Today’s post is a post detailing the process of migration of Windows 7 to Windows 10 (In-place migrate). VMware Mirage can handle migrations between different Windows OS in two ways. Either you can do an in-place migrate where the user keeps the same hardware, or Mirage will migrate user to W10 and the user will […]
Why and How Enable VMware Mirage Branch Reflector?
VMware Mirage system has built-in deduplication and compression. In a WAN environment which has remote sites usually with limited bandwidth connection to the main site, it is usefull to enable a feature called Branch Reflector and in this post we will detail Why and How Enable VMware Mirage Branch Reflector. Using Mirage branch reflectors promotes efficient […]
How to Apply a VMware Mirage App Layer?
VMware Mirage Guide page is getting more and more finished. Today, we’ll add another post which will teach us How to Apply a VMware Mirage App Layer? You can create several App layers and those App layers can be applied to an endpoint or a group of endpoints (collection). We can imagine several scenarios, such as […]
How to Capture a VMware Mirage Base Layer?
During our previous post we have created a Reference CVD with all the main corporate software installed, then we launched the Create a Reference CVD assistant. In this post we will teach you How to Capture a VMware Mirage Base Layer. The reference machine was centralized to a reference CVD (centralized virtual desktop) on the VMware Mirage […]
How to Create a Reference CVD for Base Layer Capture in VMware Mirage
Today’s post will detail the creation of a reference Centralized Virtual Desktop (CVD) for base layer capture. This rather complicated saying means that we will save one of our CVDs as a reference CVD. You might ask what is CVD? It is basically our desktop/laptop which we want to protect and manage. CVD means “Centralized […]
How to backup a Desktop with VMware Mirage
We have set up our VMware Mirage lab in a series of posts recently. While we could do a simple “All-in-One” box installation, we decided to deploy (almost) full VMware Mirage stack with several management servers, separate Mirage server, and separate File server. You can follow the Mirage series on a dedicated blog page – VMware […]
VCSA 6.5 Password Expires in X days Notification – How to change?
If you don’t change the default VMware vCSA password policy for an administrator within the vSphere.local domain, you will get a notification 30 days before the password expires. This is not the root password of the VCSA appliance. We wrote how to reset root password for VCSA appliance here. (Post include a detailed video too). […]
How To Create VMware ESXi ISO With Latest Patches
VMware is releasing patches on regular basis, but those aren’t always available within the latest installation ISO file (at least not for “free” customers). The idea is to build a new VMware ESXi ISO which integrates the latest patches inside. The download of latest patches is free, but My VMware account is required. You can […]
How To Disable vSphere Web Client Inactivity Timeout
vSphere web client is the principal management tool for VMware infrastructure. It is a flash based solution which is currently the only one providing functionality for configuration all features of VMware vSphere. The new HTML 5 web client is in works, but for now, not all functions are available so this client can’t be used […]
How to Disable Auto Lock on Windows Server via Group policy
The problem with the auto lock feature is that it really slow down when working in a multi-server environment in a lab. This is especially true of lab environments. Servers in lab environments are usually used much more than usual production servers. So, in the long run, the automatic lock can be especially painful. In this post, […]
