MezeiNorbert — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:00:59 GMT

Working Web-Client Oneview Link config: (Windows vCenter)
1. Name resolution (Rev/Forw) correctly pre-ensure.
2. In Oneview deployment ensure the correct FQDN.
3. After add vCenter access settings in Oneview, restart the vCenter Web-Client service in vCenter.

Troub: Check following correctly registered extension FQDN data in vCenter MOB "https://vcenter.domain/mob"
content->ExtensionManager->more...->com.hp.ov4vc.ngc.all.v6.0->client

url string "https://{oneviewFQDNhere}:3504/static/vsphere-web-client/com.hp.ov4vc.ngc.all.v6.0.zip"

Enjoy,

Re: VMware Virtual Center Appliance and OneView plugin

Cotecs — Thu, 04 May 2017 13:10:48 GMT

Is it possible to change the URL String?

Re: VMware Virtual Center Appliance and OneView plugin

jasonymy — Fri, 19 May 2017 04:36:23 GMT

Hi,

After deployed Ov4VC, I can't see anything about HP/HPE in https://vcsaip/mob,but the task showed completed? That is the plug-in didn't install at all. why?