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Time issue since UK clocks changed

GregNew — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 10:28:01 GMT

I'm an Aria / vROps newbie and have an instance of Aria 8.12.1 (21952151) enterprise with the VMware Horizon Management Pack. We did some performance tests and I'm now working on reporting the outcomes.

While I was on holiday last week the clocks here in the UK went forward by one hour, bringing the UK back into step with UTC.

Now when I configure one of my Dashboards to the time of one of the tests we performed there is no data, if I change the Dashboard time to 1 hour earlier the data is available. Tests performed this week aren't affected.

Is there an easy way to fix this so that I don't have to change the Dashboard times to adjust for the time change please?

It looks the NTP server is configured...

The VM is configured to sync using VMware Tools...

Preferences look like this...

Thanks in advance,
Greg

Blast MTU

GregNew — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 12:00:59 GMT

I'm working with a customer where the network path between the Horizon Clients (Windows 10 LTSC 2021) and the UAGs traverses multiple VPNs. Unfortunately this is unavoidable! Luckily all of the VPNs are UDP based hence I have been able to keep Blast on UDP.

I am wondering if I need to be thinking about the MTU for Blast? I can see the MTU for PCoIP is configurable...
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Horizon/2212/horizon-remote-desktop-features/GUID-6C22A209-AFC1-47EF-9DFF-39AFB38D655D.html

Is this something I need to be thinking about and if so how would I configure it please?

In case it helps others... for a while I thought that the VPNs were TCP based so I reconfigured Blast to use TCP. This resulted in extremely high CPU usage on the UAGs. In one instance with around 120 very busy users on one UAG the CPUs were maxxed out!

Horizon, UAGs and Horizon clients are all 2212.

Please go easy on me as I am definitely not a network guy!

Thanks in advance,
Greg

Re: Disappearing output filters!

GregNew — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 09:41:23 GMT

Hi @KabirAli82,

Thanks for getting back to me Below are screenshots from editing the Widget. The Widget is one of many on this Dashboard.

As you can see here the output filter property is missing

After entering the required pool and the start of the username, domain.local\user00, I can save the Widget and see the data.

When I next edit the widget I have to re-enter the data!

I get the same issue with these Widgets, which are all configured with an identical output filter...

But these ones, which are also configured with an identical output filter, do not have the issue!

Any help gratefully received

Cheers,
Greg

Disappearing output filters!

GregNew — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 18:24:14 GMT

I'm an Aria / vROps newbie and have an instance of Aria 8.12.1 (21952151) enterprise with the VMware Horizon Management Pack.

We did some performance tests and I'm now working on reporting the outcomes. I have a dashboard that contains various widgets.

In one of my widgets, which is a metric chart, I am using an Output Filter to filter out some data.

After doing a save I get the expected results but each time I attempt to edit the widget the filter is broken!

I've tried Chrome and Firefox but the situation is the same. It's quite annoying so any help greatly appreciated

Cheers,
Greg

Re: Updated exams for VCAP-DTM Design 2022 and VCAP-DTM Deploy 2022?

GregNew — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:32:38 GMT

Hi @scott28tt, intriguing!

Re: Updated exams for VCAP-DTM Design 2022 and VCAP-DTM Deploy 2022?

GregNew — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:29:50 GMT

Hi @KarlChilds, thanks for taking a look. Any info about when the VCAP-DTM Deploy 2023 and VCAP-DTM Design 2023 exams will be aligned to Horizon 8 would be really helpful

Re: Updated exams for VCAP-DTM Design 2022 and VCAP-DTM Deploy 2022?

GregNew — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 16:18:52 GMT

Hi @KarlChilds,

Happy Friday!

Any news for us on the updated exams for VCAP-DTM Design 2023 and VCAP-DTM Deploy 2023 please?

It definitely feels like these exams and courses are not getting the attention they deserve. If I was starting my Horizon journey and looked at the current version of Horizon then looked at the version the exam uses I would be running a mile!

3V0-752 refers to VMware Horizon 7.2, https://www.vmware.com/learning/certification/vcap7-dtm-design-exam.html
3V0-51.20N refers to Horizon 7.X, https://www.vmware.com/learning/certification/vcap-dtm-deploy-7-exam.html

Sorry to beat you up on a Friday but I am getting beaten up by my employer!

Cheers,
Greg

Re: MS Teams and VDI offloading

GregNew — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 12:55:00 GMT

@enso_ , have you tried reaching out to 10ZiG? Whilst I haven't had any experience with the Teams offload on 10ZiG I do find their support to be top notch.

Horizon Agent | Is .Net 3.5 still needed?

GregNew — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 08:16:48 GMT

Could someone advise if when I'm using Horizon 2111 with Windows 10 2009 LTSC I should still be installing .Net 3.5 on the Gold Image please?

According to the "Manually Creating Optimized Windows Images for VMware Horizon VMs" I should be installing .Net 3.5 but I wanted to check!

I'm working with a customer who has an existing Windows 10 2009 LTSC base image that is used for physical desktops that has .Net 4.7 installed . I did not install .Net 3.5 and the pool of desktops appears to be working flawlessly.

Do I need to enable .Net 3.5 and if so why?

Thanks,

Greg

Re: Updated exams for VCAP-DTM Design 2022 and VCAP-DTM Deploy 2022?

GregNew — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 14:31:38 GMT

@KarlChilds, thanks for hearing me Unfortunately my employer is not hearing me and wants me to pass the VCAP-DTM Design 2022. Alas the design course for version 7 has been removed. Might VMware consider bringing the course back online until the exam has been updated version to 8.x?

Updated exams for VCAP-DTM Design 2022 and VCAP-DTM Deploy 2022?

GregNew — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 11:09:02 GMT

The exams for VCAP-DTM Design 2022 and VCAP-DTM Deploy 2022 seem to be stuck in the dark ages of Horizon 7!

Can anyone provide some info about when we can expect the exams to be aligned with the products covered in the Horizon 8 courses please?

VCAP-DTM Design 2022 is aligned to Horizon 7.2, the course is no longer available and the suggested training is all for Horizon 8.
https://www.vmware.com/learning/certification/vcap7-dtm-design-exam.html

VCAP-DTM Deploy is aligned to Horizon 7.x and the suggested training is all for Horizon 8.
https://www.vmware.com/learning/certification/vcap-dtm-deploy-7-exam.html

I work for a VMware Partner with multiple MSCs and am keen to become VCIX-DTM 2022.

Many thanks,
Greg