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Welcome to the DFW VMUGBrad Christian

Senior System Engineer

CB Richard Ellis

dfwvmug@gmail.com

linkedin.com/in/bradchristian21

© 2010 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with VMware View Presentations from Cisco, Sigma Solutions and VMware

© 2010 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

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

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Agenda

9:00 a.m. Breakfast & Registration

9:30 a.m.  Cisco Presentation: Deploying VMware View on Cisco UCS

10:15 a.m. Break

10:30 a.m. Partner Presentation: Sigma Solutions

11:15 a.m. Morning Wrap up

11:30 p.m. Lunch

12:30 p.m. VMware Presentation: VMWorld Recap

1:15 p.m. What's New w/ VMUG & VMware, Raffle for iPad 2, Open Q&A

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Welcome to PISD Sockwell Center

No Smoking on PISD Campus Overflow parking is at the mall Restrooms Emergency Exit

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DFW VMUG Questionnaire

DFW VMUG Questionnaire

Name:____________________________________________________

Company:_________________________________________________

Email Address:_____________________________________________

Please give thanks to our sponsors for this VMUG. Without sponsors, there is no VMUG.

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Cisco

Sigma Solutions

Overall, how would you rate the following

The DFW VMUG

Meeting Room / Location

Food “Big Apple Café”

Any comments about today’s sponsors?

Is there a sponsor that you would like to have come and speak at the VMUG’s?

Are there any topics that you would like to have detailed discussions about?

Questions / Comments?

Turn in questionnaire for a chance to win an iPad 2!

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The world’s largest commercial Real Estate firm with over 450 offices in 50 countries

36000 Employees 128.1 Billion in transactions in 2010

My Company

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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

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CBRE View Deployment

VMware View Pod on Cisco UCS Hardware

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View on UCS

Clean wiring

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Questions?

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DFW VMUG Sponsors

Food Catered By:www.bigapplecafe.com - 817-572-7753

Michael WilliamsSystems Engineer

Elias KhnaserPractice Director, Virtualization

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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

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Open Discussion- View Outlook TweakThe 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.

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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

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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.

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Open Discussion- R2 PerformanceQ: 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.

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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"?>

<unattend xmlns="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:offlineImage cpi: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

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Open Discussion- After Sysprep

Make sure to put the VMware mouse drivers back in!

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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

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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

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Open Discussion- Helpful LinksvSphere 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

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Open Discussion- Helpful LinksVMware 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

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Open Discussion- Helpful LinksLife 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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