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vCenter Operations Manager Packs I often been asked and also have to refer internally what does vCenter Operations Manager (vC Ops) support in terms of plugin or adapters to what 3rd parties functions or software (in this case they are call packs). During a search recently, I realize VMware Solution Exchange contains all these plugins or adapters and I thought I should just share this.  For vC Ops, you can go directly here.  You will be entitled to these adapters (any licensing requirements please check with specific vendors) depending on the vC Ops editions you own.  For only Advanced and Enterprise would have some free adapters for use and is classified in the page.  For Advanced, other than Hyperic and AWS, most of the adapters are related to Storage performance metrics. For Enterprise Edition, you will see more 3rd parties monitoring tools like SCOM, IBM Tivoli, TeamQuest, etc are available.  Also Enterprise Edition will be able to use Advanced adapters too....

vCenter 5 x using Oracle 11 2 0 3 Patch 10 or later vCenter Server 5.x does not function correctly when installed with Oracle 11.2.0.3 Patch 10 or later. When creating a VM you receive the below error messsage: " An internal error occurred in the vSphere Client. Details: Object reference not set to an instance of an object." This is an alert been raised to customer using Oracle 11.2.0.3 for their vCenter database not to upgrade Oracle patch 10 or later to avoid any issues. If the customer has already upgraded and encountered this issue, the only option is to roll back to pre-patch backup versions of the database. There is currently no resolution.  You can refer to the KB below. http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2039874 download  file  now

vCenter SQL maintenance plan As vCenter becomes more integrated with a number of products and services, the need to keep it protected from failure becomes greater. Often times I am asked on ways to protect vCenter, but in my opinion there are two pieces to this question: the application (vCenter Server) and the database. Protecting the application isn�t all that difficult � just using periodic clones can often be enough to solve this problem, or even a quick deployment of the application onto a blank template. To me, the more essential piece is the database. It contains a lot of information on the environment (including object annotations, which are often used by administrators to record important values). There are many solutions available to protect SQL databases, but often require additional 3rd party software (Red Gate, Veeam) or licensing (SQL Mirroring / Clustering). In my recent SQL database protection posts, I�m mostly focusing on the �free� methods to protect vCenter using wh...

vCenter Standard and Foundation Enforcement on vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus This brought to my attention thanks to my colleague, Tessa Davis. Previously I mentioned on the different editions of vCenter here.  I did mentioned about the limitation of vCenter Standard and Foundation used to manage Essential and Essential is not possible due to End User Licensing Agreement (EULA).  However starting from vCenter 5.0 Update 1, this EULA enforcement is also a programmatic enforcement.  If you refer to vCenter 5.0 Update 1 release notes here, you will see the below: vCenter now enforces restrictions on which vSphere editions can be managed by vCenter With this feature, vCenter Standard and Foundation is disallowed from managing vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus host editions. This is disallowed per the EULA already, but was not programmatically enforced until now. The exception to this rule is the �Essentials for ROBO� edition. This is still allowed per the EULA an...