Horizon DaaS: Move VDI from Assignment
Well... In Horizon DaaS it is not easy to move a VDI from assignment A to B. But in the end it is possible. Let me tell you how!first, this only possible when users have dedicated desktops. Otherwise I cannot find any good reason to do this. Turn off the VDI in...
NSX Edge with vCloud director – Using aliases
In this blog I will show you how to create aliases for grouping servers with the NSX Edge in vCloud director. Using aliases makes firewall rules more meaningful because I can give them names like "Domain Controller" or "Webserver". I think meaningful names are easier...
Zerto 7.5 replacing self-signed certificates
When installing an Zerto environment all components will be using by default self-signed certificates. For securing reasons they must be replaced by valid signed .CER (X509) SSL certificates. Zerto has an KB article KB1315 which described these steps, but at the...
VMware Configuration Maximums
I often get asked questions about configuration maximums in regards to VMware products. Often this results in me doing a quick Google Search to find the answer. The other day I was on another Google exploration and ran into the VMware Configurations Maximums website.I...
DaaS agent is failed during image creation
The last view days I have been struggling to publish a image after there was maintenance done on the image. After a view retries I could happen that the image would come online again.Every time with the same message "DaaS Agent is failed to send application list to...
Monitoring vSphere and vSan using Sexigraf
So today I want to share a really nice tool with you that you can use for monitoring your vSphere and vSan environments called Sexigraf. Not only does it sound sexy it is also really easy to setup and best of all it is free ! Sexigraf is an open source tool based on...
Configuring SSL VPN-Plus in vCloud Director
This article shows how configuring SSL VPN-Plus on an NSX Edge in vCloud Director is done. Below you can find the specifics of my lab setup: Organization: vBlog.nlOrg VDC: Org-VDC-vBlog.nl-01NSX Edge: Edge-Org-VDC-vBlog.nl-01Public IP: 5.39.172.xxxLAN / Local network:...
Unlock or reset vCloud Availability root account
This article will explain the steps to unlock or reset the vCloud Availability root account. There are a couple of scenarios where you might need this. For example when the account is locked out after too many fault attempts you will get "Access denied" when you...
Developer Center Code Capture
In the latest release of vCenter (6.7U2 and higher) you will find a feature called Developer Center Code Capture. If you are familiar with VMware flings you might know about the Onyx fling which was a similar project. The idea of a developer center was first released...
Upgrade to vCloud Director 10 appliance
In this article I will describe a procedure how you can upgrade to the vCloud Director 10 appliance. We're going to perform an upgrade from vCloud Director 9.7.0.14534864 to version 10.0.0.14636284. The update process takes around 10 to 15 minutes in total, based on a...
API versions supported by vCloud
So the other day I found an old script I created when vCloud 9.0 was still hip and happening. I was wondering if this script would still work with newer versions of vCloud and in particular the API version. So in this blog I will show you which API versions are...
vCenter Server 6.7 – File system storage seat is low on database storage space
Today I received an error in my vCenter Server:"Could not connect to one or more vCenter Server systems" Could not connect to one or more vCenter Server systems This surprised me, because this environment is a quiet one without any kind of special configuration. In...
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