VMware: Failed to connect to the Horizon Connection Server
I have been seeing this a lot when deploying the Horizon at clients lately. Failed to connect to the Connection Server. This is just straight hitting the VMware…
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Google Chrome Audio not working in VDI session.
Chris Hahn sent over this quick tip on how to correct sound issues occurring in a Citrix ICA session running Google Chrome. Today at a client, we had…
VMware: Failed to Deploy OVF package
Here is a really easy one that I ran into the other day but kind of threw me for a loop. While deploying a 2.5 GB OVA file…
VMware vSphere 6.0 END OF General Support
If you are still running vSphere 6.0, your TIME IS UP! As of March 12th, VMware is ending support for all vSphere 6.0 Products including vCenter, ESXi and…
VMware NFS has reached the maximum number of supported volumes
NFS has reached the maximum number of supported volumes. That's the issue I ran into while building new hosts today at a client. You get this particular error…
VMware ESXi install fails on UCS C220 – Partition Error
While installing ESXi on some Cisco C220 blades, I ran into the following failure message:partedUtil failed with message: “Error: Can’t have a partition outside the disk! Unable to…
What is the VMware UAG Gateway location?
If you have rolled out or upgraded to VMware's Universal Access Gateway (or UAG) version 3.8, you might have noticed a new mandatory field called Gateway Location. There…
VMware UAG and Horizon Broker Certificate Gotchas in 2020
New year and some of my clients need to update their certificates for the new decade. Here were some little issues we ran into while upgrading certificates on…
Upgrade EMC/Dell VxRail Best Practices (4.7.100 to 4.7.301)
Time for another VXRail upgrade post! This time we are upgrading from VxRail 4.7.100-11859441 to 4.7.301-26249014. This will bring the underlying vSphere environment up to version 6.7 Update…