Plain Virtualization

Finally got hold of sometimes after work to do this.  Downloaded the VMware Horizon Mirage 4.2 binary. On referring to the guide, there are additional component this time round which is the Web Management dashboard which will eventually replace the need for the Windows Management Console MMC which Horizon Mirage uses. I did an upgrade from version 4.0 to 4.2 and the upgrade process is still the same which is located in Page 266, Mirage Administrator's Guide . Uninstall the Horizon Mirage in the following order: Web Access (If you install this components) Mirage Server Mirage Management Console Mirage Management Server Install Horizon Mirage 4.2: Mirage Management Server Mirage Management Console Mirage Server Web Access (if you wants to allow user to access their files via file portal) Web Management Do note that Web Management requires Dot Net 4.0 which you can download the standalone here .  Also note that browsers supported are Chrome, Firefox, IE 9 an...

With much great work to further improve VMware Horizon Mirage, VMware has release version 4.2 which is mentioned here . Some of the great improvement here include Vista support for Disaster Recovery, hardware migration and Windows 7 migration from Windows Vista. Added other than bitdefender encryption, now Sophos 5.5 endpoint encryption is also supported. To add further, a web console for help desk to do troubleshooting is now found instead of relying on MMC. Though this release did not have any support for Windows 8 which means support for USMT version 5 is yet to be included.   I hope to see more improvements such as these above soon. I will do an article on Mirage 4.2 soon. See the release note here . Documentation can be located here . Download the binary here .