Virtual SAN requires minimal 3 ESXi hosts. With version 6.1 of Virtual SAN, Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO) and small SMB customer environments are supported with Virtual SAN on 2 ESXi nodes. With a 2 node Virtual SAN cluster options such as HA, DRS and vMotion are fully supported. In a ROBO …
Continue ReadingWhen trying to pair the Broker agent 6.2 with the Horizon adapter in vRealize Operations Manager (vROps), it fails with the following error: Could not Pair with Adapter Address …. An Error has Occurred. Failed to pair the Adapter. Operation Adapter Pairing Failed. This issue occurs when the …
Continue ReadingLast month I extended my VMware ESXi and Hyper-V home lab with a Samsung 950 Pro SSD. The Samsung 950 Pro SSD is the next-gen SSD that has the following characteristics: Uses V-NAND memory and the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVME) protocol. This takes away the 600 MBps bandwidth limit with the SATA …
Continue ReadingAfter upgrading vRealize Operations Manager to version 6.1 the Horizon View metrics are not collected anymore. On the Horizon View Connection Server where the vRealize broker agent is installed the following error is displayed in the logs: vRealize Operations Manager broker error …
Continue ReadingWhen configuring a Windows VDI desktop or RDSH session with Horizon, different software components must be installed such as the VMware Tools and the VMware Horizon View Agent. When using User Environment Manager and App Volumes they require an agent too. All these software components must be …
Continue ReadingLast week I attended VMworld 2015 Europe conference. I had a great week filled with breakout sessions, Hands-on Labs, Solutions Exchange, parties, chats and great people. A few new announcements were made such as: vRealize Automation 7 – Introducing unified service blueprint capabilities to enable …
Continue ReadingWith VMware ESXi 6 the password policy is changed and require to use more complex passwords. The password policy in ESXi 6 has the following requirements: Passwords must contain characters from at least three character classes. Passwords containing characters from three character classes must be at …
Continue ReadingIn Horizon 6.2 it is possible to authenticate with Apples Touch ID. Touch ID is not enabled by default and has the following minimal requirements: iPhone 5S, 6, and 6 Plus iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 IOS 8 Horizon 6 version 6.2 The View Connection Server must present a valid root-signed certificate …
Continue ReadingThis blog contains the most VMworld 2015 announcements summarized. The VMworld 2015 day 1 announcements were all about the Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC), Hybrid cloud and Cloud Native Apps (containers). This blogpost will be updated with new announcements when available. VMworld 2015 day 1 …
Continue ReadingManaging Hyper-V remotely in a workgroup can be challenging to configure. This is still the case for Windows Server 2016. For a testing environment I needed to remotely manage Windows Server 2016 core server with the Hyper-V role enabled from Windows 10 with the Hyper-V manager. I used the following …
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