Tag Archives: View

VCAP-DTD post from one of the SMEs who worked on it

Posted on March 27, 2014 by josh@sostechblog.com

New post today over on The Virtual Buddha from one of the SMEs who helped create the VCAP-DTD exam (he also helped build VCAP-DTA, VCP5-DT and several others, but I digress). The post includes background on the exam, tips, links and … Continue reading →

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P4C: pCLI for View Parameter seeks cmdlet for long-term relationship

Posted on September 12, 2013 by josh@sostechblog.com

There is a list of “View PowerCLI Cmdlet Parameters” in the View documentation but while they are very useful when you have a cmdlet you are trying to run, the descriptions listed in the doc do not include which cmdlets … Continue reading →

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PowerCLI and View

Posted on August 19, 2013 by josh@sostechblog.com

See also: Part 2 in the series So I’ve had need to code some checks for VMware View lately – which means among other things I need to dust off my seriously rusty scripting skills and learn what resources are … Continue reading →

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Updating SSL certificates on View Connection servers

Posted on July 22, 2013 by josh@sostechblog.com

While playing with SSL certs on View servers I found one of my Connection servers would start all of its services, but not start listening on 443. Note that netstat can be used to determine if something listening on 443: … Continue reading →

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VMware Certification program updates

Posted on July 13, 2013 by josh@sostechblog.com

New post with all the prereqs listed VMware recently updated the VCP certification family, adding a new exam for the End User Computing/EUC/View/Horizon View product family. What used to be just “VCPx” with x designating the major release number of … Continue reading →

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Error installing a VMware View Replica 5.2 server

Posted on July 12, 2013 by josh@sostechblog.com

While building a demo environment a coworker ran into an issue installing the View Connection server 5.2.0 build 987719 as a Replica server. The install failed, rolling back right when it seemed to be complete. I started digging around, uninstalling … Continue reading →

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Vote for Ugly!!

Posted on May 31, 2012 by josh@sostechblog.com

Some of the VMWorld 2012 sessions are chosen from the general public of VMware administrators and evangelists world-wide. One of my former coworkers has submitted a proposal for a session covering View Persona, calling it “2776 Viewing Ugly Personas”  Abstract:If you … Continue reading →

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Healthcare in a virtual environment

Posted on December 8, 2010 by josh@sostechblog.com

(this was published in the October edition of St Louis Metropolitan Medicine and the February issue of the PAHCOM Journal.) “Virtualization” runs all computing in the medical office through a central computer with office staff connected from their workstations or … Continue reading →

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