December - 2020

How to Get Snapshot Details for all the Parent VMs from the vCenter

Dec 24, 2020
1 min

How to Get Snapshot Details for all the Parent VMs from the vCenter

Often we need to check how many snapshots we have on our Parent VMs or other Virtual machines. A general use case for a VDI administrator is to keep track of the number of snap shots available on all parent machines in VDI environment. Best practice is to keep max 3-4 Snapshots for backup purpose. How to get snap shot report ? how to do a clean up of unwanted snap shots... This is really simple with VMware Power CLI. To download and install Power CLI 12.1.0 click here for th

Santosh Kumar Behera

Dec 24, 2020
2 min

Desktop Pool types in Horizon View

VMware Horizon view comes with many options when we talk about different types of pool . Based on different aspects below are pools that come up with Horizon view. Pool Types Automatic pools Manual Pool Automatic Pools : Automatic pools can be complete virtual machines clones, Instant Clone or linked-clone desktops. Full Clones : Full Clone pools are automatic but they copy machines from a pre defined template, it creates pool of machine which are clone from a parent template

Configuring Smart Provisioning in Horizon 8 Instant Clone Pools / Farms

Santosh Kumar Behera

Dec 24, 2020
1 min

Configuring Smart Provisioning in Horizon 8 Instant Clone Pools / Farms

In Horizon 8 (2006), there are many new features are enhanced and one of the feature is Smart Provisioning for Instant Clones. Smart Provisioning is enabled by default for Instant Clone pools and farms with empty value. Smart Provisioning is the ability for Horizon to choose the best way to provision an instant clone depending on the environment. In certain cases, instant clones are provisioned to optimize for the speed of clone creation by creating and leveraging parent VM’s

Difficulty in clearing inactive VMs from Dedicated VDI Pools? Not Anymore : )

Santosh Kumar Behera

Dec 23, 2020
1 min

Difficulty in clearing inactive VMs from Dedicated VDI Pools? Not Anymore : )

Even though Dedicated VDI pools are rapidly being replaced by Floating pools, we still have few use cases which requires a Dedicated VM. Being a VDI Administrator it's really important to keep a check on these Dedicated pools and cleanup any unused VMs regularly to make sure the resources are being utilized where it's actually needed. It maybe a very time consuming or boring task to find all the VMs which are not being used and delete them to free up the resources. We can del

How to Set OneDrive (Automatically signin) as Default save location when using Horizon Published app

Santosh Kumar Behera

Dec 23, 2020
2 min

How to Set OneDrive (Automatically signin) as Default save location when using Horizon Published app

Now a days more organizations are shifting to remote work, things like VDI and PublishedApps. It also offers a way of accessing applications without having them installed on your current device. However there is a common challenge with remote apps, how do we transfer files from the local device to the server without the user having to go through VPN or opening other non secure ways. The common answer to this is "just let them save to OneDrive". Recently I had a use case where

Configuring Microsoft Teams in Horizon RDSH

Santosh Kumar Behera

Dec 23, 2020
1 min

Configuring Microsoft Teams in Horizon RDSH

Making a video call from a Published app can be tricky. When the call is initiated in the Remote Published app, the user’s microphone and camera will send the user’s voice and image to the virtual desktop. Horizon sends that data compressed, using our real-time audio-video (RTAV) feature & Users can run Microsoft Teams in their remote sessions without any issue. To Publish the app you can follow the below steps & captured the Required Settings using the VMware Dynamic Environ

Connect To Horizon View Connection server Via PowerCLI

Santosh Kumar Behera

Dec 23, 2020
1 min

Connect To Horizon View Connection server Via PowerCLI

As off now there is no Simple Horizon view Power-Shell module available in Power Shell Gallery Module resides into Connection server. You Need to be on connection server directly to run Power-shell / PowerCli commands I have written a simple Function that will help you to connect to your Remote Connection server and then perform all Operations/Commands available. =========================================================== =====================================================

What's new with VMware Horizon 8 (2006) !

Santosh Kumar Behera

Dec 23, 2020
3 min

What's new with VMware Horizon 8 (2006) !

VMware Horizon 8 (2006) contains a variety of new features and enhancements. Let's take a look at the new features and capabilities of VMware Horizon 8 2006. Here are some of the most notable new enhancements and updates to the platform: Branding and Versioning - We’ve moved to the YYMM-style format to version the Horizon Server, Horizon Client and Horizon Agent. This new format applies to product installations and Horizon Console as well Updates to Core Platform - Horizon 20

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