VMware Horizon View and Linux Multiple Session agent installation
I was helping a colleague in our Open-source/Linux team setup a Linux Desktop (Red Hat 9.1) in our Horizon view. We wanted to do a setup where we used Manual Farm, this requires that the Linux Agent is get registered in the Horizon View Connection Server/Broker, but we could not find the parameters for doing…
VMware PowerCLI 10.0 Released
VMware has released PowerCLI 10.0, this is available from Microsoft PowerShell Galery. This version deprecated some cmdlets/property and have som bug fixes. The biggest change is the Multi-Platform Support. This new version have these modules for Linux and Mac OS: VMware.VimAutomation.Common VMware.VimAutomation.Sdk VMware.VimAutomation.Core VMware.VimAutomation.Cis.Core VMware.VimAutomation.Vds VMware.VimAutomation.Storage VMware.VimAutomation.StorageUtility See the VMware blog for more information about this release here: https://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2018/02/powercli-10.html?src=vmw_so_vex_akjaer_1025
New Veeam agent for Microsoft and Linux Released
Veeam has released new Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.1 and Agent for Linux 2.0. you can finde the release notes for this here: Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.1: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_agent_windows_2_1_release_notes_rn.pdf Agent for Linux 2.0: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_agent_linux_2_0_release_notes_rn.pdf
Veeam Agent for Linux 1.0 Released
Veeam has released version 1.0 of the Veeam agent for Linux. Backup features Veeam provides fast, image-based backup for Linux instances running in the public cloud or on-premises. Backup options include: Entire computer, volume-level and file-level backup: Get image-based backup for your entire Linux system or specific volumes or files Built-in snapshot and CBT drivers: Get true incremental Linux…
VMware and Shell Shock Vulnerability
The Shell Shock Vulnerability was published on the September 24, 2014, but is an old problem that have existed a long time, but has note been fixed proberly. For VMware products the ESXi 4.x and 5.x is not affected put ESX 4.x and old unsupported versions is affected. VMware provide many of there solutions as Virtual…
Bye bye SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware
SLES for VMware has gone EoA on July 25, 2014, so there is currently no Linux distribution, that's bundled with your vSphere License. according to information from VMware they are not switching to a new Linux partner. If you want to know what this means, the information can be found on this site: http://www.vmware.com/products/sles-for-vmware Does this mean that…
Intel E5-2600 V2 CPUs and Virtualization
There is a bug in the Intel E5-2600 V2 CPUs when running a virtualized environemt ontop of servers runnings this type of CPUs, that can resolve in Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) og Kernel Panic in Linux Virtual Machines, this not apply to VMware vSphere but also to Hyper-V and other hypervisor. There may also be other Intel E5-xx00 V2…