VMware View - 2 - Eric Sloof

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!

Tuesday, June 24. 2014

VMware Horizon 6 with View is officially shipping

VMware has released Horizon 6 a while ago but as of last week this new product is available for download.

The release of View 6 delivers a number of important new features and enhancements:

Hosted Apps and Desktops
Cloud Pod Architecture
View integration with VMware Virtual SAN technology
Local Mode Removal

Documentation for VMware Horizon with View

Download VMware Horizon (with View)

Reviewer’s Guide for View in Horizon 6

Monday, June 23. 2014

Key Considerations in Choosing a Zero Client Environment for View Virtual Desktops in VMware Horizon

This paper addresses these concerns, and looks at some key considerations in determining if a zero client environment is right for your organization.

The specific example used here for the virtual desktop infrastructure is VMware Horizon with View, with the PCoIP protocol. In this context, zero clients are discussed as the preferred client to meet many needs.

Wednesday, June 11. 2014

Free e-learning course - Horizon View 6 and Mirage 5 What's New

This free eLearning course highlights the new features and enhancements in Horizon View V6 and VMware Mirage V5 products. It also presents use cases that describe how the new features align with customer needs.

At the end of this course, you should be able to explain the key features of Horizon 6 and describe the enhancements to the different product areas — View, Workspace, and Mirage.

Monday, April 14. 2014

VMware Horizon View 5.3 Reviewer's Guide

The purpose of the VMware Horizon View 5.3 Reviewer's Guide is to support a self-guided, hands-on review of View 5.3. You'll

learn how easy it is to configure a View 5.3 environment, and use that environment to evaluate both new and core capabilities.

This document assumes you have basic knowledge of VMware vSphere ESXi and VMware vCenter and are comfortable configuring networking and storage in a virtual environment.

The step-by-step instructions will guide you through installation and how to work through the core and deployment scenarios.

This guide is not intended as a substitute for product documentation. You can find more detailed information regarding the installation, configuration, administration, and use of VMware Horizon View in the VMware Horizon View documentation.

Download: VMware Horizon View 5.3 Reviewer's Guide

Thursday, April 10. 2014

VMware Horizon 6 Technical Overview

VMware Unleashes Horizon 6 -- Delivering Published Applications and Virtual Desktops on a Single Integrated Platform.

Published applications and virtual desktops delivered through a single platform offers application and desktop virtualization delivered from a single solution
A unified workspace for simplified access provides one place for IT administrators to provision and end-users to access applications and desktops through single sign-on.
Storage optimization using VMware Virtual SAN drives down capital costs to where virtual desktops are near parity with physical desktops and less expensive than physical laptops.
Closed-loop management and automation offers a holistic view of your entire virtual infrastructure – from data center to device – while also providing cloud-like automation to simplify management.
Central Image Management offers central image management of physical, virtual and employee-owned PCs from a single integrated solution that includes the latest updates from VMware Mirage.
Hybrid cloud delivery gives customers the ability to deploy Horizon 6 in a hybrid cloud that balances between private and public cloud infrastructures to best satisfy their needs – all through a single integrated Horizon client that seamlessly connects to virtual applications and desktops.

Also watch: vCO Plugin for VMware Horizon 6

Wednesday, March 12. 2014

Horizon View 5.3.1 on VMware Virtual SAN - Quick Start Guide

VMware Virtual SAN is a software-defined storage technology that is available with vSphere 5.5 Update 1 (or later). Virtual SAN is a core component of vSphere that aggregates local server-attached storage (local storage on a vSphere host/server) and provides a datastore that is visible to all hosts within a vSphere cluster. VMware Virtual SAN is optimized for use with Horizon View 5.3.1.

Virtual SAN implements a policy-based approach to storage management. These policies define virtual machine storage requirements, such as capacity, performance, and availability. Storage is provisioned and automatically configured according to these policies.

The above characteristics of the Virtual SAN architecture are highly beneficial to virtual desktop environments that use Horizon View 5.3.1. Further, the architecture supports standard vSphere features that require shared storage, such as HA, vMotion, and DRS. Virtual SAN eliminates the need for an external shared storage infrastructure and simplifies storage configuration and virtual machine provisioning activities.

Learn more at:

Wednesday, February 26. 2014

Latest Fling from VMware Labs - Horizon View Configuration Tool

The Horizon View Configuration Tool automates Horizon View 5.3 installation and deployment. It removes the complexities and manual steps required for setting up a basic Horizon View deployment.

The vCT ships as a virtual appliance with all the required VMware components to set up your Horizon View environment. After providing a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 ISO, an ESX host (not managed by vCenter), a few parameters, and licenses, the tool will provision your environment dynamically and automatically.

The vCT deploys the following components:

Virtual machine with Active Directory Domain Controller configured (or you may integrate with the existing DC in your environment)
Virtual machine with Horizon View Connection Server installed
Virtual machine with Horizon View Composer installed
vCenter Server Appliance virtual machine deployed and configured

For more information, see VMware Horizon View Configuration Tool Quick Start Guide.

Download this Latest Fling: Horizon View Configuration Tool

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