Aaron Black from VMware posted a VMware View and ThinApp Integration Guide on his blog.

“The guide discusses several of the topics covered in the previous posts but brings it all together with some task based scenarios that walk you through initial setup and configuration with screenshots and sample scripts.”

The guide should give answer to the following questions:

1. Should I stream all my ThinApp packages from a fileshare or deploy them into the VMs?
2. Where you I put my ThinApp packages? On the C:, the User Data Disk, a fileshare?
3. How do I manage updates after the packages are in use?
4. Will users keep their unique settings like toolbar buttons when running ThinApps from different desktops?
5. How do I manage shortcuts and FileTypeAssociations for multi-user VMs?

It’s a straight-forward guide and it describes the different setup tasks between Persistent and non-persistent desktop.

Quest Software announced the availability of the newest version of Quest vWorkspace, a desktop virtualization solution for simplifying the provisioning, management and use of virtual desktops. In addition to its support of the VMware platform, vWorkspace also now supports VMware Linked Clones, which reduce shared storage disk space requirements. Other new features enhance the end-user experience and expand desktop platform choices. vWorkspace manages, provisions and brokers connections, transforming the desktop infrastructure into an on-demand service with optimized user experience for LAN and WAN.

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As I was playing around with XenDesktop 4, I had some trouble connecting the Citrix Desktop Delivery Controller to the vCenter server. And as 95% of Xendesktop deployments are on VMware VI or vSphere, I thought this tip could be useful for you as wel. Read the rest of this entry »

VMware View 4 was released nearly 2 weeks ago and I thought it could be useful to sum up all the interesting links for VMware View 4. I might add some more links the in the next couple of weeks, but I think this is a good start. Please comment if you have another good link.

Blogposts:

• VMware View 4.0 with PCoIP Released (Virtualized reality)
• VMware View 4 – Overview (Techhead)
• VMware View 4 Screenshots (VMetc.com)
• VMware View 4 Now Available. Overview of Features, PCoIP, and Architecture
• VMware View and PCoIP (Mike Laverick)
• VMware View 4 Launch Event (NTPro.nl) Read the rest of this entry »

This year on December 11th, the biggest VMware event in the Netherlands will take place for the fifth time! The lineup of presenters is very good, check out the agenda, lot’s of “famous” people from the virtualization community are on the list and over 600 VMware enthousiastics will be watching them. One of the sessions I will definately be attending is the VMware View 4 session, which will be presented by Rory Clements: Read the rest of this entry »