I just received an email from a fellow consultant about a customer which had vCenter tasks time-out every once in a while. At times also ESX hosts got disconnected for no apparent reason at all. He discovered the following article by Richard Blythe aka VMware Wolf: ESX disconnects randomly or when doing VI client tasks from VC, task randomly timeout [...]
With the enormous amount of sessions scheduled at VMworld Europe you are bound to miss out on some of the excellent ones. I browsed through the schedule and decided to write down 6 sessions which you should attend in my opinion, and which I will attend if I can escape the labs: Chad Sakac – Sr Director VMware Strategic Alliance [...]
I get this question a lot:Does SRM have Failback capabilities? The answer is short but not simple, yes it does. Keep in mind that there’s no big red button labeled “Failback” which is the “not simple” part of the answer. Luckily for us the VMware Uptime Blog Team wrote an extensive article on how to do a failback with the [...]
I think by now most of you have read Mike D’s scoop on the “VMware View Open Client“. If not here’s a outtake from the press release: VMware View Open Client is available under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL v 2.1) and is accessible from http://code.google.com/p/vmware-view-open-client/. Some of the features included in this release support secure tunneling [...]
Tom and Eric already broke the news… VMworld Europe will also have a “Meet the VMTN Experts” session: Tom Howarth already spread the word. Richard Garsthagen has confirmed, the VMworld Europe VMTN Panel gets green light. It’s not going to be a break-out session, VMware choose another format for this year’s VMTN Panel. It will be more like a meet and [...]
Today I’ve been troubleshooting a weird problem with a VMware Update Manager installation. VMware Update Manager was installed with a different port than usual because IIS was already running on the server. When trying to install the plugin the following error appeared: Unable to connect to the remote server I would have expected that in either extension.xml or vci-integrity.xml in [...]
There has been a lot of talk about Project VRC: Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC) is a joint venture of Log•in Consultants and PQR, who have researched the optimal configuration for the different available hypervisors (hardware virtualization layers). The project arises from the growing demand for a founded advice on how to virtualise Terminal Server and Virtual Desktop (VDI) workloads. [...]
