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This video shows you how to setup the vCenter Operations Manager Standard also known as VCOPS. You will first need to download the .ova vApp from VMware and sign up for a trial license. The following credential will be needed: Web console ID & Password: admin, admin VCOPS vApp ID & Password: root, vmware Note: To return to the Standard Administration Page to set SMTP, view/collect logs, change admin password, etc. https:// /adminMain.action This mark my last post for 2011.  A Happy New Year to all! VMware has release a new version of vCenter Operation Manager 5.0.  Installation and configuration setup can be view below from VMwareTV.

I am very new to vCloud Director and in such have a hard time learning how to install this.  I have to rely on reading the installation guide but this cannot beat anything that have been written by someone who have gone through the installation and listed down some of the requirements.  This was all done in my home lab in such, the FQDN here may not apply for production case. I am no linux nor oracle expert so I am going to stick most of my work on Windows wherever possible.  As vCD has released to 1.5 that comes with SQL support, I am lucky that I can drop oracle completely.  As for the requirement for linux, I have used RHEL 5.5. Do not that RHEL is supported for 5.4, 5.5 and 5.6 also know as RHEL 5 update 4 to update 6. Here are some of the reference I used to get my vCloud Director working. Installation of vCD on RHEL (vCloud Director 1.5 Installation Guide, Pg 26-17) Installing vCloud Director 1.5 on SQL 2008 (vCloud Director 1.5 Installa...

Date: 17 Dec 2011 Time: 1:24PM Just receive the user trial set of the Samsung Galaxy Note.  There are only 100 users and I was lucky to sign up as one of them.  There is only the  Dark Blue/Black set.  How I wish it could be the white set.  There was no included microSD card in this set.   I did a factory reset as it was loaded with Samsung own customization of screensavers and apps and some calendar entries.  To start the review I did a full factory reset for a clean start. All the pictures of the Galaxy Note is taken with my iPhone 3GS.  I will show the pictures from Galaxy Note later to let you do the comparison. To start with brief specification introduction of Samsung Galaxy Note. Mobile Network: HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 Processor: Dual-core 1.4 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 GPU: Mali-400MPaass Memory: 1 GB RAM Insternal Storage: 16GB/32GB storage (mine is a 16GB) Dimension: 146.9 x 83 x 9.7 mm W eight: 178g D...

View 5 has just launched and there are many who are concern on the performance tuning and various enhancements which are not really mentioned. I will not go into details but rather place some of the good white papers that most of us might be interested in. Will not be listing those applicable  only to View 4.x but those will apply to View 5.x will be listed and will overwrite those that are updated to View 5.x. Performance & Best Practice VMware View 5 Performance and Best Practices VMware View Backup Best Practices Others Validating Adobe Connect Client on VMware® View Desktops VMware View Optimization Guide for Windows 7 PCoIP Display Protocol: Information and Scenario-Based Network Sizing Guide How to Optmize the Master Desktop Image for VMware View

vSphere 5 has just launched and there are many who are concern on the performance tuning and various enhancements which are not really mentioned. I will not go into details but rather place some of the good white papers that most of us might be interested in. Do note of this WARNING when managing Hybrid environment ESXi 4.0 U2 not compatible with vCenter Server 5.0 When attempting to manage an ESXi 4.0 Update 2 host with vCenter Server 5.0, a purple diagnostics screen appears. To workaround the issue, upgrade ESXi 4.0 Update 2 hosts to ESXi 4.0 Update 3 or later, prior to upgrading vCenter Server to 5.0. For more information, see the article linked below. Article 2007269 Performance vSphere High Availability Deployment Best Practices Storage vMotion of a Virtualized SQL Server Database Best Practices for Performance Tuning of Latency-Sens...

I was trying to find any article or videos or any help of steps or guide when I encounter setting up of the SQL database for vCenter 5.  I was surprise there wasn't much around.  The closest I got was from Jason Boche . I mean if I were to just assigned DBO to both MSDN and the vCenter DB for the easy way out.  However as security and user rights has become a concern at many customers' requirement.  I tried going through the installation guide to setup database with just enough rights but no DBO. The bad thing is its a lot of work to do it manually following the guide.  The good news is VMware has provided the script however some work need to be done to customize to your own needs. Here my setup is on Windows 2008 R2 with SQL Server 2008 R2. For MSDB, you can assign the DBO directly instead and remove it after installing vCenter and Update Manager.  Yes you hear me.  Do not remove the DBO rights on the vCenter user till you are done wit...