blogging about virtualization
I created several blog posts about the Predefined settings so far that hopefully gave you some understanding about the basic and advanced concepts. In the following I want to show you a little bit about a feature not all of us know: The opportunity to create dynamic predefined settings with the help of Environment variables […]
In on of my last posts I have explained what the basic concept of VMware’s User Environment Manager (UEM) is and how we can use it to pre-configure or enforce specific settings of applications in our Desktop environment. In the following I am going to dig a little bit deeper and show you how those concepts […]
The power within User Environment Manager (UEM) aligns with its ability of being able to create a managed personalized environment for the end-user (even/especially in a floating environment where no one has a dedicated virtual desktop). One great feature to increase the productivity of the user is been implemented by having multiple and different pre-defined […]
With the release of UEM 9.1 a few nice features and fixes (and a few new constraints) have been introduced. Check the release notes here for further details (or just read on). VMware’s User Environment Manager gives us the opportunity to deliver a condition based and personalized user-experience within or (virtual and non-virtual) desktop environment. […]
As I have written in my last post UEM is a game changer in the way how we can create great VDI solutions. Having worked a lot with VMware’s User Environment Manager (UEM) within the last month I saw many errors made and occurring during the installation phase. Even though the the installation is quiet […]
Here we are again. VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas, THE tech conference of the year for all people, customer, partner dealing with VMware technology. When I began to use/learn about VMware technologies on a professional level in the year 2010 all of the use cases were around the customers on-prem datacenter. Since than a lot […]
Two weeks ago I had the pleasure to spent 4 days on problematic Applications within an App Volumes environment of a customer. The best thing that can happen to me as an infrastructure guy is to work on building AppStack with guys who know how to package and therefore troubleshoot those applications. Bringing together the […]
During (and around) VMworld 2017 VMware has lifted many of their products to a new level to enable their customer a better and more agile software-defined datacenter than ever. Besides their datacenter portfolio VMware is pushing their vision of a digital workspace in the end-user computing field much further. Horizon + Airwatch -> Workspace One […]
Before we can start with the implementation guide I want to give a brief description what key functionalities must exist. The following components has been installed and configured: vSphere ESXi host (physical or nested)* vCenter Server (Appliance)* HA/DRS Cluster vSAN Cluster Active Directory Domain Controller (including DNS)* Microsoft Certificate Authority Role* NSX Manager* FTP Service […]
Everyone working within the EUC and virtualization field knows this joke. Every year some analysts and vendors are promising us that this year is going to be the year of VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure). Within the last 5 years of my professional career I gained a lot of practical experience and feedback about VDI projects […]