A double-shot of knowledge
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
