After deploying my latest horizon lab, I hit an issue where I could not hit the login page to authenticate for a Horizon desktop using BLAST, I would be greeted by the following message:
Failed to Connect to Connection Server
I pulled my hair out for a few minutes, before I realised I’ve hit this issue before, and the fix is quite simple.
If the locked.properties file doesn’t exist in the directory C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\sslgateway\conf then you must create it!
Regards
Dean
Below is the VDI Cleanup script that I’ve been using over the years. I thought I’d post this after setting up a Horizon Lab environment. I shared it earlier in the year on Reddit, and had some good suggestions which I used to update the script. The script has been taken from other blogs over the years and just edited further and further for my own/customers needs.
Optimizations to any master are done using the VMware OS Optimization Tool.
I personally just run this as bat file to clean up and shut down the master template as a final step each time I make an update.
You can find the script on Github here, or below.
REM ************************************************ REM Stopping and disabling Windows Telemetry service REM ************************************************ sc stop DiagTrack sc config DiagTrack start= disabled sc stop dmwappushservice sc config dmwappushservice start= disabled REM ********************* REM Stop and disable Windows update service REM ********************* sc stop wuauserv sc config wuauserv start= disabled REM ********************* REM Delete any existing shadow copies REM ********************* vssadmin delete shadows /All /Quiet REM ********************* REM delete files in c:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download\ REM ********************* del c:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download\*.* /f /s /q REM ********************* REM delete hidden install files REM ********************* del %windir%\$NT* /f /s /q /a:h REM ********************* REM delete prefetch files REM ********************* del c:\Windows\Prefetch\*.* /f /s /q REM ********************* REM Update OEM Information with Build Date reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OEMInformation /v Model /d "Build %DATE%" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /f REM ********************* REM Run Disk Cleanup to remove temp files, empty recycle bin REM and remove other unneeded files REM Note: Makes sure to run c:\windows\system32\cleanmgr /sageset:1 command REM on your initially created parent image and check all the boxes REM of items you want to delete REM ********************* c:\windows\system32\cleanmgr /sagerun:1 REM ******************** REM Defragment the VM disk REM ******************** sc config defragsvc start= auto net start defragsvc defrag c: /U /V net stop defragsvc sc config defragsvc start = disabled REM ********************* REM Clear all event logs REM ********************* wevtutil el 1>cleaneventlog.txt for /f %%x in (cleaneventlog.txt) do wevtutil cl %%x del cleaneventlog.txt REM ********************* REM release IP address REM ********************* ipconfig /release REM ********************* REM Flush DNS REM ********************* ipconfig /flushdns REM ********************* REM Shutdown VM REM ********************* shutdown /s /t 0
Regards
Dean
VMware vRealize LifeCycle Manager 8 released earlier this week, 17th October 2019.
Note the official name and abbreviation, its a long one!
You can find the supporting official documentation here;
What's New Blog Link: What's New Blog Post Download Link: Product Download Release Notes: Release Notes Documentation Link: Resources
The best news about this release is the “easy installer“, which also allows you to migrate from older versions. In this post, I’ve documented the screenshots in steps for you, as I know many of you out there like to see the end to end process before you undergo an update yourself, so you know what to expect.
During this migration process the following will happen;
Continue reading VMware vRealize LifeCycle Manager 8 – Migration Process Screenshots
Getting hold of all the VMware products various ports and protocols has sometimes come across like pulling blood from a stone.
However as announced yesterday at VMworld 2019, we have a new dedicated website just for this subject!
At a high-level, this system offers the following features:
And for all you dark theme lovers out there, yes there is also a dark theme option!
Regards
Dean
In this blog post, I am going to break down a PowerShell code I have created (with help from some colleagues). The functions of this PowerShell code are;
Below are some functional screenshots of the code’s GUI and also a rough flowchart of what I needed to achieve.
You can skip to the end to find the full code or my github.
Since posting this blog, I also covered this in a VMware TAM Lab recording which you can watch below.
So my customer had a dedicated environment for hosting their custom application, however these applications were built and running inside an old unsupported OS which expected to be running on a particular era of CPU’s to run correctly, for example todays Intel Skylake would cause the OS to panic and not run. As you can also imagine with this type of older OS, there are no VM Tools support either.
Here is the architecture diagram;
Providing DR around this environment was interesting, we could protect the VM using SRM and storage array LUN replication. But this also presented some issues, when the VM boots in DR. “what happens with networking?” hence we setup a DHCP reservation on both Production and DR. Meaning we know the VMs IP regardless of where its booted.
Continue reading PowerCLI with a GUI – Clone a machine, add DHCP Reservations, alter CPUID