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Re: VUM appliance sometime in the near future?

ksliger_lexon — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 17:04:28 GMT

It would appear my prayers have been answered with vSphere 6.5. Thanks VMware!

Re: Add existing virtual desktops to “Automated Pool” in VMware View manually

ksliger_lexon — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 17:02:47 GMT

This is great! Automated pools full of dedicated vm desktops will have issues over time resulting in the need to delete a problematic vm. It has always frustrated me that the new vm which is subsequently provisioned gets piled onto the end of the numerical stack. This is a great way to fix the gaps that can be left over time after deleting several vm desktops! Has anyone tried this with Horizon 7 yet?

Re: certificates for vmware view

ksliger_lexon — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 21:23:12 GMT

If you have only internal connections inside of a secure network then you could get away with using a CA server internal to your organization. For example we have a Windows 2008 server with the CA role that can issue these certificates. Below is a good link for creating a certificate template that will work, and another link to a great post covering how to request the certificate from your connection server.

Creating a Microsoft Certificate Authority Template for SSL certificate creation in vSphere 5.x (2062108) | VMware KB

https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2020913

If you are allowing external connections with a security server or EUC access point then you will likely want a third party certificate from GeoTrust, GoDaddy, etc.. Here is a great review of how to get one of these setup and secured:

VMware Access Point – Carl Stalhood

Re: Security Server SSL certificates from 3rd party CA

ksliger_lexon — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 21:11:10 GMT

I would strongly suggest you use the EUC access point appliance vs. the security server. Its a hardened Linux based appliance. The version in Horizon 7 is fairly easy to get setup. The version in 6.x is a little trickier. Here is an excellent blog covering how to do this. I was able to follow this (slowly) and get it all setup. I sleep much better at night knowing I have a locked down and hardened Linux based appliances in place of my previous Windows based security servers.

http://www.carlstalhood.com/vmware-access-point/

P2V a physical vCenter server being used by a Horizon View 5.3.4 pool?

ksliger_lexon — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 21:48:22 GMT

The steps for P2Ving a physical vCenter server are pretty well documented but I am wondering if anyone has had any experience doing this when the physical vCenter was used for a View pool. I am weighing taking this route vs. just standing up a fresh vCenter appliance, creating new pools and migrating vm desktops to the new pools. All are Windows 7 dedicated full clones. Current vCenter is 5.5 U3, but we want to migrate to 6.0 U1b

Re: View upgrade scenario - need advice

ksliger_lexon — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 20:31:04 GMT

Also, all View desktops are full standalone dedicated clones

View upgrade scenario - need advice

ksliger_lexon — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 20:20:41 GMT

Greetings,

I have View 5.3.4 running in a vSphere 5.5 environment. There are 4 ESXi 5.5 hosts and 1 physical vCenter server. We want to migrate to vSphere 6, View 6.2 and vCenter Server Appliance. I have read that View pools cannot be migrated to a new vCenter server. I have also read about the Fling tool that migrates a Windows vCenter to a vCenter appliance. I am wondering if I should just stand up a new vSphere 6, View 6.2 and VCSA environment and then slowly migrate desktops or should I attempt to do an upgrade from the physical Windows 5.5 vCenter to 6.0 VCSA with the fling tool. The side by side method seems safer to me but I haven't found where anyone has attempted this scenario or not with the Fling VCS to VCSA tool.

Please let me know thoughts and opinions.

thanks,

Ken

VUM appliance sometime in the near future?

ksliger_lexon — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:00:56 GMT

I am sure this has asked before and I apologize in advance for asking again, but can we expect to get a VUM appliance sometime in the near future? I love all of the new appliance offerings and getting away from Windows for my core VMware infrastructure servers but the continuation of VUM on Windows is hard to swallow given all of the progress with the other vSphere appliances.

Re: Optimization for Windows 10 in Horizon View 6.2

ksliger_lexon — Wed, 30 Dec 2015 21:56:11 GMT

Email sent, thanks!

Re: Terrible VDI Performance

ksliger_lexon — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 15:28:30 GMT

Bump to all the posts about BIOS performance settings. Read the Dell performance tuning PDF's linked at the bottom of this KB. Maxing out all of these performance settings on our R720's really helped out a lot on our WIn 7 View desktops.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1018206

Optimization for Windows 10 in Horizon View 6.2

ksliger_lexon — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 21:35:39 GMT

Greetings,

Are there any guides, tools or scripts (official or otherwise) yet for optimizing Windows 10 desktops running in Horizon View 6.2?

Thanks,

Ken Sliger

Re: VM Screen Resolution Problem

ksliger_lexon — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 18:16:47 GMT

This fixed me too, thanks!