How to install configure and deploy VMware View 5 on vSphere 5

Updated: 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 […]

How to install VMware View 5 Client on your Desktop

How to install VMware View 5 Client on your Desktop is the next task we need to do. Especially if you don’t have an iPad that you could test like we discussed in my last blog post. In fact, let’s recap what we’ve done so far: How to install SQL 2008 R2 in your vSphere […]

Setting up your iPad to connect into VMware View 5

Setting up your iPad to connect into VMware View 5….Let’s be honest, the only really “cool” reason to run VMware View 5 in the home lab is its ability to use their native VMware View Client for iPad !!! As the last part of our install series, we are going to use this process to […]

How to setup your first Desktop Pool in VMware View 5

Quick Recap of what we’ve done so far: 1st – How to install SQL 2008 R2 in your vSphere 5 Home lab 2nd – we setup the VMware View 5 Database inside that SQL Server 3rd – we setup our ODBC connection for View 5 inside the vCenter Server 4th – We troubleshooted View […]

Installing View 5 Desktop Agent in Windows 7 64bit

Quick recap of what we’ve done so far: 1st – How to install SQL 2008 R2 in your vSphere 5 Home lab 2nd – we setup the VMware View 5 Database inside that SQL Server 3rd – we setup our ODBC connection for View 5 inside the vCenter Server 4th – We troubleshooted View 5 […]

Setting up View 5 Connection Server for the 1st time

Quick Recap of what we’ve done so far: 1st – we installed Windows SQL 2008 R2 inside a Windows 2008 R2 server. 2nd – we setup the VMware View 5 Database inside that SQL Server 3rd – we setup our ODBC connection for View 5 inside the vCenter Server 4th – We troubleshooted View 5 […]

Installing VMware View 5 Connection Server in vSphere 5

Now it’s time for the final installation for our VMware View 5 environment. We need to install the connection server. This is also sometimes referred to as the connection broker since this is the part of View 5 that the end users actually log into and pick (if they have a choice) which desktop they […]

Installing VMware View 5 Composer inside vCenter 5

Quick recap of what we’ve done so far. 1st – we installed Windows SQL 2008 R2 inside a Windows 2008 R2 server. 2nd – we setup the VMware View 5 Database inside that SQL Server 3rd – we setup our ODBC connection for View 5 inside the vCenter Server 4th – we troubleshooted the View […]

Troubleshooting View 5 ODBC connection errors

If you’ve been keeping up with my VMware View 5 Install Series then you noticed that in the last part (Setting up the ODBC Connection for View 5) I ran into some issues when trying to create the ODBC connection to my brand new install of Microsoft SQL 2008 R2 SP1. For someone (me) that […]

Setting up ODBC for View 5 inside vCenter 5

Let’s do a quick recap of what we’ve done so far. 1st – we’ve installed Windows SQL 2008 R2 inside a Windows 2008 R2 server. 2nd – we’ve setup the VMware View 5 Database inside that SQL Server The next step of the View install is to go to vCenter and install VMware View […]