Category: VMware

A new book: VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

VMware ThinApp 4.7 is an application virtualization and portable application creator which allows users to package conventional applications so that they are portable. “VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials” shows you how to deploy ThinApp packages in order to improve the portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which […]

Wednesday December 12th, 2012 in VMware | No Comments »

vCenter Server Appliance Tips and Tricks

I have done multiple installations of the vCenter Virtual Appliance. Every time I run into the same issue and get the same question from customers. So I though to make a post with all my tips and tricks. This post will be updated when I have a new trick. So check back often. Change default […]

Thursday November 15th, 2012 in VMware | No Comments »

High %LAT_C values in ESXTOP

ESXTOP is a great tool for troubleshooting performance issue in VMware vSphere. In the past I written a post about CPU troubleshooting. One of the main values I mention in this blog post was %RDY.Want to know what it means? Read the post 🙂 While checking a vSphere 5.1 environment of a customer I got […]

Wednesday November 7th, 2012 in VMware | No Comments »

vSphere webclient doesn’t show correct WWNN and WWPN

When I was installing a new vSphere 5.1 cluster for a customer I had to document the WWNN and the WWPN. After copying and pasting the WWNNs and the WWPN I noticed that on a hosts, the same WWNN and WWPN occur. Of course these have to be unique.         As you […]

Wednesday October 31st, 2012 in VMware | No Comments »

vSphere Web Client logbrowser: Unauthorized access

vSphere 5.1 is just released and I’m already implementing it in a test environment for a customer of mine. As of vSphere 5.1 the vSphere Web Client is must improved. While playing around I wanted to test the logbrowser. The logbrowser you can view, search, and export one or more vCenter Server and ESXi log […]

Thursday September 20th, 2012 in VMware | No Comments »