HP 3PAR StoreServ and VMware vSphere 5 Best Practice
HP has changed there best practice for using there 3PAR StoreServ Storage systems when using Round Robin multi-pathing policy. The old recommandation was to use IOPS=100, and this has changed to IOPS=1. so for setting this you should use the following. 3PAR runninng Persona 6: 3PAR running Persona 11: See also dokuments from HP: White Pape: HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage…
VMware vSphere vCenter 5.5 Update 1c
VMware has just released a new Build of VMware vCenter 5.5 Update 1c, This release fixes some issues with compability between VMware vCloud Automation Center 6.0.x and VMware vCenter Single Sign-On, There are also other problems that's fixed, so it's an important fix. For a full list of fixes read the release notes: Release notes
vCenter Operations Manager error: “number of resources exceeds supported limit”
I have had this issue at a customer, where vCops after running for some time, came with this administrative alert.: "number of resources exceeds supported limit" After some searching on the internet i found 2 articles that had something about this: https://www.comdivision.com/kb/vcenter-operations-manager-error-number-of-resources-exceeds-supported-limit.html http://www.virtualiseme.net.au/index.php/vcops-max-number-of-supported-resources/ They both pointed to a advanced setting that should be set, but nothing about…
VMware Horizon View 6.0
VMware Horizon View 6.0 is now availble for download. VMware has also released a VMware vCenter Orchestrator Plug-In, for Horion View 6.0. From the Horizon View Release notes: What's New in This Release of View This release of View delivers a number of important new features and enhancements. Hosted Apps and Desktops Delivers Hosted Apps and desktops…
ESXi 5.5 Update 1 and NFS APD fix
VMware has released a fix for the problem with disconneted NFS Datastores in ESXi 5.5 Update 1, with Express Patch 04. See more in the VMware KB about the problem: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2076392 And the Express patch discription can be found here: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=2077360 I have not testet this patch, so use this information as is.
vSphere Web Client optimization
The VMware vSphere Web Client is the place to be, there are more and more third party plug-ins that's only released for this, and not for the legacy old vSphere Client. So I was looking for some tricks for VMware vSphere Web Client, so I could demonstrate some nice features at my customers. First step…
Customization of the VMware vSphere Web Client not saved
Users can customize the view, of where the items are showed, and with columns to show, and hide/show “Getting Started” pages. Under the Help menu it’s possible to “Hide all Getting Started” but some time this function does not work. The solution is to delete your personal settings directory on the VMware vSphere Web Client…
VMware vSphere Web Client hiding vCenter Operations Manager Health Badge
After I have done a upgrade of a VMware vCenter Server to 5.5 Update 1a and vCenter Operations Manager 5.8.1, I was checking around to see if everything was working and after logging in to the vSphere Web Client I could not find the the health bagde. The was also a odd menu item on the…