Today VMware announced the VMware vExpert 2012 results and I am very proud to say that I am on the list! I would like to thank the people at VMware for this chance. I am going to be honest about this, I didn’t even think I had a chance because of the fact that I started pretty late with getting this blog back online. I am looking forward working and communicating with some of the great people on the list….
VMware released a small update for their vBenchmark fling, now bringing the version number to 1.0.1. What’s new? Added a checkbox to include or exclude vCenter license keys when submitting the data to the community repository The application now listens on port 443 (https), requests to port 80 will be automatically redirected to 443 The appliance will now prompt you to change the root password at first logon Fixed bugs that prevented some customers from proceeding to the dashboard when…
Today I was troubleshooting a rather simple problem but took me a while to figure out. An ESXi host (5.0) was showing the warning “Hardware monitoring service on this host is not responding or not available” in the Hardware Status tab. The solution was quite simple, the CIM Server wasn’t running and therefor the data was unavailable. To enable this service go to “Configuration“, select “Security Profile” under Software and click “Properties” next to “Services“. In the new window select…
Today VMware released a new Technical White Paper about stretched cluster in combination with SRM. The document is about 18 pages full on information on the technology you can use to achieve this and understanding the options and goals. It also contains some sample scenarios and solutions on which you can base your upcoming setup. You can download it here. “This paper is intended to clarify concepts involved with choosing solutions for vSphere site availability, and to help understand the…
When you do an “Automatic Tools Upgrade” on a virtual machine the VMware tools iso will be mounted into the VM. Unfortunately it sometimes happens that after the upgrade the iso stays attached and this will result in a warning while doing a manual VMotion. When you inspect the VM (edit settings) you will see the ISO being mounted. You can change this to Client Device and the ISO will be unmounted and the warning won’t be shown anymore. Obviously…