How To Install VMware Horizon View 4.5 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

1. Prepare Your System with updates & latest patches

2. sudo apt-get update -y && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

3. Setup, Install and Symlink Libraries: 

sudo apt-get install libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev
sudo apt-get install v4l-utils
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio

sudo ln -sf /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1.6.4 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.0
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.5

4. Now download and install the VMware Horizon View Client

64-Bit: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=CART17Q2_LIN64_450&productId=578&rPId=17207

cd ~/Downloads/
sudo chmod u+x VM*
sudo ./VM*

FYI. You don't have to type/tab the whole path as long as this is the only VMware files in the path. It's Linux baby!! 

Credits:
https://goo.gl/toqauN

https://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/horizon-client/45/horizon-client-linux-45-release-notes.html

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How to Quickly Import 100TB+ Data into AWS, GCP or Azure

How do you quickly import large volumes of data into the Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud platforms?

This is an enterprise or SMB safer option over copying data over the internet. Especially, when it is over 10-500TB in size.

AWS Snowball:  (50TB and 80TB Blocks of Data)
https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/

AWS Snowmobile (Enterprises up to 100PB per Vehicle which is a ruggedized shipping container that comes with help from AWS Engineers to connect to a high-speed switch)
https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/

Google Cloud Platform (100TB and 480TB)
https://cloud.google.com/data-transfer/
AWS Competition Play: https://cloud.google.com/storage/transfer/

Microsoft Azure (Import/Export Service) - Microsoft's Azure Import offering is the most clunky
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/import-export/
Process: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/storage-import-export-service
Pricing: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage-import-export/

Azure/Snowball Application: https://goo.gl/k73Tyg

NOTE: AWS has the huge lead in the import functionality and application support and it's also helpful that they have a business that is all about shipping and receiving which is a consideration to factor when making your operational decisions (always consider if you have to export everything "OUT" of the platform in the future "if" that becomes a problem and needs to be done, but likely it's a low prospect of changing when that much data is moved in. 

Google is really moving quickly though to compete with Amazon. Their 100TB and 480TB options are much cheaper than Azure and way less complicated.

Research Articles:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2991286/cloud-computing/how-aws-azure-google-import-data-in-bulk.html

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Fix VMware Horizon View on Ubuntu 17.04

Only LTS releases are fully supported by VMware

1. Download VMware Horizon View for Linux Client (Tested on x64)

2. sudo chmod u+x VMware_Horizon*

3. sudo ./VMware_Horizon*

4. Open Terminal and type vmware-view

Error: /usr/lib/vmware/view/bin/vmware-view: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

5. Download the Debian library. 

https://packages.debian.org/en/jessie/amd64/libpng12-0/download

6. sudo dpkg -i libpng12-0_1.2.50-2deb8u3_amd64.deb

7. vmware-view (or launch the icon)

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VMware Workstation 12 on Ubuntu 16.04 (Cannot Open dev/vmmon)

1. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Secure Boot is enabled) - Tested Operational on a Dell Inspiron 17

2. Download VMware Workstation 12

3. Open Terminal:

sudo chmod u+x VMware-Workstation*

sudo ./VMware-Workstation*

(Install the Application and Add your license key)

4. Create a VM and get this error:

5. VMware KB:
https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2146460

Commands (Sudo) - Run Separately
openssl req -new -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout MOK.priv -outform DER -out MOK.der -nodes -days 36500 -subj "/CN=VMware/"

sudo /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r`/scripts/sign-file sha256 ./MOK.priv ./MOK.der $(modinfo -n vmmon)

sudo /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r`/scripts/sign-file sha256 ./MOK.priv ./MOK.der $(modinfo -n vmnet)

6. When you run this command as sudo pick a password:

sudo mokutil --import MOK.der

7. sudo reboot

8. NOTE!!! Be careful and test inside a VM since this can brick a physical machine and put you into a loop. 

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