Hello everyone, I am new to View so please dont flame if I ask noob question.
Here is what I want to do.
I want people to register over my website (enter Name and email) and new desktop assigned to them automaticly in View 5.3-6.0 and User Name and Password for this VM will be Generated and Sent over email. Idea is nice because it automates process instead of doing User names and passwords myself people would have them auto genereted and VM will deploy Automaticly. Which VMware App does that? Greatly apreciated in advance. (I Know its possible I know website that provides VDI services and they do it)
I don't know of any VMware official application that will do this. Something like this would need to be custom coded.
Take a look at a combination of vCloud Automation Center and vCenter Orchestrator with the Horizon Plugin.
so vCloud does support Auto user and pass creation as well as new VM creation for each new user? Why would I need Orchestrator with Horizon Plugin in this case? Thanks for answering.
vCAC leverages Orchestrator on the back-end.
So basicly is I will setup vCAC and Orchestrator then my users will be able to create their own User Names and passwords from my website automaticly and that will assign each available desktop from template to their credentials?
Theoretically. You will likely need to develop workflows to fit your needs, but this tools are there. It would be advised to reach out to VMware or a Partner for assistance.
the thing is, I know website that provides VDI services, basicly you just Register and in a second you will get User Name and Password for VMWare View Client or Blaze, and you can login to one of the Guest Desktops with no problem. I dont think they did any special coding.
You could do this very easy without any direct integration with view.
1. Entitle a AD-group to a view-pool
2. Have a script with a web-front that create a user/password in that AD-group.
3. Send a mail to the user with the information.
vCO have AD-integration but you could use anything that you are familiar with.
// Linjo
thanks for info ) ill try it , but 1. what do you mean Entitle a AD group to a view pool? 2. What kind of script does that?
That is a manual process that only needs to be done once per pool and AD-group, that can of course be automated with poweshell but its such a small task so I would probably do it manually if its not a lot of pools
