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PCoIP Log Viewer 2.0

February 15, 2012

This is a tool I've been using almost daily in my current project and for the past few months. Now It's finally been released to the public! The tool has been created by Chuck Hirtsius – one of the EUC Specialist's within VMware.  The release you see here today is the first release of the […]

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VDI Paging Files — Big? Small? Or Non At All?

February 2, 2012

For the past few months I have been spending a lot of time looking at the performance of Large VDI environments, where the problems lay and where performance can be improved. When designing VDI environments, a couple of things that you should consider are the .vswp file and the GuestOS paging file. In this article […]

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VMware View 4.5: Rebalance

May 25, 2011

Rebalance: A desktop rebalance operation that evenly redistributes linked-clone desktops among available datastores. When testing this, customers can often see unexpected results. This is often due to their misconception of how this function of View works.

Is Jumbo Frames Working?

September 24, 2010

Question: “Assuming that I enable jumbo frames, is there a way on in the VM to determine is jumbo frames are truly supported end-to-end?”

VMware Auto Deploy — Stateless ESXi

September 23, 2010

Over the past few days I’ve been looking into deployment tools to help me deploy a large amount of ESXi Host’s in a short space of time. One of the tools I’ve been looking at is VMware Auto Deploy

VMware MVP — Coming Soon?

September 7, 2010

ARM’s next chip design supports virtualization. It looks as though ARM are now building in Virtualization capabilities into their new Cortex A processor which is going to be released shortly. So does this mean we could soon see VMware finally releasing their Mobile Virtualization Platform? My guess would be Yes!

Using vMA As Your ESXi Syslog Server

June 1, 2010

Many people don’t know that it’s recommended to use a syslog server with ESXi. As an alternative, they can use an application built in to vMA called vilogger.

VMware Certified Advanced Professional — VCAP

May 26, 2010

Today VMware finally officially announced their new exam set, VMware Certified Advanced Professional – VCAP. The VCAP Certification will sit in between VCP and VCDX.

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