Specific SSO errors and fixes covered: Invalid SAML Assertion (13), Untrusted Issuer (24) Single-Sign On allows users to access web based applications with their domain credentials, thus eschewing the need for unique user names and passwords. WebEx does have a… Read More ›
This post covers VMware error 21009 (unable to install VMware Tools) or “Unable to install VMware Tools: An error occurred while trying to access image file “/usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso” needed to install VMware tools: No such file or directory.”, Updater Error 15… Read More ›
I’m just going to cut to the chase here and give the answer to this problem with a Persistent/Full Clone desktop pool: What do you do when you can’t mass install VMware View 7 desktop agents successfully enough to confidentially… Read More ›
The days of VMware RDM(s) are over. That’s what the interweb tells me anyway, and I’m cool with that. I’m really cool with it after I discovered that RDM mappings on a VMware host slows its boot time by about three minutes… Read More ›
In my efforts to get the hell away from RDM disks in VMware, using the Dell Compellent for iSCSI connections became a necessity.There’s good blog post here that runs through most of this. I’ve added some things from my own… Read More ›
This was never the plan; it was an adjustment after we needed a B200-M4 blade at our secondary site to boot VMware without a disk or SD card. I figured it would be easier (and quicker) to configure the storage array,… Read More ›
We added a Pure Storage flash array over a year ago to house our VMware VDI infrastructure and it worked well but it was never really tested. The number of desktops didn’t reach the number I had hoped by a… Read More ›
For the last six months I’ve been trying to implement Cisco’s C Class rack mount servers into the existing UCS infrastructure. It hasn’t gone well, especially when considering the low baseline which is run VMware in a VDI cluster and/or… Read More ›
We purchased a couple more Cisco B200 M4 blades specifically to run Microsoft SQL locally. That might sound a little old school, but we’re finding out that virtualizing all of our SQL servers is not practical. Therefore, I am, for… Read More ›
I had some problems introducing M4 blades and a C Series (C240) server into an existing UCS infrastructure. All the new servers had VMware ESXi 5.5 installed on them and were vCenter cluster members. There was one networking issue having… Read More ›
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