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VCP6-DTM Objective 2.2: Configure Horizon (with View)

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Horizon View and preparation for VCP6-DTM Study guide continue today with Objective 2.2: Configure Horizon (with View). Today’s (long) chapter is divided into several sections, each one of those very important and “un-skippable”. This guide shall help, but it’s only a part of the equation… So far we have covered few chapters (the road is long). […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 2.1 – Configure Horizon (with View) Composer

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VCP6-DTM Study Guide continue with today’s post VCP6-DTM Objective 2.1 – Configure Horizon (with View) Composer. Horizon View composer is an essential piece of the artchitecture allowing to use linked-clones. The big advantage of linked-clones is storage savings that it allows, because linked-clone desktops share a base system-disk image, they use less storage than full virtual […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 1.4 – Install Horizon (with View) Security Server

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Today we will tackle VCP6-DTM Objective 1.4 – Install Horizon (with View) Security Server. VCP6-DTM Study Guide continues, you could possibly check the VCP6-DTM page where we’re moving forward to not only cover Horizon View, but also VMware Mirage and Horizon Workspace. All the topics from the VMware blueprint will be covered. Check the VCP6-DTP Study Guide […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 1.3 – Install Horizon (with View) Connection Server

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Today’s post is about Horizon View Connection server. VCP6-DTM Objective 1.3 – Install Horizon (with View) Connection Server will teach you what’s necessary to successfully deploy View connection server. We’ll see the firewall requirements and then at the end we put the hands on the installation in the lab. Horizon View 6.x introduced a possibility to […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 1.2 – Install Horizon (with View) Composer Server

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VMware Horizon View Suite has many components. Today’s VCP6-DTM Objective 1.2 – Install Horizon (with View) Composer Server will show you the installation of Horizon View with a Composer server (can also be installed on Windows based vCenter server). Composer is the component That allows using linked clones, do recompose or refresh operations on destkops. Linked […]

Free Update of VMware Workstation 12.1 Released

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New update for VMware Workstation. A Free Update of VMware Workstation 12.1. Free update for existing Workstation 12 users only. Released fixes bugs only. It’s however fixing bugs which were causing issues in the latest Windows 10 version 1511 release (VMtools issues, unity issues or shared folder issues). Also problems with recognizing the ISO of Windows […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 5.3 – Manage Endpoints

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VCP6-DTM Study guide continues today with another chapter covering VMware Mirage which is part of the exam. VCP6-DTM Objective 5.3 – Manage Endpoints is today’s topic. Installation of Mirage components as well as their configuration was covered in previous chapter. Then in the follow-up chapter we dived into the management of Mirage layers. Mirage is very powerful product […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 5.1 – Install and Configure VMware Mirage Components

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VCP6-DTM Certification exam from VMware continues with today’s VCP6-DTM Objective 5.1 – Install and Configure VMware Mirage Components. VMware Mirage is fairly new product, which comes from Wanova acquisition back from 2012. Wanova itself was founded in 2008. I tested already the program in the lab, back in 2012. But since then the product has […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 1.1 – Describe and differentiate between component functions and features

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VCP6-DTM Study Guide will be a new project that will take shape in following weeks on ESX Virtualization. Mobility is something that’s going fast, very fast and it’s everywhere. Folks studying towards the VMware Certified Professional 6 – Desktop and Mobility Exam will find those series of posts and the VCP6-DTM Study Guide Page helpful, I […]