These are facts you should think about before to into detailed planing a VDI environment. I will add new questions that occurred to me. Sizing How many Connection server do you need? Just for scalability just one is most often enough, so use two of them for redundancy. How to load balance the sesstion? (round robin, balancer) Number of Security server? How many users will […]
View desktop cannot start because of errors on disposable-disk
You get this kind of errors when you or View Composer try to start a View desktop Cannot open the disk ‘/vmfs/volumes/4ef3113c-43bb01db-ad6c-101f74362f0e/VM/VM-v-dm-disposable-327e75b7-c97e-4671-9db2-b761d3de383.vmdk’ or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. The file specified is not a virtual disk This can be caused by operations like recompose, refresh or rebalance. Luckily it´s easy to fix – at least it´s worth the try: get rid of […]
tool you should know to implement VMware View
To optimize OS used as desktops A must read is the VMware View Optimization Guide for Windows 7 and Windows 8. Its includes batch files to support you by optimizing the client OS. You can download the guide here. A graphical tool to optimize guests OS is the VMware OS Optimization Tool from VMware Labs. You can find the tool here. The is a single […]
(my) guideline to microsoft licensing for VDI
The list does not claim to be comprehensive. Use this information at own risk! User or device CALs Take user CALs when user uses more than one device to access the desktop. Take device CALs when there are more or equal devices than users. Microsoft licenses the physical person (named user) NOT an Active Directory-User! RDS CALs and VDA licenses VDA license includes the license for […]
useful cli for VSAN
get information using esxcli esxcli vsan storage list details on physical devices esxcli vsan policy getdefault details on default policy, most often referred as “none” for cliesx vsan reference click here convince the host that there is a SSD (if there is a really one) search for the SSD using: esxcli storage nmp device list you will get a satp-type and a device-id. The satp-type can be […]
[VMware] bugs you should know about
This post is about bugs you could be concerned about. I will try to keep it up-to-date. [October 2017] PSOD after update to 6.5 U1 on hosts equipped with 10G NICs. At the moment of writing this, KB2151749 did not work… [October 2017] When using WebClient, flash crashes. This is because some incompatibilities between flash and WebClient after updating flash to version 27.0.0.170. To resolve […]
configure esxi shutdown in case of power loss (HP UPS)
These steps are necessary to implement a graceful shutdown of an vSphere environment. For this scenario you need supportet HP UPSs for HP Power Protector.
configure Smart Array Controller by use of esxcli
The following commands show how to configure an HP Smart Array Controller by use of command line utility esxcli. Some time ago, ACU is replaced by Smart Storage Administrator (SSA). So if the command hpacucli doesn´t work for you any more, replace it by hpssacli. To be able to do this, HP offline bundle must be installed on the host.
setting up snmp for esx hosts using esxcli
This post shows the commands need for configuring snmp for esxi hosts
Steps to install VSAN (under construction)
This post contains important steps to create a VSAN-volume in a cluster. The list does not claim to be comprehensive.
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