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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 and Persistent Desktops

Jeremy Wheeler
July 28, 2015March 28, 2018 1 min

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 […]

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News

EMC: Splitting up is a bad idea – Fortune

Jeremy Wheeler
July 27, 2015 3 mins

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 […]

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VMware App Volumes

App Volumes Provisioning Machines

Jeremy Wheeler
July 23, 2015March 25, 2018 1 min

        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 […]

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VMware User Environment Manager

Migrating UEM Shares

Jeremy Wheeler
June 26, 2015March 25, 2018 2 mins

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 […]

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VMware App Volumes VMware Horizon Mirage VMware Horizon View

App Vols, Mirage, Horizon Antivirus Exclusions

Jeremy Wheeler
May 6, 2015March 25, 2018 3 mins

 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 […]

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VMware App Volumes

Locked Writable Volumes

Jeremy Wheeler
May 6, 2015July 1, 2015 1 min

  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 […]

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VMware Horizon View

Top 20 Horizon with View KB articles

Jeremy Wheeler
May 6, 2015May 6, 2015 2 mins

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 […]

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VMware Horizon View

VMware Horizon 6 RDS- hosted apps and imprivata failover with new firmware

Jeremy Wheeler
May 6, 2015May 6, 2015 1 min

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 […]

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VMware Horizon View

VMware Horizon Maximums

Jeremy Wheeler
May 5, 2015May 5, 2015 1 min

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

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VMware Horizon View

SQL Server or Normal VM behavior for HA

Jeremy Wheeler
May 5, 2015July 1, 2015 1 min

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 […]

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  • VMware Names Karen Dykstra as CFO; Zane Rowe to Depart Company May 25, 2023
    PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- VMware (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced that Karen Dykstra will take on the role as chief financial officer and executive vice president in addition to her current role as a member of the VMware Board of Directors. Current VMware CFO and EVP Zane Rowe will be […]
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