VMware has released the mock exam for VCP on vSphere 5. The VCP5 mock exam consist of 30 questions and is available here. The official VCP5 exam can be scheduled at the end of this month.
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VMWare View MultiMonitor not working with a Zero Client
At the customer where I work there was a college, he wants to use 2 monitors on his view workplace.
We use the Wyse P20 zero client.
Step 1 was to config the VMware View Desktop Pool Multiple Monitor Support
Ensure your desktop pool is configured to support 2 monitors.
Sign into the VMware View Administrator go to Inventory go to Pools. Select your Pool Click the Edit button. Go to the Pool Settings Tab under Remote Desktop Protocol change the max number of monitors to 2. 
Step 2. Choosing Multi-monitor in VMware View Client
In the VMware View client you must enable multiple monitor support. However, when we used the Zero client (Wyse P20) to connect to your virtual desktop pool the Display option isn’t even present. So what you need to do is access the VMware View Client on a desktop PC or Laptop, sign in as the user that needs multiple monitor support, select the desktop pool and set the display to Multimonitor. Login and wait till the desktop is fully loaded and then logoff. Then when the user signs in on the Zero client (Wyse P20) Multiple Monitor support will be engaged because you set it previously..
VMware vSphere 5.0 Documentation
VMware vSphere™ 5.0 (“vSphere”) introduces many improvements and new features to extend the benefits and capabilities of vSphere 4.1. These advancements build on the core capacities in vSphere to provide improved scalability; better performance; and easier provisioning, monitoring and troubleshooting. This paper focuses on the following new features and enhancements:
• Virtual machine enhancements
• Improved SSD handling and optimization
• Command-line enhancements
• VMware® ESXi™ firewall
• vSphere Image Builder
• vSphere Auto Deploy server
• vSphere Host Profiles
• VMware vCenter™ Update Manager
VMware View Bootcamp
VMware is organizing a nine-part VMware View Bootcamp: every day a new video is published for you to view. At the end of this bootcamp, you will have a good understanding of the VMware View solution, how to roll it out and how to optimize View in your environment. A free e-book of all the presentations is included in this bootcamp series. A hope I can download the free e-book 
. Because I am going on Holiday next week.
VMware View Bootcamp Series
Design Considerations Guidelines for VMware View – Overview
- Speaker – John Dodge, Sr. Manager PSO Services, VMware
- Overview of the technical considerations to keep in mind while you’re designing a View environment
Storage Deep Dive – Considerations and Best Practices
- Speaker – Jim Yanik, Sr. Systems Engineer, VMware
- How to design your storage infrastructure to fit your environment
- Sizing and workload considerations
Network Considerations and Best Practices
- Speaker – Shannon McFarland; Consulting Engineer for Data Center technologies and Enterprise IPv6 design on Cisco’s Consulting Engineering team in the Office of the CTO, Cisco
- Network requirements for LAN and WAN
- Bandwidth requirements deep dive
- Security considerations – Security Server, AV, Encryption, Authentication
Optimizing the Base Image for VMware View
- Speaker – Todd Dayton, Staff Product Manager, Desktop Product Management, VMware
- How to build and tune your desktop image
- User and workload considerations
- OS specific tips (XP, Win7)
Delivering Applications
- Speaker – Heath Doer, Sr Systems Engineer, VMware
- Packaging and updates (applink and appsync)
- Best practices-storage, image management and application deployment
- Application migration, application conflict and compatibility
PCoIP Implementation Overview and PCoIP Tuning Best Practices
- Speaker – Chuck Hirstius, PSO, WW Advanced Services, VMware
- How to optimize PCoIP for different types of workloads
- How to optimize for LAN, mobile and remote users
- Bandwidth requirements
Automating View 4.5 with Powershell
- Speaker – Tom Elliot, Sr. MTS, Enterprise Desktop, VMware
- Introduction to View PowerCLI
- Setting up an environment and basic tasks
- Creating your own scripts
- Integrating with vSphere
Leveraging Security Server for PCoIP
- Speaker – Mark Benson, View Architect, Enterprise Desktop, VMware
- Introduction to Security Server
VMware View’s Reference Architecture
- Speaker – Mac Binesh, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager, Enterprise Desktop, VMware
- Review of RA for stateless desktops
- Description of test environment, equipment and lab results
VMware Compliance Checker for vSphere
ThinApp VMware View 4.6 Client
Reboot and then setup continues
Edit Package.ini
Add the following line under:
[VMware View Client.exe]
Source=%ProgramFilesDir%\VMware\VMware View\Client\bin\wswc.exe
;Change ReadOnlyData to bin\Package.ro.tvr to build with old versions(4.6.0 or earlier) of tools
ReadOnlyData=Package.ro.tvr
WorkingDirectory=%ProgramFilesDir%\VMware\VMware View\Client\bin\
ObjectTypes=VMware_VDM_Client;VMware_VDM_Client.1
Shortcuts=%Desktop%;%Programs%\VMware;%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
Commandline=%ProgramFilesDir%\VMware\VMware View\Client\bin\wswc –serverurl viewdemo.wardvissers.nl
Open Project Folder:
Remove the following Folders
%AppData%
%Common Desktop%
%Common Programs%
%Desktop%
%drive_C%
%Local AppData%
%Personal%
%Profile%
%Program Files Common%
%SystemRoot%
Then Click on Build
VMware vCloud Director Overview
Using VMware vCloud™ Director. Overview of the web interface, virtual datacenters, vApps, virtual machines (VM’s), and catalogs
Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) 6.0 Beta: Accelerate the adoption of Microsoft private and public cloud platforms
Planning your journey to the cloud just got a bit easier. The next release of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit—version 6.0 Beta—includes assessment capabilities to evaluate workloads for both public and private cloud platforms. With MAP 6.0 Beta, you now have the ability to identify workloads and estimate the infrastructure size and resources needed for both Windows Azure and Hyper-V Fast Track. Also new to MAP 6.0 Beta is the Office 365 client assessment, enhanced VMware inventory, and Oracle schema discovery and reporting. Expanded assessment and discovery capabilities from MAP help you streamline planning for your next migration project. Plan what’s next with MAP.
