#horizonview

[herbalnature]

Sail into serenity with this expansive view of Chesapeake Bay's tranquil waters under a vast, cloud-streaked sky. Boats in the distance whisper stories of adventure just beyond the horizon.

[byfaithmedia]

Witnessing the breathtaking sunset in Tel-Aviv, where the beach meets the horizon. Nature's masterpiece unfolding before my eyes. 🌅✨

[normally0]

Brick Dreams: A Vertical Reverie

In Wimbledon’s quiet lane, it stands,

A gate pier, brick by brick, so grand,

An echo of San Gimignano’s heights,

Its form, a dance with distant sights.

Minimalist in its crafted lines,

A sentinel to shifting times,

Studio9, where art breathes free,

A portal to what mind can see.

No bricks to house, but bricks to dream,

To sketch a world in golden gleam,

A vertical whisper to the sky,

Where thoughts ascend and spirits fly.

Economical in its design,

Yet rich with purpose, pure, divine,

To claim a view beyond the wall,

Where heart finds rest, where spirits call.

Imagine here, the horizon wide,

The mind at peace, with love its guide,

In every brick, a silent plea,

For home, for love, for harmony.

So gaze upon this humble tower,

Feel its quiet, gentle power,

In Wimbledon, it softly sings,

Of distant lands and timeless things.

#SanGimignano #Wimbledon #Studio9 #ArchitecturalPoetry #Minimalism #ArtAndArchitecture #BrickBeauty #Dreamscape #Verticality #HorizonView #LoveAndHome #EconomicalDesign

[ugeniesboutique]

The world was bathed in the serene beauty of a tranquil, fading day.

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#SunsetLover

#GoldenHour

#BeautifulSunset

#SunsetMagic

#EveningGlow

#SunsetVibes

#HorizonViews

[clarityscopes1026]

𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙖 𝙬𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙥𝙚 𝙤𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨, 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙛𝙞𝙭𝙚𝙙 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙫𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧, 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙡𝙤𝙜 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩. 𝘿𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙣𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙙𝙤𝙤𝙧 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙮 𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙨. 𝙀𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙙𝙤𝙤𝙧 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙟𝙤𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙖𝙙𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙗𝙮 𝙪𝙥𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙜𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙩𝙤𝙥-𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 ���𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮. 𝙑𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙬𝙚𝙗𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙨 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡.

For shop our Best Binoculars visit: HORIZONVIEW 10X50 Marine with bak4 Floating Digital Directional Compas – Clarity Scopes (clarity-scopes.com)

[alinnela-blog]

Nästan ett år sedan, ny början, nya upplevelser ...

[hideonhigh]

#sundayfunday #sunrise #sunriseoftheday #sunnyday #sunhigh #coconutleaf #seaview #horizonview #horizonvibe #viewtodiefor #hideonhigh #hideonhigh_bar #hideonhighbar #hideonhighkohphangan #thansadet #thansadetkohphangan #kophangan #kohphanganthailand #kohphanganlife #phangan #phanganisland #thailand #thailandtravel #thailand🇹🇭 (at Hide on High) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTb2jwAB5yRA1UPJaApAyAf24YGH5HZPfuPmws0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[nikekidliem]

Connecting road from one #island to another of Denmark’s capital. #amagerbro #amagerisland #europe #nordiccity #bắc_âu #scandinavia #danmark #🇩🇰đanmạch #copenhagen #københavn #shoppingstreet #workingclassdistrict #travelholic #eurotrip🇪🇺 #backpackerdenmark #sightseeings #horizonview (at Amagerbro, København, Denmark) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0MDrBEpG8l/?igshid=qr62ji2tz0u6

[xtravirt]

Endless options with VMware Horizon and VMware Workspace ONE

By Curtis Brown

There are a considerable number of blog posts and articles that have looked at the individual components of the VMware® End User Compute stacks, so I thought I’d take a high-level look at some of what’s possible when we take the whole solution in its entirety.

