• 今天遇到了一个很奇怪的问题。有些虚拟机无法访问网络共享文件夹。当用文件浏览器打开共享文件夹时会弹出Unspecified Error 0x80004005错误。如果在开始 – 运行 里打开相同的文件夹又会提示The network path was not found 0x80070035。


  • vRealize Operation Manager 6 (又叫vROps)是vCenter Operation Manager的全新版本,我从vCenter Operation Manager还是1.0时就开始使用了,很喜欢自我学习和动态阀值这两个功能。但是这款产品只能监控虚拟层面,如果可以监控存储层面就完美了。在比较大的vSphere环境中虚拟机是共享ESXi数据存储(datastore)的,如果少数虚拟机产生很高的IO,可能会影响到其他处于同一个存储上的虚拟机。想象一下,如果你有100个LUN跑在一个NetApp存储上,300个虚拟机在使用这100个LUN,某日用户说他们的虚拟机很慢,但是他们并没有跑什么应用,这时候就会比较难判断到底是哪儿出了问题,因为虚拟机可能共享同一个数据存储(datastore),数据存储存建于LUN上,LUN 可能来自某个聚合(Aggregate),并且多个LUN可能来自同一个物理磁盘。vCenter Operation Manager 在5.x时代有提供一款NetApp存储监控组件,但问题是很难把vSphere的数据存储(Datastore)和NetApp存储的设备关联起来。


  • vRealize Operation Manager 6 (aka vROps) is new generation of vCenter Operation Manager. I started to use vCenter Operation Manager since version 1.0. I like the idea of self-learning and dynamic threshold. But the product only monitors virtualization layer. It would be perfect if it’s able to monitor under layer storage. In large vSphere environment,…


  • vRealize Automation 7 (vRA 7)和vRA6比起来有很多增强和改进。网上有大量的文章介绍这方面以及安装方法。vRA7的初始设置和vRA6有很大不同。以下是我的一些经验,可以帮你快速搭建实验环境。


  • vRealize Automation 7 (vRA 7) has lot of enhancements and changes compare with vRA 6. There are plenty of introductions available in internet. The initial configuration is different with vRA 6. I’m going to share my experience. You can easily build up LAB or POC by following this post.


  • 错误提示 “To view this page ensure that Adobe Flash Player version 11.5.0 or greater is installed. “。登陆框依旧可见,但是登陆后页面成空白状。


  • Tips: You may see that error message “To view this page ensure that Adobe Flash Player version 11.5.0 or greater is installed. ” when you open vSphere Web Client 6.0 on IE 11 on Windows 8.1. The login fields still visible, but the page go to blank after you login.


  • 某日,vCenter Server突然无法搜索虚拟机了。在vSphere Client中搜索时会提示 Unable to connect to web services to execute query. Verify that the ‘VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices’ service is running on https://vCenter_Server_FQDN:10443。没过几个小时用户就开始抱怨vSphere Web Client也出问题了,总是提示错误 Client is not authenticated to VMware Inventory Service – https://Inventory_Service_FQDN:10443。


  • 在管理企业级活动目录时最好根据某个特殊属性来组织服务器。比如,服务器可以根据角色、部门、功能等放在不同的OU中。以下是一个vRO工作流例子,可以实现根据vRA中用户的选择把服务器创建在不同的OU中。以下是大概的步骤,不是特别详细,在读之前最好对vRO和vRA有所了解。


  • Best practices to manage enterprise Active Directory is organizing servers by particular properties.  For example, servers maybe put into different OU by role, business group or function…etc. Following is a vRO workflow sample to automate provisioning computers in proper OUs according to user choice in vRA Service Catalog. I’ll just give brief of each step…