One of my customers asked me if it is possible to change the download protocol for VMware Update Manager into http. Due to security regulations they are not allowed to have traffic over https on their server backbone. To achieve this you will need to change the vci-integrity.xml file in the Update Manager directory. The default url is: https://www.vmware.com/PatchManagementSystem/patchmanagement When [...]
As most of you know, in the Netherlands we have a pretty big VM User Group. I don’t think there are any VMUGs out there with so many active members and such a large number of attendees at meetings. This is about to change. Mr Alan Renouf is one of the initiators of the Online VMware User Group. At this [...]
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.1 Latest Version: 4.0.1 | 2009/05/21 | Build: 161434 What’s New The VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.1 release is an update to Converter Standalone 4.0, and includes the following new features: Support for vSphere 4.0 as source and destination targets: Support for configuring target disks as thin provisioned disks Support creation of IDE disks on vSphere [...]
When ESX 3.0 was released people were excited about it but it can’t be compared to the buzz that has been created around vSphere. It’s all over the blogosphere, I think every single blog out there published articles about vSphere weeks even months before it was released . Now the time has finally come, it’s available! Go to the download [...]
You know it will not take long when KB articles start popping up: vSphere Client overview performance charts might not appear for ESX hosts prior to ESX 4.0 (1010568) KB Article vSphere environment that contains hosts running ESX 3.x earlier, some of the overview performance charts do not display data after you install or upgrade to vCenter Server 4.0. [...]
The last couple of weeks I’ve seen all these performance numbers(most not publicly available though) of vSphere, one even more impressing than the other. I think every one will agree that the latest one is really impressive, 364.00 IOPS is just insane. There’s no load vSphere can’t handle, when correctly sized of course. But something that even made a bigger [...]
I just ran into the following issue when I upgraded the customers vCenter Server to 2.5 U4: “”Failed to install the VC agent service” Error Message Appears after VirtualCenter Upgrade”. None of the 3.0.x hosts would connect anymore. Of course the knowledge base provided a simple solution for this known issue.