New features and benefits from MAP 6.0 Beta release help you:
· Analyze your portfolio of applications for a move to the Windows Azure Platform
· Accelerate planning to private cloud with Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track onboarding
· Identify migration opportunities with enhanced heterogeneous server environment inventory
· Assess your client environment for Office 365 readiness
· Determine readiness for migration to Windows Internet Explorer 9
· Discover Oracle database schemas for migration to SQL Server
Download the beta materials on Connect:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=219165
Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals Jump Start
The “Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals” Jump Start is specially tailored for VMware and Microsoft virtualization technology pros. This cutting-edge course features expert instruction and real-world demonstrations of Hyper-V, many components of the System Center Suite, including VMM 2012, and a myriad of VDI solutions. This course is designed for Data Center Managers, IT Professionals, IT Decision Makers, Network Administrators, Storage/Infrastructure Administrators & Architects. Expert IT infrastructure consultant, Corey Hynes, and Microsoft Technical Evangelist, Symon Perriman, leveraged an engaging "team teaching" approach which makes the class as entertaining as it is educational 
Virtualization Jump Start (01): Virtualization Overview
Virtualization Jump Start (02): Differentiating Microsoft & VMware
Virtualization Jump Start (03a): Hyper-V Deployment Options & Architecture | Part 1
Virtualization Jump Start (03b): Hyper-V Deployment Options & Architecture | Part 2
Virtualization Jump Start (04): High-Availability & Clustering
Virtualization Jump Start (05): System Center Suite Overview with focus on DPM
Virtualization Jump Start (06): Automation with Opalis, Service Manager & PowerShell
Virtualization Jump Start (07): System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012
Virtualization Jump Start (08): Private Cloud Solutions, Architecture & VMM Self-Service Portal 2.0
Virtualization Jump Start (09): Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Architecture | Part 1
Virtualization Jump Start (10): Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Architecture | Part 2
Virtualization Jump Start (11): v-Alliance Solution Overview
Virtualization Jump Start (12): Application Delivery for VDI
Download all the Video’s:
Video: WMV | WMV (ZIP) | PSP
Audio: WMA | MP3
Now only finding some spare time to watch’s these video’s 
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta Evaluation
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 delivers industry leading fabric managment, virtual machine management and services deployment in private cloud environments. Virtual Machine Manager 2012 offers key new features that include hypervisor creation and management, network management, storage management, private cloud creation, self-service usage and service creation. It features deep investments in server application virtualization, service design and service modeling all of which can be used to efficiently offer an on-premises private cloud.
Feature Summary
- Fabric Management
- Hyper-V and Cluster Lifecycle Management – Deploy Hyper-V to bare metal server, create Hyper-V clusters, orchestrate patching of a Hyper-V Cluster
- Third Party Virtualization Platforms – Add and Manage Citrix XenServer and VMware ESX Hosts and Clusters
- Network Management – Manage IP Address Pools, MAC Address Pools and Load Balancers
- Storage Management – Classify storage, Manage Storage Pools and LUNs
- Resource Optimization
- Dynamic Optimization – proactively balance the load of VMs across a cluster
- Power Optimization – schedule power savings to use the right number of hosts to run your workloads – power the rest off until they are needed
- PRO – integrate with System Center Operations Manager to respond to application-level performance monitors
- Cloud Management
- Abstract server, network and storage resources into private clouds
- Delegate access to private clouds with control of capacity, capabilities and user quotas
- Enable self-service usage for application administrator to author, deploy, manage and decommission applications in the private cloud
- Service Lifecycle Management
- Define service templates to create sets of connected virtual machines, os images and applica tion packages
- Compose operating system images and applications during service deployment
- Scale out the number of virtual machines in a service
- Service performance and health monitoring integrated with System Center Operations Manager
- Decouple OS image and application updates through image-based servicing
- Leverage powerful application virtualization technologies such as Server App-V
System Requirements
- Supported Operating Systems:Windows 7 Enterprise;Windows 7 Professional;Windows 7 Ultimate;Windows Server 2008 R2;Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter;Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (full installation) Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter x64
- Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate x32, x64
- Windows Remote Management (WinRM) 2.0
- Windows PowerShell 2.0
- Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
- Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows 7
- SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter
- Windows Deployment Services (WDS) – (Version on Windows Server 2008 R2)
- Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 SP2 64bit
Download System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta Evaluation HERE