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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

VMware VSAN Datastores supported on Horizon View 5.3.1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

With the GA release of VMware VSAN, the latest update of Horizon View 5.3.1 now supports VSAN datastores as location of Horizon View desktops (full and linked-clones). There is no other enhancements or new features in Horizon View 5.3.1, just the VSAN support, which allows running VDI workflows on VSAN clusters. By default VSAN does […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization

Free Utility for View Deployments – Horizon View Configuration Tool

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 28, 2014

This utility released by VMware Labs looks pretty awesome. It automates the deployment of VMware Horizon View installations. How it works? Simple. Its a virtual appliance bundled with all necessary VMware components that are necessary for the Horizon View setup. The only thing you need to provide is Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 ISO. The Horizon […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Horizon View Configuration Tool

Free Utility: Thinapp Configuration Editor

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2018

New free utility which has just been released by loginconsultants.com called Thinapp Configuration Editor allows to modify, build and export their virtual VMware ThinApp applications. Especially useful for complicated applications which needs otherwise to be tweaked and edited via Notepad. The utility has been created by Ralph Jansen and is provided as freeware (registration is required) by […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization

Migration users from XP to Windows 7 (or higher) if you’re on the budget

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

When budget is a problem you must turn to tools and utilities which are free and at the same time they don’t make you lose too much time when it comes to migrating user profiles, user datas AND user’s applications. I’m talking about small environment, where the client computers are up to 20-25 and each […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: XP to Windows 7 migration

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