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On a Virtual Center 4 update 1 installation I noticed an Perf Charts service error on the performance overview tab. The advanced performance tab is functioning as normal.

There are 3 VMware KBs related to this type of error:

• KB1009872
• KB1010172
• KB1013877

Unfortunately none of these solved my problem.

In virtual center U1 the configuration of the performance charts database has changed location. It’s now located in C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\tomcat\conf\Catalina\localhost\statsreport.xml.

VMware updated the KB article (KB1013877) in the mean time to reflect the changes in Update 1.

Carter Shanklin announced the winners of the contest.

1st prize: The guest provisioning system of LucD. This application lets you provision your VMs in an easy way. You can set the options from one screen no clicking around to configure everything manually.

2nd prize: VI Power Documenter by tzamora. This script generates reports about your virtual infrastructure.

3rd prize: PowerVDI script by Dan Baskette. It let you deploy multiple VDI instances on an EMC celera using snapshots and AD integration.

I’m sure there are other contributions that are very useful.

Congrats to the winners. Nice job guys.

VMware recently released a free version of ESXi. Ideal for people that are running their own little home-datacenter ;-)

Rich over at VM /ETC blog wrote a nice article discussing the limitations of this free version.

As for me, the hard disk controller on the motherboard of my test machine is not recognized. I could obviously buy an external one to build myselves an ESX whitebox but I’m sticking with Hyper-V for my virtualization needs for now.