Getting Started with ESXi 5 (Part 1) In this article, you’ll walk though a complete installation of ESXi 5 and the vSphere Client. If you would like to read  the next part in this article series please go to Getting Started with ESXi 5 (Part 2) - Create your first virtual machine. Introduction As you may know, VMware recently released ESXi 5 and, with it, a plethora of new capabili...

VMware Horizon View VMware’s popular VDI solution has been renamed from simply “VMware View” to “VMware Horizon View” to make it a core piece of the new Horizon Suite (nothing else has changed, however). If you are unfamiliar with Horizon View, it provides: Pooled virtual desktops that run on VMware vSphere The PCoIP remote display protocol for WAN-optimized, compressed display of virtu...

vSphere Update Manager (VUM) (Part 1) - Introduction This article looks at the features offered by vSphere Update Manager. If you would like to read the other parts in this article series please go to: vSphere Update Manager (VUM) (Part 2) - Installation vSphere Update Manager (VUM) (Part 3) - How to use it Introduction Initially called “VMware Update Manager”, the now re...

Deploy an OVF template stored on a local ESXi datastore   In a branch office I recently had the demand to deploy an OVF template that is stored on the local datastore of an ESXi host. If you try to deploy the ovf template using the webclient/vSphere Client, you can specify a location accessible from your computer (hard drive, share, CD drive,…) or a URL to the ovf file. Specifying t...

VCP-NV: Deploying NSX Manager Finally in this series on VCP-NV we get to doing some practical stuff with NSX – I’ve been looking forward to this part of the blueprint. So, we’ll drive straight in, beginning with deploying the NSX Manager appliance. There will be a follow up post on installing the remaining NSX components. Preparing your Environment for NSX Installation There are a few requireme...

VMware ThinApp 5 - Part 1 - Installing ThinApp 5 Much like I did for ThinApp 4, I'm going to create a simple kick start how to series covering how to install ThinApp and capture some applications.   VMware ThinApp is an agentless application virtualisation. ThinApp is able to execute applications without them being installed in the operating system. This is achieved by virtualizing r...

Assigning a Thinapp to Vmware View This tutorial will guide you through deploying a Thinapp application to Vmware View. If you haven’t already packaged an application using Thinapp please see my tutorial creating a vmware thinapp. If you have already packaged a thinapp application you must assign the MSI package to Vmware View, not the actual .exe file that is produced from Thinapp. In my creat...

Vmware Thinapp Creating a Thinapp This tutorial will guide you through how to install Vmware Thinapp Packager, in which after we will package Firefox 4 into a Thinapp Package. This tutorial is performed on a baseline or SOE desktop image of Windows 7. Firstly create a base line snapshot so that you can revert to this snapshot at the end of this tutorial. Note: I will be using VMware-ThinApp-En...

Understanding Virtual Networking in VMware Workstation 9 In this article we'll look at how virtual networking works in VMware Workstation and what’s new related to virtual networking in Workstation version 9. Introduction In my opinion, VMware Workstation is the premier and ideal platform for virtualizing desktops on your local Windows or Linux laptop or desktop computer. This is beca...

Using VM Workstation for Advanced Networking VM Workstation is software that can be installed on top of an existing operating system to host different Virtual Machines (Figure 1). It is great for trying out new operating systems and testing new software in controlled environments. It is perfect for developers; it is a very valuable tool to create complete labs and it can do much more, even in h...