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The VMware View Events Database is used to record all the events that happen in a View environment. There is a great deal of good information in the database, but it can be difficult to extract.


This utility allows administrators to easily apply very detailed filtering to the data and export it to a .CSV file. You can filter on time range, event severity, event source, session type (application or desktop), usernames and event types.

The application allows for extremely granular export of data. The exported columns can also be customized and the application will export data from both the live and the historical tables in the View Events Database.

Download the Horizon View Events Database Export Utility

The Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), a proven architectural approach based on virtualization and automation, drives many of today’s leading data centers.

The VMware approach enables companies to adopt SDDC technologies at their own pace, without having to rip and replace the existing infrastructure.



The VMware architecture for the SDDC enables IT to adopt a hybrid cloud strategy and empowers enterprises to achieve outcomes that enhance efficiency and security while achieving faster time to value for new IT projects.

It gives individual technology organizations the flexibility to reimagine their role within IT and enables the broader IT organization to become a strategic partner to the business.

Technical White Paper - VMware Software-Defined Data Center

This Validated Design Guide provides an overview of the VMware® AlwaysOn Desktop™ solution. The architecture uses products from VMware and its ecosystem of partners to build a comprehensive desktop solution for users and organizations requiring high availability for desktop resources.

This document provides an overview of the solution, logical solution architecture, and results of the tested physical implementation. The solution is not exclusive to the products tested within the architecture. Consult your VMware representative on how to modify the architecture with your preferred vendors.

VMware Validated Design Guides provide an overview of a solution architecture and implementation. The validated designs and solutions have been created through architectural design development and lab testing. The guide is intended to provide guidance for the introduction of proof of concepts, emerging new technology and architectures, as well as enhancement of customer use cases.


The Validated Design Guides:

• Incorporate generally available products into the design
• Employ repeatable processes for the deployment, operation, and management of components within the solution

Validated Designs are tested for a specific use case or architectural practice of a limited scale and duration. These guides ensure the viability of logical designs or concepts in real-world practices. The Validated Design Guides provide an overview of the solution design and implementation guidance that include:

• Use cases catered to the design
• Products validated as part of design testing
• Software used for each component of the design
• Configurations used to support the design test cases
• A list of design limitations and issues discovered during the testing

VMware AlwaysOn Desktop Design Guide

VMware App Volumes is a real-time application delivery system that enables Enterprise IT to instantly deliver applications with complete application lifecycle management. VMware App Volumes provides a seamless end-user experience while reducing infrastructure and management costs.

Real-Time Application Delivery Deliver or upgrade applications at scale and in seconds Dynamically deliver applications without interrupting users even if they are logged in Complete application lifecycle management (provisioning, delivery, maintenance, retirement)

Seamless End-User Experience Support fully customizable desktops, with the freedom for end-users to install applications Persistent user experience with non-persistent economics

What's New in Release 2.6

This release of VMwareApp Volumes v2.6 contains the following new features: AppStack Grouping - Volume files (VMDK/VHD) on different storage locations that share a path and filename are considered to be copies of each other and can be managed as a single object. Automatic AppStack Import - Volumes files (VMDK/VHD) located at the default appstack path on storage locations in enabled storage groups are automatically imported. Server Virtual Desktop Infrastucture Support - Official support for VDI sessions on non-RDSH Windows 2008 R2 servers. Improved Internationalization Support - Product can run on an English and non-English OS and can accept non English input/output.

Historically, vSphere storage management has been based on constructs defined by the storage array: LUNs and file systems. A storage administrator would configure array resources to present large, homogenous storage pools that would then be consumed by vSphere administrator.

Since a single, homogeneous storage pool would potentially contain many different applications and virtual machines; this approach resulted in needless complexity and inefficiency. vSphere administrators could not easily specify specific requirements on a per-VM basis.

Changing service levels for a given application usually meant relocating the application to a different storage pool. Storage administrators had to forecast well in advance what storage services might be needed in the future, usually resulting in the overprovisioning of resources.


With Virtual Volumes, this approach is fundamentally changed. vSphere administrators use policies to express application requirements to a storage array. The storage array responds with an individual storage container that precisely maps to application requirements and boundaries.

VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes: Getting Started Guide

Stephane Asselin, End-User Computing Architect at VMware, presents VMware User Environment Manager in this technical product overview video.

If you are working as a desktop admin, part of a EUC team, an architect, or a consultant on a desktop virtualization project and you are looking to use VMware's Horizon solution, this book is for you.

This book will demonstrate the new capabilities of Horizon 6. You should have experience in desktop management using Windows and Microsoft Office, and be familiar with Active Directory, SQL, Windows Remote Desktop Session Hosting, and VMware vSphere infrastructure (ESXi and vCenter Server) technology.

Horizon 6 is VMware's latest end-user computing solution, designed not only to centralize and virtualize desktop environments but also to deliver individual applications securely to any device by means of a virtual workspace.

Your journey starts by investigating an end-user computing project including assessment, pilot, and production. Next, we move into the design phase where we will first take a deeper look at the Horizon 6 solution and its components and how to plan their use in a successful project.

Once we have our design and have identified our use cases, we will start to install and configure the core solution. With that in place, we will fine-tune the best end-user experience. Finally, we examine the advanced and enterprise features of Horizon 6, such as VSAN, vCOPS for View, and Horizon Mirage.

Gain greater credibility when discussing desktop virtualization, the business challenges that Horizon with View and related desktop technologies are designed to address, and how virtualizing desktops and mobile devices with View addresses those challenges.


You'll be able to define technical requirements for desktop virtualization, describe and differentiate Horizon with View and related products and technologies and identify common use cases and how they can be addressed.

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Gain greater credibility when discussing data center virtualization, the business challenges that vSphere is designed to address, and how virtualizing the data center with vSphere addresses those challenges.


You'll be able to define the technical requirements for data center virtualization, describe and differentiate vSphere related products and technologies and identify common use cases and how they can be addressed.

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