Troubleshooting vSAN Witness Node Isolation
This week I had a fun one with vSAN stretched clusters. After a failover test, on 2 stretched clusters both witnesses of those clusters stopped working. Let the troubleshooting begin… Read more »
Author Archives: LaurensvanDuijn
Awarded VMware EUC Champion 2019
As of today, I am both proud and honored to announce that I have been awarded VMware EUC Champion for 2019. Making it my second year as a VMware EUC… Read more »
VMworld 2019 San Francisco
23:57 on the 15th of July my mailbox went loco. Hello Laurens van Duijn, you’re going to VMworld 2019 in San Francisco! You have been selected to receive a free… Read more »
VMware Identity Manager and Horizon 7.* SAML expects credentials from another server
So… I just had a nice week troubleshooting a Horizon 7 SAML issue with VMware Identity Manager SAAS / 1903 with GSS. Finally got it fixed with some good old… Read more »
How to Upgrade the VMware Identity Manager Connector on Windows
When the cloud upgrades automagically you also need to upgrade your local connector. Here I will describe how to do this in the popular comic version with screenshots. How to… Read more »
VMware Identity Manager 19.03: Upgrade from 3.3
A new migration tool, released in VMware Identity Manager 19.03, helps you upgrade from version 3.3 to 19.03. In this video, walk through the 3.3 to 19.03 upgrade process, and… Read more »
NVIDIA GRID Could not initialize plugin ‘/usr/lib64/vmware/plugin/libnvidia-vgx.so’ for vGPU “profile_name”
If you are using the NVIDIA P4/P6/P40 GPU graphic card based on the Pascal architecture you need to disable the “ECC Memory” otherwise your VMs will not power on and… Read more »
How to upgrade ESXi 6.7U1 to 6.7U2 via esxcli
VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7U2 is just released so my eagerness told me to upgrade the lab asap. If you are interested in what’s changed. The release notes are here. What’s… Read more »
Awarded VMware vEXPERT 2019
Yes! I am proud to be awarded the vExpert status for the 4th year in a row. You can look up my profile or check the vExpert Directory. Congratz to… Read more »
VMware View Planner 4.0 How To Guide
VMware View Planner is the first comprehensive standard methodology for comparing virtual desktop deployment platforms. Using patented technology, View Planner generates a realistic measure of the client and server-side performance… Read more »