VMware App Volumes
Working with various customers I’ve discovered challenges when it comes to placing MS Office into AppStacks. VMware has a few models out there that are supported and DO work. A few things to keep in mind when dealing with Office: Office 2010, and 2013 are only supported. Office core bits can be presented once, to […]
VMware Horizon View
I ran into some issues in my lab when I was tested out a sub-domain so I thought I would share some notes when it comes to removing a domain from Horizon View. You can use an exclusion list to specify the domains that View excludes from the results of a domain search. This will […]
VMware App Volumes
From time to time we all come across that extremely complicated application that an organization needs packaged and of-course it has a lot of moving parts. This blog entry I am walking through the process that has proven to work successfully instead of the typical packaging style where if you make a mistake you are […]
VMware App Volumes
Inside of App Volumes you can accomplish a storage migration between different SANs using the feature called ‘Storage Groups,’ provided you have shared storage between App Volume Managers. If you don’t, I recommend creating a temporary LUN/Volume to accomplish this migration. If you are performing a migration on a large scale, such as 2X or […]
VMware App Volumes
Google Chrome and AppStacks When packaging Google Chrome for App Volumes 2.6, a few conditions should be met when also working with Writable Volumes. Chrome expects the temp directory to have a drive letter, so if the user profile is in the writable volume you will want it to have a drive letter but it is hidden […]
vRealize Ops Manager
How to find the metric description you can use for metric configuration in XML files. As with vROps 6 the way to retrieve the metric names from v5 doesn’t work anymore. This document explains how to utilize the REST API (Suite API) to achieve what some starting to struggle with. The word ‘Lab:’ in this […]
vRealize Ops Manager
Changing Master Node IP address In some cases I have found customers want to change their Master Node IP when moving from a Pilot to Production for example. This is supported from VMware but isn’t an easy task. Before we dig into this I also want to make sure it’s clear this isn’t changing the […]
vRealize Ops Manager
vRealize Operations Manager Licensing You must associate View objects with your vRealize Operations for Horizon license key by editing license groups in vRealize Operations Manager. A license group is a way to gather certain objects, called license group members, under a particular license key. By default, the vRealize Operations Manager and vRealize Operations for Horizon […]
General Toolbox
A recent project I was working on where it was critical to change the block sizes when formatting the LUN with VMFS. Apparently the client has some VMs that are thick provisioned in sizes over 300GB per. This is something good to know up-front when considering a new LUN allocation. The default blocksize is 1MB […]