William Lam has started a great initiative. William asked (link ) everyone who owns a homelab to share there build of materials (BOM) and configuration so the vCommunity can benefit and learn from. I have a simple homelab configuration, the materials I used and configuration are listed below: …
Continue ReadingIn part 2 we highlight the native support for VMware Horizon 7 and higher environments in ControlUp 8.1. The integration is based on the SOAP API. Adding a VMware Horizon environment is easy, click on the Add EUC environment and enter the name a Horizon Connection Server and click ‘OK’. ControlUp …
Continue ReadingToday ControlUp version 8.1 is released with two new major features: Monitor Cluster. This new cluster model adds support for monitoring more VDI endpoints per site. VMware Horizon integration. ControlUp has now native integration with VMware Horizon environments. In this part of the blog post, I …
Continue ReadingToday I was updating a Windows Server 2016 template VM with Windows Updates. During the update, I notice that the pvscsi and vmxnet3 drivers are updated by the Windows Updates process. In 10.3.10 of VMware Tools, the pvscsi and vmxnet3 drivers available through Windows Update for Windows Server 2016 …
Continue ReadingI created a simple PowerShell script that exports all the pool settings on a Horizon Connection Server and saves them in a separate JSON file. To run this script follow the requirements below: Download the Export-pools.ps1 script from my GitHub page. Edit the script script and enter the correct file …
Continue ReadingWhen upgrading a VMware Horizon Connection server to version 7.8 or higher the following message appears during the upgrade. This means the following settings are disabled after the upgrade: Login As Current User will no longer work when selecting the “Log in as current user” in the …
Continue ReadingWhen performing a silent/unattended installation of the Horizon Agent client you must specify MSI properties and Horizon Agent options to define the configuration of the agent. When a new version of the Horizon Agent comes available the documentation is not always available yet or up to date. When …
Continue ReadingAfter upgrading one of my home lab servers to VMware ESXi 6.7 Update 3, I’ve got the following error when trying to boot: Shutting down firmware services… Page allocation error: Out of resources Failed to shutdown the boot services. Unrecoverable error After changing the boot mode from UEFI …
Continue ReadingThe VMware Tools package provides drivers (such as VMXNET3, PVSCSI, SVGA etc.) and services that enhance the performance of virtual machines and make several vSphere features easy to use. Here are some tips and tricks when working with VMware Tools: An overview of the VMware Tools versions mapping …
Continue ReadingRunecast Analyzer is a tool that helps VMware administrators to proactive manage there vSphere environment. It discovers potential risks in the VMware environment before they can cause a major outage. It uses best practices, security hardening guides (VMware, DISA STIG, PCI-DSS v3.2.1 and HIPAA) and …
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