I have had numerous questions over the 18 months since i joined Nutanix about my home lab/working environment setup and this blog post will describe the setup and what i have been using my environment for. To give you a short summary it is built on a Nutanix Block and a Nutanix technology partner Arista …
It’s soon, tomorrow actually, time for the early Nordic VMUG user Conference in Copenhagen Denmark. This year it takes place Dec 1 at Scandic Copenhagen Vester Søgade 6 1601. Unfortunately i can’t make it, was scheduled to go there but some last minute things came up. This user conference is like a mini VMworld including both good …
A while back i wrote a blog post about how to assign a specific user to a Horizon View VDI Desktop when using Cloud Pod Architecture CPA which is available here. This blog post will outline the steps i took when implementing CPA for a customer running Horizon View 6.0.1 Background Horizon View was already …
Today i encountered a problem with Horizon View version 6.0.1 that did not provision virtual machines (VMs) even thought the Desktop Pool configuration said it should. Before i continue i admit that the Horizon View version is kind of old but it’s for a good reason so let’s not discuss that. The Desktop Pool settings …
The blog post title should almost include a heads up because this is not something you want to miss unless you don’t have any space available for a really cool home lab:) VMTurbo has decided to give you a chance to win an OpenStack based home lab including the following: OpenStack Juno build VMTurbo 5.2 including …
So the past weeks i have been involved in design and implementation of VMware Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture (CPA) for a customer. I will put toghter a blog post about the solution and the steps taken to implement CPA another time. This very short blog post will only cover one specific scenario we had to …
I’m happy to announce that Zerto has decided to become a VCDX56 blog sponsor. Short Zerto presentation: Zerto is committed to keeping enterprise and cloud IT running 24/7 by providing innovative, simple, reliable and scalable business continuity software solutions. Through the Zerto Cloud Continuity Platform, organizations can seamlessly move and protect virtualized workloads between public, …
So after running Horizon View Linked Clone desktops in a customer environment for the past 12 months we ran into a problem the other day. For several reasons we are still running Horizon View 6.0.1 build 2088845 The error we received was the following: Error during provisioning: View Composer AD Fault: Administrator account used for QuickPre …
Yesterday, 2015-09-03, VMware release a new version of Horizon View, version 6.2. There are quite a few enhancements and i know at least a few of them that i can take advantage of more or less immediately e.g.: Windows 10 Windows 10 is supported as a desktop guest operating system Horizon Client runs on Windows …
Today i again received some were good news from VMTurbo. Now they have decided to also give away 2 free VMworld 2015 full conference passes for the Barcelona, Spain, event. VMworld in Barcelona will be held at Fira Gran Vira 12 – 15 October later this year. As i wrote in this blog post they also gave …
As i wrote in this blog post my blog was voted as number 17 during the annual top vBlog voting contest held by Eric Siebert at vSphere-land and i’m really thankful to all my readers for this. Just wanted to let you know that i received the prize the other day and it was a nice …
This is actually really cool, VMTurbo Operations Manager version 5.2 is now available as a Software as a Service offering via Amazon Web Services (AWS). The VMTurbo SaaS is delivered as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that is really simple and easy to deploy and the recommended way to monitor your internal data center infrastructure via …
Today it came to my knowledge that Infinio once more will give away one full VMworld 2015 conference pass. VMworld will be held August 3 – September 3 in Moscone Center San Francisco. Infinio did the same thing last year, which i published a blog post about here, and the promotion is open between July 3, 2015 …
Just wanted to let you know that i will do a public speaking session on Nutanix. This will be a two hour event June 17 in Stockholm Sweden. I’ll be covering a limited number for topics so we have the time for deep dive and questions. This session will not be a sales presentation, it …
Last week, Unitrends released a new product — Unitrends Free. The product, which is unlimited in terms of VMs and sockets, gives you the opportunity to protect 1TB of VM data for free, forever. When downloading your Unitrends Free copy, which you can do via this link, you also get a chance to participate in the “Recover Your …
Today i received some were good news from VMTurbo. They are actually giving away free VMworld 2015 tickets this year as well. They did the same last year which you can read about here. VMworld will be held August 30TH, 2015 – September 3RD, 2015 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. If you haven’t done so already sign …