In my opinion Project Fargo a.k.a VMFork or Instant Clones is one of the coolest technologies announced last several years. You can find a lot information out there, that’s why I am not going in deep details about it and how it works. As a VDI engineer I am more curious… Continue reading
One of the new features provided in Horizon View 6.1.1, which I’ve mentioned in the What’s New article, is the support of providing Linux based virtual desktops. There are some limitations, but it is definitely a feature which is good to have in our pocket as VDI engineers. Limitations Here… Continue reading
At the Part 1 of the VDI Optimization – OS Services article, I went through several windows services which could be stopped/disabled in order to achieve better performance of your virtual desktop infrastructure and higher end user acceptance. At the current article I will add the rest of my list. Before that I would… Continue reading
After VM Hardware optimizations, covered in a previous post, now we will go through the Windows Services. Disabling the unnecessary windows services could dramatically increase your overall VDI performance by decreasing the resources which each of the desktops consume. I am going to go through the eventual services which could… Continue reading
This article is a follow up of Create and Configure Horizon View 6.1 Cloud Pod. I want to show you the process for creating of a global entitlement and some of the limitations of the View Cloud Pod architecture. Once the Cloud Pod is enabled and configured, new menu will appear… Continue reading
For a well functioning VDI environment all components should be well tuned and optimized. For VMware Horizon View environment there are several components where optimization practices could be applied – View Connection Brokers (Connection Servers, Security Servers), vSphere infrastructure, Virtual Desktop templates or golden images, end user devices. In this article… Continue reading
Yesterday (4/6/2015) was released the next ‘minor’ update for Horizon 6 – Horizon 6.1.1. In addition of the new features in View 6.1 which I wrote about, now we can find few more, in my opinion significant. Here is the list with the newly added features: Client Drive Redirection – Finally… Continue reading
The following two articles of mine will include some guidance and useful information about the new feature called ‘Cloud Pod’ which was introduced in Horizon View 6.0. Create and Configure Horizon View 6.1 Cloud Pod Create and Configure Global Entitlements In my previous article about What’s New In Horizon View… Continue reading
Despite being an IBMer I have greater experience with HP servers, mainly because my customers have decided to go the HP path. Nothing wrong with that if you keep the hardware happy, which means you need to have the latest and greatest BIOS and device firmware versions applied. Since we… Continue reading
VMware Horizon 6.1 has been released a week ago, providing a bunch of new features and full support of vSphere 6.0. Here is a list with the main improvements of the new version of the VMware VDI solution: NVIDIA GRID vGPU (shared GPU hardware acceleration) Smart Card for RDS desktops… Continue reading
