Pushing the NVIDIA Grid VIB to vSphere using Update Manager for vGPUs.
I’ve been working with a customer getting the NVIDIA Tesla M60 cards working in their environment and compiled some great information for those of you looking into this.…
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Installing SRM–Time Error when connecting to PCS
While installing SRM at a client, I ran into an issue where I could not connected to the PCS. The setup returned an error stating the time between…
VMware HA Heartbeat issue.
This is a pretty standard one. You deploy a small environment that only has a single shared Datastore (like a Nutanix cluster maybe). Enable HA and all of…
Stuck in Maintenance mode after 5.5 ESXi upgrade
I received a call from a client asking for help removing maintenance mode from an ESXi host. The 5.5 host was put into maintenance mode, had some patches…
A quick look at the Horizon 7 Access Point Appliance
In case you missed it, VMware has been moving toward more and more appliance driven applications. vCenter, vRealize and now Horizon Access Points. The Access Points are replacements…
Upgrading VMware Site Recovery Manager from 5.8 to 6.1.1
So the Summer is over, school is back, Fall is here, iOS10 has been released and everyone is itching to upgrade stuff. It’s what you do before the…
Stick to the Basics–vMotion fails at 21%
I was working with a client recently and after doing a memory upgrade and vSphere upgrade from 5.x to 6.0, my vMotion activity began to fail when moving…
vCenter 5.5 Update 3b Upgrade Bug
Got bit by a pretty annoying vCenter 5.5 Update 3 bug. https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2134141 Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely…
VMware Horizon View Maintenance releases/updates
By now, most of my clients are running at least version 6.x of Horizon. Occasionally, I’ll get emails asking if it is time to upgrade or what the…