During maintenance on a customer’s VMware VMC on AWS environment, I had an upgrade error with the VMware HCX server mesh appliances. And this was something that was not really documented online, so I wanted to blog about it. During the upgrade of the VMware HCX service mesh, I got an error. The initial HCX Cloud and Enterprise appliance did […]
Continuing our VCAP7-DTM design study guide, we will continue with section 4: physical storage design. In sections 1 to 3 of the blueprint, we started with the logical and conceptual designs of the VMware methodology. Based on this we created the physical design, which should contain all building blocks that are going to be used for that specific use-case. Based […]
When redeploying my Horizon lab today, I encountered a strange issue when configuring the identity manager. I tried to add my active directory into Identity Manager (IDM), but got the following error: “Connector communication failed because of invalid data: Invalid token suite“. The deployment of my lab was pretty straight forward as in 1 connection server, 1 IDM appliance and […]
In the previous post of our VCAP7-DTM design study guide, we discussed sections 1 and 2 of the blueprint. These were logical and conceptual designs of the VMware methodology. Now based on these, we will continue our design and start with the physical part of the designing process. Once more, designing a solution for a customer is an agile process. […]
Two weeks ago, Nutanix released its new AoS version 5.11. This release has many new features. The introduction of these features is definitely worth looking into. During this post, I will explain the Nutanix Storage QoS feature. Within the next weeks, I hope to find some time to look into more new features. Storage QoS explanation Nutanix Storage QoS allows […]
I recently passed my VCAP7-DTM Design (3V0-752) at VMware Empower 2019 in Lisbon and wanted to share my experiences and give you some advice on a small VCAP7-DTM Design study guide. As I recently passed the VCP-DTM 2019 exam, I thought the VCAP exam would be similar but this was not the case. It was a difficult exam that tested […]
Last week, a customer of mine asked me to take a look at an issue where their in-house WPF application was not using hardware acceleration with NVIDIA GRID. The outcome of the troubleshooting gave me a lot of new insights and I was able to resolve and validate WPF related issues. First, let me give some background information involving the […]
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about configuring Onedrive for a Horizon VDI/RDS deployment with VMware UEM. While the guide was a good and flexible way of configuring OneDrive for specific users. The setup had one major drawback being the Onedrive Installation was done in user context and not machine based. Meaning when a user logged onto the […]
This is part 2 of “Configuring LACP on VMware ESXi”, If you did not yet read part 1, we highly suggest doing so. In the previous post, we made a step by step approach on how to configure the LAG on VMware vCenter. In this blog, we will be continue our configuration on the physical switch and show validation and […]
While LACP on VMware ESXi has been around for a while, I noticed that many of our customers do not like to implement this feature in their environment. Reasons vary between, complexity, incorrect understanding on the ‘added value’ and many more. Because of these reasons, I had a discussion on this topic with my colleague and co-blogger Jens. As a […]