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When using Horizon View Instant Clones several objects are created in your vCenter Inventory that are used to assemble the instant clone virtual machines. If you want to find the relationships between those objects then you can read about that in another article on this website here.
VMware's end user computing products are now part of Omnissa. Articles related to VMware Horizon from VMwarebits.com are now published at Omnissabits.com. |
When using Instant Clone virtual desktops in your environment you will find several objects in your inventory that are used to run these machines. The next image shows the folders with the cp-template, cp-replica and cp-parent objects.
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A customer asked if it is possible to allow AD users to manage an existing virtual machine through an HTML connection. In this short video I am showing this setup with two VMs (each in their own pool) that can be accessed by two individual users that are members of an AD Group. To accomplish this you would have to create a Manual Floating pool with 1 VM per pool that can be accessed by multiple users (not simultaneously). Use a manual pool to make sure VMs are not deleted or otherwise managed by Horizon.
VMware's end user computing products are now part of Omnissa. Articles related to VMware Horizon from VMwarebits.com are now published at Omnissabits.com. |
The Horizon View Portal page for the connection server has changed throughout the different versions. This article describes how to modify the behavior of the portal for version 5.3. How to modify the HTML Access enabled portal with Horizon View 5.2 is described in another article. The portal described here is
VMware's end user computing products are now part of Omnissa. Articles related to VMware Horizon from VMwarebits.com are now published at Omnissabits.com. |
The Horizon View Portal page for the connection server has changed throughout the different versions. This article describes how to modify the behavior of the portal for version 5.x or 6.x when you have installed the HTML Access feature. When you don't have that additional feature installed then you have the 'default' portal.
VMware's end user computing products are now part of Omnissa. Articles related to VMware Horizon from VMwarebits.com are now published at Omnissabits.com. |
The purpose of this article is to explain how to use Microsoft SQL Express to create a database server for the VMware Horizon View Event Database and the Composer database. In a production environment you should use one of the supported databases (MS-SQL or Oracle). But when setting up a proof of concept or a test environment (for example for educational purposes) a SQL Express database will also suffice.