Author: Jackie Chen

2012 in review


The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 52,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 12 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.

vSphere Client Version Number Check


You may see the following window before. It happens when you try to connect to the new version of vCenter from the old version vSphere client. vCenter defines the required version of the vSphere client in the file:  C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\docRoot\client\version.txt version="5"exactVersion="5.0.0"patchVersion="1.0.0"flexClientVersion="5.0.0" The only usage that I think of this is that if in some cases … Continue reading vSphere Client Version Number Check →

Alternative Way to Register vCenter Server with vSphere Web Client


To use vSphere Web Client, you have to firstly register a vCenter server to it. Otherwise you will see such error messages.   The typical way to register vCenter with vSphere Web Client is  through https://<vSphere-web-client-url&gt;:9443/admin-app. But sometimes it may not work, such as you don’t have Adobe Flash Player installed or the web server … Continue reading Alternative Way to Register vCenter Server with vSphere Web Client →