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Note: VMware ESX is no longer a product VMware is developing. Since vSphere 4.1 it has was mentioned that the next major release will not include ESX and a migration will be required to ESXi. So now vSphere 5 is here it is ESXi ONLY.
I have been deploying ESXi in all the implementations I have done since 4.1, so these VMware customers will be able to do a simple upgrade rather than a migration.
1. Check the server hardware you are installing ESXi 5 onto is supported and on the VMware HCL.
2. Login to the VMware license portal to check/upgrade/buy your vSphere licenses.
3. Read the ESXi Setup Guide to ensure you understand the pre-requisites.
vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) is a product which allows you to create tasks and automated workflows which and be run directly within vSphere Web Client or the vCenter Orchestrator Client.
There are a number of pre-made workflows to get your started, and the number of tasks you can perform is quite amazing. Any task that can be performed in vCenter can be automated through vCO, and thats just the start. Add some Active Directory integration, API's and other 3rd party plugin's makes this a pretty neat toolkit.
Workflows can be anything from simple workflows that contain a single task to say create a virtual machine, to complicated workflows containing many tasks that might build an entire solution and integrate with 3rd party plugins.
One of the best things about vCO is it's included with vCenter Server and it's free!
Following on from creating an RDS Farm within Horizon View Administrator and an Application Pool based on applications hosted an RDS session host, we are going to create an RDS desktop pool.
That's right, you can now have a desktop which is a shared/hosted desktop on an RDS session host (much like Citrix XenApp).
In some use cases a group of staff may not require a full virtual desktop to perform their job. In which case giving them access to a desktop hosted on a shared RDS host would be a more economical solution.
But the access to this shared desktop could be published via the same method access their virtual desktops and using the same PCoIP protocol, which is quite exciting for me and another design option available for those solutions where a group of users just use IE, email, file and print and have a low resource utilisation.
C:\WINDOWS\Temp\vmware-temp\vmware-converter-index (to find out log file number)
C:\WINDOWS\Temp\vmware-temp\vmware-converter-0.log
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