Category Archives: vCenter

The Wait is Over

Posted on October 26, 2012 by cwall

- Great New -  The wait is over and customers can now use View 5.1 and 5.1.1 with the latest update to ESXi for vSphere 5.1. http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2035268

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VMware vC Ops for View

Posted on July 11, 2012 by cwall

Ran into an issue this week with environments that are running vC Ops for View and have upgraded their View environment from 5.0 to 5.1, for some reason the collector seems to check out OK on all the test, but … Continue reading →

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Protecting vCenter/Composer from failures

Posted on August 17, 2011 by cwall

Check out some of the new features in vCenter Server Heartbeat (http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-server-heartbeat/features.html).  Since vCenter/Composer was the one thing that seemed hardest to protect against failures it is nice to see that the new version will protect it “ Monitoring and … Continue reading →

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VMware KB: Recommended configuration maximums for NIC ports on ESX/ESXi 4.1, 4.0 and 4.0 U1

Posted on April 14, 2011 by cwall

I have run into several customers over the last couple of months who have not followed this KB article and have run into issues with too many NICs. VMware KB: Recommended configuration maximums for NIC ports on ESX/ESXi 4.1, 4.0 … Continue reading →

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ThinApp-ed vSphere Client

Posted on April 1, 2011 by cwall

Do you want a ThinApped version of the vSphere Client?  Go to http://labs.vmware.com/flings/thinapp-vpshere and accept the license agreement, then download.  This came in real handy for me at the last customer site, of coarse I could have installed the client easily … Continue reading →

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Retiring a Connection Server

Posted on March 30, 2011 by cwall

This week I have been taking a View 4.5 Install, Configure, & Manage coarse.  One of the subjects that came up today was that you really need to spec out your Connection Server properly, because it is not easy to … Continue reading →

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