vCenter Operations Manager Basic Concepts Part 1


I deployed the VCOPS (vCenter Operations Manager) last week. It is a virtual appliance including two virtual machines – the UI VM and the Analytic VM. With this tool, we gained a really good visibility of  our virtual environment in terms of Operations (Health) and Planning (Risk and Efficiency). Here are some basic concepts you … Continue reading vCenter Operations Manager Basic Concepts Part 1 →

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 →