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 ›
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 ›
Notes from building a Cisco UCS infrastructure with vSphere 6 and iSCSI storage.
Recently I pulled myself out of the datacenter for a while to help install VDI hardware and speed up the roll out. There are two problems that come up frequently when it comes to a VMware Horizon View 6.1 infrastructure… Read More ›
I recently upgraded my View and Workspace installations to versions 6.0.1 and 2.1 respectively. My personal installation notes for these two technologies are here (View) and here (Workspace). What happened after the upgrade is what this post is about. There… Read More ›
This little task isn’t very well documented by VMware, so I’m writing it down here so I don’t spend an hour poking around the admin console. Again. Just to back that up, here’s the sentence in the VMware Workspace Portal… Read More ›
Portal is the new version of VMware’s Workspace, a complementary interface to gather and display all the desktop pools, applications and files for enterprise users. This version is much smaller, one VM rather than a five or six (if redundant… Read More ›
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