** Update December 2020 **The link to the KB article is working again. Last week a customer raised a support ticket who had an issue with their Connection Servers. They would end up with the VMware Horizon View Blast Secure Gateway service in a Paused state. This behavior occurred after…
Over a week ago VMware released Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM) version 2006, which now follows the same versioning format as VMware Horizon and App Volumes. One of the things which got me really excited in this release is the added feature to manage ADMX-based computer settings. This means that any…
“My problem” A lot of my customers running VMware Horizon have been using NVIDIA GPU’s in their ESXi hosts leveraging vGPU to accelerate their virtual desktops, especially since they made the move to Windows 10. When using vGPU one of the requirements is the installation of a driver on the…
As you can read in my first blog post I was aiming for VCIX-DTM in 2020. After passing the VCAP7-DTM Design exam in June it was now time to focus on the VCAP6-DTM Deploy exam. And for those thinking that the Design exam is based on “old” tech, wait until…
Heads up: this script only functions with vSphere 6.7 Update 1 and newer Ever since version 10.0 VMware has decoupled VMware Tools from vSphere releases. This gives you the opportunity to deploy images of ESXi without VMware Tools integrated, which saves you disk space and speeds up the deployment process….
My exam to-do list for 2020 had one major goal, achieving VCIX-DTM. When the intelligent lockdown (as our government called it) started in March 2020 I thought I could scratch it entirely as test centers were closed and there was no indication if and when those would open again. Luckily…
After long consideration I finally pulled the trigger and started my own blog. As I’ve never done something similar before I might fall for all the obvious rookie mistakes. So if you spot one, let me know! Why start now? As I mentioned earlier, I started after considering it for…