In my last blog post (New Year with a new focus) I mentioned that I’m on a new journey – one that requires me to roll up my sleeves and get comfortable being uncomfortable in this new world of Cloud Native Apps. For those of you playing along at home, I thought I […]
Read More Let the journey begin–where I started firstHopefully you have been keeping up with my blog series on updating your VMware View 5.2 environment. So far we’ve done the following: Updated the VMware Connection Broker Added the new End User Experience Pack to the Broker We’ve updated VMware View Composer Updated the View Agent & Installed the Remote Experience Pack into […]
Read More Fun with Horizon View HTML5 and Unity TouchOver the last few blog posts we’ve taken our existing VMware View 5.1 environment and upgraded it to VMware Horizon View 5.2. Along the way we did the following: Updated the VMware Connection Broker Added the new End User Experience Pack to the Broker We’ve updated VMware View Composer Updated the View Agent & Installed […]
Read More Creating a New Desktop Pool in Horizon View 5.2So hopefully you’ve been following along on my adventures of upgrading my VMware View 5.1 environment to the latest VMware Horizon View 5.2 in my home lab. So far we’ve done the following: Updated the VMware Connection Broker. Added the new End User Experience Pack to the Broker We’ve updated VMware View Composer Up […]
Read More Updating View Agent & Installing Remote Experience PackSome of the most anticipated updates in Horizon View 5.2 is bundled into something called the VMware View End User Experience Pack. This pack includes some really cool features that the VMware View team has been showing off over the last couple of years. One of the really cool features in VMware Horizon […]
Read More Installing VMware View End User Experience PackI’ve been getting a lot of questions around VMware Horizon View 5.2 and some of the new features. Unfortunately it’s been a while since I’ve updated my home View Environment so I figured I would take the opportunity to update the lab and get some hands on with some of the new features. For […]
Read More Upgrading VMware View Connection ServerUpdated: 12/12/2011 It seems to me that at this moment the hottest discussion going on in the IT world is around Virtual Desktops. Whether you buy in on the hype, or you are one of those that don’t think it’s ready for prime time you have to admit that the best way to gain a […]
Read More How to install configure and deploy VMware View 5 on vSphere 5What a difference a week makes !! Geez, this is what I really love about being in IT and specifically getting to work with VMware products. Last week I published a quick blog on “How to Monitor vSphere 5 from your iPad”. Essentially this is a tool that VMware released that allows you to […]
Read More How to vMotion VMs from vCenter Client for iPadThis is something I’ve been wanting to do a while. As you recall, I’ve been reinstalling everything in my VMware vSphere 5 home lab I’ve decided that I really need/want/”glutton for punishment” to install SQL Server 2008 R2 and start moving away from the default SQL Express stuff that most of the VMware tools let […]
Read More How to install SQL 2008 R2 in your vSphere 5 Home LabI’ve been in the process of updating my VMware home lab (future blog alert) and with that I’ve decided to do a lot of “fall cleaning” of stuff. About the only thing I’m keeping is my ActiveDirectory and DNS VM and everything else is getting a brand new install including vSphere 5.0, vCenter 5 etc […]
Read More How to Monitor vSphere 5 from your iPad
