Plain Virtualization

Remember back in the release of VMware View 5.0 (yes the name Horizon wasn't there then), I wrote an article on Deploy Persona Management Overview .  I also helped to answer one question in details here on Persona Management in the communities which now when I read it, I seems to know a lot I have forgotten already (am I aging). While doing a POC I gotten some difficulty in getting Persona Management to work even though policy was applied via Active Directory as well as even tried on the "master" VM used for creating the desktop pool.  Here is a KB on it. This is a screenshot on my customer environment apparently they have a global police in place to use only Local User Profiles so your persona will not work even settings it at domain policy or at local image policy.  I log into one of the View Desktop and run rsop.msc (you would need administrator rights), to see what policy is applied in the domain.  Some domain might take a bit of time up to 10mins to see t...

There are some confusion and question on Persona Management.  I joined in this discussion in the communities here to state some use cases.  It would be good for anyone who are confused with user data disk (UDD) and the persona management. Drop me any comments if you are still in doubt.

Finally I have save this post as a draft for the longest time exactly a month and finally find some time to do this. Have gone through lots of reading of the deployment of View 5.  It almost similar with View 4.6 except for the Persona Management which I was very keen to try it out. The View Administration for View 5 is a must read to understand the Personal Management and also the VMware View Persona Management Deployment Guide . If  you are already using Roaming Profile, you can carry on using it with Persona Management turn on working together leaving the depository stick with what is already configured in your Roaming Profiles. Persona Management will supercede Roaming Profile if you assign a depository path in the group policy.  Honestly I would like ease of work and administration here and will use everything from Persona Management instead. When doing sizing, if performance is what you are looking for, even with Persona Management or with Roam...

I did a setup of View 5.0 in my environment and have also use the Persona Management with folder redirection.  This demonstration was purely done on my whitebox and an ISP connection of uplink of up to 2Mbps.  The network speed isn't that great however we are able to see the performance. Android View App to View Manager 5.0 Using the new View App version 1.2 which is no longer in Tech Preview, to test out the connection.  Pretty decent within my network. View Client 5.0 to View Manager 5.0 Using my laptop with a View 5.0 client connecting to the View Manager to test out the connection within my network. View Client 5.0 to Security Server 5.0 Connection was done through my 3G connection.  This is an extreme case not because I use 3G but my ISP uplink is only up to 2Mbps.  At the time of recording, I am also sharing with many people in my neighbourhood so this is not a good example.  However with this extreme measure, we ca...