The data service timed out because a back-end task took more than 120

Today I received error on my vm summary page in Vsphere web client: The data service timed out because a back-end task took more than 120 seconds. See the vsphere-client-virgo.log for more details.

Just before that I removed a test vcenter server, which was connected to my PSC  on production Vsphere instance.

You need to remove a stale vCenter Server from your SSO environment, use the cmsso-util. It may takes a long time but does the job.

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VMware Horizon View Auto-Connection Utility

There is new useful utility on VMware Labs for VMware Horizon View administrators which helps them to connect the VMware View Client automatically into a View desktop or an application pool when the system starts up. This can be very useful for thin clients or for turning existing Windows endpoints into thin client systems used to automatically connect into a View desktop.

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Upgrading to VMware Virtual SAN 6.0

Last time I described how to build test environment for vSAN 5.5 on one physical server. Today I want try to update VMWare vSAN 5.5 to vSAN 6.0.  After that I will upgrade vSAN in Production.

So we have our test environment with nested esxi virtual hosts. We have updated hosts and vCenter to 6.0. And see notification on our vSAN cluster.

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