Tag: VMware

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 →

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 →

VMware vSphere support for Microsoft Clustering Solutions


When DRS affinity/anti-affinity rules are used. For more information, see HA/DRS specific configuration for clustered virtual machines. See additional considerations for shared disk configurations below. Supported in Cluster in a Box (CIB) configurations only. For more information, see Considerations for Shared Storage Clustering. Reference: Microsoft Clustering on VMware vSphere: Guidelines for Supported Configurations

PowerCLI: Check ESXi Scratch Location and Syslog Server Settings


As part of the ESXi health check, we need to ensure the scratch location and syslog server has been configured correctly. Here is my script to check the settings: $VMHost = Get-Content C:\powercli\Servers.txt Foreach ($_ in $VMHost) {$Scratch = Get-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration -VMHost $_ -Name ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation $SyslogServer = Get-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration -VMHost $_ -Name syslog.global.loghost$SyslogDir = Get-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration -VMHost $_ … Continue reading PowerCLI: Check ESXi Scratch Location and Syslog Server Settings →