The Moving Parts

In the early days of VMware’s End User Compute efforts, we were looking at a relatively simple stack of VMware vCenter, ESX and Virtual Desktop Manager (or, to you young folks, Horizon View 1.0 or 2.0 back in 2007/8).  These days, things are somewhat more powerful, offering a wider array of capabilities, but these capabilities also require more moving parts.

The diagram below shows the VMware components that could be deployed in a solution.  

 Now, let’s look a little deeper…

For Virtual Desktop delivery, we have the underlying infrastructure of VMware vSphere with vCenter and ESXi.  However, we can enhance this further in two ways. Firstly, we can leverage local storage by implementing VMware vSAN rather than rely on a SAN/NAS based solution. Secondly, we could deploy VMware NSX to provide enhanced security in the form of micro-segmentation of the network as well as anti-malware protection using Guest Introspection.

For publishing desktops, we have VMware Horizon View. The connection servers provide the brains, managing entitlements and provisioning of desktop and application pools. For secure access from untrusted or external networks, we deploy either Security Servers, or, more recently, Unified Access Gateway appliances to serve as a proxy into the solution.  VMware Horizon View Composer is used to manage and deploy non-persistent Linked Clone desktops.  Although this approach is in decline as Instant Clone technology replaces it.

We then need to consider the management and delivery of applications and user settings.  For the latter, we can integrate VMware User Environment Manager.  This can manage both environmental settings (including delivery of application shortcuts, drive mappings etc) as well as eliminating the issues related to Windows Roaming Profiles.  For application delivery, we can use App Volumes within the virtual estate or leverage the estate itself to publish Remote Desktop Session Host based remote applications.  ThinApp, although somewhat out of favour these days, remains an option for direct delivery to Windows Endpoints (via VMware Workspace ONE Identity Manager) or within Horizon View desktops.

When it comes to monitoring the estate, we can use VMware vRealize Operations Manager with the VMware Horizon Management Pack.  It’s possible to expand further still by leveraging more of the vRealize suite, notably VMware vRealize Log Insight for capturing logs from both the solution as well as the environment.

We then move out into two topics – The Endpoint and the User. These are somewhat integrated topics these days as they do overlap.  

VMware Workspace ONE comprises two key elements:  

Unified Endpoint Management can provide control, configuration and administration to endpoints, be they mobile devices or traditional desktops.  

Identity Manager provides the user authentication layer into the solution as a whole, while also providing a unified catalogue of applications and services, whether publish via VMware Horizon or whether through single sign-on to cloud services.  

Another offering that is often overlooked, but still a part of the VMware Horizon licensing (at the Advanced and Enterprise level) is VMware Mirage.  This can provide image level management of Windows based client desktop/laptops. FLEX leverages the Mirage infrastructure in conjunction with VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion to provide an offline VDI capability.

What parts are available is largely defined by what is purchased.  Some parts are included in the various VMware Horizon editions, while some, notably VMware vSAN, VMware NSX and VMware Horizon FLEX are separate products.  In the case of Workspace ONE, VMware Horizon Advanced and above includes just Workspace ONE Identity Manager Standard.  To get the full Workspace ONE suite requires purchase of Workspace ONE as a specific product.

VMware Horizon editions can be compared at:

https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/products/horizon/vmware-horizon-editions-compare-chart.pdf.

 The Art of the Possible

For the purposes of looking at what is possible, let us assume that an Alien Space Bat has deemed it fit to leave an unlimited budget for us to acquire all these tools.  Here’s a few ideas of what we could achieve:

By integrating the full VMware Workspace ONE with Horizon, we can fully manage security between a user, a managed endpoint and access to Virtual Desktops.  By managing the device using VMware Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management and establishing Compliance checking, we can define an Identity Manager policy that allows access only to users with valid credentials who are using compliant devices to the Workspace ONE catalogue. In turn, users can then access a VDI desktop from the relevant icon in Workspace ONE.

