Registering an Instantclone administrator using PowerCLI

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Another question Sean Massey asked me if it is possible to register an instant clone domain administrator. This is possible using the instantcloneenginedomainadministrator service with the InstantCloneEngineDomainAdministrator_create method. This needs a spec with the following content: spec (vmware.hv.InstantCloneEngineDomainAdministratorSpec) base (vmware.hv.InstantCloneEngineDomainAdministratorBase) username (string) domain (domainid) password(vmware.hv.securestring) The password can be created using… Continue reading

Honoured to be named VMware EUC Champion 2018

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You might have seen the announcement on the VMware EUC blog, Twitter or the new EUC Champions page already but I have been named one of the VMware End-User Computing (EUC) Champions for 2018. It is an honour to be awarded this status that only a select few receive each… Continue reading

Pulling horizon session information using PowerCLI

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I should’ve already posted a blog about this but better late then never. At the end of february I posted about several new functions being added to the vmware.hv.helper and two out of three where about pulling session information. Recently I received some questions about using those since it’s the… Continue reading

Welcome again to Vembu as partner for retouw.nl

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After serving for a year already as partner for this site Vembu decided to renew their sponsorship for yet another year. In case you don’t know them yet here’s a short overview of the VMbackup software they make: VMware Backup Vembu VMBackup delivers reliable and consistent backups with recovery points… Continue reading

The VMware Labs flings monthly for April 2018

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It’s been a rather quiet month on the VMware flings front. No wonder with the vSphere 6.7 and other releases this month. Did you already test them? I have to say like vSphere 6.7 but it’s consider the numbering good as well, it wouldn’t have fit to be a 7.*… Continue reading

Added functions in vmware.hv.helper

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Last Saturday I created a pull request to add some new functionality to the VMware.hv.helper. Together with an older PR that was still open it received an okay on Sunday. This is a list of the functionality I have added: Get-HVHealth Shows the health information for the following services: ADDomain… Continue reading

Managing Pods in a Horizon View Cloud Pod Environment using PowerCLI & Api’s

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After Pod Federations and Sites it is time to manage the actual pods. Let’s take a look at what we can do. $services1.pod | gm Looks like a short post to me since there’s onl Get, List and Update [sta_anchor id=”get” unsan=”Get” /] Pod_Get Just like with site’s the get can… Continue reading

Creating and managing Sites in a Horizon View Cloud Pod Environment using PowerCLI & Api’s

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Intro Like I said in my previous post about Pod Federations this is a separate post that will show how to handle Sites within a Pod Federation. There are only a couple of API calls that do not include assigning a pod to a site. This is done trough the… Continue reading

Initiating and managing the Podfederation in a Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture using PowerCLI & API’s

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One of the new cmdlets for the vmware.hv.helper that I am currently working on is initiating the Cloud Pod Architecture (CPA) and more actions related to this. This blog post will show the basics about initiating, and joining a CPA using the API’s. Doing things with site’s within the CPA… Continue reading

Remove desktop assignment

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In this blogpost I showed how to assign a certain vdi machine to a user. This has been made easier since in the vmware.hv.helper module. These days we can use this: get-hvmachine -machinename MACHINENAME | set-hvmachine -user USER@DOMAIN This week I got the logical question from Brandon Smith in the… Continue reading