How to troubleshoot poor Internet performance from inside View 5.2 Linked clones
Webpages seem to open much slower in our virtual environment than on our physical systems. Any suggestions on how to identify the problem? We've checked all of the performance monitors in vsphere and...
View ArticleVMWare View and Stereoscopic displays
Does VMware view support stereoscopic displays? Any details on if this might ever be possible would be appreciated.
View ArticleLinked Clone MI Domain Question
Hi,I have a master image I use with linked clones and am running into a couple issues not sure if someone could help. 1. Can the master image be part of the domain or does it still need to only be...
View ArticlePower Policy not working
I have a pool that is set to "ensure desktops are always powered on". When a VM is shutdown, it does not automatically power on. Seems to a problem with 1 pool only.Any ideas?Thanks
View ArticleDealing with login storms
Every morning, about 600-700 users log in at once. The VMs are already booted up. This is bringing my SAN to its knees until everyone is log in, then everything will run smoothly throughout the day.I'm...
View ArticleConnect to RDP Desktop outside corporate network
Hey all, I am having a problem getting RDP sessions to connect when outside my corporate network. I have both the external and internal brokers set up and PCoIP sessions will connected just fine. When...
View ArticleRoaming Profiles - Slow Network Detection
Just wanted to check if anyone has had any experience of receiving User Profile Service warnings when a virtual machine logs in accompanied with the corresponding event log entry (1543) advising of a...
View ArticleUpgrade View 5.0 to 5.2 before or after upgrading vSphere 5.0 to 5.5
Currently I am running vSphere 5.0 w/ vCenter Server 5.0 & View 5.0. I had held off on upgrading to 5.1 and now that 5.5 is out I have some questions about how it may impact View. After doing some...
View ArticleRe-install Connection Server
I have 2 Connection servers on 2 Windows Server 2008 R2 machines, A and B, B being a replica.I have to uninstall these, increase the ram in each server to 10 gig, and reinstall per this KB article:...
View ArticleHELP ---- horizon view client crashes while trying to open
hi, i've never had vmware on my computer but when i downloaded and installed the latest version it crashes every time i try to open it.(i've even tried to install the earlier version 2.0.0- but it does...
View ArticlePCoIP over SSL VPN: TCP or UDP?
Does anyone have any experience using the Cisco VPN Client and VMware View? Wondering if there are any noticeable differences when connecting the Cisco VPN Client via TCP or UDP. This is the only...
View ArticleVMware VDI Back-end Domain Migration
Hi there, We have recently migrated all the desktops including user mapping into a new domain through two way trust between the domains for authentication to work. All users from the new domain were...
View Articleusing USB phone-dialing software with View 5.2 and Win7 Linked Clone non...
Hi all, Our alumni office uses Phonathon software from Ruffalocody on physical computers and we are testing moving it over to linked clone non-persistent desktops running Windows 7. They use these old...
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Virtualizing applications
This might open a huge can of worms but ..... our environment has gotten to the point where installing applications in the master images is causing some serious bloat and pool-sprawl (specific pools...
View ArticleUSB Autoconnect
Has anyone had issues with USB auto connect not working? We are running VMware Horizon View Client with Local Mode, version 5.4.0 build-1219906. We have to select the devices on the top toolbar to get...
View ArticleNo free ports on distributed port group, recompose stops, why?
ESXi 5.1 fully patched, vCenter fully patched, View 5.2 up to date, linked clone pool of 220 desktopsPart way through recompose an error is thrown, "No free port is available in Distributed Port Group...
View ArticleHorizon Portal Customization
We would like to modify the Horizon 5.2 View Portal to help our staff better know which horizon client to download without going to the VMware web site. There is lots of good info on how to do this...
View ArticlevSphere 5.5
Per the interopertability matrix vSphere 5.5 is supported with View 5.2 but I can't seem to find a listing of what features are and are not supported between the two.For example Storage vMotion is not...
View ArticleGet list of available desktop names from horizon view client
Hi,Is it possible to get a list of desktop names to which a user can connect using the view client?When the wswc.exe is started, it shows all the available desktops to which the user can connect.Is it...
View ArticleChanging Replica Path for Linked Clones After Changing "Seperate Datastores...
I've tested this and it works but I wanted to make sure there wasn't a reason I should avoid doing it since I saw no official way of changing the replica location of a linked clone other than...
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