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Installing Dell OMSA 6.5 on ESXi 5

30 December 2011
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VMware View Client – Kindle Fire version

27 December 2011
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Kindle Fire is a tablet from Amazon, based on Android, that may become a competitor of the Apple iPad (considering also the interesting price).

Although this tablet use Android, the recent new View Client for Android wasn’t included in the Amazon Android App Store. This lack as been correct in the last days, and now the new release 1.3 of the View Client, with PCoIP support, is available also for Kindle Fire.

An alternative client (not strictly limited to VMware View solution) could also be the new release of Wyse PocketCloud (but actually still lack of the PCoIP support).

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VMware View Client – Linux version

23 December 2011
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As written some days ago, VMware  announced the new version of the Linux View Client with PCoIP support. Now the binaries are available for the download, actually only for the Ubuntu distribution:

There is also an interesting guide on how build a full client based on a live disto: Building an Ubuntu Live CD for VMware View

Note that previously there wasn’t a public (and free) version of the Linux View Client with the PCoIP: the OpenSource vmware-view-open-client project still lack of this function (and also other functions, like USB redirection). But this does not mean that there can be any thin client Linux based fully compatible with View, because hardware vendor can have the full code from VMware.

Using the binary package from some vendors was possible build a custom version with the missing features of the OpenSource client:

 

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Why Dynamic Disks are a bad choice

22 December 2011
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Microsoft Windows Dynamic Disks (or Dynamic Volumes) are an abstraction layer (introduced in Windows 2000) over the partitions (similar to the LVM layer on Linux environment) to decoupled the volumes (with their NTFS data) from the disk partitions and have a greater flexibility, like hot-extend a volume by simple add new partitions (but also several other advantages).

But in a virtual environment there are other way to handle disk flexibility, like hot-extend a virtual disk at hypervisor level (for VMware this feature was introduced in VI 3.5U2)… so there is no need to use dynamic disks at guest level. The only requirement is that the guest file system also support a hot-extent operation: this is available from the GUI in recent versions of Windows (from Vista, aka NT 6.0), and in a limited way (not, without use 3rd part tools, for OS disks) from the command line (with the diskpart command) also in some previous versions.

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ESXi – Partitions layout of system disk

20 December 2011
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In ESXi the partitions schema is automatically defined by the installation process and there is no way to modify it (you can only choose where install the hypervisor). There is a great post from Rickard Nobel (ESXi 5 partitions) that explain the structure of the partitions, their size and their purpose. But it does not explain how to get this information.

To see the partition layout in ESXi 5, the fdisk command will not work on new GTP disk (this type is used for all new disks and for disks that are extended to more that 2 GB, as written in the post about the upgrade of VMFS).

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ESXi – Replace the vmware-cmd command

19 December 2011
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As you know, several commands from local CLI (via the ESXi shell or TSM technical support mode) are changed in latest version of ESXi (in the new ESXi 5 most are replaced by the new esxcli command). One command that was alredy replaced in ESXi 4.1 was the vmware-cmd command. A new vim-cmd must be used instead (as as described by William Lam in VMware vimsh and vim-cmd). The typical use of vmware-cmd command was get/change the state of a VM and register a VM.

About the state of a VM, the VMware KB1014165 (Powering off a virtual machine on an ESXi host) explain the new command syntax and usage.

To get the list of the VMs and they unique indentifier (VMID):

  • Previous command: vmware-cmd -l
  • New command: vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms

To get the state of a VM:

  • Previous command: vmware-cmd VMX_Path getstate
  • New command: vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate VMID

To shutdown a VM (trying with a guest shutdown):

  • Previous command: vmware-cmd VMX_Path stop trysoft
  • New command: vim-cmd vmsvc/power.off VMID trysoft

To register a VM:

  • Previous command: vmware-cmd -s VMX_File
  • New command: vim-cmd solo/registervm VMX_File

Note that you can use VMID or also the entire name of your VMX file.

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VMware View Clients – New releases

16 December 2011
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In the recent hours there were a lot of changes in the View Clients with new releases: New VMware View Clients for the Holidays – Mac, Linux, iPad and Android!

View Client of iPad

http://www.vmware.com/it/products/desktop_virtualization/view/ipad-client.html

There is the new 1.3.0 version (Dec, 16) with the following changes:

  • Connect iPad to up to 1080p (1920×1080) external displays and TVs and leverage Presentation Mode to view more of your View virtual desktop
  • Support for virtual higher resolutions to scroll a larger screen resolution display on a smaller resolution screen
  • Improvements to PCoIP bandwidth usage
  • Numerous bug fixes

View Client of Android

http://www.vmware.com/it/products/desktop_virtualization/view/android-client.html

There is the new 1.3.0 version (Dec, 15) with the following changes:

  • All new tablet interface to take advantage of the Honeycomb and later action bar
  • Improved support for lower resolution Android devices with easier desktop selection
  • Improvements to PCoIP bandwidth usage
  • Support for virtual higher resolutions to scroll a larger screen resolution display on a smaller resolution screen
  • Numerous bug fixes

View Client of Mac OS X

Actually there isn’t a new official client, but the VMware View Client with PCoIP for Mac OS X Tech Preview now available! To get the Mac client tech preview, you will need a VMware.com login and go to the download page.

The new features in the VMware View Client for Mac OS X are:

  •  PCoIP protocol optimized for VMware View 5 (previos versions have only the RDP protocol)
  • Full screen support for Mac OS X Lion users
  • Copy and Paste plain text between View 4.x virtual machines and Mac. Copy and Paste text, formatted text, and graphics between View 5.x virtual machines and Mac
  • Support optional RSA authentication
  • Enhanced certificate checking

View Client with PCoIP for Linux

Finally there will be new VMware View Client with PCoIP for Linux.  Making it easy to install, it will soon be available in the Ubuntu Software Center (a little later this month). Just launch the Ubuntu Software Center and search for VMware View to download and install the VMware View client.

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