05 Feb 2013
By Yendis

VMware Release & Build Info

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Whilst doing some research today based around release/build numbers for several VMware products I discovered a site with all the necessary information in one place.  Great news so I thought I would share it with you all click HERE to direct to the information.
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27 Jan 2013
By Yendis

vCenter and Memory metrics

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I have received an email today asking if I could explain the memory details that are in vCenter under the summary tab on each VM.  Rather than reinvent the wheel I have taken a blog post from Duncan Epping over at www.yellow-bricks.com which I find explains it very well. It appears that there is a lot of confusion around this topic and that probably comes from the fact that some of the Performance Metrics are named similarly but don’t always refer to the same. Let’s start with “General”: (more…)
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22 Jan 2013
By Yendis

London VMUG – 24th January 2013

VMware
This is the current agenda:- Nutanix Presentation - Alan Campbell and Rob Tribe, Nutanix Your Journey to the Post-PC Era - Brian Gammage, VMware EUC Panel with VDI Gurus - Brian Gammage, VMware Deploying vCD 5.1 and VXLAN - Dan Senior VMware HA Deep Dive - Eric Sloof Zerto Presentation – How One Company Averted Disaster from the VMworld 2012 - Joshua Stenhouse, Zerto 10Zig Presentation – Thin Client Technology at Its Peak - James Broughton, 10Zig Big Data for the Uninitiated - Stu Radnidge Update – What’s Here and What’s Coming Soon - Spencer Pitts, VMware EUC VMware Certification Update - Gregg Robertson vCAC -…
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20 Jan 2013
By Yendis

Citrix Personal vDisk 5.6.10 released

Citrix
What's New in Personal vDisk 5.6.10 The following issues have been fixed in this release: In some cases, upgrading personal vDisk from 5.6.0 to 5.6.5 or 5.6.7 may fail because some registry keys on the virtual desktop cannot be deleted. [#0353652] Configuration changes made by Internet Information Services (IIS) are not persisted after restarts. [#0353639] In some scenarios, if an application installed by a user on a personal vDisk registers a Managed Object Format (MOF) file, the image update process fails due to MOF registration issue 0x2000002F. [0353655] An administrator who creates a master image with a personal vDisk catalog…
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31 Dec 2012
By Yendis

vSphere 5.1 Performance History issue

VMware,
There is currently an issue with the vSphere 5.1 performance history charts. The symptoms are straight forward: You see only the last 30 days of performance history in the ‘past year’ view Only one month of performance history appears when trying to see the past year VMware is working on a solution for the problem currently. It appears that the problem has been identified (stored procedure purging data) and hopefully a fix will be released soon. Please subscribe to the following KB to be kept up to date: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2042164
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24 Dec 2012
By Yendis

PowerShell Plus editor is now free!

Tools, ,
I have been using PowerShell Plus for some time now for writing and debugging all of my PowerShell and PowerCLI scripts.  As from version 4.6 the PowerShell Plus editor is now free. You can download the app from Idera using the following link. https://www.idera.com/Free-Tools/PowerShell-Plus/ Idera also provide PowerShell Scripts which contains scripts for SQL, SharePoint and many more https://www.idera.com/Free-Tools/PowerShell-scripts/
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24 Dec 2012
By Yendis

Update VMware tools without reboot

VMware, ,
Whilst having some spare time over the Christmas period I decided to upgrade by VMware home lab to vSphere 5.1, and I found out that one of the new features is you can update the VMware tools without the requirement  to reboot each Virtual Machine (VM).  Now to some people this may be a small change but to me and everyone else that has hundreds of servers in their data centres this is a BIG plus because now we haven't got to worry about doing the update out-of-hours. Thanks VMware  and Merry Christmas  
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22 Dec 2012
By Yendis

Receiver for Win 8/RT Preview Update Goes Live

Citrix, ,
If you have installed the preview version of  Citrix Receiver from the Windows Store, you have likely already been notified of the update. If you installed the very first Preview version, you might not be notified but can  Click here to install the Preview update. Before trying the Preview, you should ask your IT department if it can be used in your environment.  The Preview version let you access enterprise files, applications, and desktops if Access Gateway Enterprise Edition and StoreFront have been deployed. The Preview update adds the ability to connect to Web Interface PNA Services Sites internally but…
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21 Dec 2012
By Yendis

Citrix Sharefile and ADFS 2.0 SSO

Citrix,
I've been using Sharefile for about a year now and always wanted to integrate it with ADFS for Single Sign-on using my Active Directory credentials.  After much research and a great arcticle I found, I managed to get it all up and running. As the arcticle was a great help to me I thought I would share the link http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/03/19/saml-authentication-with-sharefile-using-ad-fs-2-0/ Enjoy !!
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08 Dec 2012
By Yendis

Creating snapshots in a different location than default virtual machine directory

VMware, ,
In ESX/ESXi 3.x and 4.x, all files comprising snapshots are created in the virtual machine's working directory. By default, the working directory is the same directory as the virtual machine's (.vmx) configuration file. Thus, if the virtual disk (.vmdk) file is located on different datastore than the virtual machine itself, virtual disk redolog (-delta.vmdk) files are created alongside the virtual machine's (.vmx) configuration file instead of beside the virtual disk (.vmdk) file. You may want to change the location (new directory on the same or alternative datastore) where virtual disk redolog (-delta.vmdk) files are created, in order to: Create snapshots but…
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