In the last weeks Andreas has tested Splunk in our lab environment. To access the Frontend from outside the lab, i have configured Apache to work as a reverse proxy for Splunk.
I use USB flash drives to store all the little tools, scripts and config files i need to switch between Mac, Linux and Windows. A Macbook pro is my main notebook and because of that i use it to make regular automated sync’s of my USB flash drives to the local disk.
vCenter Operations provides different widgets to display the data collected from vCenter, storage systems or other data sources. Using the example of finding out which of the VMs in a vCenter are affected by high cpu ready % values i show you how to use heatmaps, metric graphs and data distribution widgets.
Recently I had to sequence the vSphere Client V5 Update 1 Client with App-V. What normally sounds like an easy task ended up with some trouble…
To create an unattended installation job just download the viclient.
Recently I had to troubleshoot network performance issues for VMs running on Citrix XenServer 6.0.2. All VMs were running W2k8R2 and it seems that CIFS copy jobs where incredible slow. The network itself couldn’t be the problem as all VMs were connected to the same virtual network on only one XenServer.