Many customers are moving towards extending their Datacenter workloads to the clouds, and Microsoft Azure is one of the partners that the VMware EUC team works very closely with. VMWare Unified Access Gateway, what we called “UAG,” is available in the Azure AD app gallery directly, reducing and simplifying the efforts of integration and configurations. […]
How to Change Workspace ONE Access SAML Signing Certificate
In my previous engagement, a customer asked to change the Workspace ONE Access SAML signing cert after a year and a half in production. WS1 Access was fully deployed along with DR sites and configured as 3rd party IDP with ADFS for O365 use cases. Background: SAML signing certificates ensure that messages are coming from […]
Workspace ONE Access Log Files and Location
Workspace ONE Access Logs and Config File location I came across many times with my customers asking about the logs file location and config file for VMware Workspace ONE Access. Below table has most useful log file location and config file that Engineers and admin should know about and will be helpful to troubleshoot WS1 […]
Workspace ONE Access Multisite Tasks – One Pager
For the past few weeks, I have been working with my project team and my customer to help them stand up VMware Access on a secondary site. With the help of Haseeb Waseem, I have created a single spreadsheet which includes all the major steps needed to create a secondary site. Hope this is helpful […]
NTP configuration on multiple ESXi hosts via PowerCLI
As you might know, keeping our ESXi hosts’ date and time accurate is very critical. To prevent having an inaccurate time configuration we can use the NTP server in our environment.A few days ago, I faced a question about NTP configuration in the vSphere environment and how to set NTP configuration on many ESXi hosts. […]
How to check the compliance of VMware new Licensing for an enterprise
As you might already know VMware announced a change to its per-CPU licensing model,effective April 2, 2020. Do you want to check if you are compliant or need more licenses? Just see below VMwareKB which contains a PowerCLI script for checking this. VMware KB
Enabling dynamic codec switching Horizon View 7.10
VMware Horizon 7.10 – released on September 17, 2019 – ships with a new dynamic encoder. Depending on what content you’re watching in your VDI, it will seamlessly switch to the best suiting codec for optimal performance/quality-balance. While H.264 is ideal for rapidly changing content like videos, JPG/PNG offers better quality for more static content […]
Horizon PowerCLI: Modify existing Pool Settings in Horizon View
Earlier this year, I inherited several Horizon View environments that were not built with manageability in mind. I am working on a larger project to conduct a proper plan and design and rebuild these environments, but until that is complete I need to continue to support the legacy installations. In these environments (Horizon 7.5.1), each […]
VMware PowerCLI Connect-VIServer Error: Invalid server certificate. Use Set-PowerCLIConfiguration
Problem: Unable to connect vCenter with “Connect-VIServer” command. It gives error “VMware PowerCLI Connect-VIServer Error: Invalid server certificate. Use Set-PowerCLIConfiguration“ Reason: The issue usually happen whenever Self Signed Certificate is used in Vcenter server. Solution: Execute below command to ignore Certificate check during vCenter Connection. […]
Configure NSX-V Edge Load Balancer for Horizon
In this blog post I will walkthrough of how to create a load balancer VIP to balance traffic between VMware Connection servers. In the below case, I’ll configure an NSX edge to load balance traffic between my connection servers. Step 1 : Deploy a NSX Edge In networking and Security, […]
Deployment of VMware Unified Access Gateway (UAG) on AWS as EC2 instance
Deployment of VMware Unified Access Gateway (UAG) on AWS as EC2 instance In this post, I’ll provide guidance on how to Deploy VMware Unified Access Gateway in AWS Amazon Native VPC as EC2 instance. Before we proceed, currently UAG FIPS is only supported on the vSphere environment to all other deployment such as AWS and […]
What is new in VMware Horizon 7.8
VMware has released a new version of VMware Horizon 7.8, this is a major release and is, for now, GA 15th March 2019. VMware has made some huge improvements in this release, which customers/partners are going to benefit from. I highly recommend you read my big overview so you can read why you should upgrade […]