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Jeremy Wheeler

I am an experienced Consulting Architect for VMware’s Professional Services Organization, End-user Computing specializing in VMware Horizon Suite product-line and SDDC. I have over 23 years of experience in the IT industry. In addition to his past experience, I have a passion for technology and thrives on educating customers. Additionally, I have 10 years of hands-on virtualization experience deploying full-life cycle solutions using VMware, CITRIX, and Hyper-V. I also has 18 years of experience in computer programming in various languages ranging from basic scripting to C, C++, PERL, .NET, SQL, and PowerShell. I’ve received acclaim from several clients for my in-depth and varied technical experience and exceptional hands-on customer satisfaction skills. In February 2013, I received VMware’s Spotlight award for my outstanding persistence and dedication to customers and was nominated again in October of 2013. I was awarded 2015 – 2017 vEXPERT.

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VMware App Volumes

App Volumes Broker Service Deprecated

Jeremy Wheeler
December 17, 2015December 17, 2015 1 min

    With the new App Volumes 2.10 release please make sure you uninstall the App Volumes broker service from your Horizon View Connection Server(s). Keeping the broker service enabled after upgrading/installing 2.10 will cause users to have poor performance when logging into their VDI desktops. With the new App Volumes 2.10, you no longer […]

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VMware Horizon View

Horizon View CPA Uninitialized Failure

Jeremy Wheeler
December 15, 2015March 25, 2018 2 mins

I discovered this issue at a customers today. They have two sites, North and South. They are running 6.2.0 Horizon View at both locations. After initializing CPA in North and joining South to the federation everything looked healthy. We were still messing with setting up additional brokers etc. When it came time to testing CPA, […]

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VMware Horizon View

Cloud Pod Architecture and Cisco Nexus 1000v Bug

Jeremy Wheeler
November 25, 2015November 25, 2015 2 mins

A customer I worked with owns two vBLOCKS between two datacenters.  They run Nexus 1000v for the virtual networking component. They deployed VDI and when we enabled cloud pod architecture the Global data replication worked great, however all of our connection servers in the remote pod would show red or offline. I found that we could […]

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vRealize Ops Manager

vROPS Python Adapter – A Hidden Treasure

Jeremy Wheeler
November 25, 2015December 16, 2015 2 mins

Even more power comes out of VMware vRealize Operations when enabling the vRealize Operations Python Adapter, adding additional intelligent monitoring and action capabilities. To do this, execute the following steps:   Image1:   Select ‘Solutions’ Select ‘VMware vSphere’ Select ‘vCenter Python Adapter’ Add your vCenters, match what you configured under the ‘vCenter Adapter’ section above […]

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VMware Horizon View

View 6.2 and VDI Black-screens

Jeremy Wheeler
November 5, 2015January 5, 2016 3 mins

  With the release of Horizon View 6.2 and vSphere 6.0 Update 1a, comes new features but also possible new issues. If you have an environment running Horizon 6.2 and anything below vSphere 6.0 Update 1, you might see some potential issues with your VDI desktops. VMware has introduced a new video driver (version 6.23) […]

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Uncategorized

New Blog Name

Jeremy Wheeler
September 24, 2015 1 min

Hey folks! So I decided to change the name of my blog to VirtuallyCaffeinated from Zombiesrant. I’ve ported over all the entires and will be decommissioning zombiesrant.com in the future.

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VMware App Volumes VMware Horizon View

AppVolumes and Horizon Recompose Workaround

Jeremy Wheeler
September 23, 2015March 25, 2018 2 mins

The following is a workaround for when you are impacted by recompose loops in Horizon View and using App Volumes. VMware engineering is aware of this problem and is working on a fix. The issue discovered is when multiple AppStacks are attached to VDI desktops and a recompose is initiated. The timing between when VMDK’s […]

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VMware User Environment Manager

UEM Migrations

Jeremy Wheeler
September 2, 2015September 22, 2015 17 mins

Persona Management to UEM, Preparation Figure 1. UEM Preparation Overview   Follow the UEM Easy Start Guide to setup UEM. In short, installation of UEM is done through the following actions:   Install the FlexEngine on all machines Create two file shares. One share will store the UEM configuration files. The other share will store […]

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VMware vExpert 2015

Jeremy Wheeler
August 26, 2015January 5, 2016 1 min

I am please to announce that I have just been made a VMware vExpert for the 2nd half of 2015. I am honored to be given a vExpert title and will continue will my blogging and knowledge sharing as we move forward.

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VMware App Volumes

Cloning AppStacks and Modifying Scripts

Jeremy Wheeler
July 30, 2015March 28, 2018 8 mins

Recently while working onsite with a client I discovered they needed to have local windows accounts created upon AppStack attachment as required by their application. The customer didn’t want go through process of recreating the AppStack to achieve this. I was able to solve this problem by injecting scripts into the VMDK of the AppStack. […]

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