In this walkthrough I will be installing App Volumes 4 build 2103. I will be using Windows Server 2019 and SQL Server 2019. Installing App Volumes Manager 4.X On App Volumes Manager server mount the .ISO you downloaded from VMware Open the folder called “Installation” Run “Setup.msi” At the …

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Overview I will be going over how to install and configure horizon 8 connection server. This includes installing the connection server, licensing horizon view, configure event database, and replacing self signed certificate. Demo is running Horizon 8 2103, Windows Server 2019, and SQL Server 2019. Lets begin! System …

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Recently I was assigined to a project within my company to deploy VMware Cloud Foundation 4.x within one of our dark sites. The team started researching updating VMware Cloud Foundation when deployed within dark site. We came across VMware doc that went over the process. Over the weekend I decided to deploy nested …

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This guide we will go over how to install and configure VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.3 Virtual Appliance on vSphere 7.0. In a future post, I will be going over how to install and configure vSphere Replication 8.3 appliance, as I feel this deserves its own blog post. The guide will walk you through the following: …

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April 2nd ended up being an exciting day! vSphere 7, vSAN 7.0, Site Recovery Manager 8.3, vSphere Replication 8.3, etc. I knew this weekend was going to have some fun times ahead in the home lab. One of the things I’ve been wanting to get my hands on was the HyTrust KeyControl. I figured why not setup KeyControl while …

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VMware recently announced a new version of App Volumes 4! App Volumes 4 comes with exciting new features and improvements over App Volumes 2.x. In this guide we will be going over how to upgrade App Volumes 2.18 to App Volumes 4. You can find more about App Volumes 4 by visiting VMware Docs and Techzone. Before you …

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I recently was asked by a co-worker of mine why do I continue to invest time and money into my home lab. Don’t you have better things to do after work then your home lab? Do you really spend your free time learning a new product, when you could just wait to do at work? Did you really go home to try to replicate a issue …

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Overview Some organizations are required to deploy and use SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) products within their environments. Your InfoSec team may live and die by some type of SIEM within your environment whether it be IBM Qradar, Solarwinds LEM, Splunk, LogRhythm, or vRealize Log Insight, etc. …

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Installing VMware JMP On your JMP server run “VMware-JMP-Installer-X.X.exe” as administrator. At the welcome screen press next and accept the license agreement You will be presented with a choice to enable “Allow HTTP Traffic on Port 80” I recommend #not enabling this option. The installer will require you to enter …

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Overview Recently we have decided to go with UEM for our project. UEM is currently running in our VDI test environment with Window 10 1803 Enterprise before going live in production. Recently my test users have experienced an issue with UWP missing. For example calculator, photos, paint3d. sticky notes, etc. I did …

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