Sunday, April 27, 2014

vSphere Web Client Timeout Value

By default, vSphere Web Client sessions terminate after 120 minutes of idle time. You can change the timeout value by editing the webclient.properties file. 1. On the vSphere Web Client Server, locate the webclient.properties file. The location of this file depends on the...
    

Configure Default VM Compatibility Setting

The compatibility setting for a VM provides information about the host, Cluster or Datacenter the VM is compatible with.  The VM Summary tab displays the compatibility for the VM. Using vSphere Web Client we can view and configure the default compatibility setting for a VM at the Host...
    

ESXi 5.5 Hypervisor Enhancements

Hot-Pluggable SSD PCI Express Device: Users are able to hot-add or hot-remove an SSD device while a vSphere host is running, and the underlying storage stack detects the operation.Support for Reliable Memory Technology:  To provide reliability and great uptime for ESXi Hypervisor, vSphere...
    

Multipathing Policy through PowerCLI

To retrieve Multipath Policy of all devices connected with particular host. Get-ScsiLun –vmhost esxi01.vclass.local –LunType disk To view the Canonical Name of SCSI devices Get-ScsiLun –VmHost esxi01.vclass.local –LunType disk | select CanonicalName copy the Canonical Name of device which need...
    

Virtual Hardware version 10

What’s New in Virtual Hardware version 10, Yes there are few virtual hardware enhancements to virtual hardware 10: 1. LSI Logic SAS now supports Solaris 11 Guest Operating System. 2. New SATA controller, with which we can have 30 devices per controller (earlier which was only 15) and up to 4 controllers gives us a new maximum of 120 devices. 3. Support for additional vGPUs, In vSphere...