Introduction: A debate has been going on forever on which cloud model organizations should adopt whether it be private or public cloud (Rogers, 2016). Not only are vendors and customers alike coming to the realization that it is a stale debate (Seshachala,…
Introduction: There is no denying it, we are living in the era of digital transformation, every decision in our lives is driven by vast amount of information made possible by astonishing advancements in technology (EMC, 2014). With 11 billion devices connected…
Introduction: In a scene from the movie “Sex Tape”, actor Jason Segel accidentally uploads a sex video of him and his wife to the cloud. When the wife played by Cameron Diaz finds out and both characters go on a…
Issue: While trying to import an OVA, EMC Recover Point for VM 5 to be specific, I faced the following issue knowing that I recently upgraded my lab to vCenter/vSphere 6.5 and received the following error: “ OVF Package…
Issue: After upgrading Citrix XenDesktop 7.11 to 7.12 with Director on the same machine , Citrix Director stopped working and got stuck loading directly after login. After a bit of troubleshooting, seems that the issue lies here “System.ServiceModel.ServiceActivationException: The service…
Intro: We have completed upgrading our vCenter to 6.5 in an earlier post and now its time to upgrade vSphere hosts to 6.5 using VMware Update Manager embedded into vCenter. One can also upgrade using a local attached ISO through…
Intro: Now that VMware vCenter 6.5 has been officially released, it is time to upgrade from 6.0 u2 to 6.5. vSphere 6.5 has also been released so I will publish another post after VCSA 6.5 has been…
Intro: Been playing around with VMware vRealize Automation vRa 7 for some time now and I was wondering where would I find the switch to change the landing page to a default tenant rather than the default landing page.…
Intro: I have faced this issue couple of times now on different NetScaler builds (10 & 11) but used Citrix approach to solve the issue detailed here ( http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127622 ) . Now that I am stuck at a high profile…
Intro: Deploying Microsoft Server 2012 R2 or Server 2016 TPx Remote Desktop Services or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure RDS/VDI requires a bit of PowerShell majic. Some configuration parameters are not available through Server Manager and GUI is a disaster by all…