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Horizon – One Golden Image, multiple Desktop Pools

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How to reduce the overhead of managing multiple Desktop Pools under Horizon? This is the question that everyone asks when they have multiple Desktop Pools serving multiple customers and one Golden Image for each of them. Answer to this question is very simple, multiple snapshots on the same Golden Image.… Continue reading

Persistent Static Routes on VCSA 6.5

Recently I updated a clients environment from vCenter Appliance 6.0U3 to 6.5U2. Until version 6.5 of VCSA, the operating system dispatched with the Appliance was SUSE, with VCSA 6.5 you get the new open source minimal Linux container host optimized, Photon OS. With VCSA 6.5 embedded VUM there was the need to enable… Continue reading

vSphere Data Protection not accessible after upgrade to 6.1.6

After following the procedure to upgrade vSphere Data Protection 6.1.4 to 6.1.6 I lost access to it using vCenter plugin with the following error message:   The first thing that I checked was the services of vSphere Data Protection appliance Everything green… what now? vSphere Data Protection is working only vCenter plugin is not… Continue reading

Google Chrome crashes with vSphere Web Client 6.x

A lot has been written in the last few days about the Shockwave Flash crashing when using vSphere Web Client 6.x VMware produced KB2151945 on how to workaround the problem, yes a workaround, because until now there is no resolution for the problem. Until now nothing new, just follow the KB… Continue reading