Eric Sloof

Desktop Watermark is a Windows native application that adds a watermark to a desktop for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) auditing or exhibition purposes. A watermark has the ability to be visible or invisible.


Invisible watermarks, seen in the screenshot, can be revealed by a tool bundled in the Fling. The tool should be configured by an administrator and enforced on the end user's desktop.

The NAKIVO Virtual Appliance (VA) has two disks: the first one (20 GB) contains the Linux OS with NAKIVO Backup & Replication, and the second one (500 GB) is used as a backup repository.

If you deploy the Virtual Appliance disks using the Thin Provision option, then the disks will not reserve space on your datastore and will only consume space when actual data (such as your backups) is written to disks.

The NSX Manager contains many tools to help customers in conjunction with Global Support Services to resolve operational issues. The NSX for vSphere 6.x product features a customized command line interface that covers most of the basics that the user interface does and a little bit more.

On occasion, it may become necessary to use a regular unix command line interpreter (shell) to be able to deal with unanticipated configuration issues.

In these cases it is required that customers use this shell in conjunction with tech support to avoid inadvertently changing the virtual appliance in such a way that we can no longer support it properly.

Tech Support Access in NSX for vSphere 6.x (2149630)

• Describe VMware’s SDDC architecture
• Explain the benefits of VMware NSX network virtualization
• Describe the main components, features, and services of VMware NSX
• Understand VMware NSX use cases (network security, IT automation, and application continuity)

In this paper, an online transaction processing (OLTP) benchmark, DVD Store 3, is used to characterize performance and power across five generations of 4-socket Intel servers hosting monster-sized Microsoft SQL Server 2016 database VMs.

The results show vSphere is capable of fully utilizing current-generation server and storage technology, achieving great database performance.


SQL Server workloads achieve excellent performance with vSphere 6.5 on top of today’s massively multi-core, large memory server hardware.

Some key best practices based on these results include: rightsizing a virtual machine’s vCPUs and Cores per Socket is essential to achieving maximum throughput; VMFS performs just as well as RDM, even for high I/O OLTP workloads; and this workload should not be considered a candidate for high Latency Sensitivity.

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.