This quick fix post is for those out there who are still using vCenter Operations Manager 5.8.x and are or thinking about deploying or upgrading to vCenter 6.0…I came across this annoying situation all of a sudden while working on a new vCenter instance when the Web Client started to report the error shown below. This can be […] Read More
PowerCli IOPS Metrics: vCloud Org and VPS Reporting
We have recently been working through a product where knowing and reporting on VM Max Read/Write IOPS was critical. We needed a way to be able to provide reporting on our clients VPSs and vCloud Organisation VMs. vCOPs is a seriously great monitoring and analytics tool, but it has got a flaw in it’s reporting […] Read More
vCOPS 5.8: Critical Data Collection Bug
UPDATE: VMware Global Support supplied me with vCOPs 5.8.0 Hot Fix 01 Build 1537842 which is available via a support request. This is a complete .pak update so you will need to go through the upgrade process as per usual. The issue of the missing data has been resolved, however I did need to go […] Read More
First Look: CloudPhysics – Datastore Contention Card
I first came across CloudPhysics just before VMWorld 2012. For a general overview, go here: I am a massive fan of analytics and trend metrics and I use a number of systems to gain a wide overview of the performance and monitoring of our Hosting and Cloud Platform…as well as extending out to client systems. I love […] Read More
vCenter Operations Manager 5 – UI Time-out Settings
A little after vCenter Operations Manager 5.0 went GA I posted this forum thread in regards to the default time-out value of the Web UI…Thanks to ILIO and VEIgel for follow-up posts with the initial solution, which at this time wasn’t documented. This is now covered in the release notes for 5.0.1 under known issues. But […] Read More