Tagged: VMware

PC Reuse for VDI with Lockdown Policies 0

PC Reuse for VDI with Lockdown Policies

Almost on every VDI implementation you’ll be asked to configure the old desktops to be reused as Thin Clients or Terminals as I like to call them (the word Terminal is just more geeky...

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: Installing vCenter Server Heartbeat v6.6 0

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: Installing vCenter Server Heartbeat v6.6

This is a product that really is not given its proper credits, by customers at least whom do not see paying a bunch of k$s to protect their vCenter server properly, any way we...

VCAP5-DTA: Section 1: Objective 1.1 0

VCAP5-DTA: Section 1: Objective 1.1

[Section 1 – Deploy View Installations and Upgrade Existing Deployments] Objective 1.1 – Deploy Highly Available View Installations: Configure highly available connectivity to the View environment Configure stateful and stateless load balancing for a...

VCAP5-DTA: Introduction to the blueprint 0

VCAP5-DTA: Introduction to the blueprint

Well it seems that the VCAP-DCD needs to wait a bit because I just couldn’t help shifting my attention to VCAP5-DTA, in this series of blogs I will be going through the blueprint as...

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VSA Appliance root access! Why? 0

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VSA Appliance root access! Why?

Sometimes you get odd requests from customers but usually they have a valid argument, in this case a customer had an intelligent UPS which performs a soft shutdown of the virtual machines in case...

VMware Horizon View 5.x: Load Balancing Connection Servers 0

VMware Horizon View 5.x: Load Balancing Connection Servers

The topic itself is intriguing and is open to more than a couple of hours discussion, but on the other hand we can briefly and smoothly delve into the options and we’ll end up...

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: Replace a vSphere Storage Appliance (5.5) 0

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: Replace a vSphere Storage Appliance (5.5)

I was troubleshooting at a customer’s site and I found out that one of the appliances for some reason is corrupt from a configuration perspective, the cluster would always see the appliance offline when...