The VMware View Bootcamp ends today with a talk about the View Reference Architecture. Mac Binesh, a Sr. Technical Marketing Manager outlines some of the typical costs associated with and benefits of adopting a virtual desktop infrastructure. I found the content a fitting end to the View Bootcamp series. When I look back at the previous discussions I realize that many of the regular posters have [...]

Day 8 of the VMware Bootcamp was delivered by Mark Benson, a View Architect with VMware. The subject of the day is how and where to deploy VMware View Security Servers to provide secure remote access to View desktops. Earlier videos have touched on the function of the Security Server role but Mark lays out what exactly you need to do to integrate them into your View environment. How does a View Security Server work?

A remote [...]

Day 7 of the VMware View Boot Camp is about leveraging VMware PowerCLI to perform various View tasks. The presentation was given by Tom Elliot, a developer on the VMware View team. My notes for today are just that; there isn’t a lot of opinion to introduce into the subject at hand. I did update some of the links mentioned in the video to reference the [...]

The VMware View Bootcamp continues with Day 6:

“PCoIP Deployment Best Practices and Tuning. The speaker for today was Chuck Hirstius, a Senior Consultant with VMware. PCoIP is of course one of the protocols, if not the primary protocol, you use to connect clients to your View environment. I say primary because PCoIP enables secure end to end communications between the clients and the View VM’s, or should I say more secure than [...]

Day 5 of the VMware View boot camp was “ThinApp” day. Heath Doer or VMware discussed the benefits of using ThinApp to deliver applications, outlined the ThinApp reference architecture, and discussed how to integrate ThinApp packaged applications with VMware. As with the previous videos I will summarize my takeaways from the daily video. Virtualization: Turns a monolithic system to modular by breaking the bond between the [...]

The VMware View video bootcamp continued on day 4 with a presentation by Todd Dayton about “Virtual DesktopImage Tuning”. Given that many view environments take a small number of master images and deploy a large number of VM’s it should go without saying that this is a very important subject to View admins and architects out there. The differences (and similarities) between virtual and physical desktops.

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Day three of the View Bootcamp focused on Network Considerations for VMware View; the presenter was Shannon McFarland of Cisco Systems. The video opens by linking View requirements to the capabilities of the network. The requirements are broken down as follows:

View Requirements

Network Capabilities

User Experience

QoS/HA/Performance Availability

End-to-End High Availability Access

Any Device/Anywhere Performance

Network/Compute Security

Defense in Depth

End to end management

Service Management

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Day two of the VMware View Bootcamp focused on storage considerations for the View environment. Jim Yanick talked about a number of different things about how your decisions impact the storage requirements for the Viewinfrastructure. My key takeaways from the video are as follows: View Composer is a key feature of View 4.5/4.6; it allows for linked clones. Linked clones are all [...]

Let me start out by saying that VMware has done a very good thing. VMware View is a good product that is difficult to obtain low cost training on (save for recent releases by Train Signal and some work by Mike Laverick)  and I think they have finally recognized that. The offer a [...]