New machines with vTPM have the same thumbprint in vSphere

New machines have the same vTPM thumbprint as the master image in vSphere. This can be seen using PowerCLI and comparing the machines with the following command: Get-VTpm -vm | Get-VTpmCertificate...

Citrix App Layering: Compress Layer Utility

Introduction When layers are created in Unidesk 2.x files are written into the vmdk at the block level. The vmdk being written to is a “Thin” disk but deleted blocks are not freed up before saving the layer. This means that the layer sizer is greater then the actual size of the files required to...

Citrix App Layering: Mass Edit of VMX Advanced Settings

Introduction Sometimes there are special settings that Unidesk customers must add to their desktop VMX files based on recommendations by VMware. This script was developed in order to ease the administrative burden of this requirement. The script can also set memory or CPU reservations, as these a...

vCenter tags collection/assignment using PowerCLI tool

Challenge In some cases, Veeam ONE cannot collect or assign vCenter tags properly on vCenter 5.x versions. You can identify the issue by the following error messages in the Veeam ONE Reporter log files: Failed to execute SOAP command "CInvSvcCreateCategory". Inventory Service was not created. Can...

Repeated snapshot consolidation requests on VM by Snapshot Hunter

Article Applicability This article specifically applies to a situation where a VM was created using a third-party VDI, fast-provisioning application, or PowerCLI with the -LinkedClone parameter. Challenge Shortly after a backup or replication job runs, multiple Consolidate Snapshot operations are...