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VMware Update Manager and Scratch Partition

By Gerben On 13 April 2012 · Leave a Comment

A couple of weeks ago I came across a similar problem as in my previous post with update manager, this was a different problem however:

I took another shot at examining the logfiles of vCenter Update Manager on the vCenter Server aiming at confirming the issue with the metadata at “C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Update Manager\Logs”: [...]

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Scan failed with vCenter Update Manager

By Gerben On 13 April 2012 · 1 Comment

Some time ago I was at a customer who planned to rollout some patches using VMware vCenter Update Manager on ESXi hosts.

First scan went OK, but stage and remediate complained about not able to reach the download location. Next I ran down a simple checklist.

Does the host (or all) have [...]

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VMware vCenter Orchestrator classes coming to EMEA

By Gerben On 10 November 2011 · Leave a Comment

The coming months VMware Education Services will start to offer a training covering VMware vCenter orchestrator called “VMware vCenter Orchestrator: Develop Workflows [V4.1]” in EMEA.

This hands-on training course explores the use of VMware vCenter Orchestrator for the automation of IT processes, both physical and virtual.

This three day [...]

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Designing vSphere Platforms for Maximum Tier 1 Application Performance #BCA2817

By Gerben On 09 November 2011 · 1 Comment

On VMworld at Tuesday I attended the session “Designing vSphere Platforms for Maximum Tier 1 Application Performance #BCA2817” by Mark Achtemichuk and Reza Taheri. I summarized the key take aways from this session below:

vSphere version

When having the option, use at least vSphere 4.1 because of the major performance gain over earlier versions of [...]

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Dutch VMUG event 2011: December 9th 2011

By Gerben On 25 October 2011 · Leave a Comment

This year there will be another VMUG event in early December.

The Dutch VMUG event visitors will be offered 15 interesting breakout sessions, 3 workshops, an extensive solution exchange and a chance to meet peers amongst the Dutch VMware User Group. This all in one day!

The event will be held at [...]

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