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  • Oct 23 / 2023
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Azure, EUC, Horizon, Next-Gen, VMware

VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – Pools & Pool Groups

My previous blog explained the VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – Images. In this blog, I will explain which steps you need to take to create a pool and how to add the pool to a pool group and entitle the group.

Pools

To create a pool you must have a published image. The pool will use the published image to create a group of VMs within the chosen provider.

Pool Groups

A Pool Group is, as the name suggests, a group of pools. The pool group can contain multiple pools on different edge deployments and can also contain pools of different VM sizes and workload profiles.

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  • May 08 / 2023
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Azure, EUC, Horizon, Next-Gen, VMware

VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – Images

My previous blog explained the VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – deployment. In this blog, I will explain which steps you need to take to Add an Image and Publish the image.

Images allows us to provide desktops and publish application to end-users in Azure. You can add images from the Azure Marketplace, Microsoft Azure Compute Gallery, or create your own Custom VM in Microsoft Azure. In this blog I will use the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

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  • Mar 24 / 2023
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Azure, EUC, Horizon, Next-Gen, VMware

VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – Deployment

My previous blog explained the VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – Prerequisites. In this blog, I will explain which steps you need to take to start the Horizon Cloud deployment.

Getting started

First, we will need to log in to the Horizon Universal Console. Once logged in you will see the Get Started page. Select Horizon Cloud Service.

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  • Mar 13 / 2023
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Azure, EUC, Horizon, Next-Gen, VMware

VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – Prerequisites

This blog post is part of a series of posts I will be creating regarding the Horizon Cloud Next-Gen deployment. In this post, I will explain the prerequisites for Horizon Cloud deployment. Coming posts in the series will have topics like image deployment, Pool creation, App Deployment, Dynamic Environment Manager integration, and maybe more.

Prerequisites

If you are new to Horizon Cloud on Azure and want to deploy a greenfield environment you will need to configure several items on Microsoft Azure before you can deploy Horizon Cloud. In this blog post, I will explain how to configure these prerequisites in Microsoft Azure but also some other prerequisites for the Horizon Cloud deployment.

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  • Jan 14 / 2020
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CIS, Microsoft, Performance Testing, Uncategorized

Impact of CIS Benchmarks on performance

During a VMWare Horizon Cloud project, the customer had the following wishes. The workspace needed fast and secure. Security is almost always at the expense of performance.

Because the customer wanted us to align with the CIS Level 1 benchmark for the Windows OS. We wanted to see what kind of impact the CIS benchmark had on the performance. In order to make de impact visible, we did a performance test with Login VSI.

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  • Mar 06 / 2017
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Citrix, Microsoft, Uncategorized, VMware

About me

My name is Niels Geursen and I work as an IT Architect.

I started my career in the year 2000. I learned about IT challenges from small to enterprise companies in the past years. In all these years I also got the opportunity to educate myself by following courses and doing exams for Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware. This led to the following certification: VCAP Desktop Management Design 2023, MCSE 2012, CCE-V, VCP6-DTM, and much more.

In June 2019 I was included in the vExpert program of VMware which was renewed ever since. I was also added to the vExpert sub-program EUC.

My experience mainly focuses on end-user computing this could be on-premises or in the cloud.

I hope you have fun reading my Blog!

  • Mar 31 / 2016
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App-V, Microsoft, UEM, VMware

Slow application start times VMware UEM and App-V

When users need to wait for 60 seconds until they can interact with the application the user experience is impacted. We encountered this behaviour at a costumer and needed to troubleshoot this.

To read more on how I found the problem by excluding antivirus and group policy settings see my guest blog post at Logit Blog

 

  • Dec 10 / 2015
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5.0, App-V, Microsoft

App-V 5.0 registry import not working using dynamic config

A few weeks ago I called my colleague Ryan Bijkerk of www.logitblog.com with the question can VDI tuning break App-V? This inspired him to write a nice article on how performance optimization van break App-V which can be found here.

Within our company we are using VDI for desktops and App-V 5.0 for application virtualization.  Also we did some performance tuning on the VDI’s. Everything was working fine until we we got an App-V application with a registry import via the DynamicConfiguration.xml. First I thought this was an issue with one of the settings we did with the performance tuning maybe we disabled a services that was needed. This was the reason for my call with Ryan.

So I started my troubleshooting by enabling the disabled services without any luck. The registry import was still not working. So I started Googling and I came a cross the following site http://www.app-v.info which let me to the Blog of Trentent. His blog provide the solution by setting the following value:

Registry location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\AppV\Subsystem key:
Value: NoBackgroundRegistryStaging
Data Type: DWORD
Data: 0

You can read the full article here about the the registry value.