The Raspberry Pi is a 25$ credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. Now the VMware View Client 5.0 is working on RaspberryPi, SSL security options is ok also auth via RSA. PCoIP protocol seem not working at the moment, just the RDP.
This video will give you an introduction to the View Storage Accelerator, a caching feature that can reduce storage costs and improve performance in VMware View.
The Storage Accelerator is made up of two components. The first is a per VMDK digest file and the second is a global cache. The per VMDK digest file has a mapping for disk block number to hash value and the global cache has a mapping for hash value to actual data. The global cache is a reserved area of memory on the ESXi hosts.
It is an in-memory dedupe cache that caches data based on the content hash of a disk block. When the VM issues a read request, we first use the digest file to get the hash value for a block and then consult the global cache to see if the block is in cached. Metadata for the digest file is maintained in memory. If there is hit, we go fetch the data from cache; if there is a miss, we go fetch the data from disk.
NexentaStor storage software provides advanced features and functionality suited to handle the demands of a virtual desktop environment. Because virtual desktops create a largely random write in nature, the power and flexibility of NexentaStor, with ZFS architecture, greatly lends itself to solving workload requirements.
Arguably the most important feature is the ability to tune performance in the software and accelerate the desktop demand for low latency response times and IOPS. NexentaStor leverages system RAM as a first layer cache device. Additionally, second level cache devices, such as SSDs, can be incorporated as well.
Additional features include:
128-bit File System: ZFS-based technology provides the most scalable and flexible 128-bit file system.
Unified Appliance: Support for NAS (NFS, CIFS WebDAV, FTP) and support for SAN (iSCSI & FC) means flexibility.
Data Deduplication & Native Compression: Inline data dedupe and compression reduce use of primary storage.
Hybrid Storage Pools: Ability to use specialized devices, such as SSDs, to accelerate read and write performance.
Great video from Pete Long about VMware View 5 Persona Management. You should also check-out his website at petenetlive.com.
With VMware View 5, VMware introduces View Persona Management. View Persona Management preserves user profiles and dynamically synchronizes them with a remote profile repository. View Persona Management does not require the configuration of Windows roaming profiles, and you can bypass Windows Active Directory in the management of View user profiles. If you already use roaming profiles, Persona Management enhances their functionality.
Persona Management downloads only the files that Windows requires at login, such as user registry files. When the user or application opens other files from the desktop profile folder, these files are copied from the stored user persona to the View desktop. This algorithm provides performance beyond that achieved with Windows roaming profiles.
In addition, View copies recent user profile changes to the desktop profile up to the remote repository every few minutes. The default is every ten minutes, and this time period is configurable.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager for View provides end-to-end visibility into the health, performance and efficiency of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). It enables desktop administrators to proactively ensure the best end-user experience, avert incidents and eliminate bottlenecks. Designed for VMware View, this optimized version of vCenter Operations Manager improves IT productivity and lowers the cost of owning and operating VDI environments.
VMware View Clients for Windows, Mac, Ubuntu Linux, iPad, and Android allow you to connect to your VMware View virtual desktop from your device of choice giving you on-the-go access from any location.
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The Raspberry Pi is a 25$ credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. Now the VMware View Client 5.0 is working on RaspberryPi, SSL security options is ok also auth via RSA. PCoIP protocol seem not working at the moment, just the RDP.
