Thursday, September 19, 2013

XenDesktop 7, XenApp edition is missing XenApp 6.5 features

Turns out there are XenApp 6.5 features that are not available in XenDesktop 7, XenApp edition. Make sure your environment isn't dependent on some of these features. http://www.shaunritchie.co.uk/xenapp-6-5-vs-xendesktop-7-app-edition for a great table describing the differences.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Rapid vCenter Database growth

I ran into the following issue with a vCenter database. The DB had grown 25GB within a week. The vpx_event and vpx_even_arg tables were the primary growth contributors. When reviewing the Events side of the Tasks & Events tab in the vCenter console, there were a very high volume of logon and logoff events (3 per second). These events were all being created by a single antivirus scan VM, which was then rebuilt. After resolving the source of events, the database growth went negative.