VMware 6 : Unable to connect to the MKS: Internal Error
Almost EVERY SINGLE time I see this error, it’s DNS related. When I ran into it tonight, I immediately thought I had fat fingered the DNS entries in…
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VMware View 6.2 XP Support issues.
Recently, I was working with a client on an upgrade to their VMware View environment. We were upgrading from View 5.2 to 6.2. A nice jump in versions…
VMworld 2015 Recap
VMworld 2015 is over. The US conference is done and everyone is getting ready for VMworld Europe coming in October. If you were like me and didn't attend…
VMware Site Recovery Manager – DNS Stalls for 20 minutes.
Chris Monfet sent over a handy setting for those of us leveraging VMware’s Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to protect our Active Directory infrastructures. I was running a bubble…
Citrix PVS Pro Tip : Watch your Slots on VMware!
I was recently creating some new XenDesktop published sets and ran into a Blue Screen on cloned machines via the Provisioning Server XenDesktop Wizard. I have run into…
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should – Custom VMware Update Manager Depots
That’s the gist of the lesson I learned today – :) Again. A while back, I read about custom depots for VMware Update Manager. I love VMware Update…
PSA: vSphere 5.5 Update 1 and NFS
Just a quick post for those that may not have heard about this VMware Alert. If you are running vSphere 5.5 and have NFS datastores, it is advised…
Vendor Stencil Round-up
Aaron Silber ran across this post on the Citrix Blogs releasing the new sets of 3D Citrix Stencils. I figured I would add in some of the other…
vSphere Installation Media : OEM or VMware?
Here is a topic that has recently come up for me at a few clients so I figured I would just jot some notes down on the subject. …