VMware vCenter Orchestrator Instructional Videos
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How to customize the View Portal for Client Download with VMware View 5.1
In some organizations end-users do not have administrative rights on their machines in order to install the VMware View Client. In order to give these users the ability to access their VMware View Virtual Machines you could provide them with a thinapped version of the VMware View Client and make …
Thinapp Instructions for VMware View Client
14 DEC 2012: UPDATED FOR VMWARE VIEW CLIENT 5.1.2 (BUILD 937772) 13 JUL 2013: SEE HERE FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON VMWARE HORIZON VIEW CLIENT 5.4.0 (BUILD 1219906) Environment Capture & build machine: Windows XP SP3 – 32 bit (fully patched) Install latest VMware Thinapp version (4.7.2 at the time of writing) Make …
VMware vSphere 5.1 now supports VMware View 5.1.x
A few weeks ago I wrote an article mentioning that VMware vSphere 5.1. did not support VMware View. Well, this has changed now. VMware released a patch which resolves this incompatbility. See also KB article 2035268. See also the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix
VMware vSphere 5.1 is not supported with any version of VMware View
VMware View is currently not supported for vSphere 5.1. So if you are were planning to upgrade, do not do it yet, just wait for an official note from VMware that it is fully supported. If you already upgraded your VMware View environment to vSphere 5.1, be aware …
Best practices for installing vCenter Server 5.1
VMware just release a KB article explaining the best practices for installing vCenter Server 5.1. http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2021202
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 …
Integrating Thinapp Factory and Horizon
http://portal.sliderocket.com/vmware/TAF-and-Hzn-Integration
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 …
Files installed in the VMware Thinapp folder
After installing the VMware Thinapp Virtualization package on aager software on a clean machine a new folder is created under c:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Thinapp. This folder contains a number of files. Captures folder – Stores the ThinApp virtualized application project files. Note that the Captures folder is not visible right …