Month: March 2013

Voted into the Top 25 Virtualization Bloggers for 2013

For a number of years vSphere-Land has a vote drive for the top VMware Virtualization blogs. After some nail biting for the last week, the results are finally in! And to my surprise and delight I was voted into the Top 25 Virtualization Bloggers for 2013, at number 24. I...

Cisco UCS Firmware 2.1(1b) released

New Cisco UCS firmware has now released! Their long anticipated first patch release of the 2.1 firmware, 2.1(1b) is out and you can download it today. Version 2.1, released in November of 2012, adds a number of great new features including the ability to rename service profiles. Since 2.1 added...

VMware Horizon View 5.2 Install Part 3: Initial Config

Welcome to the third part in the series for installing and configuring VMware Horizon View 5.2. In Part 1 and Part 2 we performed a basic install of the VMware Horizon View connection server role and setup a trusted SSL certificate. In this installment we will do some basic configuration of...

VMware Horizon View 5.2 Install Part 2: SSL Certificate

This is the second part in a blog series of how to install and configure VMware Horizon View 5.2. In Part 1 we did the basic connection server install, and installed Adobe Flash player. Next up is configuring a trusted SSL certificate for VMware Horizon View. There are a number...

VMware Horizon View 5.2 Install Part 1: Basic Installation

In case you missed it, VMware has recently GA'd their Horizon Suite of software. This is a re-branding and expansion of the end user computing portfolio, which includes View, their VDI solution. You can see my blog post for the full announcement here. This series will cover the VMware Horizon View 5.2...

VMware Horizon Suite 1.0 is now GA!

Today VMware released their Horizon Suite 1.0. What is Horizon Suite? Basically its a re-branding of their View product, with additions to the suite via some acquisitions over the last couple of years. Major components in the Horizon Suite include: Horizon Workspace 1.0 Horizon Mirage Horizon View 5.2 As seems...