When trying to browse the performance overview tab in the vSphere client you may get an error stating “This program cannot display the webpage” but at the same time, however, the advanced tab works fine.

Luckily, as vinf.net point out, this is pretty simple to fix. The cause of the problem is that the VMware Virtual Centre Management Webservices service is not running on the vCentre management server.

To fix the problem simply re-start the service manually on the windows server that has the vCentre management software installed on it.

After upgrading the company vSphere environment to ESX5 hosts with only relatively small USB SSD drives for internal storage I was greeted with the message System logging is not configured on host… when I first logged into the hosts using the new vSphere client.

Thanks to vmforsp for explaining that this can be resolved by adding the value “[] /scratch/log2 to the logDir variable in the hosts Configuration Tab>Software>Advanced Settings>Syslog>Global page as long as the SSDs have more than 1mb of available free space after installation.

Thanks to netlife for the following lifesaver when I was asked by a client to enable viewing of their own extranet sites via it’s external DNS address while the site was hosted in the same environment their own client PCs were. This caused complications as all external DNS servers, correctly, resolved the extranet.client.com address to the external IP address the client PCs were using for WAN access. This caused the page to fail to display as network traffic went out and back in on itself. I needed extranet.client.com to point to an internal IP address for internal users while still resolving to the external IP for external users and not effect the use of www.client.com for internal users which is hosted elsewhere:

A full solution is available after the jump:

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Thankfully I’m amongst the lucky few who have a PC capable of playing this year’s most hyped game. Imagine my disappointment though when I first tried to run the game and nothing happened. No error, no window appearing quickly on screen before disappearing, no new processes shown in task manager – nothing!

After a lot of confusion I soon found the fix courtery a Kneg at toytowngermany.com.

All that’s needed is to remove the small TM from the end of the folder name which battlefield is installed to and the game runs perfectly from then on.

While struggling to fix the FIFA problem described in my previous post I ventured back to the world of PES to see what had changed since I last played it back in 2008. It seems one thing that has changed is it doesn’t like users having their My Documents folders redirected to a network share.

The game itself was fine at first and I was able to begin getting into a new masters league session. When it came to saving the game and quitting for the day though I was greeted with the following error:

Unable to access hard disk – Reselect hard disk

Thanks to Heathen_666 at the PESFan forum I found the solution was quite simply to create a Konami folder within my documents folder. Inside the Konami folder create a Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 folder, return to the game and try to save again.

According to the EA forum it seems I wasn’t the only one to find this years incarnation of the FIFA franchise unplayable when I first installed it. Despite my PC being well above the minimum spec I regularly found the game freezing for a second or two at random intervals. This wasn’t the same experience as frames dropping, the game actually stopped before carrying on where it left off only moments later as if nothing happened yet at all other times the frame rate was perfect. This occurred repeatedly through each match making it infuriating to play.

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