Setting up the View 5 Event Database

One of the screens I find myself spending a lot of time in, especially when troubleshooting View 5 issues is the Events Monitoring Screen. Unfortunately it’s not created for you as part of the View 5 install. Instead, you have to realize its not created, and then go about creating it and logging the […]

Setting up ODBC for View 5 inside vCenter 5

Let’s do a quick recap of what we’ve done so far. 1st – we’ve installed Windows SQL 2008 R2 inside a Windows 2008 R2 server. 2nd – we’ve setup the VMware View 5 Database inside that SQL Server The next step of the View install is to go to vCenter and install VMware View […]

Creating View 5 Database in SQL Server 2008 R2

The last couple of weekends have afforded me some SERIOUS VMware Home Lab time and out of that is a few blog posts around what I’ve been up to. In one of my prior blog posts I spoke about my new home lab (still working on that blog) and my endeavor to install everything from […]

VMware View Backup Best Practices

Talk about your perfect timing. Hot off the presses last week was the very timely VMware View 5 Performance Best Practice Guide that I blogged about and then I see a tweet from Scott Sauer (@ssauer) about the new VMware View Backup Best Practices Deployment and Technical considerations guide. The funny part is I […]