End User Computing on Thoughts and Ramblings by Mike

Horizon Image Management on AHV

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:35:03 -0500

If you haven't already, check out my post on Horizon architecture on AHV, which highlights the key architectural differences between running Horizon on ESXi versus AHV, and describes the lab environment used for testing.

There are many ways to deploy and configure images and applications in a Horizon environment. Many organizations use App Volumes to deliver applications separately from the base image, and I'll cover that in a future post. For now, this post focuses on the fundamentals: building and maintaining a golden image for non-persistent and persistent desktop pools with applications baked directly into the image.

Omnissa Horizon 8 Architecture on AHV

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:00:00 -0500

Welcome to my first post of 2026! Now that Omnissa Horizon 8 on Nutanix AHV is fully GA as part of the Horizon 8 2512 release, I've been kicking the tires and working through deploying the stack on AHV. For those used to deploying and managing Horizon on ESXi, the workflow is slightly different on AHV, but in a good way. The integration with Nutanix recovery points makes rollbacks much cleaner than what we had before in my opinion, though the jury is still out... I've never been a fan of snapshots on the vSphere side, so I like the flexibility here.

Omnissa Horizon Updates for Nutanix AHV

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 09:10:59 -0400

Breaking Free - Omnissa Horizon 8 + Nutanix AHV is Reshaping the VDI Landscape

Okay, I'll try to contain my excitement, but honestly? This is some fun stuff and will really highlight how 2025 has been a year of transformation!

I've been reviewing Omnissa's latest announcement about full Horizon 8 support for Nutanix AHV, and let me tell you... this is the moment we've all been waiting for since the announcement was first made. You know those conversations we've been having with customers for months about "what comes after VMware?" Well, the answer just landed on our doorstep with a big red bow on it.

Nutanix Frame Deployment: Part 1 - The Setup

Tue, 21 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Updated 5.22.19

Coming back from the Nutanix .Next conference two weeks ago, the biggest announcement that really got me excited as the ability for Nutanix Frame to run in AHV environments. AHV comes as an additional environment to AWS where Frame started, Azure and Google Cloud, currently in early release.

I’ll be going thru a multi-part series around Frame and configurations use cases. So stay tuned!

During the Frame Deep Dive session at .Next, I loved the What If question that kept coming up around VDI. What if VDI could be simple yet effective. Secure and resilient. Scalable and User Friendly. I’d like to rephrase that question from What If to Why not? With Frame, I think we have a solution that can meet the majority of use cases, while still providing fast setup and powerful desktops for end users. As the graphic below shows, it’s as simple doing 1-5 .

Nutanix Deployment with NVIDIA M60 GPU

Wed, 03 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

I recently had the opportunity to deploy 12 Nutanix nodes for a customer across 2 sites (Primary and DR), 6 of which were 3055-G5 nodes with dual NVIDIA M60 GPU cards installed and dedicated to running the Horizon View desktop VMs for this customer. This was my first experience doing a Nutanix deployment using the NVIDIA GPU cards with VMware, and thankfully there is plenty of documentation out there on the process.

Trick to Horizon View EUC Access Point Deployment

Sat, 14 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Finally!!

I’ve been trying to get the Horizon View EUC Access Point deployed in my home lab for a while now. No matter how I did it, I could just not get the Access Point to work correctly.

I love the idea of the Access Point, being a simple ‘if it breaks, redeploy it’ method, but it really was making me wonder just how ready this was. Turned out, it was all on me…