Archive for 'VMware View 5 Install Guide'

Thank you TRAINSIGNAL

Posted on 09. Apr, 2012 by vTexan.

I’m EXTREMLY excited to announce that TrainSignal.com is now an official sponsor of the vTexan.com blog site. If you’ve been an avid reader of my blog, or follow me on Twitter you know I’m a HUGE fan of David Davis (Twitter: @DavidMDavis ) and the folks over at TrainSignal.Com. I’ve had the extreme pleasure [...]

Using VMware View 5 Security Server with Dynamic IPs

Posted on 07. Dec, 2011 by vTexan.

Hopefully you’ve kept up with my How to install, Configure and deploy VMware View 5 on vSphere 5” series and had some fun playing around with View 5. Let’s now take it to the next level. Let’s get access to our View environment from outside of our home lab and without the need of VPN. [...]

Maximizing View 5 Storage Performance in your home lab

Posted on 05. Dec, 2011 by vTexan.

Continuing the “How to install, configure and deploy VMware View 5 on vSphere 5″ series is one near and dear to every storage persons heart!! I One of the really cool features in VMware View is the ability to separate some of the VDI storage performance profiles into separate datastores. This is really useful when [...]

Setting up the View 5 Event Database

Posted on 08. Nov, 2011 by vTexan.

One of the screens I find myself spending a lot of time in, especially when troubleshooting View 5 issues is the Events Monitoring Screen. Unfortunately it’s not created for you as part of the View 5 install. Instead, you have to realize its not created, and then go about creating it and logging the [...]

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 install VMware View 5 Client on your Desktop

Posted on 02. Nov, 2011 by vTexan.

How to install VMware View 5 Client on your Desktop is the next task we need to do. Especially if you don’t have an iPad that you could test like we discussed in my last blog post. In fact, let’s recap what we’ve done so far: How to install SQL 2008 R2 in your vSphere [...]

Setting up your iPad to connect into VMware View 5

Posted on 01. Nov, 2011 by vTexan.

Setting up your iPad to connect into VMware View 5….Let’s be honest, the only really “cool” reason to run VMware View 5 in the home lab is its ability to use their native VMware View Client for iPad !!! As the last part of our install series, we are going to use this process to [...]

How to setup your first Desktop Pool in VMware View 5

Posted on 31. Oct, 2011 by vTexan.

Quick Recap of what we’ve done so far: 1st – How to install SQL 2008 R2 in your vSphere 5 Home lab 2nd – we setup the VMware View 5 Database inside that SQL Server 3rd – we setup our ODBC connection for View 5 inside the vCenter Server 4th – We troubleshooted View [...]

Installing View 5 Desktop Agent in Windows 7 64bit

Posted on 30. Oct, 2011 by vTexan.

Quick recap of what we’ve done so far: 1st – How to install SQL 2008 R2 in your vSphere 5 Home lab 2nd – we setup the VMware View 5 Database inside that SQL Server 3rd – we setup our ODBC connection for View 5 inside the vCenter Server 4th – We troubleshooted View 5 [...]

Setting up View 5 Connection Server for the 1st time

Posted on 29. Oct, 2011 by vTexan.

Quick Recap of what we’ve done so far: 1st – we installed Windows SQL 2008 R2 inside a Windows 2008 R2 server. 2nd – we setup the VMware View 5 Database inside that SQL Server 3rd – we setup our ODBC connection for View 5 inside the vCenter Server 4th – We troubleshooted View 5 [...]

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