What is Packer Packer is a simple, easy open source tool from HashiCorp that runs on all major operating systems and is ued to create identical machine images for different platforms from a single source configuration template. Packer Templates A Packer templates is a json formatted file containing the build …
Today, VMware released User Environment Manager 9.5. The main new feature is to be able to download Configuration Templates directly from the console. You can download User Environment Manager 9.5 from here As noted in the release notes these Configuration Templates are pre-configured Flex configuration files that are available for many …
Below are instructions to thinapp the VMware Horizon Client. (version 4.8.0 build 8547331) A Thinapped version of the VMware Horizon Client might be very useful in situations where you do not want to or cannot install software on your Windows PC. Build Capture & build machine Windows 10 (fully patched) …
Today, I was at a client where I experienced a starnge behaviour. We added a certificate to a few VMware Horizon Connection servers with a Common Name of vdi.customer.com and the FQDNs and IP addresses of the VMware Horizon Connection servers: cs-1.customer.com cs-2.customer.com 10.10.10.1 10.10.10.2 When opening a browser towards …
To backup/restore the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) with an embedded database using Veeam follow the below instructions Backup To backup the VCSA with Veeam, it’s important to understand that Veeam does not directly support Postgres SQL (VMware’s embedded DB). Instead, it’s optimal to perform backup in 2 parts: Part …
When using VMware vSphere 6.5 with self-signed certificates, I noticed that I could not upload files to a datastore. This is due to the fact that the self-signed certificate is not trusted in the browser you are using. To resolve the issue follow the below steps (See also https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2147256): Go …
On 12 OCT 2017, VeeamON Tour was held in Brussels. The presentation slides with the selected technical and business content of the event can be found here. ON 05 DEC 2017 a Virtual VeeamON Tour event wil be held. You can register for this event here.
The client I am working at today has some questions and doubts on how to license Oracle in a VMware vSphere environment. Today I exchanged some emails with one of the people at the client who has to deal with licensing. He was asking me if the ESXi server where …
Since the future direction of VMware for the vCenter server is to supply vCenter only as a vCenter Server Appliance it is important to know how to backup and restore a VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). There are several methods available to backup and restore a VMware vCenter Server appliance. …
To replace the App Volumes Manager SSL certificates, you should follow VMware KB article 2095969. However, there is one important step missing in the KB article: After having replaced the original svserver.crt and svserver.key files with your own certificate files you should also edit the nginx.conf file to use svserver.crt and …