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Welcome to the DFW VMUG

Welcome to the DFW VMUG. Brad Christian Senior System Engineer CB Richard Ellis dfwvmug@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/bradchristian21. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with VMware View. Presentations from Cisco, Sigma Solutions and VMware.

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Welcome to the DFW VMUG

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  1. Welcome to the DFW VMUG

    Brad Christian Senior System Engineer CB Richard Ellis dfwvmug@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/bradchristian21

  2. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with VMware View

    Presentations from Cisco, Sigma Solutions and VMware

  3. Special thanks to Tony Gradig for leading the DFW VMUG for the last 4 years

  4. Agenda 9:00 a.m. Breakfast & Registration9:30 a.m.  Cisco Presentation: Deploying VMware View on Cisco UCS 10:15 a.m. Break10:30 a.m. Partner Presentation: Sigma Solutions11:15 a.m. Morning Wrap up11:30 p.m. Lunch 12:30 p.m. VMware Presentation: VMWorld Recap1:15 p.m. What's New w/ VMUG & VMware, Raffle for iPad 2, Open Q&A
  5. Welcome to PISD Sockwell Center No Smoking on PISD Campus Overflow parking is at the mall Restrooms Emergency Exit
  6. DFW VMUG Questionnaire Turn in questionnaire for a chance to win an iPad 2!
  7. My Company The world’s largest commercial Real Estate firm with over 450 offices in 50 countries 36000 Employees 128.1 Billion in transactions in 2010
  8. CBRE Environment 3 US Datacenters 95 ESX Hosts running 4.1 1200 VMs ~300 VDI Desktops in the US, still Internal IT All hosts are on Cisco UCS B200 blades with 96GB of RAM. VDI Hosts are on B230s with192GB of RAM Further expansion will probably be with vBlocks
  9. CBRE View Deployment VMware View Pod on Cisco UCS Hardware
  10. View on UCS Clean wiring
  11. Questions?
  12. DFW VMUG Sponsors Michael Williams Systems Engineer Elias Khnaser Practice Director, Virtualization Food Catered By: www.bigapplecafe.com - 817-572-7753
  13. Open Discussion- Flings Zimbra for Android Phones- much better than Touchdown. Boomerang- Quickly access servers New VDSPowerCli- manage distributed switches with PowerCLI vCMA- manage vSphere from a tablet. Great for meetings and showing performance data to application developers. Thinapped vSphere Client
  14. Open Discussion- View Outlook Tweak The Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 policy settings in the Group Policy Object Editor do not include the Outlook Anywhere settings. We need to update the template which will allow us to set the ‘No Flags’ option so Outlook Anywhere is disabled, then the settings can be pushed via GPO to Computers in the domain. You cannot use Group Policy settings to configure Outlook Anywhere (RPC/HTTP) settings http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961112 After installing the template set the ‘RPC/HTTP Connection Flags’ to ‘No Flags’ This will disable Outlook Anywhere for the Computers specified in the GPO Policy.
  15. Open Discussion- Help! I manually deleted a VM from View! Don’t do this! It causes the View database to become inconsistent. If you did, see “Manually deleting linked clones or stale virtual desktop entries from VMware View Manager” KB 1008658 SviConfig-operation=RemoveSviClone -VmName=VM name -AdminUser=the local admin user -AdminPassword= the local admin password -ServerUrl=the View Composer server URL
  16. Open Discussion-Remove “Safely Remove Hardware” Icon The “Safely Remove Hardware” widget in the system tray could possibly cause problems. You can now remove it in Version 7 VMs. To remove it: Edit Settings, click Options tab at top, click on General, then click the Configuration Parameters button. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the list and click Add Row. Type "devices.hotplug" without the quotations, and in the next field type "FALSE" without quotations. Power on VM and the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon will not appear.
  17. Open Discussion- R2 Performance Q: My performance is slow on Windows 2008 R2 Servers. A: The most effective solution is to update to ESX 4.0 Update 1, which provides a new WDDM driver that is installed with VMware Tools and is fully supported. After a VMware Tools upgrade, you can find it in C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\Drivers\wddm_video. KB Article: 1011709 Did you try to install the WDDM driver or to just disable the SVGA driver? Typically I have had customers install the WDDM driver and increase the video RAM to 32MB, to see a better improvement in video response on 2008 R2 machines. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1011709&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=43856896&stateId=0%200%2043008426 Note: By default Windows 2008 uses the SVGA driver so you must manually configure the WDDM driver using the path above. If you cannot update to ESX 4.0 Update 1, deselect the driver included with ESX 4.0. When you install VMware Tools, select Custom or Modify in the VMware Tools installation wizard, then deselect the SVGA (XPDM) driver. Alternatively, remove the SVGA driver from the Device Manager after installing VMware Tools.
