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 tool … [Read more...]
VDI Paging Files – Big? Small? Or Non At All?
February 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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 … [Read more...]
VMware View 4.5: Rebalance
May 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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. Why? View 4.5 looks for the … [Read more...]
VMware View Desktops: IDE or SCSI? BusLogic, LSI Logic or PVSCSI?
February 7, 2011 by Leave a Comment
I've seen and had many discussions around this topic when discussing VMware View desktop design, so I though I'd gather as much information as I could to help you decide. From the information below, I would personally recommend using the following: Windows XP: LSI Logic Parallel or … [Read more...]
vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive – Book Review
December 10, 2010 by Leave a Comment
I've been hearing little teasers from Frank Denneman (One of the Authors) about this book since way back in the summer when it was first announced. Now I finally have my hands on a copy. Most people would have heard of the two guys (Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman) who wrote this book and … [Read more...]
Is Jumbo Frames Working?
September 24, 2010 by Leave a Comment
I saw this little discussion on an internal mailing list a week or so ago and I've decided to post it too The SLOG – 1. So I don't forget it, 2. I'm sure many of you will at some point use Jumbo frames in the future on your vSphere environments. Question: "Assuming that I enable jumbo frames, … [Read more...]
VMware Auto Deploy – Stateless ESXi
September 23, 2010 by Leave a Comment
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 Auto Deploy The auto deploy application which comes as an OVT template is basically just a … [Read more...]
VMware MVP – Coming Soon?
September 7, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Remember this? Watching this brought back the excitement I felt after the VMware MVP presentation that VMware made back at VMWorld 2008. Since then it's all been quiet…..Until now. I came across this news article today; Arm's next chip design to support virtualization. It looks as … [Read more...]
Using vMA As Your ESXi Syslog Server
June 1, 2010 by 3 Comments
This is something I did a while ago, but it came to my attention that people didn't; a) Know that it's recommended to use a syslog server with ESXi b) You could use an application built in to vMA called vilogger. Although it is stated in The Architecture of VMware ESXi….. Because the in-memory … [Read more...]
VMware Certified Advanced Professional – VCAP
May 26, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Today VMware finally officially announced their new exam set, VMware Certified Advanced Professional – VCAP. The VCAP Certification will sit in between VCP and VCDX. The VCAP is comprised of two Exams: VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Datacenter Administrator … [Read more...]