When you upgrade Horizon View, you have to upgrade all Connection Servers within the environment. When you just have one, it is clear you will have a downtime. But even when you have n Connection Servers, you have to stop the View Connection Server services of ALL servers at once! This WAS right, but now you can upgrade one Connection Server after the other, without […]
Certificate error after migrating windows CA
After a colleague of mine migrated a Windows 2008 CA server to a new Windows 2012 R2 server the Connection Servers in Horizon View Administrator Dashboard went to state red. Whereas the status showed: Connection Server certificate is not trusted and the SSL Certificate showed: Server’s certificate cannot be checked. The certificate of each Connection Servers worked fine after migration, just in dashboard the state was red. The source […]
Service “VMware vSphere Profile-Driven Storage Service” crashes after start
After upgrading vSphere vCenter 5.1 to 5.5 U2 I got the problem that the service VMware vSphere Profile-Driven Storage Service crashes after starting or at least after click onto Storage View in vCenter. Among others I got errors in vws.log like: Unable to retrieve health for com.vmware.vim.sms from http://localhost/sms/health.xml Unable to retrieve health for com.vmware.vim.sms from any of its health URLs Error retrieving health from url: http://localhost:31010/sps/health.xml […]
Errors when trying to upload/download files to/from ESXi host
A nice feature of vSphere C# and Web-Client is the ability to upload and download files or folder to or from a ESXi host. In normal circumstances these operations are no problem. When you use your clients to connect to many different environments of different customers, you can get these errors: C# Client – When the operation should start, a error pops up: Failed to log into […]
How to create certificates for VMware View (and others) using a Windows CA
This is a rather short post for a checklist respectively a step-list of things you should know/do to create certificates for VMware products like VMware View. The steps in this post should work for Windows 2008 and later. Furthermore you can use Step 1 and 2 for other products next to VMware View like vSphere. If you don’t have a Windows CA but want to […]
Stuff about vCloud Automation Center [6.0] (2/5)
Roles System-wide Roles System Administrator Installs vCAC Manages tenants IaaS Administrator Manages endpoints and credentials Creates fabric groups Fabric Administrator Manages physical and compute resources within a fabric group Manages reservations and reservation policies Manages build profiles and machine prefixes Tenant Roles Tenant Administrator Manages and configures the tenant Manages users and groups Manages catalog services Manages entitlements Creates approval policies Manages blueprints Service Architect […]
Stuff about vCloud Automation Center [6.0] (1/5)
This series of posts will be a overview of vCAC in note style. There will be hints and tips besides to design considerations and basic information about the product itself. If you don’t know vCAC at all, you will still have to read manuals and guides! Abstract vCAC enables IT to provide a self-service portal for users or just for IT department itself. With vCAC a company […]
Update host without Update Manager by using esxcli
This blog post describes how to update respectively install VIBs on hosts without using VMware Update Manager (VUM). Instead of VUM we will use esxcli. esxcli software is a really powerful framework which you can use to keep your hosts up-to-date, install and remove bundles. The commands below are using real repositories and vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs). These examples should work fine for ESXi 5.x. […]
[HP] bugs you should know about
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This is a list of bugs in HPE hardware and software. These are issues that could harm the availability of your environment. The list is updated irregularly. See this post for VMware bugs you should know about. [October 2017] PROBLEM In a certain constellation of NIC driver (bnx2x) and firmware version, an update of driver version (2.713.30) in ESXi hosts can physically kill a NIC. […]
VMworld2014|14.10.|[VAPP2635-SPO] Best practices for managing your VMware environment with HP integrations
I thought the session would be focused on HP tools and practices to integrate HP servers and storage into vSphere environments for managing, monitoring and installation. But this session was mainly focused on OneView integration into vCenter. HP OneView for VMware vCenter Plug-in to Web Client is available for OneView integration Networking graphical display of network cabling – which is very nice! you can see […]
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