During a Horizon View implementation with User Environment Manager (UEM) 9.1 the drive mappings don’t show up for some with a Windows 10 VDI. The flexEngine log shows the drive mapping was successfully. 2016-12-16 15:18:45.084 [INFO ] Successfully mapped drive ‘G:’ to ‘\filesrv-01\apps$’ …
Continue ReadingLast week vSphere 6.5 was released (GA). This release has a lot of new cool features (see this link for more information). In the past I saw vSphere environments that are upgraded without proper preparation resulting in a rollback because compatibility issues with hard-or software. So I created a …
Continue ReadingIn my lab environment I had problems with the Guest Introspection service. The installation was failed. Trying to remove the Guest Introspection service failed every time in the Service Deployments tab. After performing the following steps, I was able to remove the Guest Introspection service : Put …
Continue ReadingToday at VMworld Europe 2016, vSphere 6.5 is announced. Update: November 15, 2016 vSphere 6.5 is GA. In this blog we highlight some major feature announcements on the following products and technologies: vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) Virtual SAN (VSAN) Host Profiles Auto Deploy vSphere Security …
Continue ReadingVMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will partnering together to bring a new a VMware vSphere-based service, running on the AWS Cloud, that will make it easier and faster to run applications, across a hybrid cloud environment. It’s called the “VMware Cloud on AWS”. The …
Continue ReadingWhen upgrading VMware Update Manager (VUM) to 5.5 Update 3e the following error occurs: VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vthread-3) GetProcAddress: Failed to resolve ENGINE_load_aesni: 127 This issue occurs when upgrading to VMware Update Manager to 5.5 Update 3e. I’ve seen this error …
Continue ReadingWhen using PCIE/NVMe SSDs in the capacity layer of Virtual SAN, the SSDs are generating a warning for the “Hardware Compatibility – SCSI Controller on Virtual SAN HCL” health check, even when the devices are on the Virtual SAN HCL. The “Hardware Compatibility - SCSI Controller on Virtual SAN …
Continue ReadingThe success and effectiveness of a VDI environment depends on the End User Experience (UX). When the End User Experience isn’t good, users will complain and the VDI project will fail. So the ability to analyze, report and troubleshoot when a problem occurs is critical in a VDI environment. To get …
Continue ReadingWhen designing a new Horizon View environment, one of the design phases is to identify what requirements there are when accessing (redirecting) devices in a Horizon View desktop of published app. In other words what redirection and devices are available and permitted in the VDI desktop or published …
Continue ReadingWhen building a new Horizon Environment, the logoff and refresh maintenance window takes a couple of minutes. When a user is logging off from a Horizon VDI session the desktop refreshed in a floating pool. (A refresh action can be configured per pool). During the logoff and refresh window the …
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