Category: View

Using Events in VMware View 4.6

En caso de necesitar una gestión de eventos en el entorno VMware View 4.6 deberemos configurarlo de forma manual, con el fin de almacenar los LOG’s de nuestro entorno VDI y poder obtener más información en caso que tengamos problemas. En este breve documento configuraremos los eventos de VMware View 4.6 contra una base de datos SQL Server.

Allowing connection to our VMware View desktops 4.6 from abroad

By default, PCoIP connections are direct between the VMware View client and the final virtual desktop (where the View Agent resides), this from the version 4.6 changes allowing you to connect through a server that acts as a reverse proxy as it does not ensure the connectivity of the UDP frames that are sent if you do not redirect PCoIP through the Security Server. This Security Server will allow us to connect from the outside without VPN's and without having to open PCoIP to each virtual desktop, since he will be in charge of connecting to the Connection Server and the Connection Server to the virtual desktop.

Using VMware View GPO's 4.6

In this document, we'll look at the policies that we can apply at the Active Directory level to our VMware View environment, since we have various administrative templates to be able to manage the agents, clients, Servers, common configuration and especially if we need to optimize the PCoIP protocol. The document shows all the existing GPO's to be able to centrally manage our VMware View 4.6, Of course, in English 😉

Installing and Configuring VMware View 4.6 Connection Server Standard

In this post we will look at the installation of the first server in a VMware View environment 4.6, will be our first connection broker or VMware View Connection Server (Standard), this will be the one that authenticates users through Active Directory and redirects client requests to the appropriate desktop. In case we need a balance of connections we can add a VMware View Connection Server (Replica) or as many as we need, the configuration of these is stored embedded in the LDAP directory and replicated between the servers.

What's New in VMware View 4.6

The past 24 de febrero VMware lanzó la esperada versión 4.6 de VMware View que trae una serie de mejoras, problemas arreglados (relacionados con el teclado, corregidos más de 160 bugs…), soporte para el SP1 de Windows 7/2008 R2. VMware View 4.6 se puede montar a partir de VMware Infrastructure 3 version 3.5 Update 5 (or higher) y VirtualCenter Server 2.5 Update 6 o en vSphere 4.0 Update 2 o en vSphere 4.1. Estas son las principales novedades que trae VMware View 4.6: – Soporta uso de smart cards que usen PKCS#11 o con Microsoft CryptoAPI. – Soporte de PCoIP en los VMware View Security servers (sólo bajo Windows 2008 R2) mediante PCoIP Secure Gateway podremos conectarnos ya sin necesidad de VPN’s a nuestra infraestructura virtual desde el exterior. – Redirección de USB’s soportada!

Free VMware Backups with ghettoVCB

ghettoVCB.sh is one of the few good scripts I know that can help us make copies of our VMware environment for free, This is, we will be able to make backups on both ESX and ESXi servers without a license! We can say that it behaves the same as the traditional VCB, Takes a snapshot of the virtual machine to be copied, It copies the virtual machine's files to a directory and then deletes the snapshot. ghettoVCB is a script that must be run on the VMware ESX server itself(i), we can schedule it to run using 'Cron’ or as in my case I will run it from a remote computer using the utility plink.exe. In addition, ghettoVCB stores backups in an ESX datastore(i), In this document we will see at the end how to make the backup in a Windows folder that we have thanks to NFS.

Using ThinStation to Reuse Computers as a Thin Client

I've been working with this kind of wonder for a long time, It is an ideal for companies, Incredible savings of all kinds, The use of thin client philosophy in an organization. In this document we will see a free project that allows us to use any computer and convert it into a light computer or thinclient. There are other Linux distributions that are also based on this philosophy, And this seems to me to be the best, since it has a lot of packages that we can add to the posts and people who contribute.

Exporting and Importing VMware View Settings 4

If we want, we can use VMware and Microsoft tools to be able to export the configuration of our VMware View installation 4 so that it can later be imported in the event of a disaster into a new Connection Server. Since all configuration is stored in an LDAP directory and each Connection Server has a local copy of the repository and replication.