Marco Baaijen – Page 2

2 July 2021

Integrating vLCM with UMDS and/or HPE OneView

With the new vSphere 7 vLCM capabilities we are able to integrate with our own and third-party patch-store products to provide vLCM with the needed patches, drivers and firmware in an attempt to update our servers with a single cluster image. This all sounds very nice but along the way we may encounter several issues with certificates, downloading patches and...

vCenter/VCF/vLCM/vSphere

2 March 2021

vCenter Alarms export/import revisited and fixed

UPDATE 2 Feb 2022: Unfortunately, due to changes in vCenter 7.0U2 and U3 the below procedure does not work flawlessly anymore. Thanks to my colleague/customer Willem for noticing this and providing the details! So, what changed in the latest version of vSphere 7? New alarms with special characters > fixed with a function to filter them Description field to long...

PowerCLi/vCenter

24 December 2020

Workspace ONE Access ‘Mind Map’

While attending the very valuable VMware Access Bootcamp training I got overwhelmed by all moving parts that are to be explored in this great product. During the course, of which most video content is available on VMware’s TechZone, you will experience a tsunami of information. I found it hard to remember which feature is to be found where and what...

Access/Horizon/VIDM/Workspace ONE

30 November 2020

Horizon 7.13 “ESB” release

As a follow-up on my previous post I have good news for the customers that need to stay on Horizon 7 release, most probably due to the support for the older Windows 8.1 Operating System. Recently (Oct 15, 2020) Horizon 7.13 reached GA and VMware decided to consider this as an unofficial Extended Service Branch release meaning VMware is committed...

Horizon

17 June 2020

PaaS Capabilities and how VMware Tanzu fits in

VMware is on a mission when it comes to supporting Modern [Cloud Native] Applications. This journey started many years ago and was aimed to support existing customers to Run, Build and Manage all their applications on their existing platform (the VMware Software Defined Datacenter as we call it). VMware also has an healthy urge to deliver customers the best solutions...

CNA/tanzu/TAS/TKG/TKGI/vSphere

20 May 2020

VIA – VMware Imaging Appliance

Many customers need and use tooling for imaging their ESXi-servers. Some of them are very old and some newer but unable to image their servers using the latest ESXi builds. Not many know that the VMware Cloud Foundation Suite is incorporating an Imaging Appliance (VIA). This appliance started it’s life during the EVO:Rail and EVO:Rack era at VMware. With this...

ESXi/VCF/vSphere

17 March 2020

Horizon & Windows 8.1 support

As explained in this blog post, VMware is ending support for Windows 7 and 8 running as a Virtual Desktop on Horizon. Though the blog post explains every aspect in detail with references to external sources, I decided to create Windows 8.1 slide-version in which I also added future support state for the upcoming vSphere 7 and Horizon 8 releases....