Currently VMware does not provide a PowerCLI snapin to access the vCenter Operations API (the HttpPostAdapter). Clint Kitson and Alan Renouf have developed a Powershell Module to fill that gap.
I’m writing this article as I know some colleagues of mine are working with the same Samsung Series 9 notebook like me – and I hope I can help not trapping into a pitfall.
Today we were troubleshooting a strange behavior in a customer environment. When connecting to several target machines the Remote Desktop Client hung for about 30 seconds at “Securing remote connection”. The issue seemed to be RDP Version related, as connections to Windows XP/2003 machines were established fast – while Vista/2008 or higher showed the issue.
One thing that is really missing in XenCenter is the possibility to create local storage repositories. So if you missed to create one during installation, or just want to add more local hdd capacity you have to use the commandline.
With ESXTOP or the vCenter performance tab of a VM you can monitor the co-stop metric to check for vSMP performance problems. vCOps can show you that information for all the VMs on a host, a resource pool, a cluster, a vCenter or your complete environment.