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Mike Ellis

Senior Systems Engineer

[email protected]

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About MeMike Ellis, Senior Systems Engineer, RoundTower Technologies

⟶VMware, NetApp, CiscoUCS Managed Services⟶ vExpert 2012⟶ Indianapolis VMUG Advisor

Contact⟶@v2Mike⟶www.virtualcloffice.com

http://www.virtualcloffice.com/


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Indy VMUGLargest VMUG in the worldRated Most Active Membership

Join your local VMUG at vmug.com

Upcoming Events:⟶Thursday, March 21st, Sponsored by RoundTower Technologies

• VCDX #78, Mike Marzotto, youngest VCDX*, only VCDX w/o Twitter ⟶Thursday, July 25th, User Conference

• +1,000 people, +80 Sponsors, +30 sessions• Hands on Labs, and More!• Amazing Guest Speaker line up


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Home Lab6 Dell PowerEdge Servers in custom made rack ($75 at any local hardware store)

⟶2x R200 w/ 6GB RAM and SSDs & SAS/SATA• Running NetApp Edge VSAs for Shared Storage over NFS

⟶2x 1950 w/ 16GB RAM and SAS• Running most of workload

⟶2x 2950 III w/ 32GB RAM and USB• DPM used for overflow if more resources are needed

Coming soon⟶Synology DS1512+

• 5x 2TB SATA⟶AutoLab for each use case


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Home Lab Pics


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Horizon Suite Package & LicenseHorizon Suite 1.0

⟶10 & 100 packs⟶Per named user, NOT per-concurrent-user for all products

Standalone Products⟶Horizon View 5.2

• Previously View Enterprise and Premier• per-concurrent- (user/connection/powered on VM)

⟶Horizon Workspace 1.0• Previously Horizon Application Manager

⟶Horizon Mirage 4.0• Previously Mirage


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VMware Horizon Suite$300 / Named User

Workspace ThinApp

Horizon Workspace$150 / Named User

MirageFusion Pro

ThinApp

Horizon Mirage$150 / Named User

ViewThinAppvSpherevCenter

Horizon View$250 / CC User

Horizon ViewAdd- On $190

Mirage Windows Migration 6 mo. Term $80


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Version Comparison


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License Upgrade Paths


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VMware Horizon Mirage 4.0Manage physical devices by abstracting OS, Drivers, Apps, and User Data from the image

⟶Peels back layers like an onion

Migrations from XP to Windows 7 ⟶1 way process or revert previous snapshot

Backup for desktops, easy to reimage

WAN Acceleration for Remote Office


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Horizon Mirage Layers


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Mirage Overview


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VMware Horizon Workspace 1.0Formerly known as Horizon Application Manager

AppsDataDesktops

5 vApps for backend components

Data files saved to NFS only⟶No file level deduplication

Support for RSA


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Horizon Workspace


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Horizon View 5.2Formerly View Enterprise and PremierWhat’s new!

⟶Integration with Horizon workspace• ThinApp Catalog Publishing• View Desktops in a HTML5 Browser

⟶Unified Communications with Lync 2013⟶Improved 3D Graphics – Hardware GPU Support⟶Unity – Touch Experience for Mobile Devices⟶Windows 8⟶Larger Pools from 8 to 32 Hosts⟶Multi-Network labels (PowerCLI only)⟶Faster Operations (2-3 Times faster)


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Horizon View in a browser?Yes, you can!Uses blast protocol and HTML5Use Case

⟶Library, borrowed computer, KioskLimitations

⟶No USB⟶No Audio⟶No 3D⟶No Unified Communications⟶No PCoIP


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3D GraphicsGPUs support

⟶Must run on vSphere 5.1⟶Shared access to physical GPU⟶vSGA virtual shared graphics acceleration


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Unity for Mobile Devices


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Other BonusesvCenter VA now supported

⟶Composer still required on Windows VMvC Ops (V4V) Supports mutliple View instancesSearch for User within vSphere Web Client

⟶Shows VM user is signed on to or entitled toSpace Efficient Disk Utilization

⟶Unused space reclaimed on dedicated linked clones (The Compactor)


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Demo Time!


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