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 […]
VMware App Volumes 3.0 is out and is different from previous 2.x versions, the first noticeable difference is App Volumes is now running as a Virtual Appliance and once its deployed the integration isnt quite as slick as the previous version. The following will illustrate the deployment process. Release notes […]
VMware UEM version 9 has recently been released and the following will show how easy it is to upgrade from a previous version. To install UEM from scratch see my previous post here. VMware’s documentation can be found here The upgrade process is fairly simple - first upgrade the agent […]
You can use VSAN with Horizon View Advanced or Enterprise license and given the improvements to VSAN over the last year its becoming more and more appealing. The following will illustrate how easy it is to configure linked clone desktops on VSAN as well as showing the default storage policies […]
One of the cool freebies from the vExpert award is a non commercial license for Login VSI - something I have been meaning to get a hold off. You can use Login VSI to bench mark your VDI estate. The following will illustrate the installation process and a basic benchmark […]
Starting with View 6.2 you can now deploy the VMware Access Point to access View externally. Security servers are still available but this appliances brings some advances over using the security server. You dont pair the appliance directly with a single connection server it can be configured to use a […]