Some vCenter Operations Manager 5.x tweaks

Web Interface Timeout Issues I often use the Web Interface of vCenter Operations Manager to check the infrastructure. Because while the client module exist for the vSphere Client, I don’t find it as optimized in the display and the pane jumping. One of the...

Visio 2013 and Visio Stencils issue (Fixed)

[Update 10/30/2012 Thanks to Maxm] I use Visio a lot to create diagrams for my customers and colleagues. But when I tried to import Cisco Stencils I retrieved from the Cisco website, or HP Proliant Stencils from VisioCafe with the Visio 2013 RTM, you get the following...

Upgrading vCenter Operations Manager to 5.0.2

Yesterday, VMware released version 5.0.2 of the vCenter Operations Manager. Here are the release notes for version 5.0.2.  Reading the release notes, I’m looking forward to the New Text Widget in the Enterprise version of the product. Here are the three key...

Upgrading the Nexenta storage in the vLab

First, I’m sorry I have been so quiet on the web, bu I’ve just come back from 15 days of medical leave due to a Bursitus in my elbow, which made it extremely hard to write anything with a cast. But that did not stop me from swapping disks in Nexenta...

Nexenta stats running sample VMware Data Recovery backup

Following my Nexenta storage for the vLab article. I was asked how my ARC and L2ARC where doing. Here are two more screenshots that I just took on my infrastructure, while doing the initial backup of a 40GB virtual machine with VMware Data Recovery. I had the Nexenta...