With the upcoming release of VMware vSphere 5.5, there are a few neat platform scalability enhancements. The support for physical hardware has been doubled which… Read More »VMware vSphere 5.5 Configuration Maximums
Hewlett-Packard introduced a new component called HP Agentless Management within their Gen8 Series. This feature is extensible though an agent running inside the operating system, in that case the ESXi Host. The package (hp-ams) is included in all customized VMware images provided by HP and the HP ESXi Offline Bundles. Unfortunately this package create some issues caused by excessive local logins. This might pointlessly blow up the database and logfiles. You can check that problem by opening the Event-Log provided by the ESXi Host which is flooded with the following messages:
User root@127.0.0.1 logged in as User root@ logged out (login time: , number of API invocations: , user agent: ) User root@127.0.0.1 logged in as User root@ logged out (login time: , number of API invocations: , user agent: )
In this post i am going to show how to workaround this issue and remove the hp-ams from you ESXi Host, and how to build a new image without that package.
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A few days after VMware removed and unified all certification numbers (except VCDX) they made another long-awaited feature available. You are now able to download… Read More »VMware Certificate PDF Download