Hello to all fans of virtualization technologies, I have prepared short overview of vCloud Connector solution and how it works with vCloud Air. Same can be used to move or copy workload between OnPrem vCenter and vCloud Director, or between two vCenters or two vCloud directors. Connection that is established… Continue reading
New issue was discovered which may result in corrupted backups leveraging vSphere CBT (Change Block Tracking) for incremental backups. Basically all backup products which use VMware API for Backups ( Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) )are affected. This issue occurs when you expand a virtual disk vmdk file which has… Continue reading
If you decided to go with disk mirroring inside your guest operating system across two SAN LUNs for whatever reason (e.g. you want to bring another level of the protection for your application and your SAN environment does not support “stretch cluster” implementation, no support for synchronous mirroring, budget constrains… Continue reading
If Virtualism were a religion, then VMworld would be its Mecca. Being devoted Virtualists, we could not miss such a holy gathering. Most of us flew to Barcelona in October 2014 to participate in the event. For us this VMworld is special, because it is the first one since TheVirtualist… Continue reading
It happened several times that I needed to have some kind of a validation checklist after the vSphere installation. I decided to put together all my notes and collect the specific steps and configurations to be tested in the validation process for VMware Infrastructure. The goal is to quantify the… Continue reading
As we have already mentioned in our previous article it is possible to use a windows server providing Terminal Services as a source for a View Desktop Pool. At this article we are going to do a basic configuration of terminal services role, View agent installation and Terminal Service pool creation.… Continue reading
After Installing VMware Horizon View series followed by the Basic Configuration guide we can go ahead and create our first Linked-Clone pool. For a source (golden image) of our first pool we must have an optimized virtual machine managed by the same vCenter server registered in View Connection servers. We also must… Continue reading
For small and remote branch offices I was looking for a Replacement of VMware VSA. Our architecture decision for small remote branch office was to use VMware VSA, but it was discontinued and it is not possible to order it anymore. End of Availability VMware is announcing the End of Availability… Continue reading
In our previous articles from the Horizon View section of our blog, we have already covered the steps required for a successful installation of all VMware Horizon View servers and agents. In this article we are going to go through most of the configuration options which View offers and also we… Continue reading
View Agent must be installed on all virtual machines, physical systems, and Terminal Service servers that you use as sources for View desktops and desktop pools. On virtual machines, this agent communicates with View Client to provide features such as connection monitoring, virtual printing, View Persona Management, and access to locally… Continue reading