  18. Open Discussion- R2 Profile Copy Copy Administrator Settings to Public User “How to customize the default local user profile when you prepare an image of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003” http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959753 In 2008 R2, Microsoft removed the “Copy To” feature for user profiles. It now needs to be done using an unattend.xml file, see “How to customize the default local user profile when you prepare an image of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2” http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973289 An Example XML File for Server 2008 R2: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <unattendxmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend"> <settings pass="specialize"> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <RegisteredOrganization>Your Organization Name</RegisteredOrganization> <RegisteredOwner>Your Registered Owner</RegisteredOwner> <CopyProfile>true</CopyProfile> </component> </settings> <cpi:offlineImagecpi:source="wim:f:/sources/install.wim#Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERSTANDARD" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" /> </unattend> Execute Sysprep C:\windows\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe  /generalize /unattend:unattend.xml
  19. Open Discussion- After Sysprep Make sure to put the VMware mouse drivers back in!
  20. Open Discussion- Getting Started with Automation Recipe for success Excel and the Concatenate command can help you build PowerShell scripts. New-vm-vmhost“Somehost.domain.net" -Name “ServerName" -Template “A Template" -Datastore“An Existing LUN" -OSCustomizationspec“A Customization Spec" -Location “A Folder“ Execute this command using VMware vSphere™ PowerCLI http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/server/vsphere/automationtools PowerGUI Script Editor Powergui.org
  21. Open Discussion- Automation with Orchestrator Orchestrator is VMware’s best kept secret. It is a tool for automating vSphere- you probably already have it installed and didn’t know it! YouTube video “How to configure VMware vCenter Orchestrator” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGs8nIn5p_4
  22. Open Discussion- Helpful Links vSphere 4.1 – What‘s New: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-Whats-New-in-vSphere-41-ds-en.pdf http://technodrone.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-new-in-vsphere-41-esxi.html RVTools: RVTools is able to list information about cpu, memory, disks, nics, cd-rom, floppy drives, snapshots, VMware tools, ESX hosts, nics, datastores, switches, ports and health checks. The tool is called RVTools and is downloadable from www.robware.net 2008 Template Build: http://jeremywaldrop.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/how-to-build-a-windows-2008-vmware-esx-vm-template/ ExtPart for the C: drive on 2000 and 2003 32-bit servers: http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&releaseid=R64398&formatcnt=2&fileid=83929 A Great Website to check out to make your P2V’s a little bit easier. http://ituda.com/ http://ituda.com/vmware-p2v-converter-best-practices
  23. Open Discussion- Helpful Links VMware Launch Pad - Your gateway to the VMware Universe http://thevpad.com/ VMware ESXi and ESX Info Center http://vmware.com/products/vsphere/esxi-and-esx/index.html VMware vSphere Upgrade Center http://vmware.com/products/vsphere/upgrade-center/ Search the Hardware Compatibility Guide: http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php Compare Editions: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/editions_comparison.html Performance Enhancements: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere-whatsnew-performance-wp.pdf Hot-add Support: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/GuestOS_guide.pdf Life Cycle and Version Retirement http://www.vmware.com/support/policies/lifecycle/vi/eos.html http://app.connect.vmware.com/e/es.aspx?s=524&e=12381741&elq=9719a80a21e84019bf33d7e40ccf2658&OPENID=Browser
  24. Open Discussion- Helpful Links Life Cycle and Version Retirement http://www.vmware.com/support/policies/lifecycle/vi/eos.html http://app.connect.vmware.com/e/es.aspx?s=524&e=12381741&elq=9719a80a21e84019bf33d7e40ccf2658&OPENID=Browser

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