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Mike Ellis
Senior Systems Engineer
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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
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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)