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Horizon View 6 Part 10–Building Your Desktop Golden Images #VDM30in30

A virtual desktop environment is nothing without virtual desktops.  Poorly performing virtual desktops, or virtual desktops and pools that aren’t configured properly for the applications that are being...

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Horizon View 6.0 Part 11–Creating A Desktop Pool #VDM30in30

Every system needs a way to group entities in order to organize them, delegate administration, and control security on them.  Horizon View uses desktop pools to group desktops, apply Horizon View...

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Horizon view 6.0 Part 12–Installing and Configuring A Security Server #VDM30in30

Horizon View provides a secure method for granting users access to their desktops from anywhere with an Internet connection on any device without needing a VPN connection.  Now that a desktop pool has...

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Enabling Windows Server 2008 R2 Desktops in Horizon 6 #VDM30in30

VMware introduced support for Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual desktops in Horizon View 5.3.  This support wasn’t enabled out of the box.  It required an administrator to edit the View LDAP database to...

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Horizon View 6.0 Application Publishing Part 1: Introduction #VDM30in30

One of the advantages that Citrix had over VMware in the EUC space was the ability to just publish specific applications to users with the MetaFrame/Presentation Server/XenApp line of products.  This...

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Revisiting The Horizon View Start-Recompose Script #VDM30in30

Last September, I posted a script that I had written to address a few issues in the Horizon View environment that I managed at the time.  At the time, I had seven base images for sixteen desktop pools,...

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Horizon View 6.0 Application Publishing Part 2: Building Your Terminal...

The application publishing feature of Horizon 6.0 utilizes the capabilities of the Remote Desktop Session Host role.  This requires servers with the role installed and licensed in order to publish...

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Horizon View 6.0 Application Publishing Part 3: Creating An RDS Farm #VDM30in30

The previous post covered the steps for configuring a Windows Server with the Remote Desktop Session Host role and installing the Horizon View agent.  There is one more step that need to be completed...

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Horizon View 6.0 Application Publishing Part 5: Manually Publishing an...

The last post covered the process of creating an application pool using applications that have been installed on the server and are available to all users through the start menu.  But what if the...

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Horizon View 6.0 Load Balancing Part 1#VDM30in30

Redundancy needs to be a consideration when building and deploying business critical systems.  As user’s desktops are moved into the data center, Horizon View becomes a Tier 0 application that needs to...

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GPUs Should Be Optional for VDI

Note: I disabled comments on my blog in 2014 because of spammers. Please comment on this discussion on Twitter using the #VDIGPU hashtag. Brian Madden recently published a blog arguing that GPU should...

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The Next Generation of Virtual Graphics–NVIDIA GRID 2.0

When vGPU was released for Horizon View 6.1 back in March 2015, it was an exciting addition to the product line.  It addressed many of problems that plagued 3D Graphics Acceleration and 3D workloads in...

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Introducing Horizon 6.2

VMware has made a significant investment in end-user computing.  A new release of Horizon comes about every six months, and each release contains several major new features. Today, VMware has announced...

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What’s New in VMware Horizon 6.2–Core Infrastructure

In order to set up and run VMware Horizon, you need to have a vSphere infrastructure and Windows VMs to run the server components.  Horizon 6.2 Horizon Access Point One of the challenges of deploying...

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What’s New in VMware Horizon 6.2 – RDSH and Application Publishing

Publishing applications from RDSH servers was one of the big additions to Horizon 6.0.  Horizon 6.2 greatly expands on this feature set, and it offers many new capabilities under the covers to improve...

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What’s New in VMware Horizon 6.2–3D Graphics

3D graphics are becoming increasingly important in virtual desktop environments.  While a number of high-end applications and use cases, such as CAD and medical imaging, require 3D graphics, modern...

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What’s New in VMware Horizon 6.2–User Experience

One of the areas where Horizon 6.2 has a lot of improvements is in the User Experience category.  The new version adds new features as well as brings a few older features out of tech preview. Client...

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Horizon EUC Access Point Configuration Script

Horizon 6.2 included a new feature when it was launched in early September – the EUC Access Gateway.  This product is a hardened Linux appliance that has all of the features of the Security Server...

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What’s New – Horizon 7.0

(Edit: Updated to include a Blast Extreme feature I missed.) Last week, VMware announced App Volumes 3.0.  It was a taste of the bigger announcements to come in today’s Digital Enterprise event.  And...

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It’s Time To Reconsider My Thoughts on GPUs in VDI…

Last year, I wrote that it was too early to consider GPUs for general VDI use and that they  should be reserved only for VDI use cases where they are absolutely required.  There were a number of...

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