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VMware Desktop Reference Architecture Workload Simulator (RAWC)
VMware released last week the desktop Reference Architecture Workload Simulator (RAWC). When validating VMware View™ designs it is important to simulate real world usage as closely as possible. The...
View ArticleVMware View and Anti-Virus
When designing a VMware View environment one important step is to look at the Anti-Virus solution going to be used. Not well designed Anti-Virus solutions can cause a lot of extra I/O and system...
View ArticleFree VMware eLearning courses
The VMware training team has released another set of free, online eLearning courses covering cloud, BCDR, and more. Here’s a list of the free eLearning courses: View Fundamentals [V5.0] – covers the...
View ArticleNew updates available on VMware vCenter, VMware View, Microsoft Virtual...
Over the last days the following updates are released: VMware vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1b VMware View 5.1.1 Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Plug-in for VMware vSphere beta Veeam Backup &...
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Configure the View 5.1 Event database with MS SQL Server Express
The event database record information about View Manager events. Without configure the event database events are logged in a log file. The log file has very limited information. So configuring the...
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Display the protocol used on the VMware View desktop background
Systinternals has a tool called “BgInfo”. With this tool it is possible to display content on a Windows desktop background. For example environment variable Information such as “computer name” and...
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Tips for implementing a VMware Horizon View Security Server
A security server is a special instance of View Connection Server that runs a subset of View Connection Server functions. You can use a security server to provide an additional layer of security...
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VMware Horizon View and HTML access (Blast protocol)
With the release of the VMware Horizon View Feature Pack 1 for VMware Horizon View 5.2 it possible to connect with HTML5 to your View desktop. This without installing additional software. The new...
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VMware Horizon View and Microsoft Lync 2013 support
VMware Horizon View 5.2 adds support for Microsoft Lync 2013 with audio en video. With Microsoft Lync 2010, only VoIP was supported, but required a dedicated IP-based phone. Microsoft and VMware...
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Optimize Windows 8 for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments
Optimize and tuning a Windows 8 desktop in a VDI environment is important to reduce for example the CPU, IOPS and the memory footprint. During the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2013 a breakout...
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Create a signed certificate for VMware View Connection Servers using a...
For VMware Horizon View it is recommends that you configure your VMware View Horizon Servers with a signed SSL certificate. Default when you install a VMware View Horizon servers, a certificate is...
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VMware Horizon View Network Port Diagram
VMware has released a Network Port Diagram diagram for VMware Horizon View 5.2. This diagram covers an entire VMware View environment with protocols and port numbers used. In earlier blog posts I...
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Install a wildcard certificate on a VMware Horizon View Security Server
On a View Security Server I needed to change the default self signed certificate to a signed wildcard certificate. The customer had a wildcard certificate that didn’t include the private key. A...
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What’s new in VMware Horizon 6
VMware Horizon 6 has been today announced. VMware Horizon 6 has five major enhancements: Cloud Pod Architecture. Remote Desktop Session Host (RDS) Hosted Apps Virtual SAN Application Catalog vCops for...
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Create a VMware Horizon View self signed certificate with makecert
With the command line Windows utility “makecert.exe” it is possible to create quickly a self-signed (private) certificate that can be used with VMware Horizon View. Makecert is part of the Windows...
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Troubleshoot replication problems between VMware Horizon View Connection servers
In environments with multiple Horizon View Connection Servers (High Available) the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory is replicated. Configuration, Pool and desktop information is...
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VMware Horizon View Client Drive Redirection
On of the new features of VMware Horizon 6 version 6.1.1 is Client Drive Redirection (CDR). Microsoft RDS and Citrix already have CDR for many years in there product. Now this handy feature is...
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Horizon View Administrator displays a blank error window
After upgrading to VMware Horizon View 7, the administrator webpage displays a blank error window when trying to connect using the IP address of the Connection Server. Horizon View 7 adds new security...
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What to know about Horizon Instant Clones
Horizon 7 introduced the Instant Clone feature leverages the vmFork technology introduced in vSphere 6.0 U1. With Instant Clone technology it is possible to clone and deploy a VDI desktop VMs in...
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