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F5 PCoIP Proxy for VMware Horizon View

Thu, 01 Aug 2013 11:54:52 +0000

I want to share this excellent F5 video that demonstrate hot quick and easily you can configure Horizon View and F5 BIG-IP APM to natively support PCoIP proxy, bypassing requirements for Horizon View Security Servers. The PCoIP proxy combined with the BIG-IP platform will deliver hardened security and increased scalability according to F5. Thanks to Paul Pindell for the explanations.

VMware release Solution Briefs covering SSL VPN & PCoIP

Wed, 05 May 2010 14:52:00 +0000

VMware released three Solution Briefs covering SSL VPN solutions that have been tested with VMware View and PCoIP. The partners leveraging the solutions at this stage are Cisco, F5 and Juniper. More to come…

All appliances make use of SSL over UDP, and more specifically Cisco and F5 make use of dTLS (datagram TLS). I have written about it here. The appliances are Cisco ASA, F5 BIG-IP Edge Gateway and Juniper Networks SA Series.

F5 Networks releases deployment guide for VMware View 4

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:33:00 +0000

F5 Networks released a deployment and procedures guide for VMware View. This document provides guidance and configuration procedures for deploying the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) v10 with VMware View.

Probably one of the most interesting features provided by F5 BIG-IP appliance is the ability to create UDP tunneling with dTLS (datagram TLS) and TCP fall back. dTLS aim to improve PCoIP UDP end user experience over high latency networks such as the internet.