Tips - Live Optics and Vmware 5.1.0 No SOAP response error

Live Optics permits collecting all Hypervisors and VM performance counters. 

https://www.liveoptics.com/about-live-optics/

Live Optics (Dell EMC) is an industry standard method of impartially documenting server/storage configuration and performance as well as observing file characteristics of data. 

This approach permits to analyse existing infrastructure and help decisions about upgrade or hardware renewal as well.

Consider that SAN Optics can be utilized to conduct health assessments on your Storage Area Networks. 

Here it isproblem that we faced (and succesfully fixed):

• We executed Live Optics software on a W2008 R2 Server related to a Vmware vCenter Server 5.1.0.
• Collecting was not working using administrator account as well.
• "LiveOptics_TroubleshootingTrace.txt" was showing these entries

2019-05-06Thh:mm:ss+02:00 SOAP Fault: ServerFaultCode: 

2019-05-06Thh:mm:ss+02:00 Fault detail type: 

ERROR: 2019-05-06Thh:mm:ss+02:00 No SOAP response!

• We opened a Live Optics ticket.
• Support confirmed us that problem was due to an error applicative side.
  This problem was fixed yesterday with below ne version

Live Optics 2.5.20.468497

Server - MAP Toolkit 9.8

Today I would like to mention the new MAP Toolkit version 9.8 availability.

This is a tool that helps organization:

• Assess their environment.
• To have software reporting status to generate usage report
• Track usage (O.S. & Sw) and preparing a migration to Windows Azure virtual machines.
• It helps increase the agility and cost effectiveness of deploying the latest Microsoft technologies

Here they are sw/o.s. that apply it:

1. Exchange Server 2016.
2. SharePoint Server 2016. 
3. Windows 10 and previous versions
4. Windows Server 2016 and previous versions.
5. Office 2016, Office 365 and previous versions.
6. It track usage of Windows Server 2012, SharePoint Server 2013, and Exchange Server 2013, 

Download and more details could be find here.

Here they are some screenshots: