Monthly Archives: June 2016

Right-Sizing SSO Domain

In a previous post, I lamented over whether a SSO domain should be big or small. I gave various pros and cons for having it either way, but I wanted to discuss how to try to design your SSO domain to be the right size (whether that is large or small) for your environment. One… Read More »

SQL Statements to resolve “VM Renamed Using PowerCLI Reverts to Original Name After vCenter Restart”

This is a follow-up to my last blog post. In the KB, VMware states that the issue is resolved in vCenter 6.0u2 but that if you still see the issue you will need to look at the database tables. My user informed today that the issue re-occurred after vCenter was patched over the weekend. I… Read More »

New-tagcategory Cannot find a service registration for vCenter service with host name XXXX

I have been trying to test creating some new tag categories after my recent vCenter upgrades. I hit two snags: 1) In PowerCLI I was getting an error about connecting to inventory service on local host (localhost:10089/invsvc I believe). This was remedied by upgrading PowerCLI to 6.x (I went to 6.3R1) 2) Next error w… Read More »