Hot of the press from the EUC Champion group is the announcement of Horizon on VMware Cloud on AWS, a bit of a mouthful but its basically adding Horizon to the already available VMware Cloud on AWS. Currently in tech preview, it is not quite Desktop as a Service though, […]
Today I had a great session via the VMware EUC Champion group about – Horizon 7 on VMware Cloud Foundation 2.3. So VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is an automated SDDC solution that includes ESXi, vSAN and NSX along with a SDDC Manager for provisioning. The new version is 2.3.1. The […]
This year I joined the VMware EUC Champion group and I must say out all of the community groups I have been involved with the updates I get from this group have been the best, maybe because its a smaller group but either way its a fantastic group to be […]
TLS v1.0 is disabled by default on vIDM v2.6 onward, the following will illustrate how to re enable it. First log onto the appliance using the root user. Using a vi editor open the following location. >vi /opt/vmware/horizon/workspace/conf/server.xml Then find the following line. >sslEnabledProtocols=”TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2″ This needs to be changed to the […]
The following will illustrate how to reset the root password for vIDM. During the setup you will set admin and ssluser passwords which can be changed in the admin page but you cant reset the root password the same way. Luckily to reset the password its fairly straight forward but […]
Windows 10 brings different obstacles for VDI and similar to previous versions of Windows, VMware have provided a fling to optimise the OS ready for a View deployment. This work well but as always the image still needs to be tailored for your environment. The fling can be found here. For […]
Horizon View provides a great desktop pool feature known as linked-clone desktops, in short a linked-clone is small efficient desktop made from a snapshot of a parent VM known as a gold image. All the files and software on the gold image at the point of a snapshot are available […]
Recently I have been getting some hands on deployment for Horizon 7. The deployment is very similar to v6, following will illustrate the first part which is the Connection Server. The Connection Server acts as a broker for the client connections, it will authenticate users through AD and direct the […]
There isnt a direct upgrade process for App Volumes but the process is fairly simple, it needs to be removed first then reinstalled while using the same database. The following will illustrate the upgrade process from v2.9 to 2.10. App Volumes 2.10 release note are found here First remove App Volumes […]
The following will illustrate the deployment of EUC Access Point 2.5. Version 2.5 supports Horizon 7 and can be used instead of Windows Security servers. Using Access Point over Security servers has it benefits such as all connections to the internal View connection servers is done via 443 and there […]
