Recent upgrade to VMware Horizon View 5.2

Last week I performed an in-place upgrade from VMware View 4.6 to VMware Horizon View 5.2. Things mostly went well, though I have a few remaining issues waiting to be resolved. SSL Certificates View 5.2 has more SSL requirements than 4.6. Out with the self-signed certs and in with certificate authority certs. When it came …

Using PowerCLI to change all LUNs to Round Robin

Each week I learn a little more about PowerShell and PowerCLI. Today, I wanted to share how I used PowerCLI to change all of the LUNs connected to my ESXi hosts to the Round Robin multipathing policy. Note: Please make sure that your SAN/storage supports Round Robin before making these changes. First thing you need …

VMware View 5.1 on VMware vSphere 5.1

UPDATE: One day after my blog post, “VMware vSphere 5.1 now supports VMware View 5.1.x.” See also “Finally! View 5.1 now supports a newly patched vSphere 5.1.” When VMware vSphere/vCenter 5.1 was released in September 2012, I started to get excited about upgrading both my VMware View and VMware vSphere environments to versions 5.1. Both …

VMworld Hands On Labs problems

I’m at the VMworld 2012 conference in San Francisco. One of the historic benefits of VMworld conferences in the past have been their hands on labs. Not this year. This year their labs have been riddled with performance issues and customer frustration. On Sunday, I and about 500 other attendees stood in line for 2.5 …

Where is Wyse’s support for VMware View 5.0 and 5.1?

A year has passed since ““Wyse Announces Day One Support for VMware View 5 at VMworld 2011” (archived press release), writing “Today at VMworld 2011 (Aug 30, 2011), Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, announced support for VMware View 5 upon release.” Well, just 14 days later “VMware Announces General Availability of …