by Jan Schwoebel
With vSphere 6, VMware introduced ESXi Account Lockout / ESXi Password Policy.
Two new settings are now available under the ESXi Host Advanced System Settings page:
In ESXi 6.0, VMware introduced the DCUI idle timeout. You can modify DCUI idle timeout via the Direct User Console Interface. You can specify the number of idle minutes that can elapse before you must log in again in DCUI.
Set the DCUI idle timeout to zero to disable it. The maximum value for the idle timeout is 1440 ~ 23.3hrs.
Yesterday, VMware released ESXi 6.0 Patch 1.
The new version is called ESXi 6.0.0b and includes more than 40 bug fixes in 10 different areas incl. VSAN.
Some of the fixes included in this patch release are:
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How to speed up your Horizon View operations, you might ask? Well, you don’t have to buy an all-flash storage system or beef up your ESX hosts.
VMware Horizon View Administrator has some settings on max concurrent operations with vCenter and VMware View Composer. Increasing some of those settings can decrease the time of those operations, however when decreasing those settings, you can limit the amount of IOPs pushed to your underlying storage system, too.
One of the many features in VMware vSphere, which I didn’t know, is the capability, to limit IOPs per VMDK without setting any limitations on the underlying storage system or for the whole Virtual Machine.
As you can see on the image above, it is easy to limit the IOPs per VMDK within the vSphere web-client.
Just browse to your Virtual Machine and go to edit settings. Select the “Hard drive”, which you would limit on IOPs and expand it.
Note: By default, all VMDKs are set to unlimited IOPs.