It is possible to provide a single portal to a geographically spread VMware Horizon VDI offering that will connect users seamlessly to the nearest desktop instance. Workspace ONE Identity Manager can provide location awareness based on client IP address.  By defining IP ranges, and relating these to the public DNS name for the local Horizon site, Workspace ONE will direct users to the nearest VMware Horizon site for optimum performance.  This leverages VMware Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture to present a common entitlement across all instances.

App Volumes, User Environment Manager and NSX Distributed Firewall Rules can be tied to Active Directory groups.  We can therefore deploy an application in an App Volumes App Stack, with a standard configuration provided by UEM and permit traffic from the application to a specific server all tied to a single Active Directory Group.

And these are but a few options.  When you consider that a number of these offerings are now available in a cloud-based form, the options broaden still.  Workspace ONE components both offer cloud and on-premises variants, while VMware Horizon now includes not only the on-premises offering, but also the ability to deploy on top of VMware Cloud on AWS or the full Desktop-as-a-Service offering of Horizon Cloud.

 Closing Thoughts…

As a range of products that can be built in an array of different configurations, it is possible to design and deploy solutions that fit a broad variety of use cases, from simple to very specific.

If you are looking to deploy a new Digital Workspace solution or wish to enhance or upgrade what you currently have, then Xtravirt can help. We have a long track record of successful digital workspace projects and can provide advisory, design and implementation services to create the right solution for your organisation. Contact us and we’d be happy to use our wealth of knowledge and experience to assist you.  

 About the author

Curtis Brown is a Lead Consultant at Xtravirt.   His specialist areas include End User Compute solutions and Virtual Infrastructure design and implementation with particular strength in VDI, storage integration, backup and Disaster Recovery design/implementation. He was awarded VMware vExpert 2018 and is a graduate of the VMware Advanced Architecture Course 2018.

 About Xtravirt

Xtravirt is an independent cloud consulting business. We believe in empowering enterprises to innovate and thrive in an ever-changing digital world. We are experts in digital transformation and our portfolio of services cover digital infrastructure, digital workspace, automation, networking and security.

[qoolmx]

Fire in the Sky Sian Ka’an Biosphere Quintana Roo Mexico By Mikael123 via @flickr - #sun #sky #siankaanbiosphere #quintanaroo #rivieramaya #clouds #o #horizonview #thatview rivieramaya #orange #gold #nature #caribbean #treasure #mexico #lifeisgood #love (en Sian Ka'an)

[manufabo]

horizon views. —— haters will say it’s photoshopped. #jindujun #heavenlybags by #manufabo #handmadeingermany #raaraa #intheclouds stay #nonchalant —— #bagsheavenlychic #skyview #petrolbags #backbag #crossbodybag #badberleburg #winterberg #himmelssteig #himmelsleiter #bluesky #horizonviews (hier: Sky Gazers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B12ACqSB3Z0/?igshid=rfbrurbtkcp5

[herbalnature]

Serenity stretches out over the Chesapeake Bay with a stunningly clear sky gently touching the calm waters. Boats drift in the distance, tiny specks against the vastness of blue.

[dpark1701]

Ok, sorry it’s not of the greatest quality of photo, but this is actually the moon tonight over @bermuda - positively breathtaking! Looks much better in the flesh! The sea looks almost motionless #moon #moonscape #moonandocean #southamptonparishbermuda #holiday #vacation #greatviews #moonrising #horizonviews #atlanticocean #islandofbermuda (at Horseshoe Bay Cove) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz60d7UDBND/?igshid=1j8711p8zw9br

[angerieornery]

#spring #lakeforestpark #horizonview (at Horizon View Park)

[carstenwitt-blog]

1. Catalonia, 2.Castilla, 3. ? - Go Europe! #letsgoeurope #goeurope #manifestoproeurope #nationalism #patriotism #separationanxiety #separatist #separation #border #narrows #horizon #horizonview #wideworld #wideview #europe #eu #spain #castillayleón #castillo #catalonia #graffiti #graffiti_magazine #bridge #railwaycrossing (hier: Nava de la Asunción, Spain)