As most of the folks in the IT, I’ve spent last couple of days researching about famous Spectre and Meltdown attacks and their possible impact to our infrastructure. These security flaws are especially bad, not only because they’ve been here for more than 2 decades, but mitigation comes with significant… Continue reading
It was more than a month waiting for general availability of VMware Horizon 7. What is new in the new suite you can find here. I’m not going through all details in the installation and configuration, but I will try to highlight the new features. Installation of the product is pretty… Continue reading
VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) is a term used to describe a specific field of virtualization, which deals with creating and maintaining virtual desktops within an organization’s IT environment. The process involves the migration of desktop operating systems from physical computing resources to Virtual Machines, or VMs, hosted on centralized servers.… Continue reading
Horizon View 6.2 was release one day ago and definitely I didn’t expect to see any updates like this during this time in the year. This is the third update of the VMware’s VDI solution for this year after Horizon 6.1 and Horizon 6.1.1 As a VDI engineer responsible for design… Continue reading
In my opinion Project Fargo a.k.a VMFork or Instant Clones is one of the coolest technologies announced last several years. You can find a lot information out there, that’s why I am not going in deep details about it and how it works. As a VDI engineer I am more curious… Continue reading
One of the new features provided in Horizon View 6.1.1, which I’ve mentioned in the What’s New article, is the support of providing Linux based virtual desktops. There are some limitations, but it is definitely a feature which is good to have in our pocket as VDI engineers. Limitations Here… Continue reading
At the Part 1 of the VDI Optimization – OS Services article, I went through several windows services which could be stopped/disabled in order to achieve better performance of your virtual desktop infrastructure and higher end user acceptance. At the current article I will add the rest of my list. Before that I would… Continue reading
After VM Hardware optimizations, covered in a previous post, now we will go through the Windows Services. Disabling the unnecessary windows services could dramatically increase your overall VDI performance by decreasing the resources which each of the desktops consume. I am going to go through the eventual services which could… Continue reading
This article is a follow up of Create and Configure Horizon View 6.1 Cloud Pod. I want to show you the process for creating of a global entitlement and some of the limitations of the View Cloud Pod architecture. Once the Cloud Pod is enabled and configured, new menu will appear… Continue reading
For a well functioning VDI environment all components should be well tuned and optimized. For VMware Horizon View environment there are several components where optimization practices could be applied – View Connection Brokers (Connection Servers, Security Servers), vSphere infrastructure, Virtual Desktop templates or golden images, end user devices. In this article… Continue reading
