VMware’s Message of the Day – Your vSphere client is frozen.
Every so often, I come across a client that is leveraging the Message of the Day in their vSphere vCenter configuration. Usually, it’s a friendly reminder to disconnect…
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Upgrading to VMware Tools 5.1 can cause log spew
It’s not everyday you get a KB article with LOG SPEW in it’s title … This particular one was spotted by Aaron Silber after upgrading VMware Tools on…
P2V Tips you already know but might have forgotten
Haven’t P2V’d a server in a while? That’s because your environment is likely 90% virtual and 100% of your new machines are built as Virtual Machines. Completely understandable…
VMware Build number Decoder Table
Ran across an EXCELLENT KB article in VMware's Knowledge Base this week. Correlating vCenter Server and ESXi/ESX host build numbers to update levels (1014508) If you have been…
Have you enabled the Turbo Button on your ESX hosts?
If you haven’t checked the Power Management settings on your ESX hosts lately, you might be surprised to find your Processors set to use the Intel SpeedStep® technology. …
Upgrade those ESX 3.5 servers if you still have them …
Ran into this wonderful error message today during a migration to vSphere 5.1. I didn’t realize that vCenter 5.1 no longer supports ESX 3.5 so now to get…
From the Not So Surprising News Department–vSphere 5.1 Support for Latest XD/PVS.
For those of you running Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 and Citrix Provisioning Server 6.1, you may or may not have upgraded to vSphere 5.1. If you checked on support…
Minimum XenDesktop / PVS account access into vSphere needed.
If you are looking to lock down the your XenDesktop/PVS service account’s access into the vSphere environment, you need to read Jarian Gibson’s post: https://jariangibson.com/2010/12/21/using-xendesktop-5-with-vmware/ He details all…
VNXe Software Update 2.4.0.20932
If you haven’t logged into your VNXe Unisphere recently, you may have missed the newest software version released this month. (2.4.0.20932) vStrong has the full release notes here…