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Modify Timeout in vC Ops vSphere UI
If you’re using vC Ops 5 you may have noticed there’s a timeout for the vSphere UI login. Kind of a pain if you’re wanting to display the “skittles” view at your NOC or on an extra monitor at your workstation. While there’s no way to configure this timeout in the UI, you can change…
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Demo, Trial, POC, Pilot, Project – What’s the difference?
Frequently I’ll be asked to help a customer with a Proof of Concept or POC. Almost always, the requester (be it a sales executive or a customer) actually wants something else and we spend some time trying to figure out what that is. I’ll define each of the terms from the title of this post…
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Creating Custom Map Dashboards with vC Ops 5
Unless you were a user of the previous 1.x version of vCenter Operations Enterprise edition, you’ve probably never seen the full dashboard which was boiled down to vSphere specific elements and standardized with the now familiar “3 badges” for health, workload and capacity. As you’re probably aware, with newly available vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.0…
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Find a VM without vCenter
This probably doesn’t happen too often, but it did to a friend of mine – vCenter was down and he needed to find the ESX host where the supporting SQL server was registered so he could start it and troubleshoot if needed. Putting aside why this happened and how it could have been prevented, we…
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vSphere 5 Resource Pools Do Not Restrict Simultaneous vMotion
Something I encounter frequently in the field is the use of Resource Pools as nothing more than organizational containers. This is not a good idea as this can have many implications on your VM utilization and performance. As a best practice, you should use the folders feature in the “VMs and Templates” inventory view for…
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vCSA Network Error After Copy
I had been running my home lab’s vCSA under Workstation while I played around with vShield 5 on my small, two server, ESXi cluster. Mainly because I needed the resources free for all the vShield appliances and also because I didn’t want to take the chance of isolating my vCenter while I was testing vShield…
John Dias