Quite a simple task, but good to know. When you try to query events in VMware View Administration GUI, View just look ups the latest 2000 rows to build the result. So when you want to look at errors, ten days old, and query within the last month, your chances are good to not get what you want. The result stops after a few days. […]
Questions to ask before designing a VDI environment
These are facts you should think about before to into detailed planing a VDI environment. I will add new questions that occurred to me. Sizing How many Connection server do you need? Just for scalability just one is most often enough, so use two of them for redundancy. How to load balance the sesstion? (round robin, balancer) Number of Security server? How many users will […]
View desktop cannot start because of errors on disposable-disk
You get this kind of errors when you or View Composer try to start a View desktop Cannot open the disk ‘/vmfs/volumes/4ef3113c-43bb01db-ad6c-101f74362f0e/VM/VM-v-dm-disposable-327e75b7-c97e-4671-9db2-b761d3de383.vmdk’ or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. The file specified is not a virtual disk This can be caused by operations like recompose, refresh or rebalance. Luckily it´s easy to fix – at least it´s worth the try: get rid of […]
tool you should know to implement VMware View
To optimize OS used as desktops A must read is the VMware View Optimization Guide for Windows 7 and Windows 8. Its includes batch files to support you by optimizing the client OS. You can download the guide here. A graphical tool to optimize guests OS is the VMware OS Optimization Tool from VMware Labs. You can find the tool here. The is a single […]
(my) guideline to microsoft licensing for VDI
The list does not claim to be comprehensive. Use this information at own risk! User or device CALs Take user CALs when user uses more than one device to access the desktop. Take device CALs when there are more or equal devices than users. Microsoft licenses the physical person (named user) NOT an Active Directory-User! RDS CALs and VDA licenses VDA license includes the license for […]
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