Plain Virtualization

View 5 has just launched and there are many who are concern on the performance tuning and various enhancements which are not really mentioned. I will not go into details but rather place some of the good white papers that most of us might be interested in. Will not be listing those applicable  only to View 4.x but those will apply to View 5.x will be listed and will overwrite those that are updated to View 5.x. Performance & Best Practice VMware View 5 Performance and Best Practices VMware View Backup Best Practices Others Validating Adobe Connect Client on VMware® View Desktops VMware View Optimization Guide for Windows 7 PCoIP Display Protocol: Information and Scenario-Based Network Sizing Guide How to Optmize the Master Desktop Image for VMware View

Recently from my previous post, I have upgraded my home lab to VMware View 5.0. Everytime seems working.  For those who ain't aware, my ISP issue dynamic IP.  In such, I created a domain name from dyndns.org. As to match my external IP to my View Security Server with my external dns name, I would need to use a script which was found from the source below. I did some modification to suit my environment and corrected some mistake.  Below is my script. However in View 5.0, it has to be launch using the View PowerCLI and Add-PSSnapin VMware.View.Broker is no long working anymore. (which it did in View 4.6).  This was documented in VMware KB 1034652 . A quick check with the View PowerCLI properties from Start Menu, I realize it is calling a powershell script from C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\extras\PowerShell\add-snapin.ps1 so in such I added the change in my script as you can see.  This was documented Now my script is running fine again...

Yes the GA binaries of VMware View 5 is out.  It is also released with workstation 8. From the release notes, it glad to see it is compatible with vSphere 4.0 Update 3 and above. Compatibility Notes VMware View 5.0 is supported on the following versions of vSphere: vSphere 5.0 vSphere 4.1 Update 1 or later vSphere 4.0 Update 3 or later For system requirements, see the VMware View Installation documentation. Reference: http://www.vmware.com/support/view50/doc/view-50-release-notes.htm l The technical documentation can be found here . The binaries can be located here . Will be doing the upgrade on my View 4.6 to 5 on vSphere 4.1.  Will be doing the recording as I try this on the first time tonight. So do look back for the new videos!