{"id":6531,"date":"2015-08-11T18:25:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T10:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vspherestorage.com\/?p=6531"},"modified":"2015-08-11T18:25:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T02:25:04","slug":"rapid-provisioning-linux-vdi-desktops-with-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vspherestorage.com\/?p=6531","title":{"rendered":"Rapid Provisioning Linux VDI Desktops with&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rapid Provisioning Linux VDI Desktops with Horizon View<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/vmw.re\/1DImcpK' target='_blank'><img src='https:\/\/d3utlhu53nfcwz.cloudfront.net\/171901\/cdnImage\/article\/9c2bd6a4-9d99-4fce-868d-2c703de78d46\/?size=Box320'><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href='http:\/\/vmw.re\/1DImcpK' style='text-decoration: none;' target='_blank'>Rapid Provisioning Linux VDI Desktops with&#8230;<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>A little while ago VMware released Horizon View 6.1, which for the first time allowed Linux VDI desktops among many other new improvements. All customer that have Horizon 6 Enterprise Edition, or VMware Workspace Suite are entitled to use Horizon Linux Desktops. Supported Linux distributions include Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, and NeoKylin. Importantly VMware also supports 3D GPU Hardware Acceleration with these operating systems leveraging NVIDIA. At the moment however there is no automatic way to install the Horizon View Linux Agent on the desktops out of the box, so you have to automate it if you want to use this at scale. After I had built my first Linux desktop and started using it I liked it so much I wanted to provision more desktops,&#8230;<a href='http:\/\/vmw.re\/1DImcpK' target='_blank'>Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/advocacy.vmware.com' target='_blank'>VMware Advocacy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapid Provisioning Linux VDI Desktops with Horizon View Rapid Provisioning Linux VDI Desktops with&#8230; A little while ago VMware released Horizon View 6.1, which for the first time allowed Linux VDI desktops among many other new improvements. 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