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VMware Horizon View High Availability

By : Andrew Alloway
Book Image

VMware Horizon View High Availability

By: Andrew Alloway

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
VMware Horizon View High Availability
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Monitoring tools available


Here we will examine the available tools for VMware-related monitoring. We will cover tools available from VMware and select third parties.

Horizon View Event Viewer

VMware has provided a tool for View Event monitoring, this tool monitors your View event database and will send out e-mails when warnings or errors are found. This tool is one of the quickest ways to know when there is a problem with your view environment. Unfortunately, at the time of writing, this tool is not set up to run as a service and must be run with a logged in account.

Note

Horizon View Event Notifier can be found on VMware's website: https://labs.vmware.com/flings/horizon-view-event-notifier

RVTools

RVTools is a freeware tool made by Rob de Veij. It will log into the vSphere host or vCenter host and will provide a neatly formatted table of nearly every aspect of the virtual environment. In particular, it is very good at discovering unnecessary snapshots, unnecessary CDs attached to VMs, low disk...