Updating VMWare Horizon Workspace vApp

It’s fairly straight forward to update your Horizon Workspace vApp to the latest (this is an out-of-hours update due to downtime): Back up your vApp Ensure all VAs have connectivity to vapp-updates.vmware.com on port 80 Log into your configurator-va CLI with the root password you set up initially Run the following command to check for update: /usr/local/horizon/lib/menu/updatemgr.hzn check It should come back after checking all other appliances in the vApp with something like this:...

June 3, 2014 Myles Gray

Using NginX as a load-balancer for VMware Horizon View security servers

Introduction I have been deploying a VDI solution recently based on the fantastic VMWare Horizon Suite β†—, one of the important points of deploying the Horizon View β†— component of this is making it highly available and accessible from the outside for on-the-road users. The best way I have found to load-balance incoming connections (both internally and externally) is to set up a linux VM and run NginX β†—, which is a reverse caching proxy - it allows us to terminate the SSL connections and load-balance across our backend View Security Servers in a DMZ....

April 7, 2014 Myles Gray