Virtuall BLOG tagged 'vdi'

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 [...]

The VDI armageddon (about Storage impact of VDI)

hbr@pqr.nl — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 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 [...]

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 [...]