The Scenario: At work, we recently upgraded our vSphere environment to vSphere 6.5 Update 2. We had been using Horizon 7.4 since GA without much issue. Immediately after the upgrade to 6.5U2, we began to experience strange behaviors in Horizon. Some of those behaviors as follows: Newly provisioned Linked Clones from an existing Desktop Pool… Read More
Challenge: Integrating vRO with vRA
Earlier in the year I stood up an expandable deployment of vRealize Automation (following this blog post). I’ve finally had time over the last week or so to focus on this new (to me) technology! I’m starting to play around and really enjoying myself while at the same time becoming incredibly frustrated when I can’t… Read More
My Experience Upgrading vCenter Server from 6.5 to 6.7
vSphere 6.7 was released on April 17, 2018 and I have been eagerly awaiting the ability to upgrade any one of my environments. It recently came to the decision of either upgrading to vSphere 6.5U2 or shooting straight to vSphere 6.7 as a result of support for a newer operating system. Additional benefits in vSphere 6.7 ended… Read More
The ramdisk ‘root’ is full.
Despite having it on my “to-do” list for quite some time, I still haven’t configured vSphere Autodeploy. Instead, I’ve written scripts to automate most of the settings that I need to apply. I’ve felt like this has mostly sufficed and enabled me to still quickly provision a host. Not long ago I deployed a new… Read More
vRealize Automation 7.x Directory Sync Failure
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
Meltdown/Spectre Patching – Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
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
Helpful Jira Query for Total Time Spent
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
