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Why End User computing is more than VDI

Posted on 30. Apr, 2013 by vTexan.

Today, more than any other day, I seem to have VDI/End User Computing on the brain. Man I HEART EUC !! It probably started a few weeks back when I decided it was time to update my home lab to VMware Horizon View 5.2. Some of the new features like Unity Touch and HTML5 [...]

Fun with Horizon View HTML5 and Unity Touch

Posted on 22. Apr, 2013 by vTexan.

Hopefully you have been keeping up with my blog series on updating your VMware View 5.2 environment. So far we’ve done the following: Updated the VMware Connection Broker Added the new End User Experience Pack to the Broker We’ve updated VMware View Composer Updated the View Agent & Installed the Remote Experience Pack into [...]

Creating a New Desktop Pool in Horizon View 5.2

Posted on 16. Apr, 2013 by vTexan.

Over the last few blog posts we’ve taken our existing VMware View 5.1 environment and upgraded it to VMware Horizon View 5.2. Along the way we did the following: Updated the VMware Connection Broker Added the new End User Experience Pack to the Broker We’ve updated VMware View Composer Updated the View Agent & Installed [...]

Updating View Agent & Installing Remote Experience Pack

Posted on 11. Apr, 2013 by vTexan.

So hopefully you’ve been following along on my adventures of upgrading my VMware View 5.1 environment to the latest VMware Horizon View 5.2 in my home lab. So far we’ve done the following: Updated the VMware Connection Broker. Added the new End User Experience Pack to the Broker We’ve updated VMware View Composer Up [...]

Upgrading VMware View Composer

Posted on 08. Apr, 2013 by vTexan.

So far we’ve been going down the journey of updating a VMware View 5.1 environment to VMware Horizon View 5.2. Let’s review what we’ve done so far: We’ve updated our Connection Broker We’ve added in the new End User Experience Pack In this blog post I’m going to take you step by step through [...]

Installing VMware View End User Experience Pack

Posted on 04. Apr, 2013 by vTexan.

Some of the most anticipated updates in Horizon View 5.2 is bundled into something called the VMware View End User Experience Pack. This pack includes some really cool features that the VMware View team has been showing off over the last couple of years. One of the really cool features in VMware Horizon [...]

Upgrading VMware View Connection Server

Posted on 02. Apr, 2013 by vTexan.

I’ve been getting a lot of questions around VMware Horizon View 5.2 and some of the new features. Unfortunately it’s been a while since I’ve updated my home View Environment so I figured I would take the opportunity to update the lab and get some hands on with some of the new features. For [...]

Austin VMUG User Conference

Posted on 26. Mar, 2013 by vTexan.

I wanted to give everyone a heads up that next week, April 2nd I’m going to be the keynote speaker at the big Austin Area VMUG User Conference. Needless to say, I’m mixed with excitement as well as nervous energy! I take speaking at these VMUG’s pretty seriously and especially when they asked me to [...]

vTexan top 20–Thank You

Posted on 14. Mar, 2013 by vTexan.

The results are in !! In 2012 a vTexan.com was ranked 30th and this year we moved up 10 spots to #20 !! W0OT !! AWESOME! First and foremost THANK YOU VERY MUCH !! Secondly thank you Eric Siebert for working hard to pull this together !! Make sure you head over to http://vsphere-land.com/news/2013-top-vmware-virtualization-blog-voting-results.html [...]

Time to vote–Top Virtualization Blogs

Posted on 21. Feb, 2013 by vTexan.

Vote here: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1165270/Top-vBlog-2013 It’s that time of year again where Eric Siebert and group over at vSphere-Land.com start the process of ranking the top virtualization bloggers in the industry. I can only imagine how much work goes into tabulating these results ! There looks to be well over 200 bloggers which is just CRAZY [...]