This is the first part in a series of blog posts to install Horizon 2012 (Aka 8.1) – These are basic install steps on how to get up and running with Horizon 2012. I really like the Horizon product and what it brings, EUC has always been important but more so in the last year, […]
Just before Xmas this update landed https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/rn/vsphere-vcenter-server-70u1c-release-notes.html Looking forward to testing out this new feature that’s appeared after the upgrade! Just need to deploy another vCenter!
SRM 8.3.1.1 was released in December. https://docs.vmware.com/en/Site-Recovery-Manager/8.3/rn/srm-releasenotes-8-3-1-1.html Planning a walk through of an upgrade from 8.2 to 8.3.1.1 (With Pure Storage). Look out for this walkthrough coming soon !
Today I was asked to set some of backups of vCenter. My pre-reqs (Windows Fileserver) Network Path (mine being \\MS1-FS1\vcenterbackup) Service Account of vcenterbackup Open up the VAMI of your vCenter <<vcenter name/ip>>:5480 Log in as root Make sure your Username doesn’t include your domain (In my case it was ms1/vcenterbackup) as error is listed […]
Resetting Root Password Reboot your vCenter VM Press “E” on bootup. Enter rw /bin/bash at the end of the 2nd line as below. Press F10 to boot into rescue shell. At the prompt, type in Mount -o remount,rw / passwd Type in your new password Finally type in umount / reboot -f Now I can […]
Nice email to find out I’ve won a Limited Edition backpack, nice one VMware
Hi All, the plan is to create a study guide for all the objectives on the “Version 7” of the exam…. To start with please check out the blueprint of the exam. I anticipate this will take me a few months to put together, as I have a 3 year old and a day job […]
Today I sat the VCP – DCV 2020 (based on vSphere 7) exam, and happy to say I passed!!… To that end, I will be creating an unofficial study guide, with links & demos of some of the requirements and objectives taken from the blueprint. This will be a work in progress but I am […]
This weekend I have been involved in a EMC VMAX to Unity SAN migration for our shared VMware farm, most cases the VM’s went across using Storage vMotion with no issues. But I’m at the business end of the migration and we have a few issues towards the end. The common theme was the VM’s […]
I’m currently embarking on a journey to become a VCAP/VCIX in Horizon. My plan Is to give you hints/tips if you are studying for the VCAP-DTM (Design) exam. I think we all agree 2020, has been the year of VDI. At the current time the deploy portion of the VCIX is based on Horizon 6, […]
