I recently covered the launch of VMware’s Horizon Suite of End User Computing (EUC) products, including VMware Horizon View, VMware Horizon Mirage, and VMware Horizon Workspace. The products present a set of tools that enable IT to exercise comprehensive end-point management while delivering a unified user experience across a variety of devices and access methods. Today, I want to focus a bit more on View and Mirage. Specifically, when would you choose one solution over the other? Let’s briefly review each product. VMware Horizon View provides a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) … [Read more...]
Troubleshooting Slow Logon to VMware View Desktops
I did a bit of troubleshooting today for a customer who was experiencing very slow logon times to VMware View desktops running Windows XP. I suspect the problem is a fairly common one so I thought I might share my troubleshooting methodology and the solution that got the login time back to normal. Following a rigid methodology may be overkill for many troubleshooting situations. If you strongly suspect a root cause to a problem, check the solution before digging in to analytic troubleshooting. A little bit of Googling may eventually get you to an answer for a particular problem, but having … [Read more...]