tl;dr – In the event of Directory Sync failure, check the following two files on the vRA appliance for the proper Domain and Domain Controller information: /usr/local/horizon/conf/domain_krb.properties and /usr/local/horizon/conf/states/TENANTNAME/####/config-state.json If stale records exist, remove them and restart the appliance. If you use an external vIDM, you may need to search for similar files there. Scenario… Read More

tl;dr – If you’ve patched everything already but still fail verification, check to see if EVC is enabled on the cluster. I found that EVC did not update itself as described in the KB article. Disable/re-enable of EVC enabled new instructions to be applied. — By now, you and the rest of the world know… Read More

My last two posts have detailed information about a major project that I had an opportunity to lead. As part of that project, I wrote a fairly detailed retrospective where I wanted to cover interesting facts, issues that I encountered, and the resolutions to those issues. One of the interesting facts that I included was… Read More

Yesterday I wrote a little about the process I went through when upgrading my production environment. Today, I want to talk about the issues I faced when doing so and what I learned during the project. During the first part of the project, I moved virtual machines from a Distributed Switch to a Standard Switch.… Read More

A quick post about my recent vSphere Upgrade! Earlier this month, I began working on a migration project to move production systems from vSphere 5.5 Update 3 to vSphere 6.5. There’s many different reasons I wanted to do so. I’ll be honest, I’m one of the few that actually wanted to get back to the Web Client. At… Read More