Working with vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) in a enterprise environment requires some kind of high availability and redundancy. Even vSphere HA would work for some small environments in a big one, where you expect a high number of operations, needs a clustered solution. Fortunately vRO7 supports that and now I will… Continue reading
VMware vSphere 6.5 is finally general available and everyone who wants can download and install on their dev/test/prod environments. I’ve been working with vCenter Server for many years, but always the preferred corporate platform was Windows, so I was using the windows based vCenter. With version 6.5 there are lots… Continue reading
Yesterday I did a plan upgrade of our 16-node (4 block) Nutanix 3050 cluster. The version which were running in last couple of months was 4.5.3.2 and the plan was to upgrade to 4.6.3. Using the GUI and the 1-click upgrade we took the following steps: I’ve Downloaded the upgrade… Continue reading
App Volumes is a real-time application delivery solution accuired by VMware recently from CloudVolumes. Personally for me it is not just this, but much more and I will try to show how it can be used in different scenarios and pool designs. I will start with how to install and configure the… Continue reading
It was more than a month waiting for general availability of VMware Horizon 7. What is new in the new suite you can find here. I’m not going through all details in the installation and configuration, but I will try to highlight the new features. Installation of the product is pretty… Continue reading
Recently we got access to a 16-node Nutanix cluster with vSphere on top of it. The datastore which was supposed to be used by us was created with Replication Factor 2 and we decided to create another one with RF=3, which provide higher level of data availability by keeping 3… Continue reading
Working on a solution for automating virtual desktop provisioning, I had to find a easy and fast way to add a user who will be able to access the desktop via RDP. I wanted this to be as simple as possible, so it could be easy for maintain and edit. Here… Continue reading
Following my first article about Installation and Basic Configuration of Runecast Analyzer appliance, it is time to go through all features and how we can use them in our day-to-day operational tasks. I am going to add a separate point for each of the Menus from the Runecast GUI interface.… Continue reading
…or how easy it is to know the status of your vSphere environment Six are the main benefits which Runecast could provide to your company: Save Time – IT guys will not have to read knowledge base articles and check if your environment is affected or not. No time will be… Continue reading
Horizon View 6.2 was release one day ago and definitely I didn’t expect to see any updates like this during this time in the year. This is the third update of the VMware’s VDI solution for this year after Horizon 6.1 and Horizon 6.1.1 As a VDI engineer responsible for design… Continue reading
