Posted by: hbr in vscsiStats, troubleshooting, script, esx on
Sep 25, 2012
In my post on sizing up the storage for block size usage, I wrote a script to get the data into a manageable form. This script runs fine from the command line but you probably want to have some sort of trend to analyze.
Posted by: shu in VMware View, Load balancing on
Feb 22, 2012
A load balancer for VMware View is not a requirement in a VMware View infrastructure with less than 2000 users. Even when there are multiple VMware View Connection servers for high availability, a single VMware View Connection server can handle up to 2000 connections so it’s not a big deal that the sessions are not evenly balanced. You do however want to have multiple VMware View Connection servers for high availability and to be able to access multiple VMware View Connection servers from a single point of access. A load balancer provides that functionality but is often expensive and gives additional functionality not needed for smaller deployments, like SSL Offloading. There is however a free “Enterprise-ready” load balancer available from Citrix: Netscaler VPX Express. There is a 5 Mbit throughput limit, but that is not an issue and in this article I explain why.
Posted by: shu in VMware View, Local Mode on
Jan 27, 2012
I’ve been working with VMware View Local Mode for couple of weeks now and I wanted to share my experience. VMware View Local Mode allows a virtual desktop to be downloaded to a laptop or desktop and to be executed locally. The CPU, memory, disk, network and graphics from the local desktop is being used to execute the virtual desktop. No remote display protocol is being used. VMware View Local mode is also part of the Client Side Desktop Virtualization (CSDV) Smackdown, a whitepaper which explains what CSDV is, when to use it and what the possibilities are. This whitepaper will be comparable to the VDI smackdown, only this time it will not be about server-hosted desktop virtualization, but client-hosted desktop virtualization. This whitepaper is expected to be released in Q1 of 2012. In this blogpost I will share my experience with VMware View Local mode, how it works and what doesn’t work.
This year the MS System Center 2012 Suite will be presented. There's nothing official to find about release dates, so my guess stays on Q1 2012 or probably Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) which is in April 16-20. The last months there were some interesting news around System Center, so here a quick overview.
Posted by: hbr in x64, receiver, linux, Citrix, 64bit on
Dec 27, 2011
Nothing should be easier than downloading a binary package from the internet, install it and run the executable. But in case of Citrix Receivers on Linux, this has always been somewhat of an issue. With the previous versions there was always some issues with Motif or certificates that were missing. With version 12 of the Receiver for Linux this is no different. With all the excuses Citrix has, they still manage to deliver almost complete installers that only need “a little bit of manual tweaking” to get to work.
On 27-10-2011 new System Center 2012 Pre-Release Products become available. Great news that System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection are Release Candidate (RC) now!
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