This is the second part in a blog series of how to install and configure VMware Horizon View 5.2. In Part 1 we did the basic connection server install, and installed Adobe Flash player. Next up is configuring a trusted SSL certificate for VMware Horizon View. There are a number...
In case you missed it, VMware has recently GA'd their Horizon Suite of software. This is a re-branding and expansion of the end user computing portfolio, which includes View, their VDI solution. You can see my blog post for the full announcement here. This series will cover the VMware Horizon View 5.2...
Today VMware released their Horizon Suite 1.0. What is Horizon Suite? Basically its a re-branding of their View product, with additions to the suite via some acquisitions over the last couple of years. Major components in the Horizon Suite include: Horizon Workspace 1.0 Horizon Mirage Horizon View 5.2 As seems...
new VMware Cisco UCS Drivers for vSphere 5.x are now out for the fnic and enic drivers. The fnic and enic drivers are for the Cisco VIC cards, which come in a few different flavors. These are the most common FCoE cards used in the UCS blades. They are now at...
For those of you trying to install and maintain vSphere 5.1, you probably will run into some vCenter SSO issues at one point or another. One of the big problems with SSO not using the very friendly Microsoft ODBC connector, is post-install reconfiguration of database parameters. The JDBC database interface...
For a few years now vSphere-land.com has been holding a poll for voting for the top virtualization blogs. Of course rock stars like Duncan and Frank get very high rankings, as they should. The sheer number of Virtualization blogs out there is really amazing. This year my blog made it...
Welcome to a post which will let you easily update your VMware ESXi host SSL certificates. Last year when I was writing my 15-part vSphere 5.1 installation and configuration series I didn't include instructions on how to replace the ESXi SSL certificate. That process hasn't changed for ages, so I put it...
In a virtual environment CPU scheduling is extremely important. You very likely will have more vCPUs than pCores, so the hypervisor has to play some "tricks" to fairly schedule VMs among the finite hardware resources. With each version of vSphere VMware has tuned and optimized CPU scheduler performance. VMware design goals...
If anyone has been following the release of vSphere 5.1, you know it was not exactly a smooth launch. In fact, I would dare to call it a huge debacle. To me, it seems like it was rushed out the door without having components even beta tested, like the required...
In case you missed my previous blog post, yesterday VMware released vSphere 5.0 Update 2, which fixes a plethora of bugs and plugs security holes. You can find my host here, with links to the release notes for all the gory details. Right on the heels of VMware releasing 5.0...