Category: VMware

Designing a VMware 5.5 management cluster

In the past we had our vCenter server on his own physical machine. Later we moved vCenter to a virtual machine on the same cluster were all other virtual machine live. As we get more, bigger and more VMware techniques in our VMware environments, the need for a separate vSphere cluster for VMware services is […]

Friday June 13th, 2014 in VMware | No Comments »

View Composer error due to failure Windows activation

I’ve been playing around with VMware View in my lab environment testing different scenarios with the View Composer. Today I noticed that a deployment with linked clones failed with the following error: View Composer agent initialization state error (16): Failed to activate the software license (waited 0 seconds) When I looked into the log files […]

Friday April 4th, 2014 in VMware | No Comments »

vExpert 2014

    I’m honored to announce that this year for the 4th time I’m awarded with the vExpert 2014 title. vExpert is title who you can ear for a year if you have demonstrated significant contribution to the community and a willingness to share their expertise with others. I’ve got mine for my grey VMware […]

Wednesday April 2nd, 2014 in VMware | No Comments »

My first thoughts on Nutanix

Currently I’m working on a project designing a 3000 VMware Horizon View environment for a local government in the west of the Netherlands. When I started this job the hardware was already purchased by the project manager. Not the correct way (according to Prince2) but it’s a fact a have to deal with. Honestly I […]

Tuesday December 17th, 2013 in VMware | No Comments »

Setting up a central syslog server for VMware vSphere

Currently I’m working on a project that involves multiple vCenter servers and vSphere servers on multiple sites. When you install ESXi on a SD card you get a warning on you ESXi host that log file are stored on non-persistent storage. You can either store the logfiles on local storage or and a syslog server. […]

Tuesday October 29th, 2013 in VMware | No Comments »