Update 3/5/2017: Teradici have released FW 5.5.1 to address this issue. Earlier this month VMware Advisory VMSA-2017-008 was issued detailing a heap buffer-overflow vulnerability in, amongst other products, Horizon View. The recommended action for those on Horizon View 6.x was to patch to 6.2.4 However, those making use of Zero Clients in their environment should
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Here is a problem that I came up against when trying to use Update Manager on my newly installed vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). The same ‘fix’ would apply to those trying to perform an update of the VCSA/PSC itself. If you get the notification below when trying to use Update Manager and you see Connectivity
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In order to reach out to the network on most corporate networks you’ll find yourself needing to make use of the corporate proxy server. You’ll need to configure this if you want to use Update Manager on the VCSA or perhaps update the appliance itself. Log into the appliance via https://appliance.domain.local:5480, click on Networking on
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With the release of PowerCLI 6.5 came a updated way of interacting with your Horizon View Infrastructure; the release of a Horizon 7 module! The module provides access to all of the public api, and it can be installed and run anywhere, no longer are you limited to running it from the View Connection Server.
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In many environments after installing the stock ESXI image you end up wanting perform an update with the latest patches, update drivers and maybe even remove drivers. VMware’s Image Builder PowerCLI cmdlets provide a method of taking a stock ESXI image and performing such tasks, resulting in a customised ISO that’s ready for deployment, hopefully
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I recently had a few of my suggestions featured in the community sourced Ultimate Desktop Virtualization Best Practices Guide. Grab your free copy now if you haven’t already! “The first Desktop Virtualization Best Practices Guide created by leading industry and community experts is now available for download! The guide is truly amazing with more than
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Taking my last post on page sharing a little further and inspired by @VBrianGraf & @vmMarkA’s Intra TPS Host Memory Assessment tool, I wanted to create a script that would calculate the memory savings gained from inter-VM page sharing directly from the statistics available in vCenter. In my last post I showed the values that
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With an upcoming upgrade to vSphere 6 on the horizon, the subject of Transparent Page Sharing came to mind again and also the fact that I’ve had a post in draft kicking around for quite a while. Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is a memory saving technique employed by the ESXi hypervisor to reduce memory consumption
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