Better understanding Memory Management in vSphere 5.
Ran into a great KB article (2017642) today that diagrammed the process of memory management for vSphere 5. We’ve all used ESXTOP and the vCenter console to check…
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XenDesktops not registering with 5.6 Feature Pack 1 [Resolved]
I had some machines on an XenDesktop 5.6 farm that were not registering. [Reviewing this again, I realize that it was actually ALL of the machines] The first…
XD5 to XD5.6 : Make sure you have some Desktop Groups Defined.
So here is a very unlikely scenario that I ran into recently. I had an installation of XD5 at a client site and due to some scheduling particulars,…
AppSense <-> ThinApp issue. [Resolved]
I ran into an interesting AppSense Environment Manager / VMware ThinApp issue at a client recently. While packaging apps, Robert Luisi and I ran into an issue were…
VMware Purple Screen of Death KB alert.
Just noticed this alert on the VMware support site. If you are upgrading to vCenter 5, be sure to verify that ALL of your hosts are running at…
Troubleshooting vCenter Service startup issues
There are lots of reasons a vCenter Service would not start up. The usual suspect is an unavailable SQL database. ESPECIALLY when the SQL database is LOCAL to…
New Office Patch to Avoid : KB2501584
Chris Hahn over this quick warning to admins with users running Office 2003 and 2007. This patch comes down via automatic updates, and can generate warning messages…
Citrix Provisioning with VMXNET3 : Blue Screen of Death on Clones
If you have been streaming Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 vDisks using Citrix Provisioning Services to VMware’s ESX, you’ve probably run into a Blue Screen of Death…
VMware Site Recovery Manager – Error while executing ‘DiscoverLuns’ command.
During a VMware Site Recovery Manager implementation, I ran into this pesky error. Not really an SRM error specifically (more of an issue with the SRA) but a…