I saw a couple of questions on the VMTN Communities around running Windows 8 Dev Preview on ESXi 5.0 and support and the fact that it doesn’t work. Although the OS is listed in the dropdown list after you have created a VM it does not mean it is supported. Support for Operating Systems should always be validated through the [...]
I’ve posted an overview of my homelab a while back and it changed a bit over the course of the last couple of months so I wanted to do an update of the article. Let me disclose first that Drobo was kind enough to provide me with a test-unit. Thanks Drobo! My Workstation which runs Windows 7 with VMware Workstation [...]
I needed to run an appliance inside VMware Fusion on my Mac, the appliance was in OVF format. VMware Fusion currently does not support this format and requires you to convert the image with a tool called ovftool which can be downloaded at the following location: http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsphere/automationtools/ovf Conversion is as simple as: ./ovftool “source.ovf” “target” Optionally you could use parameters [...]
At a customer this week, where BitLocker To Go is mandatory on Windows 7 machines, we discovered a problem encrypting USB memory sticks (flash drives). With the GPO settings at the customer, BitLocker To Go detects when a removable disk is plugged in to the machine, and prompts the user to either encrypt the drive or mount it read-only. When [...]
I was discussing something with one of my former colleagues a couple of days ago. He asked me what the impact was of running VMware View in an environment without HA. To be honest I am not a View SME, but I do know a thing or two about HA/vSphere in general. So the first thing that I mentioned was [...]
VMware has just released version 1.1 of the VMware Desktop Reference Architecture Workload Simulator (RAWC). As I know many of my readers are actively working on View projects I thought it might be of interest for you. VMware Desktop Technical Marketing & TS Research Labs are jointly announcing the availability of VMware Desktop Reference Architecture Workload Simulator (RAWC) version 1.1. [...]
VMware just released a maintenance release for VMware View 4. View Manager Version 4.0.1 | 18 February 2010 | Build: 233023 (View Manager), 210930 (View Composer) What’s New: VMware View 4.0.1 is a maintenance release that resolves some known issues in the previous releases. For details, see the Resolved Issues section. This release includes the following new features. Localization of [...]
