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Nothing is more fun than walking into a client site on a Monday morning and something that’s supposed to be easy (installing Horizon Agent in base image) doesn’t work. I logged into the Windows 7 virtual desktop image and tried to install the Horizon Agent, however, I received a message stating: “The system must be…
When provisioning Horizon 7 Instant Clones, you may have noticed some new folders that were created in the VM and Template view in the vSphere Web Client. Each of these folders has a specific purpose for Instant Clones: ClonePrepInternalTemplateFolder cp-template-xxxx – Virtual machine that is a template used to create Instant Clones; this is created…
This will be the first post of a series —as I am going to post my study notes for NPP as a general reference and a study tool for others. We’ll start with the basics, Nutanix vocabulary. The Nutanix Xtereme Computing Platform (XCP) is a converged, scale-out compute and storage system that is purpose built…
ICYMI, you can find Part I here. Second Attempt – Pass! The important decision to make whether I should wait or reapply immediately. Brett and I talked a lot about this over the two days following our results. I decided that I would shore up the gaps in our design (primarily our DR plan and…
I’m excited to announce that I have been awarded the title of VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) #243. If you are unfamiliar with the VCDX program, you can find more information here. My journey towards VCDX began a little over three years ago. I had successfully passed the VCAP5-DCA (May 2013) and VCAP5-DCD (Sept 2013) exams…
vSphere administrators should know the components of virtual machines. There are multiple VMware file types that are associated with and make up a virtual machine. These files are located in the VM’s directory on a datastore. The following table will provide a quick reference and short description of a virtual machine’s files.
In order to view more information about the distributed switch configuration, use the net-dvs command. This is only available in the local shell. Notice that it specifies information like the UUID of the distributed switch and the name. We can also see information regarding Private VLANs if we have those set up. If we keep…
There are many useful things to look at when in the memory view of esxtop. Several important things to look at near the top of the esxtop. PMEM /MB – memory for the host VMKMEM /MB – memory for the VMkernel PSHARE /MB – ESXi page sharing statistics SWAP /MB – ESXi swap usage statistics…
The default view of esxtop is CPU, there are several useful counters in this view. GID – group ID NAME – virtual machine name NWLD – number of worlds %USED – percentage physical CPU time accounted to this world %RUN – percentage of total scheduled time for the world to run %SYS – percentage of time…
The last post discussed navigating esxtop, now let’s get into each view a little bit more. There are several network counters that are default when you go to the networking view, here’s a brief overview of each: PKTTX/s – # of packets transmitted per second MbTX/s – MegaBits transmitted per second PKTRX/s – # of…
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