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Free tools for VMware View

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Sven Huisman

In these days of recession I thought it would be a good idea to sum up a couple of free tools which you can use designing, implementing and maintaining a VMware View Infrastructure. I’ve divided the tools in the following categories:

Assessment
Sizing
Load balancing
Optimizing
User Environment Management
Customization
Client
Monitoring
Troubleshooting

I would love to hear if you know of any free tools which can be used in or for a VMware View Infrastructure.

Free Load balancing for VMware View with Citrix Netscaler VPX Express

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Sven Huisman

A load balancer for VMware View is not a requirement in a VMware View infrastructure with less than 2000 users. Even when there are multiple VMware View Connection servers for high availability, a single VMware View Connection server can handle up to 2000 connections so it’s not a big deal that the sessions are not evenly balanced. You do however want to have multiple VMware View Connection servers for high availability and to be able to access multiple VMware View Connection servers from a single point of access. A load balancer provides that functionality but is often expensive and gives additional functionality not needed for smaller deployments, like SSL Offloading. There is however a free “Enterprise-ready” load balancer available from Citrix: Netscaler VPX Express. There is a 5 Mbit throughput limit, but that is not an issue and in this article I explain why.

DISCALAIMER: I’m not a netscaler or “load-balancing” expert nor am I a networking guru. I’ve researched and tested the described solution and it works. I’ve not tested this solution with a large amount of users (yet). If you think information in this article is incorrect or if you think you know a better configuration or solution, please let me know.

ThinApp deployment methods whitepaper

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Sven Huisman

I’ve created a whitepaper that describes different kind of methods to deploy ThinApp applications. ThinApp is often compared to other application virtualization solutions that have a deployment mechanism build-in, like Microsoft App-V or Citrix XenApp streaming. ThinApp doesn’t have a build-in deployment mechanism, but there are a lot of options to deploy ThinApp applications. This whitepaper will describe several methods to deploy ThinApp applications.

My plan is to include RES Workspace manager, Appsense, LiquidwareLabs Profile Unity and other methods to the whitepaper in the next couple of months. If you have any comment or suggestions, mail me or leave a comment.

VMworld Europe 2010: (the) VirtualFuture is there!

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Matthijs Haverink

VMworld Europe 2010 in Copenhagen is coming up and VirtualFuture.Info wil be present with both bloggers; Sven Huisman and myself (Matthijs Haverink). For me, going to VMworld was a must because of the following:

A) Networking (meeting new people, keeping in touch with other virtualization enthousiasts)

B) Discovering new products. My company is constantly looking for new solutions and vendors in virtualization space and where better to find and talk to all of them at the same place: the Solutions Exchange of VMworld !

C) Updating my technical and sales skills around (desktop) virtualization products.

But besides that the event is stuffed with great Labs, Breakout Sessions, Super Sessions, A VMware Partner Track and much much more! … Continue Reading

VMware View 4.5 released today!

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Sven Huisman

During VMworld 2010 in San Francisco, VMware announced their latest release of VMware View. Today, VMware View 4.5 is available for download. Lot’s of new features and improvements were added in this release: