Author Archives: Mariusz

About Mariusz

Architect (~ 15 years experience based on passion...) with strong background as a System Administrator and Engineer. Focused on Data Center Solutions: Virtualization/Cloud Computing and Storage/Backup Systems. Currently living in Poland.

Problem with vCops admin password.

Yesterday my customer called me because he wanted to upgrade vCOPS from 5.8.1 to 5.8.3. To do it, it is necessary to log in admin page (https://vcops_ip/admin). Unfortunately he couldn't log in. He got an error: The user ID and password combination is invalid. Please try again. It was really curious because we could log… Read More »

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u201c' in position 428: ordinal not in range(128) during VMware Workstation installation

I've decided to "return" to use VMware Workstation because I used Oracle VirtualBox for some years and this is a time for changes! Ok, the main reason is that I can connect to vCenter by VMware Workstation 😉 An installation of VMware Workstation is pretty easy but it didn't want to work 🙂 I got… Read More »

vCenter Log Insight – integration with vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS)

In this article I will show how to integrate vCOPS with vCenter Log Insight. You can configure Log Insight to send alert notifications to vCenter Operations Manager (I recommend to upgrade vCOPS to vROps. Please follow post: How to upgrade vCOPS to vRealize Operations Manager) so it allows you to view all information about your… Read More »