Part 1 | vCloud Connector 2.7 – installation and configuration

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

Corrupted Backups using CBT

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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

In Guest Disk Mirroring

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

VMware installation validation checklist

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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

MS Terminal Services over VMware Horizon View

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

Creating Linked-Clone Automated pools using VMware Horizon View

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

VMware Horizon View 5.x Basic Configurations

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