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Notes from the field (SDDC) – VMware Cloud Director cannot Power On a VM

Not long ago, my team received an incident report from one of our customers about a VMware virtual machine in Cloud Director that could not be Powered On. From the Cloud Director side the customer sees a “Starting Virtual Machine” task…

Fresh energy for blogging and add value to the vCommunity again

Normally, I write only technical blogs, but now this blog post is more about the challenges I faced at the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024. Like almost all IT Infrastructure and Engineer graduates, you'll start as a first-line…

Run a VMware NSX(-T) Edge Node 4.x with bridging functionality on VMware vSphere 6.5 or 6.7

Use Case Recently on a project, where I needed to do a workload migration from a vSphere 6.7 with NSX-V platform to vSphere 7.x with NSX(-T) platform. NSX(-T) 4.1 came out just before our testing phase. With all of our good thoughts,…
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Fully Automated – App Volumes 4.x – Application Package Creation

How to get a fully automated VMware App Volumes 4.x application package. A couple of years ago, I was running a project where I needed to AppStack 150+ applications with VMware App Volumes. At that time VMware had not an automated way of…
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Do host queries failed, while running the Dell VxVerify script

Recently I was tasked to upgrade a Dell VxRail cluster with version 7.0.411. One of the prerequisites is running the Dell VxVerify (Python) script on the Dell VxRail Manager to verify if your Dell VxRail cluster is ready for the upgrade.…
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Notes from the field (EUC) – Missing your devices in Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub (Web)?

A new section in my blog series… Lately I didn’t find much useful to blog about. For me a (technical) blog consists of a problem description, things you tried and a solution to make it work. In the end you hope other people facing this…
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Differences in creating Windows 10 and Windows 11 images on VMware vSphere with Packer.

Not so long a ago I wanted to switch my Windows 10 image creation based on Microsoft MDT and in-guest PowerShell scripts to HasiCorp Packer on my VMware vSphere and Horizon homelab environment. A lot of the vCommunity members wrote blogs about…
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Integrate EJBCA as a Certificate Authority in Workspace ONE UEM

Workspace ONE UEM has the ability to integrate with other Certificate Authorities (CA's) to distribute and create user/device certificates. Examples of common CA's are Microsoft ADCS, Generic SCEP, Symantec, GlobalSign, RSA and EJBCA. One…
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Dealing with local admin rights on a (non-)persistent VDI.

Use case Recently I had to work on an use case where "VMware Writable Volumes" on VMware Horizon non-persistent VDI came into play for research and development users.The Writable Volume is used for installing developer applications with…
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Repackage the Mozilla Firefox installer the friendly way

Why this blog... During one of my previous projects in a role as a VMware Application Deployment specialist the customer had the requirement that all applications (if available) were multi-language in at least Dutch and English, so a user…