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VMware View 5.1 Performance

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2013

VMware View 5.1 Performance on the End user Side

VMware View 5.1 performance improvements. VMware View 5.1 has been released recently. The 5.1 release brings many improvements and enhancements as I reported in my article Download and test VMware View 5.1 now. I this article I focused on the new features and integrations introduced in this release. There has been a very good read on […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VMware View 5, VMware View 5 Training, VMware View 5.1 Evaluator's Guide, VMware View 5.1 Performance

VMware Workstation 8.0.3 release with Ubuntu 12.04 support

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

VMware Workstation 8

A new release of VMware Workstation 8.0.3 adds support for Ubuntu 12.04 There has been a quiet release of VMware Workstation few days back which escaped of my radar a bit since I was at vacations. This is another maintenance release only with very few new features (only one listed) and some bug fixes as […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Workstation 8 promo, VMware Workstation 8.0.3, VMware Workstation Latest

VMware View 5 outpeforms Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 in this independent study

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

VMware View 5 outperforms Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 in this Independent Study

VMware View 5 vs Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 – which one performs better? In this Independent study performed by Principled Technologies, LoginVSI was used to test and benchmark the two different VDI solutions. VMware View 5 and Citrix XenDesktop 5.5. You can download and test LoginVSI yourself, there is an “Express” Version of the software too. In this study […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Citrix XenDesktop 5.5, VMware View 5, VMware View 5 compared to XenDesktop 5.5

Antivirus Best Practices for VMware View 5 whitepaper

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 8, 2012

Antivirus practices VMware View 5

There is new best practices whitepaper concerning the Best practices in VMware View 5 environments. In this Whitepaper you’ll be able to read and see the inconveniences and problems which are known when using traditional AV software in VDI environments. If you know how the traditional AV software behaves, you might want to avoid troubles before you […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Antivirus best practices View 5, Antivirus VMware View 5, VMware View 5

VMware View 5 New Training Course released by Trainsignal

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2013

VMware View 5 Essentials training

New Training for VMware View 5 by Trainsignal. After VMware Education official training, other, self paced training courses starting to appear. Like the new training done by Trainsignal. As an Instructors –  Brian Knudston and Lane Leverett. You might know Brian Knudston already since I’ve done a full review of the View 4.6 training course on my […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization

How to Install Android in VMware Workstation 8

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

How to install Android in VMware Workstation 8

VMware Workstation gives you the possibility to test multiple systems without installing a multiboot solution on your physical computer (server) and learn easily without breaking up your underlying system.  But you still have the possibility to access to the files located on you physical machine through the VM. In my career I had many questions […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, How To Tagged With: How to install Android, VMware Workstation 8 Install Android

Possible conflict with IIS by default when sharing VMs under VMware Workstation 8

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

Change the default port if needed when sharing VMs in VMware Workstation 8 You might run into an issue. A possible conflict when using VMware Workstation on the same computer as Microsoft’s IIS, where IIS might be not starting properly in case configured to run https on port 443. This port is by default used […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Sharing VMs with VMware Workstation, VMware Workstation 8, VMware Workstation 8 how-to

VMware View – Virtual machine with Input Specification already exists error

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

Vmware View - Removing the linked clone references from the View Composer database

VMware View 5  – Troubleshooting composer error Virtual Machine with Input Specification already exists When playing in my lab with VMware View 5, I did a lot of kind of stuff to test about everything. It means I did what I would not do in production environment normally, or what you should not normally do. […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Virtual machine with Input Specification already exists error, VMware View 5 troubleshooting

Running Nested VM – The VMware Community

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

VMware community - running nested vms

Recently I saw a tweet, talking about new VMware Community which is specialized in running nested VMs. This practice is very popular those days, since by using single piece of hardware in the lab, you can optimize your learning experience and create multiple nested environments with ESXi or Hyper-V servers. I already talked about How […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Nested ESXi, Nested hyperisors, Nested VMs, Running Nested VMs

Install Linux Mint in VMware Workstation – easy way to test other OSs on your desktop

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

How-to install Linux Mint in VMware Workstation. VMware Workstation 8 which has been released recently has brought many improvements the way of working with VMs. With the direct ESXi/vCenter connection is now possible with a single pane glass manage your datacenter VMs and at the same time prepare/install another system on your desktop. I have published […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Linux Mint installation VMware Workstation 8, VMware Workstation 8

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