Suppose you’ve have your environment for a bit of time. Your PVS targets are humming along happily and life is good. After a recent company expansion, you have planned to add capacity. You fire up the XenDesktop Setup Wizard in PVS to easily add additional machines. After running through the […]
I spend a lot of time thinking about and discussing Citrix, VMware, RDS, and other end-user computing topics with people from across the world. It’s one of the things that gets me all warm and fuzzy, because there are a thousand different ways to do it and they range from […]
Sometimes little things slip through, especially when you’re in a rush. We recently discovered excessive CPU latency was affecting performance on a number of SQL servers on what should have been otherwise sufficient hosts. The cause wasn’t immediately clear, but since we began monitoring the servers with Veeam Management Pack […]
We use XenDesktop 7 and Atlantis ILIO Diskless for our VDI environment. ILIO functions as a storage device. The ILIO VM should occasionally be rebooted per the documentation, or the datastore can fill over time. The script below is what we use to reboot our VMs daily, and the ILIO […]
Today I had a maintenance window to clone 7 physical machines twice to create 2 “production mirror” test environments. Despite a rocky start for other reasons, I kicked off the P2V before heading home. After checking in after dinner time, I noticed there was no way I’d finish the conversion […]
Today while attempting to deploy some Windows Server 2012 servers from a template, I noticed they did not go through the image customization as I would expect. After some searching, I came across a thread that had the answer:KB: 2037366 Guest OS customization of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 may […]
If you’re having trouble using VMware vCenter Converter 5.0 to migrate VM’s with a 5.1 host or vCenter, you’re in luck. vCenter Converter 5.0.1 has been released with support for vCenter/ESXi 5.1. Unfortunately, VMware has not yet decide to support this application fully, as explained in the release notes. What’s […]
Today I noticed one of my event logs was flooded with events that I had not seen before upgrading to VMware tools 5.1. VMware so kindly describes it as such in KB 2036350, shown below. *Update* This issue is resolved in Patch ESXi510-201212402-BG. To download this patch see, VMware ESXi 5.1., Patch […]
VMware has published information about upgrading to 5.1 and the required length of host certificates. In my case, I verified before hand that my certificates were the appropriate length so I proceeded, but as it turns out, my vCenter certificates were not the proper length. Our vCenter was installed first […]
Depending on organizational or technical requirements, you may have a need to replace the default certificates for vCenter or ESXi. This is easily accomplished once you understand the process. Create a private key Create a certificate request Obtain the certificate from a certificate authority Convert the certificate to PFX format […]
