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1. Enable DirectPath I/O for NVIDIA GRID GPUs on a Host 2. Power off  virtual machine and Add a vDGA pass-Through Device to a RHEL 6.7 Virtual Machine.      2.1 Add New device and select PCI Device and click Add     2.2 Select PCI device from the drop-down menu     2.3 Click Reserve all memory     2.4 Click OK     2.5 Power on and to the virtual machine 3. Install NVIDIA Display Driver on RHEL 6.7 and Horizon View Agent     3.1 Disable and blacklist the default NVIDIA Nouveau driver         a. Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf         b. Add  rdblacklist=nouveau line at the end of the module  ( This is different with setting guide )                c. Edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf         d. Add blacklist nouveau line anywhere in the blacklist.conf file         e. Restart...

My VMware environment :     vSphere version : 6.0U1     vCenter version : 6.0U1     NetApp VSC version : 6.0     NetApp VASA version : 6.0P1 notes *** VASA 6.0P1 didn't support VSC6.1 1. After install NetApp VSC and register VSC via web (https://localhost:8143/Register.html),  2.  you have to restart VMware Web Client service then logon as administrator then register VASA in VSC 3. You will see a warning, click OK to register VASA in provider 4. After VASA was registered, you will see successfully. 5. Logout and login vSphere Web Client, you can see VASA provider for Clustered in VSC

千呼萬喚的Linux VDI終於在6/4/2015 release了，這幾天下來實測後做些整理，希望可以幫到有需要的IT同伴. 環境介紹 vSphere platform : 6.0 Powershell 6.x 並安裝在vCenter上 Horizon environment : 6.1.1 Horizon Client : 3.4 (Windows/Mac OS X) Windows AD : 2008 R2 DNS解析須可以解析View broker 位置 Linux OS for VDI CentOS 6.6 x64 with jre-7u79 RHEL6.6 x64 with jre-7u79 ubuntu 12.04 with jre-7u80 RHEL5.8 x64安裝設定皆正常，但無法連線 有搭配過jre7u75, jre7u76,jreu79 Protocol 並非PCoIP,也不是RDP，是 Blast ( port 5443 必須要跟security srv或是connection srv 之間的防火牆開通) View Agent 與Connection Srv 須開通4001:4002:LDAP Linux VDI 與vCenter 要開通 SSH:22，在透過powershell deploy view agent時會用到 Horizon 6 for Linux VDI的功能 不支援HTML Access 不支援Client裝置(USB,Printer, Copy/Paste)對應的Linux VDI 不支援Single Sign-On - 連線上Linux VDI後須再輸入Linux 的帳號密碼 支援單向Audio (Linux VDI to Client) 支援兩個螢幕以上 - 需要在虛擬顯示卡上作相對應的設定，一般我會建議雙螢幕+32MB 記憶體 KDE桌面沒有經過View Agent 認證，所以不建議使用 Bug 當在全螢幕輸入完帳號密碼登入桌面後，畫面會並不會AutoFit, 需要手動將畫面縮小或是放大使其重新AutoFit. 實作流程 創建guest customization specification, 名稱為linuxagent ...

Pre-noted: Close vSphere client before you install vCenter minima memory is 8GB Backup vCenter database Start Upgrade: 1. insert vSphere vCenter 6 to CD/DVD 2. Select "vCenter Server for Windows" then click "Install" 3. Click "Next" for start upgrade process 4. Agree the EULA and click "Next" 5. Enter vCenter 5.5 SSO and vCenter 5.5 administrator credentials then click "Next" 6. Running pre-upgrade  7. After pre-upgrade, check the Ports of vCenter is correct then click "Next" 8. Check Installation path, if you want to change it, please click "Change", after you done, click "Next" 9. Confirm the settings and click "Upgrade" ...

When upgrade ESXi 6 with Qlogic (Brocade) BR-1020, you have several method. 1. Upgrade by "update manager", after upgrade re-install Qlogic BR-1020 driver (bna/bfa) manually. 2. Upgrade by CD/DVD, you need to update BR-1020 driver to ESXi5.5/6 3. Make new ESXi 6 CD/DVD with BR-1020 driver then do upgrade.