Welcome my first sponsor – VEEAM
I am very proud to announce my first blog sponsor, Veeam. I’m using Veeam Backup and Replication since Version 5 in my home lab and at many customer sites. I’m very impressed how Veeam...
Category: VMware
My Schedule for VMworld EMEA 2013
This year I will attend my 5th VMworld in a row. Started back in 2010 my preferences changed over the years from doing a lot of breakout sessions in 2010, completing all Labs in...
Remove orphaned View replicas
Last time at a customer I saw the following situation in his vSphere/View environment: This situation will happen, when the underlying datastore is deleted and View Composer hasn’t remove all of his replicas properly....
Changing Active Directory OU Structure in View Deployments
I’m currently involved in a small VMware View project where I have to design everything, started from fileserver layout to group policies. After designing the organization units in Active Directory and binding GPOs to...
Veeam Webinar – Backup & Replication v7: New approaches to backup (german only)
ENGLISH On Thursday, September 26th I’m doing a webinar together with Claus Pfleger, Systems Engineer CEMEA/AT at Veeam on the subject of “Backup & Replication v7 – New approaches to backup”. We will talk about...
View Composer failed to activate Windows 7
I’m currently building a small View environment for a customer (100 Desktops) where a small provisioning problem came up. I have created an automated pool and during the provisioning process, I got the following...
VMFS3HeapSize Problems
A Customer called me yesterday and told me that he had certain problems with his VMFS datastores. He explained the following behavior: Cannot migrate VMs from one host to another host Cannot power on or...
vCenter Operations for View 1.5 – Part 2: Install and configure Horizon View Adapter for vCenter Operations 5.7
In Part 1 of this series we have deployed an configured vCenter Operations 5.7 which is required for vCenter Operations for View 1.5. In Part 2 I will show how to install the View...
Can’t open MDT 2012 task sequence zip file in Adobe Reader
I used a lot of times the VMware Horizon View Optimization Guide for Windows 7 and Windows 8 which can be found here. In the new version there is an attachment (MDT 2012 Task Sequence File.zip)...
HP MicroServer Gen8 – A short Overview
HP launched the MicroServer Gen8 at their Discover conference in Las Vegas. For me as a MicroServer N40L homelab user, I was very excited about the new features. Here the new design for the...