Kudos to Matt Lesak who posted a link to the VMware View 5.0 Documentation Center. He pusblished a link on Twitter which forwards you to the TCP and UDP Ports needed for VMware View. As I get tons of requests about the networking ports I thought it might be a good idea to pusblish this link on the blog.

The article gives you an overview of all ports with Source, Target, Port number, protocol and a brief description.

Example:

Link: http://3url.de/vmwareviewports

Original Tweet by Matt: #VMwareView network port table ow.ly/7Z8sv #VDI #VMware

A free tool for VMware View with the name VMware View Portal eXtender was coming up in the last week. With that tool you can add a Content Management System (CMS) for branding and adding oher functionality to the View Portal. With the eXtender you can add functionality like announcements, links, support information and more. Here’s what the vendor says:

If you want to learn morr about the tool, you should check ou this website: http://www.techstur.com/Solutions/VMWare/Tech.aspx

VMware has published a few videos about vCenter Operations for VMware View. This article gives you just one of the videos. Please check this link to see more.

The city of Pittsburgh is using VMware View 5.0 for nearly 3000 users. Please find the links for a video and the case study here. Especially in the public sector VMware View is a great solution when it comes to information security.

Video: View 5 at City of Pittsburgh

Case Study: http://www.vmware.com/a/customers/customer/429

The new version of the VMware View Client is available for download. The new version comes with some great features.

• Optimized performance for VMware View 5
• Support for iOS5 including AirPlay
• Presentation Mode for use with external display and AirPlay
• Embedded RSA soft token simplifies login to desktop
• Background tasking to move between Windows and iOS apps

BTW: The new Android client is available too!

Via Twitter: @mittim21

I’ve spent the last few days at VMworld in Copenhagen as I’ve had a speaker slot there. Beside loads of customer and partners meetings I had the time to visit the Solution Exchnage, where loads of VMware partners presented their solutions. My first stop here was the VMware booth as I was interested in the End User Computing topic. I had seen View 5 already and also layed with it but I hadn’t the chance to work with the Unified Communication interafce so far. On the booth there was a installation with Mitel VoIP phones, hardware and software. To say it in Tedd Fox’s words: AWESOME! The Mitel phones were connected to the LAN and there was a softphone client running in the virtual desktop. You could either use the phone to make a call or use the softphone to initiate a call on the hardware device. If you don’t want to use the hardware phones it’s no problem. Just use a headset and the soft client.

The VMware View 5 VoIP implementation is unique in the virtual desktop market. VMware does not use the remote display protocol to tunnel VoIP. They’ve added an API to the View Client and Agent, to enable VoIP vendors to use their solution with View. The communication between the phone and the soft client does go over the remote protocol, but the VoIP traffic is directly sent from the end user device. It was really impressive that the phone calls I made there did not affect the VM’s CPU utilization at all.

To have a complete solution for VMware, Mitel also added a Zimlet for VMware’s E-Mail and Collaboration suite Zimbra. With this add-on you can directly start phone calls out of the Zimbra addressbook or even from a email signature.

Unfortunately I found this artivle only in German language but it may worth to translate with Google or another translation solution. The article is about the new Wyse X-Class Thin Laptop Client which comes with an SSD hard disk now. It supports Linux, Windows Embedded and Windows 7. And guess what! With Windows 7 it supports VMware View Local Mode. Great news! Did anyone already try that?

Link: searchdatacenter

Vittorio Viarengo gives you a great vision of VMware’s End User Computing strategy.