An article by Jack McMichael (@jackmc4) Starting in View 4.6, a state was added to VMware View to deal with a nagging issue for some administrators who wanted to ensure that a desktop was always clean and never previously used – the introduction of the ‘Already Used’ state. The issue is simple, a user …
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Security in IT environments is an incessant quest nowadays. During the client/server era the ability to encrypt data between datacenter and applications was indispensible to many organizations. Transport Layer Security (TLS), Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and IPsec were widely used to secure data transmissions; and still are. With the introduction of hosted desktops (VDI) organizations …
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A common question from VMware View administrators is if the MAC addresses in each VM are retained after a recompose or refresh operation. In VMware View 4.0 and earlier linked cloning operations were a little more CPU and IO intensive. Because of the high number of recourses utilized during these operations VMware decided to change …
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Few weeks ago I had the opportunity to take the VMware Certified Associate 4 exam (VCA4-DT). This exam is the foundation for the new VMware Desktop certification track. There are no pre-requirements in order to seat the exam. However, the VCA4-DT exam along with VCP4 are pre-requirements for the VCP4-DT exam. Because I sat the …
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How far can you go when creating the perfect base image for your VDI deployment? I haven’t stopped searching for the Holy Grail, however I have recently figured out that a very critical step in the base image creation was missing, forgotten or had not been discussed yet or enough. However, before I give you …
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VMware just published a detailed document containing the Frequently Answered Questions about ‘PCoIP Secure Gateway’ (PSG). This document can be a useful guide for most of the queries related to the new VMware View 4.6 PSG feature. Thanks to Peter Noble (QE) for authoring and Paul Green (Dev) for reviewing this detailed document. Also thanks …
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IMPORTANT UPDATE: It seems to me that some people are taking my article as if PCoIP does not work over 3G and Local LAN at the same time without being tuned. That’s not the case. PCoIP is a very smart display protocol and has the ability to tune itself automatically for most network conditions, from …
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