In the last post, I configured the Horizon Connection Server and it is ready to publish and deploy new desktops. In this post, I’ll walk through deploying a windows 11 desktop pool. Horizon 8 Series: When we talk about a virtual desktop infrastructure, there are usually two ways to provide a desktop to a user: either…
Horizon Initial Configuration
In the last post, I installed Horizon Connection Server and now I want to configure the Connection Server to be able to create pools of desktops and RDSH-published applications. This configuration includes the following tasks: Horizon 8 Series: Creating appropriate domain users and OUs 1- Log in to the Active Directory and open Active Directory Users…
Install Horizon Connection Server
In this step, you have to fulfill some requirements to be able to install the Connection Server. If you already have an Active Directory or a SQL Server, you can skip installing a new one. One design principle is to eliminate a single point of failure, however, since this is a lab environment, we are…
VMware Horizon 8 (2209) Installation Guide
Since I am preparing myself for a new virtual desktop experience and on the other hand, I have not dealt with this product for two years professionally, I thought it would be useful to document and publish each step I take in installing a complete Virtual Desktop Infrastructure based on Horizon 8. Each post contains…
Processing VM Error: Unfreeze error (over VIX)
I was checking the backup as a normal daily task, which I understood a virtual machine can not be backed up, so as you can see, based on the error it seems there is a problem with VSS Writer. To get more information about this error, I logged into virtual machines and checked the Event…
Remove configuration is grayed out in Veeam Backup
You may have created a CDP or replication job, but you no longer have access to the replication VM, for example, because your target host and repository are no longer accessible, or, like me, you deleted a CDP policy job, but it didn’t complete, and you try to remove the configuration, but you see that…
VxRail, vSAN ReadyNodes, and PowerStore X!
Datacenter solutions are changing faster than ever as business development and new customer demands increase and legacy solutions are no longer suitable for today’s operations. Organizations need to develop new, modern, automated, and intelligent solutions to keep pace with business demands. One of the steps to achieving this flexibility for business continuity, capacity expansion, and…
Detected an invalid snapshot configuration! – Veeam Backup and Replication
A customer faced the problem that replication of some virtual machines did not work as expected and an eOne customer told me on the phone that some of his virtual machines could not replicate and got a complicated error message, but the rest (about 90) of the virtual machines could replicate successfully. The error was…
Estimation of VM change rate in different time intervals (minutes, hours, daily)
A question on one of the projects came up recently about how to see the disk change of virtual machines for a specified period of time. We were planning for replication between sites and the customer wants to know how much bandwidth does it need for replication of virtual machines. Actually, he would like to…
Veeam Backup – Hardened Repository
As an IT professional, you have heard about the word Ransomware time and time again and it has become a major concern of all types of organizations, from small to large enterprises. When Colonial Pipeline was hit by ransomware in 2021 and finally forced to pay for ransomware after hours of attempts, it was no…