Changing the timezone on a linux server (e.g. Red Hat/CentOS)

[root@USWEB01 ~]# date
Sat May 10 12:01:05 UTC 2014

[root@USWEB01 ~]# ls -alF /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 27 Mar  9  2013 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC

[root@USWEB01 ~]# rm /etc/localtime
rm: remove symbolic link `/etc/localtime'? y

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Migrating/Moving Horizon View Clusters, Hosts and Desktops between vCenter Servers

I was recently in a situation where I needed to retain an existing vCenter Server (5.0) managing a number of clusters and build a new vCenter Server (5.5), then move a single cluster to this new vCenter (including with it a number of ESXi servers and VMs).

After which the ESXi servers would be upgraded and the VMs running on those hosts.

This is a pretty straightforward process if you are only using vCenter server to manage server virtual machines and can be done without any downtime to the VMs.

However if this vCenter Server is used to manage and provision your desktops in a Horizon View environment then it's unfortunately it's not that simple.

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View HTML Access (Blast) - Your VMware Horizon View server does not support web access

After installing VMware Horizon View HTML Access on the Connection Server you may see the following error message:

"Your VMware Horizon View server does not support web access"

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View HTML Access (Blast) - This desktop does not support the requested display protocol

After installing VMware Horizon View HTML Access on the Connection Server and enabling HTML Access for the required desktop pools you may see the following error message:

"This desktop does not support the requested display protocol"

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