Quick and Dirty: Space Reclaimation using PowerCLI and VAAI Storage

Today we have another small script from the Quick and Dirty series. If you use VAAI-compatible storage and provision VMs thinly, you need to perform a space reclaim from time to time to be able to use the deleted VMFS blocks again. In the VMware Knowledge Base the procedure is described using "esxcli", I find the ... Read more

F5 APM: 2-factor authentication not possible with VMware View 6

This problem doesn't really belong here, but maybe it will help someone anyway. The problem is as follows. If the F5 iApp is used for VMware View and extended accordingly for 2-factor authentication, a "User name or password incorrect" message appears between the two queries. This is a bug that is caused by the F5 ... Read more

VMware View: Network card disappeared

Nice problem / feature: With VMware Horizon View / VMware vSphere, network cards and SCSI controllers are HotAdd and HotPlug capable by default. Actually quite nice, but sometimes not desired. For example with VMware View: Users who like to click can remove the network card here, which has a, let's call it, "negative impact" on the connection to its ... Read more

VMware View: The registration of the Group Policy Client service failed

The problem does not really fit here, but maybe it will help someone. The following problem occurs with users who have not logged on to VMware View Horizon Desktops for a long time: The logon of the Group Policy Client service has failed. Access denied The error occurs because the NTUser.dat file within the user profile is corrupt. ... Read more