I have a pretty good handle on who reads these posts based on feedback I’ve gotten. My (small) audience is chock full of system and network administrators who are just looking to get through the day. They tend to jump from one fire to the next, putting them out in order of who screams the […]
Reflecting on the State of Your Career
Current State It’s a great idea to take a step back every now and then and take a look at the state of your career. You’ll hit an inflection point periodically and need to take stock to ensure you’re moving in the right direction. Either that or you need to take a good hard look at why […]
The importance of optimizing your VDI images
This might seem like a no-brainer – optimizing your VDI images should make them run leaner and perform better, all else being equal. That being said, there’s not always a ton of data backing that up. I recently had a request to test a specific configuration with unoptimized images with Windows 10 and Office 2016. […]
SimpliVity OmniStack 3.0 and VDI – A Perfect Fit
NOTE: While I may be a SimpliVity employee, this is not a SimpliVity blog. This is my own personal blog and anything posted here is my own opinion and is not reviewed or endorsed by SimpliVity. As some of you may know, I joined a nascent VDI engineering group at SimpliVity back in August to […]
Deploying Horizon 6 RDS Apps with VMware UEM
Prerequisites: VMware Horizon 6 with Application Pools deployed and entitled VMware UEM deployed and basic configuration completed VMware Horizon Client deployed to your Windows endpoint Note: As of Horizon 6, both the Client and Agent can be installed on the same machine. 1. In the Horizon View Administrator, display your Application Pools. For this exercise, […]
Example VMware Horizon Architectural Decision – Multisite Configuration
Note: These will take a similar, if not identical, form to what Josh Odgers has done on his blog – http://www.joshodgers.com/ – These will be Horizon 6 centric, though. I deal with a lot of customers of a higher end nature in my day job, so discussion of multisite Horizon 6 with View is almost […]
My VMware Horizon Enterprise Home Lab – vSphere and Physical
I’d usually start at the top down, but for ease of explanation, I’ll start at the bottom (physical + vSphere) and work my way up from there. Please note that a lot of this configuration isn’t supported by VMware. Don’t take anything in this post to be a supported configuration. It’s just how I’m doing […]
My VMware Horizon Enterprise Home Lab – Overview
After some prompting on /r/homelab, I decided to write a bit about my home lab. Now, I do more than Horizon-related stuff in my lab, but since my day job consists of designing and implementing Horizon solutions, it’s heavily used for that purpose. Problem Statement I need a lab in which I can stand up […]
Review – TP-Link AV500 Nano Powerline Adapter Kit
Living in a house you don’t own comes with tradeoffs of all stripes, one of which being unable to run CAT5 to every room in which I want a physical network drop. For a while, I’ve been limping along with a wireless setup which was less than stellar in its reliability. Streaming video from upstairs […]
Book Review – VMware View 5: Building a Successful Virtual Desktop by Paul O’Doherty
I recently volunteered to review a book for VMware Press, and I was presented with an opportunity to read and review VMware View 5: Building a Successful Virtual Desktop by Paul O’Doherty, an instructional technical book on the topic of, as you may have guessed, VMware View 5. I found this book to be good […]
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