Infralys organise les quatrièmes rencontres des virtualisations. Cet évènement est destiné à regrouper la communauté française des virtualisations : virtualisation applicative, virtualisation de session, virtualisation du système d’exploitation, virtualisation du poste de travail, etc. autour d’experts du domaine.

This video provides everything you need to install and configure XenDesktop 5. Here are just a few of the sections included in this tutorial: Installing the XD Controller and Virtual Desktop Agent Building and updating the Master Image using Machine Creation Service Evaluating HDX Technologies.

VMware View 4.5 includes the following new features

• View Client with Local Mode – Provides the industry’s first integrated offline and server-hosted solution for desktop virtualization, addressing BYOPC use cases.
• Full Windows 7 support – Provides full support for Windows 7. With View 4.5 and ThinApp 4.6, organizations can migrate to Windows 7 at half the cost and time.
• View Client for Mac OS X – Enables Mac users to access hosted Windows virtual desktops, extending the BYOPC use cases to Mac users.
• Integrated Application Assignment – Simplifies the delivery of ThinApp applications to end-users using the View Administrator console.
• Rich Graphical Dashboards – Simplifies management and monitoring through improved reporting and diagnostics.
• Role Based Administration – Distributes IT tasks to the right administrator.
• Integration with Microsoft SCOM and PowerShell – Enables integration into existing management infrastructure to further simplify the management of View virtual desktops, as described in the new VMware View Integration Guide.
• Support for vSphere 4.1 and vCenter 4.1 – Delivers integration with the most widely-deployed desktop virtualization platform in the industry. Takes advantage of optimizations for View virtual desktops.
• Increased scalability – Allows you to deploy 10,000 virtual desktops per pod and use this modular architecture to scale out across your organization. For more information, see the VMware View Architecture Planning Guide.
• Tiered storage support – Reduces the cost and increases the performance of storage by enabling you to take advantage of multiple storage tiers, including high performance and locally attached storage.
• Lowest Cost Reference Architectures – VMware has worked with partners such as Dell, HP, Cisco, NetApp, and EMC to provide prescriptive reference architectures to enable you to deploy a scalable and cost-effective desktop virtualization solution.

Iinfralys s’associe à Ozitem pour organiser les troisièmes rencontres des virtualisations, le jeudi 30 septembre 2010 à 18 heures avec Brian Madden, Benny Tritsch et Erik Ableson !

Le troisième Docforum aura lieu le samedi 5 juin 2010.

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This video describes how to reset your XenServer Host password if it has been forgotten or lost.

This video is only for XenServer 5.0 and higher Host because the boot loader has been changed in last release of XenServer.

How to ThinApp Reflection Multi-Host 8.0, Standard w/Native MS Office 2007

1. Start with a clean Windows XP SP2 VM.
2. Installed .NET Framework 2.0 SP1
3. Installed Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Plus.  Customized install.  Install everything except InfoPath and Publisher.
4. Installed Microsoft Office 2007 SP2.
5. Start Setup Capture pre-scan.
6. Install Reflection Multi-Host 8.0, Standard with whatever components you require.
7. Launch each Reflections application once.
8. Perform Setup Capture post-scan.
9. Select your entry points.

Citrix has published (and updated) an article on how to convert a VMware-formatted virtual machine into a Citrix XenServer virtual machine.

Citrix Workflow Studio™ is an infrastructure process automation platform that enables you to transform your datacenter into a dynamic delivery center. It natively supports Citrix products including XenApp™, XenDesktop™, XenServer™ and NetScaler™. Built on top of Windows® PowerShell™ and Windows Workflow Foundation, Workflow Studio provides an easy-to-use, graphical interface for workflow composition that virtually eliminates scripting. Workflow Studio acts as the glue across the IT infrastructure allowing administrators to easily tie technology components together via workflows.