VMware

 

When creating a desktop pool in VMware View using View Composer, you may receive an error similar to the below.

What it is generally saying is View Composer has a fault, it was a no permission fault and the problem was with a specific permission which will be listed in the error.

 

When you installed View and configured to access your vCenter Server you created an Active Directory user (e.g. svc_view) and created a role on the vCenter with the specific permissions only for View (e.g. View Administrator).

If you missed a permission when creating this rule (even I've missed a permission out at least once), just add it to the vCenter role.

 

As you can see below we are missing the "Virtual Machine.Inventory.CreateFromExisting" and "Global.DisableMethods" permissions...

 

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As some may know ESXi 3.5 and 4.0 has an unsupported console which can be accessed for VMware technical support etc.

 

One of the features of vCloud Networking and Security is the ability to provide load balancing.

This is a great benefit if you do not have a hardware load balancer, do not want to or cannot use Windows NLB, but need to load balance traffic.

 

It can provide load balancing for the following:

  • HTTP
  • HTTPS
  • TCP (specific ports such as 8080, 22 etc)

 

Load balancing methods available are:

  • Round Robin
  • IP Hash
  • Least Connections
  • URI

 

 

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In View 5.1 the task of changing the default self-signed certificate on the View Connection Server is much easier than previous versions.

Now a certificate can be requested using the standard Windows MMC based certificates console.

In the case of below we will be using an internal Microsoft AD based certificate authority (CA).

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The keyboard combination CTRL+ALT+DEL has been a long known shortcut on Linux systems to immediatley shutdown the server.

In most recent Linux distributions this has been disabled for obvious reasons.

 

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