Horizon View Administrator displays a blank error window
After upgrading to VMware Horizon View 7, the administrator webpage displays a blank error window when trying to connect using the IP address of the Connection Server.
Log Insight 3.3: Agent Improvements
Log Insight 3.3 brings some new features to the Log Insight agent. In this post I would like to cover the improvements. Read on to learn more!
vSphere 6.5 Web Client – Free Preview Released by VMware Labs
VMware labs released a free vSphere 6.5 Web Client (or if you want vSphere HTML5 Web Client) is a free preview (Fling) of a vSphere client which is compatible HTML5 and Javascript. We’re supposing that we’ll find the finished product in vSphere 6.5, but we’re not sure about that. Some news about the future release of vSphere are known already but nothing is sure just yet. The vSphere Web client product shall be rapidly following the same (fast) development cycles as the ESXi Host client.
Handy RVTools – Latest Version: 3.8
VMware Administrators can’t live without Pizza & Beer – is this True ?? May be not But they can’t generate full Inventory report of VMware Infrastructure without RVTools.
VMware Virtual SAN Automated Deployments with PowerCLI
With the new release of Virtual SAN 6.2, the engineering teams have made significant efforts on increasing the product’s interoperability with Command Line tools, and deliver accessible APIs for just about everything on the product.
Recent ESXi 6 Storage Bugs and the FlashArray
As you might be aware, there have been a few storage-related issues with ESXi 6.0 as of late: Accidental PDL during dropped paths: Storage PDL responses may not trigger path failover in vSphere 6.0 (2144657) Host issues during smartd inquiries: Issuing a 0x85 SCSI Command from a VMware ESXi 6.0 host results in a PDL error (2133286) The question that comes up for the Pure Storage FlashArray is are we susceptible? The short answer is no. Let’s explain why.
Compare and Contrast – VSAN and VVols (via CormacHogan.com)
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to meet with a number of VMware customers in both Singapore and in the UAE. Most of the sessions were enablement and education type sessions, where there was a lot of white-boarding of VSAN (VMware’s hyper-converged infrastructure product) and Virtual Volumes (VVols – Software Defined Storage or SDS for the storage arrays). This wasn’t a sales session; I’m not in sales. The objective of these sessions was simply to educate. I guess when you are immersed in this stuff 24×7, it easy to fall into the trap of believing that everyone is well versed in this technology, and that’s simply not the case.
PowerCLI: Enable/Disable the VM Hot Add features
Since the release of vSphere, you are able to Hot Add memory and vCPU. Quote from the VMware website: Virtual Machine Hot Add Support— The new virtual hardware introduced in ESX/ESXi 4.0 supports hot plug for virtual devices and supports addition of virtual CPUs and memory to a virtual machine without powering off the virtual machine. See the Guest Operating System Installation Guide for the list of operating systems for which this functionality is supported. So I wanted to see, if I was able to enable/disable this settings via PowerCLI and came up with a couple of functions.
Log Insight 3.3 Licensing (via Michael Ryom)
Log Insight 3.3 has been released, if you haven’t seen all the new and awesome stuff in there, go check it out the release notes here and the what’s new blog post over at blogs.vmware.com here.
Virtual SAN 6.2 – Deduplication And Compression Deep Dive
Virtual SAN 6.2 introduced several highly anticipated product features and in this blog, we’ll focus on some of the coolest ones: Dedupe & Compression. These features were requested by VMware customers and I am glad that we listened to the customer. When talking about Dedupe and Compression, one first needs to determine why an organization would want to use Dedupe & Compression and what these features actually do.
NSX Bytes: Controller Deployment Gone Bad?
With NSX becoming more and more widely available there are more NSX home labs being stood up and with that the chances of the NSX Controllers failing due to “Home Lab” nested issues become more prevalent. The NSX Controllers are Ubuntu Linux VMs and like any Linux VM are fairly sensitive to storage latency and other issues that appear in #NestedESXi or lab environments.
VCP6-DTM Objective 6.3 – Manage VMware Workspace Portal
Horizon Workspace config and manage. Like other VMware products, Workspace is evolving. The curent release 2.1 shall be updated with upcoming Workspace one that we reported already and which will be integrated with Horizon 7 and Cloud Volumes 3.0. But today we (still) focusing on VMware certification exam for desktop and mobility: VCP6-DTM Objective 6.3 – Manage VMware Workspace Portal.
VMware NSX: 3 different use cases (via TechRepublic)
VMware’s NSX is one of the most-popular options for network virtualization. Here’s how three companies are using it to power their businesses.
Deploy VMware View Access Point the easy way
In my final part in my series on Implementing a VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with Horizon View 6.2 I showed how to deploy the View Access Point using ovftool. However, thanks to Chris Halstead there is an easier way. He has developed a tool to take the pain out of the deployment.
Introducing VMware User Environment Manager Configuration Templates
Last week, we launched VMware User Environment Manager 9.0 (UEM), with many new features that will help deliver a truly stateless desktop and eliminate the need for point products.
Preliminary Sizing Tests for Horizon 6 for Linux
In response to a growing demand in China for small-scale Linux VDI implementations, our End-User-Computing Technical-Marketing Center of Excellence team in Beijing ran a series of tests, as documented by Judy Wu in our new VMware Horizon 6 for Linux: Preliminary Sizing Tests white paper.
What’s new in VMware User Environment Manager 9.0
Earlier this month VMware released a new version of User Environment Manager that brings some new and exciting features, not only to User Environment Manager, but also to the Horizon Suite. To learn about the new features in Horizon 7 you can see my blog here. Here, I would like to highlight the new main features of VMware User Environment Manager 9.0
Using PowerCLI to build multiple VMs
My first script that I ever wrote was a script to build VMs. I was the newest member on the team, and i was giving the task of building 50 VMs for a new project that was getting started. It was a very daunting task, due to the completion date to have these 50 VMs to be completed. So one of the other members of the team told me about PowerCLI, but didn’t have any knowledge about it.
NSX Everywhere: Virtual Networking for All Platforms
VMware NSX manages any virtualized networking environment with speed, agility, and security. In this video, hear from VMware CTSO Guido Appenzeller and see NSX in action in real time.
Why Should CIOs Invest in Network Virtualization with VMware NSX?
Data-center virtualization is nearly all-encompassing by now. Most corporations have achieved a compute virtualization rate of over 80%. Only very few workloads remain on physical hardware instead of being handled by a virtual machine, and usually that’s because of very specialized requirements of the applications themselves. Storage is following closely behind.
