With the release of PowerCLI 6.5 came a updated way of interacting with your Horizon View Infrastructure; the release of a Horizon 7  module! The module provides access to all of the public api, and it can be installed and run anywhere, no longer are you limited to running it from the View Connection Server.
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I recently had a few of my suggestions featured in the community sourced Ultimate Desktop Virtualization Best Practices Guide. Grab your free copy now if you haven’t already! “The first Desktop Virtualization Best Practices Guide created by leading industry and community experts is now available for download! The guide is truly amazing with more than
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Taking my last post on page sharing a little further and inspired by @VBrianGraf & @vmMarkA’s Intra TPS Host Memory Assessment tool, I wanted to create a script that would calculate the memory savings gained from inter-VM page sharing directly from the statistics available in vCenter. In my last post I showed the values that
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Further Reading: I wrote a follow up article called Powershell Remoting where I look at what happens when the certificate renews or gets deleted. The outcome is not what you’d think! If you are going to use the View PowerCLI Cmdlets then enabling and using Powershell Remoting makes it a whole lot more accessible, otherwise you have to
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Recently the client that I’m working with has been experiencing a number of issues around vMotion. The initial advice from VMware was to ensure they weren’t falling foul of a known issue with the HP AMS agent. KB2085618 – look out for the “can’t fork” message when logging into the ESXi Shell. Here is a quick
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Here are a few notes from my recent install of the App-V 5 Server install. Check out the  Management Server Prereqs to ensure you’ve got everything covered The following Powershell command line will install the Web Server with IIS role enabled and the relevant features:  dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:IIS-WebServer /featurename:IIS-WebServerRole /featurename:IIS-WindowsAuthentication /featurename:IIS-ISAPIFilter /featurename:IIS-ISAPIExtensions /featurename:IIS-RequestFiltering /featurename:IIS-NetFxExtensibility /featurename:IIS-ASPNET
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