27 July 2013

The Performance Overview tab fails to display into vSphere Client and VCSA 5.1

Problem:
I cannot view the Performance Overview tab when connecting to vCenter Server Appliance using the vSphere Client 5.1 on MS Windows XP / 2003.

Variations of the error message in the Performance Overview tab:
- This program cannot display the webpage - more often seen
- Navigation to the webpage was cancelled - rarely viewed


Resolution:
Usually the problem is ciphers attribute in the VCSA Tomcat config file - server.xml

1. Log in to console of VCSA as the root user
2. Locate file under /usr/lib/vmware-vpx/tomcat/conf/
3. Make file backup (for your peace of mind)
4. Edit file - Find and replace "ciphers" attribute in the server.xml with following value:

 ciphers="SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5, SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, SSL_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA"

 4. Restart the vmware-vpxd service:

 via console
vcsa-lab:~# service vmware-vpxd restart

or via web management:
https:/"VCSA-IP address/:5480


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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous28 July 2013 at 23:33

    Interesting article, Milen. Thank you. What are the benefits of deploying vCSA vs. dedicated Windows VM + vCenter Server on top of it ? (except except Windows license)

    Regards

    Boyan

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  2. Nanyo Nanev29 July 2013 at 11:17

    @Boyan
    Depends on scale. VCSA is much more black box with belonging pros and cons. For small (or dedicated) environments (infrastructure) usually there aren't so much IT engineers and approach "setup and forget" is preferable. After same amount of dev and QA effort spent on VCSA as Win one experience should be the same.

    Nanyo

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  3. Боян Куртев29 July 2013 at 23:40

    Thank you for your prompt response, guys.

    Cheers

    Boyan

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  4. Anonymous11 November 2013 at 12:27

    Thank you very much.

    I had the same issue with a physical VC and the solution is valid for the file C:\Program Files\VMware\Infraestructure\tomcat\conf\server.xml

    Mario.

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  5. Anonymous12 November 2013 at 13:08

    Thank you very much to.

    I had the same issue with a physical VC and the solution is valid for the file C:\Program Files\VMware\Infraestructure\tomcat\conf\server.xml

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  6. Jeff_Cheng17 February 2014 at 14:05

    thank you!

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