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[vSphere 6.7] Interesting things I learnt this week

[vSphere 6.7] Interesting things I learnt this week

Every week you learn something. I would like to see share and keep diary of myself and refer it in future. This is the only purpose of my blog.

Latency sensitivity for Application like Skype

You receive a warning for CPU Reservation when setting Latency Sensitivity to High, but not for memory reservation. VMware highly recommends to set memory reservation also to 100%. Without the memory…

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vCenter 6.7 VCSA Post upgrade (From Windows) tasks

vCenter 6.7 VCSA Post upgrade (From Windows) tasks

VMware Enhanced Authentication Plug

The most under-rated feature and still the essential one for daily life. Download the VMware Enhanced Authentication Plug. It is available by entering https://<fqdn-vCenter>/ui and look at the bottom. Since it is HTML5 it might get not your needed attention.

NTP Time configuration

Second you must configure NTP server. By default it does not do for…

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IT NEWS in 3rd Week of Oct 2019

IT NEWS in 3rd Week of Oct 2019

I really like doing this IT round up. Hope someone is reading and having fun. In either case, I love to collect it and bookmark myself for self use.

So let start.

Cloud, Virtualization

In under Virtualization, Cloud,  here is what we have

Are you in Reston, VA  20190 or around think of registering for VMware Cloud on AWS. I would do this. This is must for any Virtualization person.

Here is the…

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Few interesting articles on VMware Horizon - Sept 2019

Few interesting articles on VMware Horizon – Sept 2019

Interesting article on VDI Protection.

It is worth reading. Part01 and Part02. While reading above articles came across rich Technical resource on VDI. It is here. Must bookmark.

How to successfully logoff users in Horizon

I recently faced similar problem. Thanks Wouter for writing. It is super rich in content. https://www.retouw.nl/powercli/apihow-to-successfully-logoff-users/

Wish to know how…

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Vembu BDR Suite Free Edition becomes more Powerfull

Vembu BDR Suite Free Edition becomes more Powerfull

Highly customer focus on Small Businesses, Vembu surprises you again. Now Free Backup Software by Vembu geared towards full usage. I´m glad to share with you the below information from Vembu Technical Marketing team. Im proud of Vembu.

Vembu BDR Suite Free Edition, which was primarily aimed for empowering Small Businesses to protect their Virtual, Physical Servers & Workstations has got a major…

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Final Post on Upgrading Vembu BDR Suite to Version 4.0

Final Post on Upgrading Vembu BDR Suite to Version 4.0

So, this is where we aimed 4 weeks earlier and finally we have been there. This post like earlier post is full of screen capture. Some people do not like blog posts with screen capture. Of course I agree with them but not fully. Sometime pictures helps us understands better. More screen means less text and more information. In case you reach this post directly, you may like to read part01, part02

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Upgrading Vembu Server in action - Part 3

Upgrading Vembu Server in action – Part 3

Continuing our Upgrade journey from Post 1 and Post 2, we have finally arrived a place where we must make our hands dirty. The success of this phase is completely depend upon how well you have planned the earlier phases. Without much ado, let’s get in.

My lab is at Vembu BDR v3.7. As per the migration guide I have to take double step migration.

Vembu Upgrade PathsThe upgrades are really easy.…

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Vembu BDR Upgrade – Part02

Vembu BDR Upgrade – Part02

In the previous post, we discussed the reasons why we should upgrade Vembu Backup and Replication Suite. I hope you found my post useful. We will continue to our next part of the upgrade. In this post, we will do what is referred to and commonly ignored Current state analysis. This the most important step while planning an upgrade. Be it Vembu BDR suite or anything.

What is Current State Analysis…

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Vembu BDR Upgrade - Part01

Vembu BDR Upgrade – Part01

I’m excited to start a blog series on how to upgrade the Vembu Backup and Disaster Recovery suite. If you are a regular reader of my blog you might acknowledge that fact that I don’t blog for sake of blogging. I’m always in search of Unique topics. The upgrade plan for Vembu BDR falls in this category and is only available on Vembu official website. To my knowledge it is yet not covered by any…

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Vembu BDR Suite v4.0 - Focus on Hyper-V and manageability of the product

Vembu BDR Suite v4.0 – Focus on Hyper-V and manageability of the product

Quick VM Recovery Report

From v4.0, you will get a report for Quick VM recovery process with details like VM Name, Recovery point, Start and End time, target hypervisor and the status of the recovery.

This feature is really important when you wish to provide SLA to your business. We should know how long it takes to restore a VM/Application/Server or database. So I really welcome this feature in…

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Vembu provides the much awaited VMware vSphere 6.7 support

Vembu provides the much awaited VMware vSphere 6.7 support

Users can now experience the latest advancements in their VMware hypervisor with vSphere 6.7 while ensuring the protection of their virtual environment with Vembu 3.9.1.

Vembu is all set to support the new vSphere 6.7 with its latest release Vembu BDR Suite 3.9.1 update 1. The update is GA now and is ready for download.

Along with the support for vSphere 6.7, the latest release comes with…

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Deploying Active Directory Federation Services for Windows Hello For Business -Post02

Deploying Active Directory Federation Services for Windows Hello For Business -Post02

Windows Hello for Business (WHFB) works exclusively with the Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS) role included with Windows Server 2016 and requires an additional server update.

We need a ADFS for device registration and key registration.

The on-prem key trust deployment uses Active Directory Federation Services roles for key registration and device registration. ADFS do not need internet…

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Windows Hello For Business (WHFB) -Introduction -Post01

Windows Hello For Business (WHFB) -Introduction -Post01

What is Windows Hello For Business

Windows Hello is Microsoft Strategy to replace passwords. Windows Hello Technically replaces password with Two Factor Authentication. Two Factor Authentication is what you have (Certificate) and what you know (PIN) or What you are (Finger Print/ Face).

Windows Hello provides now option to us Biometric login (Face or Finger Print)

People often get confused with…

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Certificate for View Connection Servers especially for Blast Protocol

Certificate for View Connection Servers especially for Blast Protocol

This is a short post on configuring SSL certificate for View Connection Server. Look, there are millions of posts on how to do it but what is unique in this post how I arrived at this conclusion and What I learnt.

Do not use a template with “Key Storage Provider” it doesn’t work.

One of the primary symptoms you will face is below

“Unable to connect to desktop: There is no available gateway…

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Securing Vembu Backup Server -Part05

Securing Vembu Backup Server -Part05

Segmentation of Vembu Backup Server

This the concluding post of Five Part series. Previous posts are Part01, Part02, Part03 and Part04. If you are with me for all these 5 parts I assure you that you would have learned at least something.

The planning for Segmentation for the workload is considered much before we choose to deploy to Vembu Backup Server (VBS). This topic has network security…

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[QuickPosts] Installing RDSH on Windows 2016

[QuickPosts] Installing RDSH on Windows 2016

As the name sounds it is a quick post. This post like others is whole of screen captures. I would like to keep such posts under separate blog post to avoid mixing content (words) with Pictures. So here there are fewer words but more pictures. The relevant post will be linked soon here.

In short, do you want to see screens without getting into too much? Do you want to just review/correct your…

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[PKI] Why we need Online Certificate Status Protocol when we have CDP?

[PKI] Why we need Online Certificate Status Protocol when we have CDP?

Why we need Online Certificate Status Protocol when we have CDP?

well, a couple of reasons

The client can query the validity of the certificate on the fly. It is much more dynamic. It is a highly scalable solution.

CRL size might increase which can become difficult to manage. More likely would be the Big Enterprise where 100,000 plus certificates are being managed

When we revoke certificate the…