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How It Works - Microsoft Lync 2013 with View Integration

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:10:00 +0000

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.

View Storage Accelerator and View Storage Tiering [NOW Supported]

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:40:43 +0000

[important]Some things are worth fighting for... specially when they help customers.[/important]

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 View Replica Tiering is enabled”.

VMware Horizon View 5.2 HTML5 Video

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:20:00 +0000

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.

VDI Architectures using Storage Class Memory

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 08:45:42 +0000

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 the market are leveraging the performance of flash memory in it’s many form factors. Some vendors have Solid State Drives, other PCIe card devices, and other vendors utilize the PCIe cards in their scale-out solutions – but at the end of the day they are all using flash memory.

Space-Efficient Sparse Virtual Disks and VMware View

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 08:05:28 +0000

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 am basing my discussion on his paper.

Desktop-as-a-Service Constructs [Video]

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:47:00 +0000

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 more". Scott Davis, VMWare CTO for End-User Computing, has published in his blog an overview on the "Musing on our Post PC, Multi-Device World" that I recommend to read.

Windows 8 CP + View 5.0 with PCoIP + iPad [video]

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:50:00 +0000

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.

Introducing the PCoIP Configuration Utility

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:17:00 +0000

Chuck Hisrtius @rexremus strikes back, launching the Beta version of the PCoIP Configuration Utility. I have been testing the utility for the last couple weeks and find it very useful.

PCoIP Configuration Utility allow users to create personalized PCoIP profiles and apply those profiles to the current PCoIP configuration. Users could eventually setup PCoIP to operate better in LAN or WAN environment; or mimic XenDesktop ICA compression.

VMware View VDI Flash Calculator v2.5 Released

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:07:00 +0000

I have just uploaded a new release of the online VMware View VDI Flash Calculator.

This new release offers a complete overhaul of the IOPS calculation, providing the ability to breakdown IOPS per disk type or tier. It also offers calculation for the number of VMs allowed to concurrently boot.

New XenDesktop VDI Calculator

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:05:00 +0000

Due to the success of the original VDI Flash Calculator (now View VDI Calculator) I am releasing the first generation of the XenDesktop VDI Calculator.

The XenDesktop VDI Calculator is built on top of the same solid and field proven algorithms used on the original View VDI Calculator. The hypervizor of choice is vSphere and the desktop delivery mechanism if MCS (Machine Creation Services). I am already working on PVS (Provisioning Services) for a next release.

VCAP4-DCD and VCP5 in 7 days

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:29:00 +0000

About a month ago I sat the VCP5 Beta exam and after 7 weeks I finally received the news that I passed. Taking Beta exams is harder than regular exams in my opinion. The Beta exam had about 100 questions, many with wrong answers and/or multiple correct answers – and you need to comment them.

VDI Flash Calculator v2.4 Released

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:41:00 +0000

I have just uploaded a new release of the online VDI Flash Calculator.

This new release offers complete support for VMware View 5.0, vSphere 5, and the new Windows 7 3D rendering features.

Amongst many additions is the ability to have up to 1,000 desktops per desktop pool, extended number of supported cores for host calculation, extra vRAM for 3D rendering and memory overhead swap file for vSphere 5.0 calculation.

VMware View 5.0 Launch Summary

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:11:00 +0000

This morning I have posted multiple articles discussing and covering the launch of VMware View 5.0. During the next couple days and weeks I’ll be dropping additional content that I have specially prepared for this launch. Here is a quick summary list of my VMware View 5.0 posts. Make sure you keep track of my posts because there is more stuff coming down the pipe later this week.

Sneak Peek at new VMware View 5.0 PCoIP GPO

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:23:45 +0000

VMware View 5.0 NDA has been lifted and by now VMware and bloggers should have started to announce the new features. VMware View 5.0 is mostly about improving user experience with several adjustments to PCoIP and the addition of a user profile management tool.

VMware View 5.0 User Experience Enhancements

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:05:47 +0000

VMware View 5.0 is all about user experience enhancements. VMware finally included RTO profiles into the product, and in conjunction with Teradici made several changes to PCoIP display protocol. Those changes aim to provide better user experience for users over slow links.

My VMworld Schedule and Recommendations

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:46:00 +0000

I finally completed bookings and arrangements for VMworld and I thought would be nice to share my schedule here. I honestly don’t expect to be able to attend all listed sessions but I’ll do my best.

One thing that I regret is not have signed up to sessions a while back. Some of the sessions I really would like to attend were Full already and I had to select alternative sessions. However, keep eyes on the schedule as VMware may open new sessions.

vExpert 2011 Award

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:57:00 +0000

Late news sometimes is good news…
I just found out I have been awarded with the VMware vExpert 2011.

The vExpert program is a recognition to the contributions to the VMware, virtualization and cloud computing communities.

It’s a honor for me to be part of this select group or people that in one way or another go out of their way, beyond their day-to-day responsibilities, to help the virtualization community. This group of bloggers, podcasters, webcaster, twitters is amazing.

ESXi 5.0 Enhanced Security Profile

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:30:00 +0000

Bloggers have been doing a great job during the past couple weeks and several vSphere 5.0 articles are being published. There is a lot of information floating around and I would recommend to have a peek at this page from from Eric Siebert with vSphere 5 Links.

VDI Flash Calculator Manual

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:30:00 +0000

I have been asked few times about the options and features provided by the VDI Flash Calculator. I finally decided to put together a quick reference guide that I am naming as “Manual” to help you better size your VDI solution.

VDI Flash Calculator v2.3 Released + Manual

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:27:00 +0000

I have just uploaded a new release of the online VDI Flash Calculator.

This new release offers support to two key features in VMware View that had not before been covered by the calculator. The first is the support for 1-to-Many relationship between Parent VM and Desktop Pools. Now it is possible to define how many desktop pools will use the same Parent VM. Previous versions of the calculator automatically assumed a relationship one-to-one.

VMworld Session 2185 - VMware View Design Mega-Session

Wed, 11 May 2011 07:23:00 +0000

Jason Langone and I have designed a session for VMWorld 2011 to cater for those VDI technical Jedi and Ninjas that are interested in some real-life large deployment (technical) design information. We are not planning to cover the basics about how VMware View components work. We will provide you with some in-depth understanding about how to design real-life VDI solutions with what I call the Core Factors in mind, they are: high availability, disaster proven, active/active and active/passive datacenters, bandwidth boundaries, etc…