One of the many features available in VMware View 5.1 is the ability to implement VMware View Composer in a Standalone Server. VMware View Composer is the software piece responsible for creating Linked Clone desktops and since VMware View 5.1 can be deployed on a server other than the vCenter Server. Read more about View …
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In some cases VMware View may show a problem with the certificate on the vCenter Server, displaying a dashboard red flag even when certificates and properly in place. This behavior can happen because the administrator entered the vCenter Server address in VMware View Admin UI using the short name instead of the FQDN, but the …
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VMware View Storage Accelerator uses a vSphere platform feature called CBRC (Content Based Read Cache). CBRC is an in-host RAM cache for VMDK blocks frequently accessed by virtual desktops. When VMware View Storage Accelerator is enabled (OS disk, or OS and Persistent Disks), a per-VMDK digest file is created to store the hash information about …
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I had the pleasure to be part of the VMware View 5.0 Beta program. One thing that still in my mind since the start of program was around the number of hosts in a View Composer enabled cluster. Currently with VMware View 4.6 the limit is eight. I have asked VMware few times if this …
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There is a recurring situation that I face whenever I am deploying a new VMware View environment (also applicable to any vSphere deployment) . Due to natural limitations on number of IOPS per datastore (LUN), VMware recommends that you size your datastores for a maximum of 64 virtual desktops. This number could be higher, however …
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VMware vSphere Infrastructure offer the highest levels of availability and responsiveness for applications and services, and to provide additional protection and deliver advanced capabilities for disaster recovery management VMware released vCenter Site Recovery Manager. Whilst SRM provides disaster recovery management for the infrastructure, VMware View 4 does not have a native protection tool provided by …
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I have seen this issue many times. If vCenter VM management works fine but there is a problem launching the Virtual Machine Console and the error says: “Unable to connect to the MKS: Host address lookup for server servername failed: No such host is known” check the DNS resolution at the workstation running vCenter client. …
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