Virtuall BLOG

Scheduled monitoring of ESXi hosts

hbr@pqr.nl — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:00:00 +0100

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.

In that case, you want to go and schedule running the script. Now the ESX host has a scheduler called ‘cron’. In full versions you would simply add a script to /etc/cron.hourly and it would pick it up on the next run. In ESXi this is slightly different. To schedul [...]

Free Load balancing for VMware View with Citrix Netscaler VPX Express

shu@pqr.nl — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:00:00 +0100

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 fr [...]

VMware View Local Mode - Lessons learned

shu@pqr.nl — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:00:00 +0100

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 whic [...]

Latest news on MS System Center 2012 Suite

hho@pqr.nl — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:00:00 +0100

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.

Installing the linux 64-bit Citrix receiver v12

hbr@pqr.nl — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:00:00 +0100

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 [...]

New System Center 2012 Pre-Release Products available

hho@pqr.nl — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:00:00 +0100

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!

Have a look on Microsoft TechNet for download information:

Download Microsoft System Center 2012 Pre-Release Products

An overview of new Invidual System Center 2012 products available for download are: