Did you know about VMware HA admission control coupled to VM reservations? To be honest I thought I knew, but recently I was pointed to some details that showed me I was wrong. What I’m talking about is the cluster setting of “HA Admission Control” and how “Percentage of cluster resources reserved as failover spare capacity” […]
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XenDesktop Error: The hosting infrastructure could not be reached at the specified address
When deploying XenDesktop in a VMware environment, you could run into the following error when trying to connect your XenDesktop host to your VMware vCenter environment: “The hosting infrastructure could not be reached at the specified address”. This is due to the fact that VMware vCenter only allows https connections by default. To make your XenDesktop […]
Upgrading VMware vCenter Heartbeat 6.3 update 1 to 6.4
When preparing your Virtual Infrastructure environment for vSphere 5 and vCenter 5 you also need to think of all the vCenter applications that are dependent on vCenter. One of them is vCenter Heartbeat. To be able to run vCenter Heartbeat on vCenter 5 you will need to upgrade vCenter Heartbeat to version 6.4. Normally upgrading […]
VMware vSphere Web Client: Don’t you forget about me!
Many installed vSphere 5 soon after the official release, starting with vCenter 5 and then reinstalled their ESXi hosts. Of course you need the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client as well to set up your environment, which you install on your Windows desktop or inside a Windows VM. Once you have your configuration up and running […]
VMware vCenter 4.1 GUI issue on shares
When checking a customers environment, I discovered a strange GUI issue in vCenter regarding CPU shares for a VM. I usually use a PowerShell script to check if the customer has set any limits, reservations or changed the default shares settings. With this customer I received a number of warnings about shares. I received the […]