In a previous post, I explained how to install and configure HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter 7.1.1 to monitor and manage an HP LeftHand storage directly inside vCenter Web Client. The HP software also adds VASA capabilities to vCenter, useful to create Storage Profiles based on effective storage capabilities directly…
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Balance multiple View Connection Servers using HAProxy
In medium and large deployments, you can distribute the load on VMware View Connection Server by adding many of them thanks to the “Replica” role. However, the balance and failover between them is not available directly inside the software. To distribute View clients among them, you need an external balancer….
HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter 7.1.1, installation and usage
HP has recently released the latest version of their Insight Control, numbered 7.1.1. As per the official webpage: The HP Insight Control extension for VMware vCenter Server delivers powerful HP hardware management capabilities to virtualization administrators, enabling comprehensive deployment, provisioning, monitoring, remote control and power optimization directly from the vCenter console….
SSO Server, failed logins on vSphere C# Client with no errors
I recently had a bad crash on my vSphere lab, and I had to restart by hand all the VMs hosted in it. Once everything was restarted and all services seem to be correctly up and running, I wanted to upgrade a couple of ESXi server with the latest patches,…
vCenter customization wizard for CentOS
Customazion Wizard is a really cool feature in vCenter, but I often found many customers not using it, mainly because they do not even know it exists, or because they had a weak knowledge about how to use it. This is even more true if the template is a linux…
The “Real” maximum size of a VMDK file
What is the biggest size of a VMDK file? “2TB – 512 bytes” This has always been the official answer, and you would find this same answer in blogs, VMware communities, and other sources. The fact is: this answer is completely correct, but in a “real world environment” is wrong….
Veeam repository, memory consumption, RamMap and CacheSet
I got recently some jobs suddenly failing in one of our Veeam repository servers. the error message was: Error: Client error: Cannot allocate memory for an array. Array size: [4198400]. After some checks, a strange situation arised: the sum of all the processes visible in the task manager was far…
Freeze your backups into AWS Glacier
Amazon Web Services has recently added to its impressive lineup of cloud services a new storage solution, named Glacier. As per their presentation: Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup. In order to keep costs low, Amazon Glacier…