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Boot IGEL UD Pocket – Required BIOS/UEFI Settings
The IGEL UD Pocket allows IGEL OS to run directly from a USB device without replacing the operating system installed on the computer.
Fix Workspace ONE Admin Assistant Parsing Failures on macOS
When using Omnissa Workspace ONE Admin Assistant on macOS, parsing can fail even if the application file itself is valid. One possible cause is a missing macOS privacy permission.
Enterprise Wipe vs. Device Wipe vs. Unenroll vs. Delete Device in Workspace ONE UEM
Workspace ONE UEM provides several actions for removing management, corporate resources, or data from a device.
Intelligent Hub on macOS Not Synchronizing After an Active Directory User Name Change
After changing a user's name in Active Directory, the new information may already be visible in Workspace ONE UEM and Omnissa Access while Intelligent Hub on the Mac still displays the old name.
Enroll Windows Server 2025 in Omnissa Workspace ONE UEM
Windows Server is managed through Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub and does not use the standard Windows OMA-DM management channel.
Send Workspace ONE Hub Notifications to All Users
In this guide, you will learn how to send a notification to users through Workspace ONE Hub Services.
Build a Test Environment for OPSWAT MetaDefender Managed File Transfer
In this guide, you will build a simple test environment for OPSWAT MetaDefender Managed File Transfer, also known as MFT.
Fix Windows Server Internet Access When the Default Route Points to Itself
A Windows Server can lose internet access even though the network settings look correct.
Fix Static Windows Network Settings Reset After Reboot
If you ended up on this blog, you are probably dealing with the issue that your network settings keep getting lost after a reboot.
VCF full stack from October 2027 – myth or truth?
A myth that will not go away, and one VMware's competitors are happy to repeat: “from October 2027 a full-stack VCF implementation is mandatory”. It simply is not true.
VLR Appliance 9.0.4 – HBR-Agent can't be installed
You installed VLR Appliance 9.0.4 and it will not install the Host Based Replication Agent for ESX. If you run a vSAN stretched cluster, there is a workaround.
Fix NSX to Re-Import ESX into VCF
If you stumble upon this blog chances are you are working on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x.
vSAN Witness Appliance 9.0
You have probably run into the same problem I did: a freshly deployed 9.0 Witness Appliance that ignores its configuration and reports an expired licence.
Get Online Depot working in VCF 9
In VMware Cloud Foundation 9 we can configure a Online Depot to get access to the Binaries for the Management as well as the Instance Components.
VCF Operations for Logs 9.0
You upgraded VCF Operations to 9.0, lost the link to VCF Operations for Logs, found there is no upgrade path for it, rebuilt it, and now want the connection back.
Renew the STS Signing Root Certificate in vCenter
I recently had a call from a customer that received multiple alerts about their ESXi Hosts certificate was about to expire.
Create a password hash for vSphere Configuration Profile
Configuration Profiles have emerged as the modern successor to VMware's legacy Host Profiles, bringing enhanced automation and streamlined management to your vSphere environment.
Broadcom Download Token
From now on your vCenter or SDDC Manager needs a unique token. Without it, from the end of April 2025, no patches for VMware software will download any more.
Monitor vSphere Supervisor and Guest Clusters with VCF Operations
Monitoring vSphere Supervisor Cluster and Kubernetes Guest Cluster with the Kubernetes Management Pack in VCF (Aria) Operations. The Monitoring is a great alternative to prometheus and grafana.
vSAN Data Protection
vSAN 8 Update 3 brought the Data Protection feature, which closes the last gap against conventional block storage. You can now snapshot workloads on production storage directly.
vSAN Snapshot Service Appliance for vSAN Data Protection
VMware released with vSAN 8 Update 3 the data protection feature which enables based on the tremendous power of ESA's snapshotting engine an all new levels of data protection and agility.
An overview of Omnissa Horizon for Citrix customers
A guide for Citrix administrators who want to understand how Horizon is put together, and how its components map onto a Citrix environment.
Leaving Citrix behind, with Omnissa Horizon and soulTec
Wondering how to move off your existing Citrix environment without interrupting operations? More and more of our customers are looking at it because Citrix keeps getting more expensive.
Scality ARTESCA
ARTESCA from Scality is scalable, secure object storage delivered as a software-defined storage solution.
vSphere Supervisor Services
Supervisor Services run Kubernetes deployments directly on a vSphere namespace, so no Kubernetes guest cluster is needed and the pods run on the ESXi host through the vSphere CRX runtime.
Securing the Horizon connection – part 2
Part 1 covered how locked.properties secures the connection between Horizon Connection Servers and clients, mainly through balancedHost. There are cases where that causes trouble.
Broadcom Support Portal – Quick Links
A collection of links into the Broadcom Support Portal, so you get to the right product download or the right portal quickly.
Broadcom Support Portal Challenge
The VMware tools moved to the Broadcom portals on 6 May. Since then there has been disillusion and, in places, bewilderment. A lot of accounts are simply empty.
Storage performance testing with vdbench
IOmeter is quick, but its data patterns do not suit a modern storage array. vdbench is the better tool, and this is how to configure it.
Securing the Horizon connection – part 1
Recent Horizon releases tighten the connections between agents and connection servers. Several of those settings are driven by the locked.properties file.
Integrating Antrea into NSX
Registering a Kubernetes cluster running Antrea with the NSX management and central control plane, so groups, policies and trace flows are managed in one place.
Working out the VCF core count for VCSP
As an existing VMware VCPP partner you now face joining a VCSP partner under a white-label model, unless you can deliver the 3500 cores yourself. We offer that white labelling.
Infrastructure assessment with HPE CloudPhysics
Replacing your virtual infrastructure and unsure which resources are actually being used, and therefore needed next time round? CloudPhysics ends the guessing.
Monitor Cronjobs with Aria Operations
On a professional services project the customer wanted the VMware SRM backup monitored automatically, with a warning raised if the backup job ever failed. Here is how I did it.
Storage performance testing with IOmeter
Every successful storage project ends with a storage performance test during system acceptance, checking the array, the storage area network and the hosts.
Install vCenter without DNS
A lot of people believe you cannot install vCenter without a DNS server in the environment. Not quite. It is not ideal, but it works.
Secure your DMZ with a proxy
How to secure your DMZ with a proxy. Security is becoming ever more important. Securing the on-premise infrastructure is a top priority for many of our customers and we're here to help.