I was discussing something with one of my former colleagues a couple of days ago. He asked me what the impact was of running VMware View in an environment without HA. To be honest I am not a View SME, but I do know a thing or two about HA/vSphere in general. So the first thing that I mentioned was [...]
How to identify which View Composer replicas are not in use and can be deleted
I had discussion with Richard Garsthagen during the Dutch VMUG about View/VDI related blogs, or better said the lack of. It appears that desktop is a topic bloggers are avoiding. The weird thing about it is that in the industry View is picking up more and more. Yes there are a couple of bloggers out there who are focussing onView [...]
For some weird reason I never picked up on this tool. Months ago Richard Garsthagen released a beta version of vAudit and recently it was updated to version 1.5. Why would you use vAudit? vAudit has been developed to show you when your VDI Users are logging in and for how long they are using the virtual desktop. I think [...]
VMware View has just officially been released. (VMware View Manager 4.0 | 11/20/09 | Build 210939) Key features are: VMware View with PCoIP – PCoIP provides an optimized desktop experience for the delivery of the entire desktop environment including applications, images, audio, and video content for a wide range of users on the LAN or across the WAN. PCoIP can [...]
Herco van Brug wrote a great article on how to build a solid VDI/View Windows XP Template. Herco recently designed and implemented a large View environment and this article is the outcome. I only quoted the first paragraph as the article is subject to change. Please visit the source article for the full details, it is worth reading! A basic [...]
Just noticed that a new version of the VMware View Open Client has been released: Latest Release: 4.0.0 Beta 1 (October 2, 2009) VMware View Open Client version 4.0.0 Beta 1 is now available on the Downloads page. Please see the release announcement for a summary of what’s included in this release. Features Some of the features included are: Ability [...]
