Horizon View 6.0.1 – Virtualization, DBaaS & Whatever Crosses My Mind

Implementing Horizon View Cloud Pod Architecture

magander — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 03:36:33 +0000

A while back i wrote a blog post about how to assign a specific user to a Horizon View VDI Desktop when using Cloud Pod Architecture CPA which is available here. This blog post will outline the steps i took when implementing CPA for a customer running Horizon View 6.0.1 Background Horizon View was already …

Horizon View Desktop Pool does not provision VMs

magander — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 14:03:31 +0000

Today i encountered a problem with Horizon View version 6.0.1 that did not provision virtual machines (VMs) even thought the Desktop Pool configuration said it should. Before i continue i admit that the Horizon View version is kind of old but it’s for a good reason so let’s not discuss that. The Desktop Pool settings …

Assign a Horizon View Desktop when using Cloud Pod Architecture

magander — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 18:25:51 +0000

So the past weeks i have been involved in design and implementation of VMware Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture (CPA) for a customer. I will put toghter a blog post about the solution and the steps taken to implement CPA another time. This very short blog post will only cover one specific scenario we had to …

Can’t deploy Horizon View Linked Clone desktops

magander — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 01:00:38 +0000

So after running Horizon View Linked Clone desktops in a customer environment for the past 12 months we ran into a problem the other day. For several reasons we are still running Horizon View 6.0.1 build 2088845 The error we received was the following: Error during provisioning: View Composer AD Fault: Administrator account used for QuickPre …

Horizon View certificate management

magander — Wed, 20 May 2015 17:53:17 +0000

This blog post is mostly for myself so i can remember how to do this next time so i don’t have to spend 2 hours trying to find the information needed once more. If i just did more Horizon View implementations i guess i would know this by heart but honestly and as you might understand if …

Horizon View and smart card login

magander — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:33:57 +0000

This is a guest blog post created by my former colleague Toni Lindberg who now works for Cygate in Stockholm, Sweden. Installing VMware Horizon View out of the box is not difficult. However, integrating the Horizon View solution with smart card to increase the security can sometimes cause problems. This blog post consists of a …