Kelly Olivier had a good question on the VMTN Communities. How can I check from the Service Console which network load balancing I’m using? Of course his first bet was “vmware-vim-vmd” but unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be an option to show which load balancing policy is being used. As far as I know there’s another way to show this: [...]
My efforts to ThinApp Inkscape weren’t immediately successful. I did a standard capture and ran the resulting binary successfully, but most of the icons were missing. It should look like this: But it actually looked like this: I had to slightly adjust the ThinApp package to get it to run properly. To ThinApp Inkscape: Start Setup capture as normal Do [...]
Whilst we are still in the early stages of our VDI deployment, I’m still trying to exercise some control over the rampant randomisation of our application set. One such ad hoc installation is the ten or so users in the company who have bought and installed copies of Adobe Illustrator. A new Polish employee asked her manager for Illustrator, because [...]
A brand new version of View has just been released. You can find the download and the release notes here: VMware View 3.1 Download, Release Notes. There are a whole bunch of enhancements which definitely make this new release worth checking out. I’m not going to post them, just read the release notes. Another thing I wanted to let you [...]
As of VMware vCenter 2.5 Update 2 the HA default isolation response changed from “Power Off” to “Leave powered on”. A lot of people liked this new default setting because it would lower the chances of downtime due to a “false positive”. I’ve never been a fan though, I just don’t like using degraded hardware or a degraded ESX host [...]
One of my customers asked me if it is possible to change the download protocol for VMware Update Manager into http. Due to security regulations they are not allowed to have traffic over https on their server backbone. To achieve this you will need to change the vci-integrity.xml file in the Update Manager directory. The default url is: https://www.vmware.com/PatchManagementSystem/patchmanagement When [...]
As some of you noticed, when you install vSphere(ESX) within a VM you will need at least 2GB to get the installer started. Even when it has finished installing you can’t reduce the memory because the following error will occur: I couldn’t find a way of pre-adjusting the memory requirements but there’s a way to change this behavior and to [...]
