You have an NVIDIA GPU installed in your server and the NVIDIA licensing server configured, now you need to prep your virtual desktops to utilize the GPU. I’ll cover the basic steps here, but more information can be found on […]
NVIDIA License Setup for vGPU Licensing
NVIDIA now gives us the option to use a cloud-based license server or the classic on-prem appliance. The cloud licensing server may be simpler, assuming the appropriate firewall rules can be added. I chose the on-prem appliance since I was […]
Microsoft WSL2 with VMware Horizon
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL/WSL2) is a great way to quickly access a Linux environment directly from a Windows OS, without a dual-boot or dedicated virtual machine. It’s fairly simple to set up on Windows 10 and 11. If you […]
NVIDIA GPU Install for VMware Horizon vGPU
I’m going to cover the steps to get an NVIDIA GPU installed and ready for VMware Horizon vGPU usage. The following steps are not all-inclusive since the hardware and specific versions you may use could be different from what I’m […]
VMware Horizon “No RDS hosts are available”
Maybe like me you want to quickly spin up a manual RDS farm so you jump in vCenter and clone an existing RDS image that has the Horizon Agent installed. The problem here is that when you go to add […]
VMware App Volumes 4.x Upgrade to 2209
Below are the steps to upgrade VMware App Volumes 2111 (4.5) to App Volumes 2209 (4.8). The steps should be the same for upgrading any previous 4.X version of App Volumes, but be sure to reference the official docs in […]
Installing MP4H 2.0
VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for Horizon Install MP4H = Management Pack for Horizon The vRealize Operations Management Pack for Horizon is the modern version of the old vRealize Operations for Horizon, commonly referred to as v4H. At first glance, […]
Configuring Horizon for Avi Load Balancing
This is a continuation of my last post where we configured Avi to perform basic load balancing for VMware Horizon Connection Servers. The below information is relevant for any load balancer used in the same way for Horizon. Now that […]
Avi Load Balancing for VMware Horizon
Let’s say you are going to run a Proof of Concept (PoC) for VMware Horizon and you want to include some basic load balancing. It is best practice after all. Not everyone has an existing load balancer to tack Horizon […]
Avi 21.1 vSphere Install
I wanted to check out the changes to Avi 21.1 so I did a new install in my lab. There have been quite a few GUI-related changes both during the installation and Admin portal to make it look and feel […]