View4.6 on myvirtualcloud.net

Desktops in ‘Already Used’ State in Horizon View

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:24:00 +0000

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 logs into a non-persistent desktop and something horrible goes wrong. Perhaps a Windows blue screen or an abnormal crash of the View Agent, but ultimately something that left the virtual machine in an unusable state until rebooted.

Securing Display Protocols for VDI

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:39:00 +0000

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.

VM MAC Address Changes in VMware View

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:48:00 +0000

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 the basics of those operations for VMware View 4.5. I have previously written about how Linked Cloning operations work under the hood, read on Part 1 and Part 2 of my article “VMware View 4.5 Linked Cloning Operations Explained”. The article does not discuss the retention of MAC addresses.

My VCA4-DT experience

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:46:29 +0000

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.

VDI Base Image: The Missing Step

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:59:00 +0000

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.

PCoIP Secure Gateway FAQs

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:13:00 +0000

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 to Raghavendra Babu (Raghu) for allowing public viewing of the document. You guys are doing a great favour to the community. Thanks.

Improve your iPad View 4.6 Client experience

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:22:00 +0000

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 low bandwidth to high jittering and high latency. To be honest, almost ALL WAN and 3G deployments will fly and have excellent performance without any specific tune up. The tuning you read below is specific to very critical conditions where bandwidth is very scarce. I particularly see as beneficial the ability to fine tune the protocol according to the use case, however out-of-the-box there is not need for that for most deployments.

APAC Virtualization Roundtable (VMware View 4.6 with David Wakeman) – Wed 16/3

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:01:00 +0000

VMware View 4.6 with PCoIP Secure Gateway, Enhanced USB device compatibility, Support for Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, iPad Client, ThinApp 4.6.1 and more… A lot has happened in the VMware’s End User Computing space in the last few weeks.

We are pleased to have once again VMware’s APAC Product Marketing Manager for EUC, David Wakeman to talk about the milestones recent delivered by VMware.

Addressing Self-Service Password Reset with VMware View 4.6

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:07:00 +0000

A common request from my customers is the ability to leverage password self-service from 3^rd party tools. The idea behind such tools is to allow users to change and/or reset account passwords without having to ring the helpdesk.

VMware View Client supports the requirement to change password during logon time if the user account password is expired. However, if the user account is locked out for any reason VMware View will not let the user to login because it will not be able to validate user credentials.