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 ↗, one of the important points of deploying the Horizon View ↗ 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 ↗, 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