Horizon View 5.2 provides Microsoft Lync 2013 client support, including full support for UC VoIP and Video on both RDP and PCoIP. This new feature enable a tighter integration between Microsoft Lync and Office applications with full collaboration capabilities. Microsoft Lync 2013 client is a Unified Communications (UC) application that is installed on a desktop. …
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Back in November 2012 I blogged about an unsupported combination of VMware View features (View Storage Accelerator and View Storage Tiering). The question had originally been raised by a colleague, pointing to an article published on the End-User Computing Blog http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2012/05/view-storage-accelerator-in-practice.html that clearly states “Use of View Storage Accelerator is not supported when …
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Probably bloggers out there have been writing about the new VMware Horizon Workspace and Horizon View futures – and there are many. I thought I would make it short for those avoiding long readings. Here is a video of HTML5 access to a virtual desktop via Horizon View. This article was …
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There are so many disruptive VMware technologies in the VDI space that sometimes is hard to keep up with them all. I am looking forward to few of them, such as the VMware Distributed Storage and Space-Efficient Sparse Virtual Disks. At same pace the storage industry is being transformed and now most storage solutions on …
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VMware is about to release vSphere 5.1. This new release is bringing many improvements to the vSphere storage architecture, but I would like specifically to discuss the changes to the virtual disk format and how it will impact VMware View implementations when using Linked Clones. Cormac Hogan wrote What’s New in VMware vSphere® 5.1 – Storage and I …
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The Desktop-as-a-Service opportunity is real and during and after my sessions at VMWorld many organizations, Service Providers and Integrators came to talk to me about their DaaS plans. “Project Catalyst is a prototype of a VMware integrated end-to-end DaaS platform utilizing View and vCloud Director with full multi-tenancy, elastic resource provisioning, self-service portal operation, and …
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I dedicated part of my Saturday to get Windows 8 Customer Preview running on ESXi5 with VMware View 5.0 and PCoIP. VMware View 5 doesn’t support Windows 8 CP out-of-the-box, and I had to do some modifications to get that working. Luckily, all PCoIP bits work with Windows 8 natively and no changes to drivers …
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