vSphere host maintenance with instant clones
With the release of VMware Horizon View 7 we now have the ability to use instant cloning for virtual desktops. I tried instant cloning in my lab environment and I must say that it works really well. There are great articles describing on how to create…
Monitor Windows services with the End-Point Operations Agent
A few weeks ago Erik published a article about monitoring the vCenter Server appliance with End-Point Operations Agent.vCenter Server appliance with End-Point Operations Agent. This article will be a follow up on the End-Point Operations Agent, how to monitor Windows services. There are two ways in…
PowerShell Friday: Creating Virtual Machines
One of the most basic things you will do within a virtual infrastructure is creating virtual machines. Adding one new virtual machine like this is fine, but if you have to repeat this proces multiple times it might be more usefull to use a script…
VMware Announces App Volumes 3.0
Yesterday VMware announced App Volumes 3.0 which is the 5th version in little over a year that VMware is bringing to the market. With the rapid innovations that the App Volumes team are making VMware claims that the product can be used in almost every IT enviroment…
vCenter Server appliance 6.0 URL-based patching
With the recent release of vCenter Server appliance 6.0 Update 1b support was added for patching your vCenter server appliance, making use of a URL within your company network. Before this patch your vCenter appliance would have to make a direct connection with the internet and…
PowerShell Friday: Copying files with Copy-VMGuestFile
Every now and then you can run into the situation that you have a file wich needs to be distributed to any number of virtual machines. Now you could logon to these servers and copy the file manually and for maybe a handfull of virtual…
VMware Fling – Horizon Toolbox 2.0
At the beginning of this month a new version of the fling Horizon Toolbox 2.0 was made available. I missed it then but still wanted to share it with you all. It has almost been a year ago since the last update which I wrote…
App Volumes 2.10 released
On november 24th VMware released App Volumes 2.10 wich includes support for Windows 10. Besides the added support for Windows 10 there are about 12 issues resolved and several new features are added: IPv6 and VMware vMotion Support – Greater network compatibility in enterprise environments with IPv6…
Horizon View: Virtual Disk Digest?
Recently I was at a customer that is using VMware Horizon View for some time now, and one of the administrators asked me what the task “Configure Virtual Disk Digest” means. Once I explained this to him I thought why not write it down in…
NVIDIA GRID 2.0 licenses?
Before I get into the titel of this article, let me first give some context. During VMworld in the US NVIDIA announced the 2.0 version of NVIDIA GRID. NVIDIA GRID 2.0 delivers unprecedented performance, efficiency and flexibility improvements for virtualized graphics in enterprise workflows. With GRID 2.0 NVIDIA…
VMware Identity manager and the 3 reasons why companies should use it
During VMworld 2015 one of the sessions I followed was about the VMware Identity manager (vIDM) and the 3 reasons why companies should use it. There might be even more then those three reasons, but in this article I will stick to those described in the…
VMware Announces Plan To Acquire Boxer
Today VMware announced the plan to acquire Boxer a solution which allows you to provide your business critical applications like e-mail the look and feel of the applications we are used to with our personal devices. This while still remaining in control of your data and applying your business…
VMware Tools unleashed
Until recently new builds of the VMware Tools where tied to the ESXi builds. After updating an ESXi host you would have the ability apply a new build of the VMware Tools to your virtual machines. Now VMware decided to untie the build releases, given…
VMworld 2015: Site Recovery Manager 6.1 introduction
Yesterday at VMworld version 6.1 of VMware Site Recovey Manager was announced. This latest version makes use of some of the improvements made in other products to strengthen itself. Enhanced VMware NSX Integration VMware NSX 6.2 makes it possible to extend your virtual network across multiple…
VMware NSX 6.2 goes GA
Yesterday VMware released the 6.2 version of NSX. With this release comes a whole battery of new features and a lot of fixes. This new version of NSX will support multiple vCenter instances, which in my opinion is a great addition to an already great…