If you're like me, you want to make sure that your environment is as optimized as possible. I recently noticed that my NVIDIA A2 vGPU was reporting the vGPU PCIe Link Speed and Generation that the card was using was below what it was supposed to be running at on my VMware vSphere ESXi host. I needed to find out… Read More
Today I'm going to show you the process to install Horizon Agent for Linux on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. We'll be installing the Horizon Agent for Linux from VMware Horizon 8 version 2209. The official documentation from VMware is helpful, but unfortunately doesn't provide all the information to get up and running quickly, which is why I've put together this guide… Read More
When deploying automated desktop pools with NVIDIA vGPU on VMware Horizon with an NVIDIA A2 GPU, you may notice provisioning fails with an error. Error during Provisioning Cloning of VM VM-NAME-01 has failed: Fault type is UNKNOWN_FAULT_FATAL - No GPU capable host available for provisioning VM-NAME-01 with profile nvidia_a2-4q. Please refer to VMware KB 59271 for more details. Further, when… Read More
So, there's a common problem where when performing a backup, you'll see it fail with Veeam Unable to Truncate Microsoft SQL Server transaction logs. This is usually due to permission problems either with the account used for guest processing, or with permissions inside of your SQL database. Typically in most cases this can be resolved by referencing the appropriate Veeam… Read More
When either directly passing through a GPU, or attaching an NVIDIA vGPU to a Virtual Machine on VMware ESXi that has more than 16GB of Video Memory, you may run in to a situation where the VM fails to boot with the error "Module 'DevicePowerOn' power on failed.". Special considerations are required when performing GPU or vGPU Passthrough with 16GB+… Read More
With VMware ESXi 6.5 and 6.7 going End of Life on October 15th, 2022, many of you are looking for options to update hosts in your homelab, especially in my case putting ESXi 7.0 on HP Proliant DL360p Gen8 servers. As far as support goes, HPE last provided a custom installer for ESXi for versions 6.5 U3 which was released… Read More
When it comes to troubleshooting login times with non-persistent VDI (VMware Horizon Instant Clones), I often find delays associated with printer drivers not being included in the golden image. In this post, I'm going to show you how to add a printer driver to an Instant Clone golden image! Printing with non-persistent VDI and Instant Clones In most environments, printers… Read More
Many of you may be not aware of the Azure AD Connect 1.x End of Life on August 31st, 2022. What this means is that as of August 31st, 2022 (later this month), you'll no longer be able to use Azure AD Connect 1.4 or Azure AD Connect 1.6 to sync your on-premise Active Directory to Azure AD. It's time… Read More
As we approach the date, I wanted to write a post sharing Why I'm looking forward to VMware Explore 2022 and share what I hope to get from the conference and experience. As most of you know, VMware Explore 2022 (formerly known as VMware VMworld) is taking place this month in San Francisco at the Moscone Center August 29th, 2022… Read More
I purchased the new Lenovo X13s Windows on ARM laptop, and wanted to share my first impressions with the device. I plan on creating a full review in a later post, however I wanted to provide some insight on my initial first impressions, as these can be a game changer or deal breaker for most people considering purchasing this laptop.… Read More