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What are Linked clone desktops ? Linked clone desktops are virtual desktops that can be created using VMware View Composer from a single base image and use considerably less storage space than non linked clone desktops. Because each linked clone virtual machine is cloned from a common source, desktops in the pool can be deployed [...]

The VMware View Composer uses Linked Clone technology to rapidly create virtual desktops that share virtual disks with a master image, this reduces storage needs and costs by up to 70% while simplifying desktop management. If you are planning to install VMware View 3 in your environment then you have two choices .First you can [...]

VMware View 3 is available in available in two editions Enterprise and Premier as bundled solutions. This sounds very confusing to some of the folks interested in purchasing VMware View 3, for some understanding what they  really need for your environment ,but it is not that complicated as what you think. I will do my [...]

VMware announced their revamped Provisioning and Virtualization product – VMware View 3 availability on December 2, 2008. VMware renamed their existing desktop virtualization product formerly known as VMware desktop infrastructure to VMware View 3. VMware View 3 is not only a renamed product but newly  added technologies like VMware View Composer, VMware ThinAPP, Offline desktop, [...]

VMware ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Server Book is written for Beginner and Advanced Systems Administrators. What i like about this book is there are Lot of pictures highlighting Architecture and design portion related to  VMware ESX server setups.If you are looking at implementing virtualization in your datacenter or for your [...]

Run service restart on ESX host for enabling HA: # service mgmt-vmware restart One VMware management service restarts you can re-enable HA back

Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Price: USD 266.04 25 used & new available from USD 259.00 Last week while working doing new VMware View setup i was deploying some Windows XP desktops running as VMware ESX guest , i noticed some weirdness. I received this error when i was deploying Windows XP workstation from VMware Virtual [...]

VMware launched First Free, Open-source VMware View desktop Linux client. On Feb. 03 VMware announced Free Open-Source VMware View client download availability. In December 08, VMware released new version of VMware desktop Infrastructure now called VMware View which allows users to access desktop, laptop and VMware virtual desktops through web browser or by installing VMware [...]

VMware View Linux client installation on Linux distributions requires several package dependencies if you are compiling the source code. You can download the VMware view Linux client source tarball from google code and find more information on VMware View Linux client Wiki. I have installed the VMware View client on RHEL 5 using the RPM [...]