VMware View 5.x – Reset/Refresh/Rebalance/Recompose

Reset Shuts down the desktop and restarts the session. The shutdown/logoff/disconnect is non-graceful Refresh Restores the OS disk to it’s original state and size Does not effect View Composer persistent disks Rebalance Evenly redistributes linked-clone desktops among available datastores. A rebalance operation also refreshed the linked clones Recompose Simultaneously updates …

What is SAML and OAuth 2.0

VMware’s upcoming On-Premise Horizon Application Manager 1.5 supports SAML and OAuth 2.0 for authentication. SInce I had no idea what SAML and OAuth 2.0 was all about I googled a bit and found some nice videos on the subjects. A VMware paper on Identity, Access Control, and VMware Horizon can …