In Part I of this series, I went through the thought process behind my new machine build and in Part II, I documented what was purchased based on those decisions and how much it costed. In this last part of the series, I'll go through some of the build issues that would help you in case [...]
In the previous post, I explained the need for a new machine in my home lab and the considerations before buying appropriate components to build one. In this post, I will look at the "Physical Decision Points" and the "Bill of Materials" (read "damage") for those components. So, without further ado, let's start: Physical Decision [...]
A few months back, I started to think about having another machine built for my lab as the one I built about year and a half ago, was starting to become a bit cramped. There are a lot of things going on these days and you do need to have enough of a lab to [...]
As part of "data-va" configuration (while deploying a Horizon Workspace environment), you might want to add an NFS store. In fact, it is recommended to do so for larger environments for flexibility, performance and scalability reasons. Typically, the way to do it is to create an NFS share and set access so that the data-va [...]
While deploying Horizon Workspace, you may configure LibreOffice on the data-va appliance, to get the basic preview functionality going. If your setup requires going through a proxy server to reach the Internet, the following command needs to be run (in a console session on the data-va appliance) first: export http_proxy=http://ProxyServer:Port After running that, you run [...]
While configuring the Events Database in VMware Horizon View 5.x, you might see the following error message: An error occurred while attempting to configure the database. Double check the database parameters and ensure that the database is not down, restarting, or otherwise unavailable A customer had this problem for a while and they had tried [...]
You must be thinking: Not another VCAP-DCD exam experience post! But it's customary now-a-days to blog about one's VCAP exam experience. Mine has been outstanding for a while so today, I am correcting that. Like a lot of other people, I also flunked the test the first time. It wasn't that I was complacent about [...]
In Part I of this post, I covered two of the four steps that I think are involved in doing a VMware Capacity Planner exercise. In this post, I will cover the other two and hopefully, you'll find the tips found in these posts of some use. So, here goes: 3. Collection Once the collectors [...]
Recently, I was on an engagement where use of VMware Capacity Planner was required, to get an estimate of consolidation ratios. This was done in order to build a business case for virtualization. Now I know that this is not a topic that many are interested in as it's not a "core" virtualization component but [...]
While creating a VMware Capacity Planner project in version 3.0 recently, I encountered a weird problem. After selecting the required machines in the "New Project Wizard" using "Manually select specific systems", the "Next" button didn't want to work, even though it was highlighted on the screen, implying all was good: I tried clicking it a [...]