This is the last part of this series of posts about VMware vCenter Configuration Manager. Part 1 Part 3 For more information about VMware vCenter Configuration Manager, check documentation. Managing virtual environments Data from components of virtual environment (vCenter, Hosts, Appliances) are collected by managing agent machine (= proxy agent). Change trust status for managing agent machine. Check if data collection worked: check registry-key: HKLM\software\VMware, Inc.\InstallData\VCM […]
Stuff about vCenter Configuration Manager [5.7] (1/3)
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This is the last part of this series of posts about VMware vCenter Configuration Manager. Part 2 Part 3 For more information about VMware vCenter Configuration Manager, check documentation. General vCM is also Asset Management System. Information are collected by OS Agents. Export data to do further analysis using tools like Excel. There are 4 DBs: VCM_Raw. Raw data, is recreated every 24 hours; does not […]
Steps to roll out vCenter Operations Manager
These are the steps you need to take to install vCOPS into a vSphere environment. It is very important that all components (vCenter, Hosts, monitored Hardware, …) using time synchronization Add an IP-Pool in vCenter This should be done in (installed) vSphere client Click on the Datacenter and on the tab “IP-Pools” Fill in: Subnet, Mask, Gateway, activate DHCP if there is any, DNS Server data, […]
Questions to ask before designing a VDI environment
These are facts you should think about before to into detailed planing a VDI environment. I will add new questions that occurred to me. Sizing How many Connection server do you need? Just for scalability just one is most often enough, so use two of them for redundancy. How to load balance the sesstion? (round robin, balancer) Number of Security server? How many users will […]
View desktop cannot start because of errors on disposable-disk
You get this kind of errors when you or View Composer try to start a View desktop Cannot open the disk ‘/vmfs/volumes/4ef3113c-43bb01db-ad6c-101f74362f0e/VM/VM-v-dm-disposable-327e75b7-c97e-4671-9db2-b761d3de383.vmdk’ or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. The file specified is not a virtual disk This can be caused by operations like recompose, refresh or rebalance. Luckily it´s easy to fix – at least it´s worth the try: get rid of […]
tool you should know to implement VMware View
To optimize OS used as desktops A must read is the VMware View Optimization Guide for Windows 7 and Windows 8. Its includes batch files to support you by optimizing the client OS. You can download the guide here. A graphical tool to optimize guests OS is the VMware OS Optimization Tool from VMware Labs. You can find the tool here. The is a single […]
(my) guideline to microsoft licensing for VDI
The list does not claim to be comprehensive. Use this information at own risk! User or device CALs Take user CALs when user uses more than one device to access the desktop. Take device CALs when there are more or equal devices than users. Microsoft licenses the physical person (named user) NOT an Active Directory-User! RDS CALs and VDA licenses VDA license includes the license for […]
useful cli for VSAN
get information using esxcli esxcli vsan storage list details on physical devices esxcli vsan policy getdefault details on default policy, most often referred as “none” for cliesx vsan reference click here convince the host that there is a SSD (if there is a really one) search for the SSD using: esxcli storage nmp device list you will get a satp-type and a device-id. The satp-type can be […]
[VMware] bugs you should know about
This post is about bugs you could be concerned about. I will try to keep it up-to-date. [October 2017] PSOD after update to 6.5 U1 on hosts equipped with 10G NICs. At the moment of writing this, KB2151749 did not work… [October 2017] When using WebClient, flash crashes. This is because some incompatibilities between flash and WebClient after updating flash to version 27.0.0.170. To resolve […]
configure esxi shutdown in case of power loss (HP UPS)
These steps are necessary to implement a graceful shutdown of an vSphere environment. For this scenario you need supportet HP UPSs for HP Power Protector.
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