The Tech Journal – Vlog Episode 04

 End User Computing, Omnissa Horizon, VDI, Video Posts, Vlog, VMware, VMware Unified Access Gateway, YouTube  No Responses »
Jan 162022
 

Welcome to Episode 04 of The Tech Journal Vlog at www.StephenWagner.com

The Tech Journal Vlog Episode 04

In this episode

Updates

  • VMware Horizon
    • Apache Log4j Mitigation with VMware Products
  • Homelab Update
    • HPE MSA 2040 vs Synology DS1621+
    • Migrating from MSA 2040 to a Synology DS1621+
    • Synology Benchmarking NVME Cache
  • DST Root CA X3 Expiration
    • End of Life Operating Systems

New Blog/Video Posts

Life Update/Fun Stuff

  • Work
  • Travel
  • Move

Current Projects

  • Synology DS1621+

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 on VMware Horizon View VDI via 10ZiG 5948q Zero Client

 10ZiG, End User Computing, Omnissa Horizon, Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, VDI, VMware, VMware Unified Access Gateway, vSphere, Zero Clients/Thin Clients  2 Responses »
Jan 262018
 
10ZiG 5948q Zero Client

In an effort to truly showcase the capabilities of VMware Horizon View and the 10ZiG 5948q Zero Client, I wanted to put together a demo showing the ability to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 7.4) in a VDI environment.

First and foremost, this was super easy to setup. It was almost too easy…

Sidenote: Remember, my company Digitally Accurate Inc. is a 10ZiG partner. We can configure and sell 10ZiG Zero Clients (and thin clients), help with solution design and deployment, and provide consulting services! Contact us today for information or a quote! We sell and ship to Canada and the USA!

Please see below for video:

You’ll notice during login that after the credential prompt multiple desktops were available (we chose to log on to the RHEL instance) to choose from. You’ll see further on in the video versioning and specifications as well as video playback. Again, please note that my environment does not have any GPU or 3D rendering.

Please Note: The momentary black border on the bottom right side during login, was due to a resolution change on the VDI session. This was the first time logging in with this client, and the border doesn’t normally occur unless changing resolutions.

Equipment/Software used in this demo:

Please note, my company Digitally Accurate Inc, is a VMware Solution Provider Partner, 10ZiG Partner, and Red Hat Ready Business partner. Please don’t hesitate in reaching out for anything VDI! We design, sell, implement, and support VMware and VDI environments!

Failed to connect to the connection server – Using Chrome on VMware Horizon 7.4 via HTML client

 ESXi, Omnissa Horizon, VMware, VMware Unified Access Gateway, vSphere  26 Responses »
Jan 062018
 

Last night I updated my VMware VDI envionrment to VMware Horizon 7.4.0. For the most part the upgrade went smooth, however I discovered an issue (probably unrelated to the upgrade itself, and more so just previously overlooked). When connecting with Google Chrome to  VMware Horizon HTML Access via the UAG (Unified Access Gateway), an error pops up after pressing the button saying “Failed to connected to the connection server”.

The Problem:

This error pops up ONLY when using Chrome, and ONLY when connecting through the UAG. If you use a different browser (Firefox, IE), this issue will not occur. If you connect using Chrome to the connection server itself, this issue will not occur. It took me hours to find out what was causing this as virtually nothing popped up when searching for a solution.

Finally I stumbled across a VMware document that mentions on View Connection Server instances and security servers that reside behind a gateway (such as a UAG, or Access Point), the instance must be aware of the address in which browsers will connect to the gateway for HTML access.

The VMware document is here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Horizon-7/7.0/com.vmware.horizon-view.installation.doc/GUID-FE26A9DE-E344-42EC-A1EE-E1389299B793.html

To resolve this:

On the view connection server, create a file called “locked.properties” in “install_directory\VMware\VMware View\Server\sslgateway\conf\”.

If you have a single UAG/Access Point, populate this file with:

portalHost=view-gateway.example.com

If you have multiple UAG/Access Points, populate the file with:

portalHost.1=view-gateway-1.example.com
portalHost.2=view-gateway-2.example.com

Restart the server

The issue should now be resolved!

On a side note, I also deleted my VMware Unified Access Gateways VMs and deployed the updated version that ship with Horizon 7.4.0. This means I deployed VMware Unified Access Gateway 3.2.0. There was an issue importing the configuration from the export backup I took from the previous version, so I had to configure from scratch (installing certificates, configuring URLs, etc…), be aware of this issue importing configuration.