When designing a new Horizon View environment, one of the design phases is to identify what requirements there are when accessing (redirecting) devices in a Horizon View desktop of published app. In other words what redirection and devices are available and permitted in the VDI desktop or published …
Continue ReadingHorizon 7 introduced the Instant Clone feature leverages the vmFork technology introduced in vSphere 6.0 U1. With Instant Clone technology it is possible to clone and deploy a VDI desktop VMs in seconds. This is called the Just-In-Time Desktop. Below is an overview how an Instant Clone VM is …
Continue ReadingAfter upgrading to VMware Horizon View 7, the administrator webpage displays a blank error window when trying to connect using the IP address of the Connection Server. Horizon View 7 adds new security features that checks for the original URL for the web request. If not, it rejects the request and …
Continue ReadingAfter upgrading vRealize Operations Manager to version 6.1 the Horizon View metrics are not collected anymore. On the Horizon View Connection Server where the vRealize broker agent is installed the following error is displayed in the logs: vRealize Operations Manager broker error …
Continue ReadingWhen configuring a Windows VDI desktop or RDSH session with Horizon, different software components must be installed such as the VMware Tools and the VMware Horizon View Agent. When using User Environment Manager and App Volumes they require an agent too. All these software components must be …
Continue ReadingLast week I attended VMworld 2015 Europe conference. I had a great week filled with breakout sessions, Hands-on Labs, Solutions Exchange, parties, chats and great people. A few new announcements were made such as: vRealize Automation 7 – Introducing unified service blueprint capabilities to enable …
Continue ReadingWith VMware ESXi 6 the password policy is changed and require to use more complex passwords. The password policy in ESXi 6 has the following requirements: Passwords must contain characters from at least three character classes. Passwords containing characters from three character classes must be at …
Continue ReadingTo monitor and manage VMware Virtual Machine Snapshots Opvizor has released a tool called Snapwatcher. As consultant I see often that admins don’t have an overview of all the snapshots that exists in their environment. The main concerns with Virtual Machine snapshots are: Snapshots are created and …
Continue ReadingAfter upgrading all the hosts in the lab environment to VMware ESXi 6, I tried to upgrade the VMware tools version of a Dutch Windows 7 golden VM used by VMware Horizon View. The VMware tools upgrade fails with the following message: VMware Tools Setup Wizard ended prematurely This is a known bug in …
Continue ReadingSometimes you are unable to remove linked clones or stale desktop entries from the VMware Horizon View Administrator. In this example we have a missing VM in the VMware Horizon View Administrator. When trying to remove the VM from the VMware Horizon View Administrator the following error is …
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