A few weeks ago, I did a research with Leee Jeffries for GO‑EUC on NVMe memory tiering versus traditional swap in VMware ESXi. VMware ESXi Memory Management Reimagined: NVMe Tiering vs Traditional Swap | GO-EUC The article sparked some great discussions and there is an important caveat when it comes to vGPU desktops that I want to highlight. vGPU Desktops Always Need Full DRAM Here’s the thing that often trips people up: every VM with a vGPU requires all of its RAM to be rese

A new feature available since vSphere 8.0 U2 is federated authentication with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory) and provision the users with SCIM. This is really nice since it is now possible to create Single Sign On, leverage Conditional Access policies and Multi Factor Authentication (MFA). In this blog I will explain step by step how to configure this and how to mitigate a in my opinion big fat no no required in the original documentation: Expose vCenter to the

As you probably already know App-V was originally scheduled to end in January this year (2023). Recently Microsoft announced they pushed the EOL date to April 14th, 2026 so you have still have some air left. But you have to think about a new strategy to deliver the apps. A great alternative is VMware AppVolumes! Little is known you can also use this when you use Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. Even better you can use this with the new amazing AppVolumes on Demand feature!

On a recent project I had to deploy multiple VMware UAG’s for external access. The UAGS are hosted at a cloud provider and the only access I had was the vCloud director. So no PowerShell deployment or the default OVA deployment trough vCenter. Unfortunately the deployment did not work, the backend team was not available at the time (bigger priorities and Ok fair enough Friday late in the afternoon) so no escape to a regular deployment and of course I gave myself a deadline fo

Last year I wrote a little blog about power consumptions and created a little dashboard to see if we can save some power. Link: Monitor Performance while reducing power usage/ C02 Emission ? Yes we can! (debruinonline.net) In the past many best practices preached: disable power management features! Policy to High Performance. No delay is acceptable! Electricity is cheap...but the world has changed. I noticed that when I talk about saving power 90% of the time the discussion i

First of all happy new year everyone! On 31 december 2022 New Years Eve I got a message from a colleague of mine while eating "oliebollen" with the family at friends of ours. One customer is having issues with external login's to their VMware Horizon environment. They get stuck on the Imprivata login screen. Alltough the user can login by re-entering their credentials it is annoying. The fact Imprivata selected the default domain to be the local machine and the user has to sw

Last week I had the privilege to attend to VMware Explore in Barcelona! A lot of awesome sessions, meeting friends, acquaintances and getting a beer (or two…or...) During the trip one of the customers who accompanied us pointed out to me if we ever looked at power consumption and the possibility to reduce it. Personally it did cross my mind but to be honest most of the time we put everything in high performance to get the best performance possible. The world has changed, pric

Let’s play around with the Citrix Hypervisor and Citrix Provisioning Services. It’s been a while since I used Citrix Hypervisor in a production or even in my lab environment so let’s see if we can still run this nested on a VMware ESXi 7 host and stream a virtual desktop on it😊 I tried log all my steps and create screenshots.. Remark that I all ready had a running Citrix environment in place (Delivery Controller, License server, Provisioning Server(s), Storefront, ADC etc.)

As I mentioned in my previous blog VMware Verify goes EoS and EoA on on October 31st, 2022. VMware developed (sort of) 2 alternatives: Intelligent HUB verify and the Authenticator App. Yeah Great news!: The Authenticator App is GA (Globally Available) since 10-06-2022 What is the Authenticator App? Authenticator App (any app supporting TOTP RFC 6238 standard)*: By adding support for authenticator apps that use time-based one-time passcodes (TOTP) such as Microsoft Authenticat

Awesome: VMware Verify (Intelligent HUB) is available within the Default Access Policy on al device platforms! Little back story: As stated in the following article: Workspace ONE Access: VMware Verify End-of-Life Migration Paths (88424) VMware Verify will reach end-of-support (EoS) and end-of-availability date (EoA) on October 31st, 2022. This gave us some headaches.. what are the alternatives? VMware Verify worked very well and gave us the basic features we requested… like

In my daily job insight in performance statistics of the VMware vSphere environment can make my job al lot easier. When going live with a newly build environment or especially when there is an issue with performance. Getting meassurements is key here so the discussion is about facts and not about assumptions. The effect of the changes you implement are shown (or not so you can continue the quest). Of course there are solutions out there like vRops but licenses can be an issue