Category Archives: General

Andre posted recently about an issue that arises with VMware View Composer pools where a replica, to which a group of desktop VMs are anchored, has a larger than expected storage footprint.  The issues arises because data has been deleted … Continue reading →

We haven’t managed to line up a guest, so there will be no podcast tonight.   Join us on April 27th to hear about Tintri’s VM aware storage appliance.   If you have an idea for a guest or subject … Continue reading →

Xangati recently released a dedicated dashboard for monitoring VDI deployments, it will be my pleasure to welcome Jagan Jagannathan back to the podcast to discuss how this will help ensure administrator and user happiness through a VDI deployment.

In my earlier post I outlined how to enable an ESXi server build from the network, now I want to look at the steps required to make the ESXi automatically rebuild when it is network booted. 

This week I made it onto Andre’s weekly VDI Digest (yay me) and consequently hit a few more people’s horizons.  I’m going to assume that you know who Andre is and already follow his blog and tweets.  One person who … Continue reading →

VMware View 4.6 with PCoIP Secure Gateway, Enhanced USB device compatibility, Support for Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, iPad Client, ThinApp 4.6.1 and more… A lot has happened in the VMware’s End User Computing space in the last few weeks. We … Continue reading →

I can confirm Eric “Scoop” Sloof’s experience, the long awaited View Client for iPad is in the app store.  It brings PCoIP to the iPad and at a much lower price (free) than any competing product.  Make sure you have … Continue reading →

I was reading Andre Leibovici’s excellent article on View Floating desktops and comparing it with my feeling about View features and use.  I completely agree that if possible all desktop pools should be floating assignment, ideally using View Composer and … Continue reading →

For about the last two years I’ve been trying to find a way to do hands on virtualisation work as well as delivering training.  This week it has finally come to pass, I am now a VMware PSO Consultant as … Continue reading →

This week I will be talking storage with Otto Le Roux of Datastor, a New Zealand storage distributor with plenty of virtualisation focus. SMB Storage Unified storage value Common design & implementation issues iSCSI vs FC vs FCoE. The broadcast … Continue reading →