Eric Sloof

VMware strongly recommends that you configure SSL certificates for authentication of View Connection Server instances, security servers, and View Composer service instances.

A default SSL server certificate is generated when you install View Connection Server instances, security servers, or View Composer instances. You can use the default certificate for testing purposes.

Replace the default certificate as soon as possible. The default certificate is not signed by a Certificate Authority (CA). Use of certificates that are not signed by a CA can allow untrusted parties to intercept traffic by masquerading as your server.

In this paper, VMware explores the performance characteristics of a large enterprise web application running in Docker containers deployed in VMware vSphere 6.5 virtual machines.


The paper includes: Performance metrics of the web application running in the Docker virtual and physical environments, detailed analysis about the performance differences, and performance impacts from tuning Docker.

This self paced course provides a fundamental understanding of VMware’s Data Center Virtualization products. The course also takes you through the components and features of vSphere 6.5, and shows how the vSphere 6.5 product line helps resolve business and IT challenges commonly faced by organizations.


The objectives are that at the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Identify the need for Data Center Virtualization
• Describe the components and features of vSphere 6.5
• Describe how VMware’s products help solve business and technical challenges with regard to Data Center Virtualization

With the Cloud Pod Architecture feature, you can link together multiple View pods to provide a single large desktop and application brokering and management environment.

A View pod consists of a set of View Connection Server instances, shared storage, a database server, and the vSphere and network infrastructures required to host desktop virtual machines and application pools. In a traditional View implementation, you manage each pod independently. With the Cloud Pod Architecture feature, you can join together multiple pods to form a single View implementation called a pod federation.

A pod federation can span multiple sites and datacenters and simultaneously simplify the administration effort required to manage a large-scale View deployment.

In this video, two previously standalone View pods in different datacenters are joined together to form a single pod federation. An end user in this environment can connect to a View Connection Server instance in the Student-Desktop datacenter and receive a desktop or application in the SA data center.

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It's a pity I'm not able to join my fellow VMworld TV colleagues this year but you should definitely follow them on YouTube.

Most organisations continue to spend most of their security budget on securing their server infrastructure, implementing things like firewalls, intrusion prevention/detection systems and SIEM solutions. The reason for this is that’s where they consider their most prized possession to be, their data. But is that the correct stance? More and more cyber-attacks now start with phishing attacks on end users, using end user devices as the entry point of the attack. In this video we take a look at some typical desktop configurations, their possible vulnerabilities and where we can reduce the chance of attack by employing some simple changes without impacting desktop performance with NSX.