PLAN PLAN PLAN and then PLAN some more.
- Make the Plan, Work the Plan, Ride the Wave – Glenn Drawdy
- A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow – General George S. Patton
- Always plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark. – Richard C. Cushing
- Plans are nothing; planning is everything. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
- By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. – Benjamin Franklin
Plan Your Deployment Before You Install -
- What will your load mix be?
- What will be the density of your virtual machines?
- Will you use VSMP?
- Will you have heterogeneous or homogeneous work loads?
- WIll you need 64bit virtual machines?
- What type of licensing structure will you use?
- Is your active directory going to integrate into your virtual infrastructure?
- Is your AD structure optomized for VMware?
- Is your network strong enough and partitioned to allow for appropriate security to the virtual infrastructure?
- Is your shared storage designed in a way to allow for the correct IOPS when they are needed?
- Have you taken steps to prevent your the service consoles root file system from filling up?
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View Gotchas:
View Client with Offline Desktop cannot be installed on the same machine as VMware Workstation, VMware ACE, VMware Player, or VMware Server
View Client, the View Client with Offline Desktop, and View Agent cannot be installed on the same machine
Synchronize time – Make sure that you have synchronized time across View Connection Server and desktop virtual machines. By default, virtual machines pick up the time from the ESX host at boot and you might have to synchronize time on the ESX hosts through the ntpd service
Make sure your virtual network is configured correctly for the desired maximum number of machines. The default value for ports in a vswitch in esx is 24
Upgrade View Client machines to use Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) 6.x
View does not support using link-local (169.254.x.x) addresses for virtual desktops – Configure virtual desktops to use DHCP or static IP addresses
Install the VMware View Client with Offline Desktop if you are going to use Offline Desktop
