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VMware Horizon View Firewall Ports Requirements

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

There are ports which needs to be open on a firewall when installing VMware Horizon View. The best way to get started with Horizon View is to follow an excellent VMware PDF called – VMware Horizon View 6 Evaluator’s guide. However keep in mind that good knowledge of required firewall ports for VMware Horizon View deployments […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Horizon View Firewall Ports Requirements

How-to use ViewDbChk – Free Utility for Horizon View Databases

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

ViewDbChk is new free utility from VMware Labs which allows to fix VMware Horizon View database in case you’re experiencing provisioning errors. The creator of ViewDbChk is Griff James. The utility allows to clean the DB from orphaned Horizon View desktop pools or individual desktops. If an admin has deleted a VM from within the vSphere […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Free Stuff Tagged With: How-to use ViewDbChk

Good Read – VSAN Sizing Guide For Horizon View VDI

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 18, 2014

As always after a new technology release there are some good papers from VMware which slowly make their apparition. Few days back I reported about a paper discussing resynchronization and rebalance operations in VSAN cluster. Today the latest and newest technology from VMware is certainly Hot – VMware VSAN. New paper is available which is a VSAN […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VSAN Sizing Guide for Horizon View VDI

VMware Workstation Tech Preview July 2014 Shows Virtual Hardware 11 Possibilities

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

Workstation tech preview July 2014 has been announced recently at the community site. This release brings new OS support – Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL, OpenSUSE, but also other new enhancements. One of the most important is new virtual hardware 11 (vmx-11). As usually, VMware says that it’s not sure if those features will made it into […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: virtual hardware 11, vmx-11

VMware Mirage 5 How-to Upgrade From Previous Release

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

VMware Mirage 5.0 which has been released recently and, brings new features but slightly complicate the upgrade procedure where you have to basically uninstall all components first…. The uninstall before install of the v5.0 is apparently due to some new functions that has been introduced, but for future releases the process will be simplified where only […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Mirage 5 upgrade, VMware Mirage 5.0

Horizon 6 Download Available

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 20, 2014

VMware made Horizon 6 Download available. Freshly released Horizon 6 Suite binaries are available. Major release of the suite which includes Horizon View 6, Horizon Workspace 2.0  (haven’t seen the Mirage 5.0 yet so the latest release of Mirage is still 4.4.3). Horizon View 6 is a major release of the product with some major […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Horizon 6 Download Available

Reviewer’s Guide for View in Horizon 6 Available

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

Reviewer’s Guide for View in Horizon 6

VMware has recently added a new Reviewer’s Guide for View in Horizon 6. The GA of Horizon 6 is not available yet, but it has been announced since several weeks already. You could read all the details about what’s new in Horizon View 6 in my detailed article here – VMware Horizon 6 – Major evolution […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Reviewer’s Guide for View in Horizon 6

VMware Workstation 10.0.2 – maintenance release with performance improvements

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 23, 2014

There is a new release of VMware Workstation 10.0.2 which has been pushed out since few days, which is a maintenance release. As it’s maintenance release it does not bring any new features, but has some interesting performance improvements. For example the E1000e driver use in a VMs got a performance improvement or the easy […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Workstation 10.0.2

WIMBoot in Windows 8.1 allows saving storage and memory

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 14, 2014

The latest update of Windows 8.1 brings an interesting functionality which allows to use lower end machines with small SSDs save space so If you have such a PC or tablet which has a small SSD and struggling to get everything installed, you might consider this type of installation. It’s called Windows Image Boot (or WIMBoot) […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: WIMBoot in Windows 8.1

VMware Horizon 6 – Major evolution in architecture and tighter integration of suite components

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware Horizon View 6 - Remote apps with local experience

VMware Horizon 6 has been announced by VMware. This major update to VMware Horizon brings some major enhancements into the architecture, concerning Cloud Pod Architecture, which now supports global entitlements across View pods, RDS hosted apps, VMware VSAN (supported since View 5.3.1). Also new Application catalog which provides unified access to desktops and applications (previously […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Horizon View 6

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