
If you're familiar with Citrix IntelliCache, View Acceleratot is very similar. This process significantly enhances the performance of VDI for read operations, things like operating system boot or reboot, anti-virus and more. In short, View Accelerator is a host-side read I/O caching mechanism that can cache frequently accessed blocks and store them in RAM on the server side. In View 5.1, we finally have integration into the hypervisor feature. The reason for that discussion is that up until View 5.1 the View Accelerator was simply a function of the vSphere hypervisor known as VMware vSphere CBRC, or Content Based Read Caching. We have discussed the View Accelerator several times on this blog, but it has always been a discussion of how cool the feature was and never how to configure it. How To Enable VMware View 5.1 Accelerator Posted by Elias Khnaser on at 3:09 PM 1 comments And should the need arise, you can always use the same process to convert from VHDX back to VHD. This process makes an exact copy of your existing VHD file, except now it's in the new VHDX format. Complete the wizard by selecting the settings you need.įigure 2.Select the VHDX file format and click Next (see Fig.Enter name, location of VHD file and click Next. Enter the name and location of the existing VHD file (see Fig.


Many of you already have a virtual infrastructure based on Microsoft Hyper-V and would need to upgrade all your existing VHDs in order to take advantage of all the new features and capabilities.
