SHIFT-WIKI - Sjoerd Hooft's InFormation Technology
This WIKI is my personal documentation blog. Please enjoy it and feel free to reach out through blue sky if you have a question, remark, improvement or observation. See below for the latest additions, or use the search or tags to browse for content.
Virtual SCSI
Summary: How to configure virtual SCSI on a virtual IO server on an AIX managed system.
Date: Around 2012
Refactor: 1 May 2025: Checked links and formatting.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager
Summary: How to install and configure VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.7.1.
Date: Around 2013
Refactor: 29 April 2025: Checked links and formatting.
This article will show a complete overview of the installation and a not-complete overview of additional configuration of VMware vCenter Operations Manager, also known as vCOPs.
The goal is to install vCOPs 5.7.1 and to get to a level that it is fully functional. Note that this article is based on the Virtual Appliance of vCOPs. Also note that you need a license to have the standard version running. You can run vCOPs without a license, but then you'll run the Foundation level which is far less advanced and had a lot fewer options. This page is about the standard edition. See this page for more information regarding the different versions.
Design considerations: VMware Operations Manager will need licenses for all objects is has access to. If parts of the environment needs to be excluded due to design or license considerations this needs te be configured up front. The only way to do so is to NOT assign read permissions to the excluded resources. See here for more information.
This is the overall view, a lot of information but still very clear:
VMware vCenter Installation
Summary: How to install vmware VirtualCenter.
Date: Around 2008
Refactor: 29 April 2025: Checked links and formatting.
This is the installation of VMware VirtualCenter on Windows Server 2008 Standard SP2 64 bits. Installed like Windows Server 2008.
vCenter 5.1 Database Agent Jobs
Summary: How to troubleshoot the vCenter 5.1 Database Agent Jobs.
Date: Around 2013
Refactor: 29 April 2025: Checked links and formatting. \\}
After the upgrade from vCenter 5.1 GA to release 5.1.0b and moving vCenter to a new server we had a small issue with the vCenter database agent jobs, as we had this error:
Could not find stored procedure 'purge_stat1_proc'. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 2812). The step failed.
This caused me to look a little bit more into the database agent jobs.