Eric Monjoin
Staff Consulting Architect but also pilot, spending time in front of my computer or flying in the air...

Monthly Archive: April 2020

Running VMware Unified Access Gateway on Hyper-V

Ok okkkkkk, I know that could be weird at first sight but I had a request from a customer to assist in the deployment of UAG 3.9 on Hyper-V in a “Dual DMZ” configuration.

The Back End UAG is deployed on vSphere but the the front-end should run on the DMZ hypervisors who are…. Windows 2019 Core / Hyper-V

So when we look at the files required to perform this installation we need to download 2 files :

  • Unifed Access Gateway (UAG) 3.9 PowerShell scripts to get all scripts to deploy the appliance
  • Unifed Access Gateway (UAG) 3.9 for Microsoft Azure to have .vhd file so Hyper-V disk format file.

App Volumes, load balancer health check

I recently had an issue with one of my App Volumes server: even if my server was down in an App Volumes point of view (connection lost the database), my Kemp load balancer see it up and running because: the web interface was up and favicon.ico was also available.

The template for App Volumes (part of Horizon 7 Template) is, in my opinion not complete and it missed the right way to configure health check

So the right way to configure load balancer ‘s health check is the following :

For Kemp :

Moving Workspace One Access database to a new MS SQL Server

I had to validate how to migrate WS1 Access database to another SQL Server.

This test concerns a dual-site configuration with 3 active nodes (R/W) on Site-A et 3 passive nodes on site B (R/O).

The first thing I did, was to set all nodes to passive (so read-only for all) so no more update will be done on the database.

After that I made a SQL backup of my database and copied it the new MS SQL Server.

VMware Horizon on Windows Server Core 2019

I recently have a customer requesting to install VMware Horizon on a Windows 2019 Core server. Most of customers prefer to have the “Desktop Experience” but for security reason some other prefer to limit to shell only interface.

Before installing VMware Horizon, ensure that all updates are applied to Windows 2019 Core (I had some strange behavior before doing that, like impossible to have the Flex Admin console or get “Login failed” on the new HTML 5 consoles)

The first main concern is getting signed certificate ready so Horizon will use it instead of its self signed certificate.

After copying the certificate in a local folder :

1 ) From the Administrator command prompt, type “powershell” to execute PowerShell command