Well this is a good thread. I thought it was just me doing something wrongly. I have had to roll back my 6.5s to 6.0 so I can use the thick client. As 6.0 is EOL is less than two years I supp...
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Well this is a good thread. I thought it was just me doing something wrongly. I have had to roll back my 6.5s to 6.0 so I can use the thick client. As 6.0 is EOL is less than two years I suppose I will have to look at alternatives. I wonder if VMware actually think they are "so big" that they cannot lose. I have been in this game a LONG time and remember: Zilog Digital Research Santa Cruz Operation Commodore Novell Word Perfect Lotus just to name a few. All of them basically dominated their part of the IT world. All of them made stupid decisions that pissed of their users. Where are they now?
Well it seems no one has a solution here. I did an experiment. vSphere 6.0 on a HPe DL360 gen10 As this runs both the thick and thin clients it seemed to be a good test. Thick, worked perfe...
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Well it seems no one has a solution here. I did an experiment. vSphere 6.0 on a HPe DL360 gen10 As this runs both the thick and thin clients it seemed to be a good test. Thick, worked perfectly very fast. Thin, terrible. very slow to the point of completely useless. Now I need to make a decision. If this cannot be fixed other than by setting up a very large number of vCenters all over the country then firstly I will have to downgrade all the 6.5s to 6.0 and then investigate what virtualisation system to use after 2020 when 6.0 becomes EOL because right now 6.5 is completely useless to me. I really do not want to change almost 100 systems but I am being backed into a corner. I really cannot believe that a company as large as VMWare could possibly do this although admittedly Microsoft made Vista....
Unfortunately that cannot be done. Australia has limited bandwidth outside the capital cities. It seems strange that the thick client works so well while the web client is so slow.
Ok answering questions so far. No vcentre at all. Each machine is a stand alone system owned by a customer and is accessed either by a GRE or IPSEC tunnel or on public IP that is firewalled to ...
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Ok answering questions so far. No vcentre at all. Each machine is a stand alone system owned by a customer and is accessed either by a GRE or IPSEC tunnel or on public IP that is firewalled to only allow connections from specific subnets. This is done to keep the privacy of the customers and to allow my people access from wherever they are at the time not just at their desks. All of the systems are built in our workshop and on gigabit network the speed is adequate but the same systems when attached to remotes are terrible.
I have a few esxi servers distributed around the country. The hardware is all HPe Gen 10 DL 380 and ML350 with lots of CPU and RAM When the systems are built at head off on the local lan the w...
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I have a few esxi servers distributed around the country. The hardware is all HPe Gen 10 DL 380 and ML350 with lots of CPU and RAM When the systems are built at head off on the local lan the web client login is almost instantaneous but once we deploy them out to site they are VERY slow Definition of slow: put IP into browser, it complains the cert is unsafe,continue, the screens goes blue, login appears Times between going blue and login: Windows 10 Explorer 11: 30min to 60min Opera: 5-10 min Chrome: 30 min Firefox 5-10 min Centos 6 Firefox 5-10min The connections are all about 1Mb/s and have worked perfectly for years with the fat clients. I have looked at the DNS and that seems ok. Licenses are mostly Essentials but I tried a Free one and also a "eval" and it is the same with all of them. There is obviously something I am missing but I have to solve this before the mass upgrade of all of the 5.5s
