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VMware Horizon View – Connection Server Services dont load with Public SSL Cert

November 24, 2014VMware6.0, Certreq, Connection Server, Horizon View, public SSL, replace self signed, Service fails to start, VMwareDean

So my colleague rang me the other week with a bit of weird issue. After installing the VMware Horizon View Connection Server, the services do not start after installing Public SSL, and replacing the self-signed SSL.

The environment

Server 2012 R2 fully patched
Installing Connection Server, services fine
Install Public Cert (Following VMware guidelines for creation)
- Used Cert Req tool
- Connection Server Service fails to start.

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vCenter lost DVS configuration – Fixing the hosts

November 23, 2014Networking, VMwareBroken, Distributed Virtual Switch, DVS, Faulty, vCenter, VMwareDean

So I hit an interesting issue whilst performing a VMware upgrade from 4.0 to 5.5. There was a legacy issue left where vCenter had lost its knowledge/configuration of the DVS Setup.

Im not entirely sure what happened or when, as it was an existing environment, I only know I had to fix it. (Many thanks to the help from my good friend over at www.vmtechy.com for refreshing me on the ESX 4.0 command line to fix this).

The Symptoms

Within the vCenter Client, on the host summary tabs.

When looking at the Virtual Machine settings.

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Installing VMware Horizon View Composer fails with Error 1920

November 21, 2014VMware6.0, Composer, error 1920, Fix, Horizon View, Local System, VMwareDean

The issue

So today I was installing VMware Horizon View Composer on my Server 2012 R2 vCenter machine, where the SQL database is also local to this machine.

And I came across the below error,

"Error 1920, Service VMware Horizon View Composer (svid) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start the system service"

Which I something I’ve dealt with before, but I must admit I forgot the fix, and was looking into the following area’s;

Check account is Administrator and has “Log on as a Service” right
Check there is no pending restarts
Check ODBC is set up correctly and gives a successful message when testing

The fix

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Back to the Future – Configure ESX 4.0 iSCSI Multipathing

November 19, 2014Networking, VMware4.0, bytes, ESX, iops, iSCSI Mutlipathing, Jumbo Frames, MTU, useANO, VMwareDean

So I’m in the middle of an upgrade of environment that has;

2 x Hosts on ESX 4.0
SAN using SAS connections to Hosts
No resources available for failover and testing
Limited network ports

I’m installing;

3 x Hosts on ESXi 5.5
Nimble SAN – iSCSI

So to move all the virtual machines from the SAS SAN to the Nimble, I need to move the VM’s whilst turned on,

I’ve setup the iSCSI networking on the ESX host,

Creating VMKernal ports with IP addresses,
Mapping a VMNIC to each VMKernel directly
Setting MTU size to 9000

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Veeam ONE v8 – New Look, New Features

November 18, 2014General, VMwareBackup Assessment, Business View, High Availability Sweet, Hyper-v, Monitor, New Features, Reporter, v8, Veeam ONE, VMwareDean

So I covered Veeam Backup and Replication v8 here. And now for the Veeam ONE Edition of the v8 update post.

The Update Process

Pretty simple, mount the ISO, follow the instructions for Veeam One install, which will detect and upgrade the existing environment.

New Look, New Features

So you will see that straight away a new set of swish icons, sporting the new blue look.

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