A customer of mine, who was already running a vSphere environment on Cisco UCS blades, asked to expand his environment with a number of ESXi hosts that could run a VMware View environment. To be able to run as much View desktops on each host as possible, we offered them Cisco UCS Blades equipped with […]
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VMware View Client with PCoIP for Mac OS X
Today VMware released their Technical Preview of the VMware View PCoIP client for OSX. We’ve all been waiting for this since the release of VMware View 5 and today I finally got to test it on OSX. Of course I had to install it right away and run a test drive from work to my […]
Enabling VMware View PCoIP with dynamic IP address
Update: I have checked the script to work with VMware View 4.6, VMware View 5.0, VMware View 5.1 and VMware View Horizon 5.2. There was an update needed for the URL used to get the external IP address. Now using http://ifconfig.me/ip as URL. In Horizon View 5.2 there is a new URL, called the Blast […]
VMware View licensing explained, plain and simple
During new software implementations, licensing is often overlooked or done incorrectly. I regularly visit customers who have either too few or too many licenses — seldom does anyone have the amount they actually need. In my experience, VMware View licensing isn’t any simpler to understand. To save you a headache later on, let’s look at […]
Using VMware View on my iPad with Wyse PocketCloud
When visiting the Gestalt IT Tech Field Day in Boston, half the delegates in the bus had already bought an iPad and after seeing what a great device it was, I couldn’t resist and on the last day I bought one myself. I did get some free playtime in the bus with the iPad from […]