VMware View - 2 - Eric Sloof

Friday, July 25. 2014

VMware Horizon 6 integration with Virtual SAN

In this session Rawlinson Rivera, Sr Technical Marketing Architect; will cover Horizon 6 integration points with Virtual SAN as well as the ease, streamline management and implementation capabilities for virtual desktop infrastructures.

Tuesday, July 22. 2014

VMware Horizon with View and Virtual SAN Reference Architecture

This reference architecture is based on real-world test scenarios, user workloads, and infrastructure system configurations. It uses Dell R720 PowerEdge rack mount servers with local storage to support a scalable and cost-effective VMware Horizon with View linked-clone desktop deployment on VMware vSphere 5.5.

Extensive user experience and operations testing, including Login VSI desktop performance and VMware View Planner testing on 400 desktops, revealed world-class performance at an extremely low cost. VMware Virtual SAN technology allows easy scalability while maintaining superior performance at a competitive price point.

VMware Horizon with View and Virtual SAN Reference Architecture

Wednesday, July 16. 2014

VMware Virtual SAN Design and Sizing Guide for Horizon View Virtual Desktop Infrastructures

VMware Virtual SAN is a hypervisor-converged, software-defined storage platform that is fully integrated with VMware vSphere. Virtual SAN aggregates locally attached disks of hosts that are members of a vSphere cluster, to create a distributed shared storage solution.

Virtual SAN enables the rapid provisioning of storage within VMware vCenter as part of virtual machine creation and deployment operations.

Virtual SAN uses a hybrid disk architecture that leverages both flash-based devices for performance and magnetic disks for capacity and persistent data storage. This hybrid architecture delivers a scale-out storage platform with enterprise performance and resiliency at a compelling price point.

The distributed datastore of Virtual SAN is an object-store file system that leverages the vSphere Storage Policy–Based Management (SPBM) framework to deliver application-centric storage services and capabilities that are centrally managed through vSphere virtual machine storage policies.

This document focuses on the definitions, sizing guidelines, and characteristics of the Virtual SAN distributed datastore for Horizon View virtual desktop infrastructures.

Wednesday, July 9. 2014

Installing and Configuring View Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In for VMware Horizon with View: Step-by-Step Guide

Horizon View Agent Direct-Connection Plugin is an installable extension to View Agent. It allows a Horizon Client to directly connect to a View desktop; or to Windows Server 2008 R2 / 2012 as View desktop; or to Windows Server 2008 R2 / 2012 as RDSH (Remote Desktop Session Host) role.

It is intended for use in specific View deployments that work without a full View Connection Server available. There are no changes required to Horizon Clients or the View Agent for this to work. All currently supported Horizon Clients from VMware and from third-party vendors are supported with View Agent Direct-Connection Plugin.

This guide walks through how to deploy View Agent Direct-Connection Plugin, provides information about installing and using this component, and includes system requirements and configuration details. For this type of View deployment, there is no requirement to have a Connection Server, security server, VMware vCenter Server, or View Composer server.

The virtual desktop can be joined to an Active Directory domain, but it can also operate without Active Directory if required and users can log in with local desktop credentials instead. Figure 1 shows the deployment

Wednesday, July 2. 2014

VMware Desktop and Applications Virtualization Best Practices

This session presented by Jim Yanik includes an overview of the new features in Horizon 6, deployments best practices, conducting assessments, and how to define use cases.

Sunday, June 29. 2014

New Lab - Horizon 6 with View Introduction

Complete a guided tour of Horizon 6 with View and its new features. Walk through the simple installation and configuration and learn the new features including Application Remoting and Cloud Pod Architecture.

This free Horizon 6 with View lab is designed to demonstrate the new Horizon 6 features VMware is focusing on starting with the ease of installation and configuration, RDS Hosted Application setup and configuration - including RDS Hosted Desktops, and Cloud Pod Architecture configurations including a basic understanding and some configuration scenarios.

Moving forward this lab will be the base lab for VMworld including other modules such as Virtual SAN integration, troubleshooting, and much more!