Within this article I will try to give you a clear vision on the HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric Mappings that HP uses to facilitate their blades with NIC’s and HBA’s. If you are looking for the Flex-10 mappings click here. In our example we use the HP BL460 Gen8 blade with a FlexibleLOM (LAN on […]
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Understanding HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric Mappings with VMware vSphere
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on November 26, 2012
https://virtualkenneth.com/2012/11/26/understanding-hp-virtual-connect-flexfabric-mappings-with-vmware-vsphere/
vSphere Authentication Proxy: Failed to bind CAM website with CTL
While troubleshooting the vSphere Authentication Proxy (vSphere 5.1) I ran into a bug which will I highlight in this article. After successfully installing the Authentication Proxy I discovered an error message in the C:\ProgramData\VMware\vSphere Authentication Proxy\logs\camadapter.log: 2012-xx-xx 14:03:35: Failed to bind CAM website with CTL 2012-xx-xx 14:03:35: Failed to initialize CAMAdapter.
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on November 19, 2012
https://virtualkenneth.com/2012/11/19/vsphere-authentication-proxy-failed-to-bind-cam-website-with-ctl/
Unable to enable the vSphere Authentication Proxy Plug-in
I recently had some issues getting the vSphere Authentication Proxy Plug-in to be enabled within vCenter Server 5.1. This is the error message that was displayed: “The server could not interpret the client’s request. (The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.)”
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on November 16, 2012
https://virtualkenneth.com/2012/11/16/unable-to-enable-the-vsphere-authentication-proxy-plug-in/
Migrate to new vCenter Server while using dvSwitches
During vSphere 4.x to 5.x updates I occasionally run into the situation where dvSwitches are used on the current vCenter4 and the customer wants to install a fresh copy of vCenter5 (with a new dvSwitch). Within this article I will describe a minimum downtime (1 ping-loss or less) procedure to cover this, guided by pictures […]
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on October 19, 2012
https://virtualkenneth.com/2012/10/19/migrate-to-new-vcenter-server-while-using-dvswitches/
Datacenters vs Clusters within the vCenter Inventory
Recently I got involved in a discussion about “Creating multiple Datacenters with one Clusters rather than one Datacenter with multiple Clusters” First of all lets get the definitions of these objects summarized (as stated in the vSphere Datacenter Administration Guide) Clusters A collection of ESX/ESXi hosts and associated virtual machines intended to work together as […]
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on February 3, 2012
https://virtualkenneth.com/2012/02/03/datacenters-vs-clusters-within-the-vcenter-inventory/
VM Swapfile (.vswp) placement with SRM
Nowadays VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) gets implemented more and more and like vSphere, VMware SRM needs a good architectural design before starting off. One of the design considerations is around the placement of the Virtual Machine Swap File (.vswp) which I want to give some more information about in this article. Let’s first take […]
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on June 29, 2011
https://virtualkenneth.com/2011/06/29/vm-swapfile-vswp-placement-with-srm/
Self-employed, delivering Virtualization Consultancy
After working for VMware for over a year I decided to take the next step in my career: to start Van Ditmarsch Consultancy As a contractor I will be available to do Virtualization Consultancy, primarily focused on designing, implementing and/or validating VMware Virtualization solutions with a strong focus on business continuity, high availability and disaster recovery. […]
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on June 7, 2011
https://virtualkenneth.com/2011/06/07/self-employed-delivering-virtualization-consultancy/
How to get Device Identifiers for I/O Devices
Recently I got a few questions about the VMware HCL and how to verify I/O devices without knowing all the key details of the device. Let’s start of by looking at the VMware HCL, note that there are additional fields on which a search can be done for I/O Devices. The Device Identifiers are separated into the following items: VID […]
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on March 10, 2011
https://virtualkenneth.com/2011/03/10/how-to-get-device-identifiers-for-io-devices/
VMFS3 Heap Size (MaxHeapSizeMB)
This article gives you more information on the VMFS3.MaxHeapSizeMB advanced parameter. Let’s start off with VMware KB article 1004424 describing the method to increase the VMFS3 Heap Size in case you see the following error message in /var/log/vmkernel or /var/log/messages log: vmkernel: 8:18:59:58.640 cpu2:1410)WARNING: Heap: 1370: Heap_Align(vmfs3, 4096/4096 bytes, 4 align) failed. caller: 0x8fdbd0 vmkernel: 8:18:59:58.640 […]
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on February 15, 2011
https://virtualkenneth.com/2011/02/15/vmfs3-heap-size-maxheapsizemb/
vCenter Performance Tab – Real-time vs. Historical Data
Recently I received a question about the Performance tab within vCenter which intrested me. Looking at the available Chart Options we can see that there are two distinctive performance streams: Real-time data Historical data
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on February 7, 2011
https://virtualkenneth.com/2011/02/07/vcenter-performance-tab-real-time-vs-historical-data/
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