If you are wondering why my blog posting frequency has slowed down in the last couple weeks – worry not! Many consulting professionals and architects asked for a portable – offline – version of my well-known VDI Calculator. I’m happy to say that the new tool finally coming and I’ve been busy trying to reach code complete. This new version is built …
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Gabrie van Zanten at gabesvirtualworld.com published an updated to his PowerShell script that enables Horizon View to utilize dynamic IP addressing for PCoIP connections using whatsmyip.com. This pretty cool for people installing Horizon View at home for lab purposes. Update: I have checked the script to work with VMware View 4.6, VMware View 5.0, …
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View Pool Manager allow Horizon View administrators to easily manage users across desktop pools and security groups in large deployments. One of the of the biggest challenges View administrators face in large deployments is the desktop pool maintenance. Commonly each desktop pool has an Active Directory security groups with the correct amount of users a …
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This week I received an interesting question from a colleague that I had also been asked in the past. However, in the past I was not able to present a good solution for the problem. Let me present the scenario. A VMware View pool of persistent desktops was created and provided to developers using the …
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Identifying what replica is assigned to what desktop pool can be somewhat challenging in Horizon View. However, in some cases administrators need to know the object relationship to properly plan desktop and pool migrations across hosts or datastores. The PowerShell script bellow produces a output that demonstrate this relationship. To execute save the …
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One of the biggest challenges VMware View administrators face in large deployments is desktop pool maintenance. Commonly each desktop pool has Active Directory security groups with the number of users a given desktop pool will support. As employees leave/join the organization, security groups require maintenance to ensure the number of users in each group correctly …
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How to size VMware View Composer database is a common customer question and I have recently seen it once again in on of the internal discussion lists. Unfortunately, VMware does not have an official number for View Composer and Event database sizing. However, some of VMware EUC Technical Enablement guys have adopted a ‘standard’ that …
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