Category Archives: Virtualization

Horizon Virtual Desktop – Non Persistent Ubuntu 20.04

Posted on December 30, 2021 by brian.wuchner

I recently built a new Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 machine to be used as an instant clone golden image for a Horizon 7.13 environment. I kept some notes on the steps I followed on my desktop, but after seeing a funny … Continue reading →

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Clone Template to new vCenter

Posted on January 18, 2021 by brian.wuchner

On a recent TAM Lab session (TAM Lab 082) I covered several methods for managing vSphere templates. At the end of the presentation we had a brief bonus method that showed using PowerCLI to clone a template to a different … Continue reading →

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Skyline Health Diagnostics custom SSL certificates

Posted on October 17, 2020 by brian.wuchner

I recently read about the new Skyline Health Diagnostics tool. Here is a short quote that captures what this tool is all about. VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics for vSphere is a self-service tool to detect issues using log bundles and … Continue reading →

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Photon OS 3.0 Grow Filesystem

Posted on October 13, 2020 by brian.wuchner

I recently had a need to grow the root filesystem on a Photon OS 3.0 virtual machine. This is something I’ve done before with Ubuntu Linux (blog post here), but Photon OS does not include the growpart command out of … Continue reading →

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Lab Updates: Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS Template

Posted on July 3, 2020 by brian.wuchner

Earlier this year I posted a thread on creating an Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS Template for use in a lab. You can check that out here: https://enterpriseadmins.org/blog/virtualization/lab-updates-ubuntu-18-04-template/ In late April of this year (2020) Canonical released a new Ubuntu 20.04 … Continue reading →

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