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 […]
VCP5-IaaS Exam- A Review
Here at VMworld 2012, we’ve been given the opportunity to take certification exams during the show, so I took advantage of it and registered for the VCP5-Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), the blueprint for which I have been running through on my blog here -> http://blog.shiplett.org/vcp5-iaas-study-guide/ Now, due to the NDA involved, I’m not allowed […]
vExpert 2012
As of the final VMware vExpert list, just posted on the VMTN blog, I’m a vExpert for 2012! http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2012/04/announcing-vexpert-2012-title-holders.html I just wanted to put something out to thank VMware for such a great honor. I’m truly grateful to be grouped with some of the greatest names in virtualization today. I’m still a little stunned, to […]
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