Virtuall BLOG tagged 'vdi'

Hands-on with Ericom AccessNow for VMware View

shu@pqr.nl — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Do you remember when you first saw Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect in action? Playing games without a controller! It looked kind of dumb at first, people standing in front of a TV making exaggerated and weird moves, but when you tried Kinect yourself for the first time, it was fun to do and it worked pretty well. However, after a while it turns out that Kinect is a 1.0 version with it’s own limitation and you’ll have to wait for a year before new games will come out that uses all of [...]

Manage VMware View desktops with ConfigMgr

hho@pqr.nl — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100

In my last blog I talked about Obsolete clients in ConfigMgr. This happens during multiple deployments on the same device. There is also a known issue between ConfigMgr in combination with VMware View. Till VMware View v4.0 there was no refresh option possible, so when deleting and provisioning a new VDI desktop, a new object gets created in ConfigMgr collections.

The problem with that is you can get as many objects, for example 10 (ten) objects, which will all be online, not obsolet [...]

The VDI armageddon (about Storage impact of VDI)

hbr@pqr.nl — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:00:00 +0100

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, or VDI, is hot. It’s cool, secure, centrally managed, flexible - it’s an IT manager’s dream.

VDI comes in two flavours; Service Hosted VDI (Centralized, single-user remote vDesktop solution) and Client-Side VDI (local, single-user vDesktop solution).

The advantages of a VDI infrastructure are that virtual desktops are hardware independent and can be accessed from any common OS. It is also much easier to deplo [...]

Scheduled View VM refresh

hbr@pqr.nl — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0100

If you use non persistent desktops with VMware View, there are two options to reset the machine to its default state. One is immediately after a user logs off, the other is manually by a View Administrator. Currently, there is no way to schedule a VM reset at, say, 2PM.

A VM reset generates a lot of IOPS. So doing this in a production environment that's strained for IOPS is a performance risk (read http://virtuall.eu/download-document/vdi-storage-deep-impact!). But having adm [...]

Creating a VDI template

hbr@pqr.nl — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0100

A basic Windows XP machine can do a lot of things. Apart from facilitating an environment for a user's applications, it can do things like self maintenance, updates, hardware changes, etc. This is nice in a physical environment with lots of different pieces of hardware but in a virtual instance things hardly change, the environment is pretty much set and all tricks to speed things up usually have an adverse effect on the infrastructure. All these virtual instances nee [...]