Archive for 'Home VMware Lab'

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 [...]

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 [...]

How to install configure and deploy VMware View 5 on vSphere 5

Posted on 03. Nov, 2011 by vTexan.

Updated: 12/12/2011 It seems to me that at this moment the hottest discussion going on in the IT world is around Virtual Desktops. Whether you buy in on the hype, or you are one of those that don’t think it’s ready for prime time you have to admit that the best way to gain a [...]

How to vMotion VMs from vCenter Client for iPad

Posted on 18. Oct, 2011 by vTexan.

What a difference a week makes !! Geez, this is what I really love about being in IT and specifically getting to work with VMware products. Last week I published a quick blog on “How to Monitor vSphere 5 from your iPad”. Essentially this is a tool that VMware released that allows you to [...]

How to install SQL 2008 R2 in your vSphere 5 Home Lab

Posted on 18. Oct, 2011 by vTexan.

This is something I’ve been wanting to do a while. As you recall, I’ve been reinstalling everything in my VMware vSphere 5 home lab I’ve decided that I really need/want/”glutton for punishment” to install SQL Server 2008 R2 and start moving away from the default SQL Express stuff that most of the VMware tools let [...]

How to Monitor vSphere 5 from your iPad

Posted on 15. Oct, 2011 by vTexan.

I’ve been in the process of updating my VMware home lab (future blog alert) and with that I’ve decided to do a lot of “fall cleaning” of stuff. About the only thing I’m keeping is my ActiveDirectory and DNS VM and everything else is getting a brand new install including vSphere 5.0, vCenter 5 etc [...]

vSphere 5–How to Deploy from Template

Posted on 17. Sep, 2011 by vTexan.

As I’ve mentioned in the past I’ve been working with a good friend of mine to help him get his home lab up and running. In the last blog post I talked about the importance of a solid Windows 2008 Template and the process in vSphere 5 on how to create a template. As [...]

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