LiquidwareLabs
Horizon Workspace – User cannot logon
I had an issue in my lab that was a small gotcha and is worth of a post. I’m sure if I’d not been half a sleep and actually RTFM I would have spotted this from the get go. The issue I had was in Workspace, my administrator user could logon and access its entitlements no problem. Another user “ricky” could not and Workspace errored about the username and password. I found this strange because in the admin settings I could see this user and entitle him to use apps. So I knew the directory sync was working. The difference between “administrator” and “ricky” was they were in different OUs in Active Directory. But directory Sync was working..hmmmm. So I moved “ricky” into the same OU as “administrator” and that worked. Hmmm. Then recalled something. When setting up the directory link in workspace I remembered there was a parameter for BASE DN, which in my case was pointing at the OU where administrator was. What I did to correct this problem was positioned the BASE DN up a level to encompass both OUs.
UK VMUG session give aways
On 21st (this week) I’m running my popular session on developing vSphere/vCloud .Net Apps for novice programmers. My pals over at LiquidwareLabs have offered to give me 50 USB keys with instructions to get a FREE single host copy of Flex-IO. I had the pleasure of testing the beta and in a nutshell Flex-IO allows you to create a vSphere datastore that is backed up by 16GB memory from the host. The results is >25,000 IOPs for VMs running on that datastore….
So to grab a free copy better get to my session.
“Pimp my vLab”
Mike Laverick recently made aware of a nice alternative to home labs. I have an extensive home lab at home so I think it’s too late for me now but I did contemplate getting a hosted lab rather than kill my electricity and upset the wife. But too late for me but not for you. Check out Mike’s article here:
http://www.mikelaverick.com/2013/03/not-ready-bare-metal-cloud-for-your-auto-lab/
Quote:
“When I was in Australia recently for the Sydney/Melbourne VMUG I had the chance to meet Alastair Cooke – and sit in on his presentation on AutoLab. Alastair is a VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) based in New Zealand, and is one of the hosts of the APAC VMTN Communities Podcast. In case you don’t know AutoLab is tool that will build for you using scripts a vSphere Lab environment – and its based on the principle of “nested ESX” or “vESX” – where ESX is run in VM on a physical ESX host. It’s was updated in Dec, 2012 to support vSphere 5.1.”