vscsiStats Support in ESXi
I tend to recommend using ESXi versus ESX for several reasons. However, this week I was reminded of the shortfalls ESXi has yet to mitigate. First, in response to a complaint regarding slow storage...
View ArticlevCenter Server 4.1 DRS Groups
One of the great new features of VMware vCenter 4.1 is Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) Groups. DRS Groups provides functionality that allows separation and placement of virtual machines onto...
View ArticleVMware vSphere Native iPad Application
I find it a bit interesting, but not surprising, that VMware is soon going to be releasing a native iPad application providing similar functionality that is found in the vSphere client for Windows. I...
View ArticleWhitepaper – Maximizing VM Performance
Mattias Sundling over at Quest has put together a brief whitepaper titled “Maximizing VM Performance”. It is not intended to be a deep-dive but it covers the main VM performance considerations in plain...
View ArticlevSphere 4.1 Security Hardening Guide (draft)
This document is the public draft release of the vSphere 4.1 Security Hardening Guide. This guide is an incremental update to the vSphere 4.0 Security Hardening Guide based on new and changed features...
View ArticlevSphere ESXi 4.1 Password Policy Does Not Persist Across Reboot
Stumbled upon an issue with the latest release of vSphere ESXi 4.1 Update 1 (fully patched) where following VMware KB 1032666 to modify ESXi default password hashing from MD5 to something stronger such...
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Replacing vCenter SSL Certificate with Certificate Issued by Microsoft...
Note: vCenter 5 introduced a new “Inventory” service that communicates over its own web services port and uses its own SSL certificate. vCenter 5 specific instructions will be noted below. Step 1 To...
View ArticlevCenter 5 Active Directory Web Services Error 1209
After upgrading to vCenter 5 running on Windows Server 2008 R2 you may begin seeing an ADWS event with ID 1209 logged in the Active Directory Web Services event log within the Windows Event Viewer....
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vCenter Operations 5.x vCenter Plugin uses IP instead of DNS hostname
Update 12-10-2012: The below process works the same on the vApp vCenter Operations Suite 5.6. If you have changed the default self-signed vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS) 5 SSL certificate you...
View ArticleRefresher: Mounting a CDROM in ESXi 4.1 and ESXi 5 (vsish)
Not having the legacy Service Console found in ESX adds a additional complexity to some administrative tasks performed on ESXi hypervisors. One such task is mounting a CDROM or DVD directly to an ESXi...
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