VMware CMTY Podcast
In this episode of the podcast, the host Eric Nielsen, Sr Director of Community and Social Marketing, and co-host Matt Langguth, Senior Technical Account Manager, sit down with Wouter Kursten, a prominent Community Advocate and blogger, who holds multiple certifications such as PSO/tam/Community @ControlUp, @VMware vExpert (EUC), @vmwarecode CodeCoach, and @Nutanix NTC. The conversation revolves around VMware introducing the Horizon Golden Image Deployment Tool, which is a GUI-based tool to deploy golden images to VMware Horizon Instant Clone Desktop Pools and RDS Farms. The tool runs entirely on Powershell and uses the WPF Framework for the GUI.
Wouter talks about his experience building and testing the tool, which took him approximately 80 hours, and the features of the tool, such as deploying a new golden image, handling secondary images, settings and logs location, and the requirements to use the tool, including Powershell 7.3 or later and Horizon 8 2206 or later. He explains how the tool works for normal usage and how users can go to the configuration page before the first use. He also provides a step-by-step guide on how to deploy a new golden image, handle secondary images, and access the settings and logs location.
Listeners can download the tool from the GitHub repository provided in the show notes, and the conversation concludes with Wouter mentioning that the tool is not perfect but works well, and he is looking into improving it further.