Plain Virtualization

I have many people asking me how to share or what can I share to a user on Horizon Workspace.  So Here I am going to share with you some screenshot and understand what can or cannot be done. We will be able to have a preview of normal office documents, pictures as well as PDF files in Horizon Workspace.  However if its a unknown format or files that cannot be display per se e.g. zip files, it will not be display. Now let's talk about sharing of files and folder. First of all, you are able to share file or folder to outside external parties from your domain.  This enable users to share file with third parties outside the domain.  External party will not be able to install the Horizon Workspace client as his account are not connected to the internal Horizon Workspace server. Below is a screenshot on the context menu you will see when you click to share a Folder or a File. Sharing a Folder Sharing a File When you share a File you will be provided w...

Attached with this post is a sample BOM and high level architecture details on how you can setup a vCloud lab with 4 hosts (16GB of RAM, 1TB of storage and 2 CPU - Quad core). The lab will be useful for System Integrators (or individuals with the monetary resources) to build a lab that can be used for the following: 1. Sales can use it to demonstrate VMware solutions. 2. Pre-sales can use for demonstration or learning the capabilities of vCloud. 3. Post-Sales can use the setup for design validation/testing. Caution/Disclaimer: 1. This is a lab and the setup is not a reference design for a vCloud deployment or for production use. 2. The lab architecture described here is also not setup based on best practices but for individuals to be able to install and get familiar with VMware solutions using spare or old hardware. Link to Document: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6ewbl4byY17bVBFRktMbXBKc2M

VMware has release the View app (Tech Preview) for Android Tablet. I have tested this on Windows XP and Windows 7 using View Manager and also Security Server on VMware View 4.6.  Both works very well. The Android Tablet used here is Asus Eee Pad Transformer.  Below is the picture of a connection made.  It works just like the app on iPad with the mouse pad and multiple finger gestures. Asus Ee Pad Transformer with Honeycomb 3.2 which also comes with a keyboard dock which I have and it looks just like a netbook. Could the future look like this with a simple hardware to access all desktop? With low hardware cost of SGD700 like what I have here a Wifi model.

The new licensing scheme is used in vSphere 5. Unlike in vSphere 4, where vRAM is not taken into consideration rather the number of cores per socket. Let do a refresh. In vSphere 4, for Enterprise edition is entitled to 6 cores per physical processor per server. For Advanced/Enterprise Plus edition, is entitled to 12 cores per physical processor.  As for the RAM limitation will be 256GB memory per host except Enterprise Plus which is unlimited. An example would be follows: 1 server with 2 physical CPUs, each with 8 cores. This will require 2 x Enterprise Plus license. If you apply 2 x Enterprise instead of Enterprise Plus license, only 6 cores per CPU will be used and 2 cores per CPU left idle. Let's talk about vSphere 5 licensing. Before we begin, vSphere 5 have removed Advanced edition. A customers who is on Advanced Edition on vSphere 4 will be upgrade to vSphere 5 Enterprise. vRAM entitlement is based on an edition per physical CPU (no more limitation of number...

Here is a diagram of my home lab which I have done up. All machines are VMs other than the main ESX server is a physical. I will put up my specification used for my ESXi server at home in another post. This took me a few months as I was busy with work, exams and lots of other testing to have this working. I must admit I do not have a good network backup ground which was also one of the big reason I have a problem with Vyatta router setup. I have 3 LUNs on my ESXi server namely a 1 x 160GB, 2x 500GB. All 3 are sata hdd. Here we will not go through the setup for the vSphere environment which I believe if you are reading this you would know how to do it. We will start with View 4.6 setup straight away. A few guides that got me to successfully implement my View environment are as below: a step by step installation was helpful http://paulslager.com Kendrick provide me the idea how the event database is configured. http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php?/Tech-Blog/configurin...