The acquisition of VMware by Broadcom has been a wild ride! The EUC transformation to a standalone company called Omnissa marks a significant milestone for its users and the broader tech community. So I felt I should give my honest and personal opinion on what is changing and how I feel about it. This is my personal opinion and not […]
Introduction Nutanix Prism Central continues to evolve, providing administrators with cutting-edge tools to manage their IT infrastructure effectively. One of the standout features in the latest release, Prism Central 2024.1, is the revamped Identity and Access Management (IAM) interface. This update introduces a more independent and streamlined IAM system, enhancing usability and providing more granular control over user roles and […]
When upgrading recent versions of NVIDIA, I stumbled across an error I hadn’t seen before. And Google wasn’t really helpful, so I decided to make a quick blog about it myself. EDIT: it is mentioned in the NVIDIA user guide but for information on the vague error I will keep the blog up. I was upgrading a VDI cluster from […]
Horizon upgrades are usually straightforward: create a VDM backup and upgrade the primary connection server and you should be good to go. But recently I got a strange assembly error which took me down a loophole in figuring out what was happening. So some context, the customer was running a fairly simple deployment on Horizon 2111 and wanted to upgrade […]
I recently was involved in an escalation support case where a customer was experiencing issues with his vSAN stretched cluster. In combination with Horizon, the issue was that app stacks were unable to be mounted in a VDI during maintenance of the cluster. Some insights into the setup to better understand the architecture of the environment: 10-node vSAN stretched cluster […]
I recently had an issue with a customer where TrueSSO had expired certificates and Horizon was not seamlessly logging on to the users within their desktop. Their horizon administration had an error and indicated that their existing CA certificate was expired and needed to be renewed (unfortunately, I forgot to screenshot the admin console). When logging onto the enrollment servers […]
Microsoft O365 licensing and the costs associated with it can be a challenge for enterprises with a mix of users requiring different functionalities. Healthcare is a nice example of an enterprise that has multiple different users, and not all require the same functionalities and thus Microsoft Office licenses. I recently co-invented a solution together with one of my customers on […]
So I recently had the opportunity to do a webinar for VMware about something that I love, EUC, and combining this with a hybrid workspace! Today’s IT Admins, VI Admins, and IT managers face increasingly complex environments. This can be both from a business perspective (services, people) and from an IT standpoint: Cloud, modern applications, and digital transformation. In this […]
I recently had a customer complaining they had less available framebuffer on their NVIDIA vGPU than the specs indicated. As this is a question/remark that I frequently get from customers that invest in NVIDIA vGPU’s, I wanted to create a quick blog about it. Some additional details, the customer bought NVIDIA T4 GPUs with 16GB of the framebuffer. They were […]
Today, I had an issue with a customer that had problems with their HorizonApps Instant clones farm. While provisioning a new version of the image, it failed with the following error: Fault type is VC_FAULT_FATAL – A specified parameter was not correct: vm.ctkEnabled. The customer already mentioned that they found the following KB article: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/76280 But after applying the workaround […]