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Deploy an Instant-Clone Desktop Pool

In the last post, I configured the Horizon Connection Server and it is ready to publish and deploy new desktops. In this post, I’ll walk through deploying a windows 11 desktop pool. Horizon 8 Series: When we talk about a virtual desktop infrastructure, there are usually two ways to provide a desktop to a user: either you provide a single virtual […]

Horizon Initial Configuration

In the last post, I installed Horizon Connection Server and now I want to configure the Connection Server to be able to create pools of desktops and RDSH-published applications. This configuration includes the following tasks: Horizon 8 Series: Creating appropriate domain users and OUs 1- Log in to the Active Directory and open Active Directory Users and Computers from Server Manager. […]

Install Horizon Connection Server

In this step, you have to fulfill some requirements to be able to install the Connection Server. If you already have an Active Directory or a SQL Server, you can skip installing a new one. One design principle is to eliminate a single point of failure, however, since this is a lab environment, we are not considering this at the […]

VMware Horizon 8 (2209) Installation Guide

Since I am preparing myself for a new virtual desktop experience and on the other hand, I have not dealt with this product for two years professionally, I thought it would be useful to document and publish each step I take in installing a complete Virtual Desktop Infrastructure based on Horizon 8. Each post contains a summary of the solution […]

VxRail, vSAN ReadyNodes, and PowerStore X!

Datacenter solutions are changing faster than ever as business development and new customer demands increase and legacy solutions are no longer suitable for today’s operations. Organizations need to develop new, modern, automated, and intelligent solutions to keep pace with business demands. One of the steps to achieving this flexibility for business continuity, capacity expansion, and disaster recovery is hyper-converged infrastructure […]

Veeam Backup – Hardened Repository

As an IT professional, you have heard about the word Ransomware time and time again and it has become a major concern of all types of organizations, from small to large enterprises. When Colonial Pipeline was hit by ransomware in 2021 and finally forced to pay for ransomware after hours of attempts, it was no longer an organizational issue and […]