Significantly improve your View video playback performance

1 november 2012 by Leave a Comment
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While reading some blog posts on View Video performance I stumbled upon this blog post. The video performance of a View desktop can be significantly improved with just a few modifications. For desktop VMs using VMXnet3 NICs, you can significantly improve the peak video playback performance of your View desktop by simply setting the following registry setting to the value recommended by Microsoft: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Afd\ParametersFastSendDatagramThreshold to 1500 [As … [Read more...]

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VMware View will support Microsoft Lync 2013 soon

25 juli 2012 by 1 Comment
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Yesterday VMware announced that VMware is working closely with Microsoft to bring support for Microsoft Lync 2013 to VMware View desktops. Which is very good news! As VDI solutions such as VMware View gain market adoption and the technology evolves, continuing to offer end-users a PC like experience is important to sustain the upward growth trajectory. That is why unified communications is important to VDI vendors who need to continually reassure IT and end-users that the user experience will … [Read more...]

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In the test: NexentaVSA for View

12 juli 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Today I was asked to give NexentaVSA for View a good test-drive in my lab. I use Nexenta CE for my home lab and since I start using it I am a big fan! More because of ZFS and the speed it gives me with minimal number of SATA and some SSD’s. Nexenta VSA for View is a good combination of automated deployment of the NexentaStor appliance and a layer above View to manage it all. Let’s start with some pictures. A normal Nexenta VSA for View environment consist of 2 or more ESX5i hosts to run … [Read more...]

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VMware View Persona Management

17 mei 2012 by Leave a Comment

I stumbled upon a great post from Simon Long: View Persona Management is NOW (with View 5.1) also supported on physical computers Persona Management, previously called RTO Virtual Profiles. A sleeping giant in my eyes. It's soo simple to install and configure but can offer you riches beyond your wildest dreams. OK, maybe a little over the top, but it is a really cool product and very underrated. … [Read more...]

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