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!

Citrix Streaming Application Delivery Using HTTP or HTTPS

En este documento veremos cómo poder acceder a nuestras aplicaciones distribuidas mediante el Citrix Streaming desde internet vía HTTP o HTTPS. Si trabajamos con Streaming sabremos que las aplicaciones creadas con Streaming Profiler (.profile) se almacenan en una ruta UNC donde posteriormente utilizaremos para publicarlas desde la consola de administración de Citrix, a veces es necesario acceder a pequeñas aplicaciones desde Internet, para ello podremos seguir este método de entrega de aplicaciones por HTTP o HTTPS.

Citrix Branch Repeater VPX

Citrix Branch Repeater VPX is the new name for the WANScaler appliance in virtual environments, Supported for Citrix XenServer, VMware vSphere and soon Microsoft Hyper-V. In this last document we already saw how to set up WANScaler (www.bujarra.com/?p=3320) so its operation does not vary too much, the most complicated thing will be to define a good design in our physical and virtual infrastructure since depending on the needs we will have to assign one or two physical NIC's to the virtual network where we host the virtual machine or configure different VLANs if necessary. In this document we will see how to deploy the VM and how we will optimize the traffic of an external client (with the plugin).

Forcing a MAC address on a VMware VM

Sometimes we have the need to change the MAC address in a virtual machine, usually when we want to keep the MAC that we had on a physical computer or for reasons of applications that control it (license servers..). In this document we will see how to force a MAC address on a VM since VMware will allow us only the next range: 00:50:56:00:00:00 – 00:50:56:3F:FF:FF.