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Columbus vBeers on May 20th @ 7pm

Start off the Central Ohio VMUG Users Conference a little early.

Join the VMwareAdmins.com team at another edition of Columbus vBeers.

This event is being held at the Gordon Biersch located in the Arena District. We will be located in the pool room located off the bar.… Read the rest

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Using ZFS filesystem as an NFS datastore for ESXi

Using ZFS on Linux is an attractive solution for a high-performance NFS server due to several key factors:

  • Cost, ability to use commodity hardware with free software
  • Simplicity, quick install and easy to configure/manage
  • Flexibility, ZFS offers a plethora of options for your filesystem needs

In this case, I installed ZFS on CentOS 6.4 available here: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/6/isos/x86_64/

The hardware I used was a HP DL370 G6 with 11 3TB disks to be used for ZFS.… Read the rest

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Using a Self-Signed SSL Certificate with IBM Storage Management Console for Vmware vCenter

The IBM Storage Management Console for Vmware vCenter adds a single-source of glass view into the IBM storage platform (in my case the StoreWize V7000) without leaving vCenter.

However, the default installation ships with an unsigned SSL Certificate that does not function well with IE9/vCenter.… Read the rest

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vCenter Operations Manager shows unlicensed, yet not showing as an asset in vSphere licensing page

I went to check out my vCenter Operations Manager deployment today, and it showed as unlicensed:

vCenter Operations Manager shows unlicensed, yet not showing as an asset in vSphere licensing page

vCenter Operations Manager shows unlicensed, yet not showing as an asset in vSphere licensing page

Yet on the licensing page, Operations Manager does not even show as an asset:

vCenter Operations Manager Not Showing On Licensing Asset Page

vCenter Operations Manager Not Showing On Licensing Asset Page

A quick google search turns up the following Vmware KB Article

And it turns out the resolution is quite simple:

Resolution

To generate an asset after first installing vCenter Operations you need to register it with vCenter Server:
  1. Browse to the IP of the UI virtual machine.

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