VMware VSA 5.1.1.0 License Expired
Well today a customer called screaming out that the VSA's license has expired (although the key's were installed upon installation), so I logged in to vCenter via vSphere Client and vSphere Web Client and a nice "Expired" can be noticed.
Note that the environment is still up and running and all the virtual machines that were residing on the VSA were fully functional "but the panic is understood" as the administrator was just seeing that his environment will go down at anytime ^_^ (how adequate).
So enough sarcasm, I delved more into the appliance and I clicked on the about and you're correct the VSA showed its active license without any issues.
When I made sure that the production environment was intact, I opened a case with VMware's support concerning this matter and they concluded that this is a bug and it will be fixed in the next update.
So, vSphere 5.1 update 1 has been released along with it VSA 5.1.3.0 although the [vSphere 5.1 update 1 release notes] doesn't mention anything about the issue, I will create a quick lab and I will update this post if this is fixed or not.
Update 31/05/2013: Nope it's not fixed in 5.1.3.0 and it still shows as expired :(...
(Abdullah)^2
vOpenData
vOpenData is a passionate project towards the greater good of the virtual community, just download the script and upload your data and see the beauty of the dashboard as it grows.
On the other hand you can download this little piece of graphics which I created and upload it to your website or BLOG help growing this project, again this is a community driven project :).
URL: http://notes.doodzzz.net/v/vOpenData.rar
(Abdullah)^2
HP t140 AIO Connection Manager and VMware Horizon View
When testing VMware View via HP's Connection Manager with USB-to-Serial converters for some reason when connecting the USB printing device is kept with the thin client and not forwarded to the VDI virtual machine.
Sad enough to say that this has caused me havoc to troubleshoot I figured out a workaround to it:
- Put the Thin Client in administrative mode.
- First edit the connections and create a shortcut of the VMware View connection on the desktop.
- Go to the additional options and open the linux shell.
- Now in the shell, go to /home/user/Desktop
- Type ls and you will find a shortcut starting with a { and ending with a }.desktop.
- Type VI shortcut.desktop and using the keyboard arrows go down to the attribute "Exec" (VI Quick Reference)
- Delete everything after Exec=.
- Type: /usr/bin/vmware-view -s view-connection-server
- Type shift+: then wq!
- Now you're set, just double click the icon on the desktop you're ready to go.
Hope this helps anyone who faced this issue.
Regards,
(Abdullah)^2
Long time no see doOdzZZy :(
Hello and I will be short on this, first I am sorry for not blogging recently but I'm really going under a lot of pressure at work. I'm handling more than 10 projects simultaneously varying from small, medium to large scale deployments of more than a solution.
Hopefully I haven't disappointed you but I'm barely able to sleep, thank you for understanding and keep a keen eye on this blog because I will post a couple of cool things that happened along the road of the implementing these projects.
Much thanks :),
(Abdullah)^2
vSphere-Land 2013 top VMware & virtualization blog voting results
Hello everyone, sorry I've been off-blogging due to massive projects and I have started teaching my first Microsoft Exchange 2010 class ^_^ so I am in a mess right now. Any way yesterday the the results of the vote from vSphere-Land came out (thanks to Eric Siebert) and for my surprise my blog got LISTED *a huge wide smile*.
For my first year this is really an indulgence, really I didn't expect my blog to pop, I was ranked 237 in the overall results, and I was ranked 18th for the Favorite New Blog section.
I am very grateful for all of the people who voted for my, hopefully I will be able to keep up the pace and be informative and helpful as possible :).
To view the results please visit vSphere-Land, also I've attached a screenshot to feast my eyes every time I look at this post ;-).
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