A double-shot of knowledge
I wanted to communicate expected behavior when using App Volumes and Persistent desktops. Special thanks to Matthew Mabis for discovering this. When a user logs-off or reboots the VMDK of the AppStacks are detach from the users virtual machine. If you are not using the Writable Volume feature that comes with App Volumes and using […]
Source: EMC: Splitting up is a bad idea – Fortune EMC’s CEO argued against splitting the storage company from its federation of tech businesses that includes VMware. It’s going to take more than declining quarterly profits for EMC to consider breaking itself up. The enterprise storage company detailed in its latest earnings report Wednesday that […]
Your provisioning machine should be loaded with some of the core pieces you will have on your typical corporate desktop. This specifically includes dependencies such as .NET versions. When you present an AppStack to a VDI desktop, if that VDI desktop .NET version is different from the AppStack version there could […]
In some cases it may be necessary to migrate shares created for UEM, in this post I’ve provided the steps to doing such a task. Moving the UEM Config share: Note: Only to be performed outside Production/Office hours, preferable during customers’ maintenance window: NOTE: Only to be performed outside […]
VMware App Volumes Antivirus Exclusions On Desktops: C:\Program Files (x86)\CloudVolumes C:\SnapVolumesTemp C:\SVROOT VMware Mirage Antivirus Exclusions On the Servers: Mirage Storage Volumes Mirage Local Cache. This is configured during installation, but is located by default at: C:\ProgramData\Wanova\Mirage\LocalCache On Desktops: Mirage Staging Area – C:\Wanova Volume Information Configure these services to be white listed by the […]
Please use this steps and make the changes on one of the affected writable volumes that seems to not mount on the user: Note: Use the following outlined steps with caution 1. Connect to the host using Putty SSH. 2. Navigate to the folder writable volumes exist. 3. Use any editor to open […]
Refreshed our top 20 list of VMware View specific KBs. Some have dropped off the list while others are now trending upward. Have a look and see if you are encountering any of these issues in View. Manually deleting linked clones or stale virtual desktop entries from the View Composer database in VMware View Manager […]
PCoIP Firmware 4.8.0 firmware for Tera2 zero clients has just been released. Some small goodies in there but I think the main one is for RDS. Zero clients now support VMware Horizon 6 application remoting based on Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS). To configure zero clients to access VMware Horizon streamed applications, select the new […]
I’ll keep updating this table as I learn about maximums. Recent source: https://pubs.vmware.com/horizon-view-60/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/horizon-view-60-architecture-planning.pdf
In the event your organization is considering maintaining a SQL server on a Stretched Management cluster (Metro Cluster) or normal cluster please keep in mind the following: Normal Operations Host fails and dedicated resources of vCPU, RAM, are now unavailable Admission Control triggers an HA event Virtual Machine is power cycled-down DRS migrates Virtual Machine […]
