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If you have been using VMware Horizon Instant Clone VMs for any length of time, it is likely that you have run across the VM status of, “Already Used”. Typically, fixing the Already Used status is not as straightforward as just removing the VM from the Horizon View Admin page as other issues are. Fix Already Used Status in VMware Horizon In order to fix machines in this status, you will need to log in and locate the machine in vCenter. Once you have located the problem VM, proceed to power off the machine. Once the VM is powered off in vCenter, you will then need to delete the VM using the “Delete from Disk” option. You can do this by using the right-click menu on the VM. ...

In your VMware Horizon VDI Environment, you can run into a range of different errors. Many of these errors either resolve themselves or can be resolved just by recovering or removing the machine from within the Horizon Administrator console. However, some VMware Horizon errors such as VC_FAULT_FATAL - The name already exists, cannot be resolved in this way. How to Fix the VC_FAULT_FATAL Error Whenever you see this particular error, this means that Horizon is trying to create a new VM but can’t because a VM with that name already exists. This can happen for many reasons but most commonly, the VC_FAULT_FATAL - The name already exists error occurs because Horizon can no longer communicate with the VM in vSphere. At some point, it lost sync with the VM and now the communication between Horizon and vSphere for this VM is broken. ...

SCCM Compliance rule evaluation for a new rule can sometimes be slow or maybe you just need to manually evaluate compliance baselines or rules on a machine or group of machines. Regardless of your reasoning, the PowerShell script below can help you achieve the goal of manually and remotely kicking off SCCM compliance rule evaluations. To make this reusable in the future, we will create a simple function that we can call along with a hostname to do the dirty work for us. ...

It’s common when building a backend to access a database for API’s and other situations. Luckily with Python, there is an easy module for accessing a MySQL database to make queries. This post will show you how to use MySQL in Flask so that you can use databases in your app easily. Install MySQL Package for Python Flask To install the required Python package for working with a MySQL database in Flask, we will use “pip”. I recommend doing this from a virtual environment, if you need help with that check out my post on setting up a Python Virtual Environment. The package that we want to install is called, flask-mysql-connector. This package will handle the communication between Flask and the MySQL database. ...

Why Use VirtualEnv? Virtualenv allows you to separate specific packages from one project to another. This guide will show you how to easily install virtualenv on Arch Linux. Using Virtualenv allows for easier collaboration and prevents you from having issues with globally installed python packages. Imagine you have project A that needs a specific version of a package and project B that needs a different version. By using virtualenv, you can have those specific packages installed for each project and keep them separated. ...