A few months ago, you may have seen my post detailing my experience with ESXi 7.0 on HP Proliant DL360p Gen8 servers. I now have an update as I have successfully loaded ESXi 8.0 on HPE Proliant DL360p Gen8 servers, and want to share my experience. It wasn't as eventful as one would have expected, but I wanted to share… Read More
With the release of VMware Horizon 2303, VMware Horizon now supports Hybrid Azure AD Join with Azure AD Connect using Instant Clones and non-persistent VDI. So what exactly does this mean? It means you can now use Azure SSO using PRT (Primary Refresh Token) to authenticate and access on-premise and cloud based applications and resources. What else? It allows you… Read More
Are you running an HPE Nimble or HPE Alletra 6000 SAN in your VMware environment with iSCSI? A commonly overlooked component of the solution architecture and configuration when using these SAN's is HPE Nimble and HPE Alletra 6000 SAN IP Zoning with an ISL (Inter-Switch Link). When it comes to implementing these SANs, it's all about data availability, performance, optimizations,… Read More
You might ask if/what the procedure is for updating Enhanced Linked Mode vCenter Server Instances, or is there even any considerations that apply? vCenter Enhanced Link Mode is a feature that allows you to link a total of 15 vCenter Instances in to a single, Single Sign On (SSO) vSphere domain. This allows you to have a single set of… Read More
In this NVIDIA vGPU Troubleshooting Guide, I'll help show you how to troubleshoot NVIDIA vGPU issues on VMware platforms, including VMware Horizon and VMware Tanzu. This guide applies to the full vGPU platform, so it's relevant for VDI, AI, ML, and Kubernetes workloads, as well other virtualization platforms. This guide will provide common troubleshooting methods, along with common issues and… Read More
When using VMware vSphere, you may notice vCenter OVF Import and Datastore File Access Issues, when performing various tasks with OVF Imports, as well as uploading and/or downloading files from datastores. These issues can cause a number of symptoms including errors, unexpected status codes, and also just simply failing for an undetermined reason. vCenter File Upload: The Operation failed. The… Read More
When attempting to log in to your VMware vCenter using the HPE Simplivity Upgrade Manager to perform an upgrade on your Simplivity Infrastructure, the login may fail with Access Denied, Incorrect Credentials, or Incorrect Username and Password. Despite confirming that the credentials are correct (logging in to the vCenter UI, as well as the vCSA console via SSH), the HPE… Read More
When using VMware vSAN 7.0 Update 3 (7U3) and using the graceful shutdown (and restart) of your entire vSAN cluster, you may experience an issue resulting with all VMs inaccessible after everything has been powered back on and the hosts taken out of maintenance mode. If you experience this issue, you will also notice that your vSAN datastore appears to… Read More
Today I want to talk about Memory Deduplication on ESXi with Transparent Page Sharing (TPS). This is a technology that isn't widely known about, even amongst IT professionals with significant experience with VMware products. And you may ask "Memory Deduplication, why aren't we using this?!?" as it sounds like a pretty cool piece of technology... Well, I'm about to tell… Read More
If you're anything like me, you were excited to get your hands on the latest Windows 11 22H2 Feature Update after it was released on September 20th, 2022. However, while it was releassed, as with all feature upgrades, it is deployed on a slow basis and not widely immediately available for download. So you may be asking how to force… Read More