Tuesday, January 12, 2010 by Michael Mills | 1315 views | 2 comments
What do you need to do before you deploy a desktop virtualizaiton solution?
Having had the opportunity to architect a few VDI, Desktop Virtualization, Alternative Desktop, or whatever you choose to call it, solutions over the last few years I thought I would put together a list of the top things that need to be done in order to be successful with a VDI rollout. Note, I am assuming that business justification and need has already been established so no comments about whether or not anyone actually needs or should deploy a desktop virtualization solution.
Saturday, January 02, 2010 by Eric S. Perkins | 1453 views | 11 comments
VDI what is the definition? Citrix? VMware? Since customers are doing POC's and buying basically everything is VDI now. XenApp yep VDI.. XenDesktop yep VDI... View VDI... Microsoft RDS....Leostream.... VDI.... ETC!!! Marketing at it's best. My second choice for the title would have been "VDI: an IT stimulus package"
Monday, December 21, 2009 by Eric S. Perkins | 1641 views | 8 comments
I know I might not be the best person to talk on this subject as it relates to the title but I always try to tell it how I see it, or at the very least be fair. But lately I am seeing plagiarism move past blogs and articles in our industry to CPA websites, Twitter and other mediums. Enough think for your self or give credit to the person who thought it!
Friday, December 11, 2009 by Michael Mills | 1196 views | 9 comments
I am curious what naming schemes do you use to name your virtual machines?
Saturday, December 05, 2009 by Michael Mills | 1225 views | 0 comments
If you have ever had to trace down a NIC, or attempt to figure out which ETH XenServer has assigned to what physical NIC then these commands will be very helpful......
Saturday, December 05, 2009 by Michael Mills | 2184 views | 1 comments
While working on the new XenServer farm, I encountered a problem with connectivity from XenCenter to the XenServer Pool....
Saturday, December 05, 2009 by Michael Mills | 1461 views | 3 comments
If you ever had the need to change the initial client drive mapping from v: to something else in XenDesktop hopefully this will save you some time.....
Friday, December 04, 2009 by Michael Mills | 1393 views | 0 comments
You installed Provisioning Server 5.01 and XenDesktop Setup Wizard from the XenDesktop 3.0 DVD. You run through the wizard and when you come to the step that requires you to select form an existing vDisk you are presented with and error....
Tuesday, December 01, 2009 by Eric S. Perkins | 1138 views | 2 comments
How the economy is driving IT decisions in the hardest hit industries. Here is one example, of many I’m sure. I would love to hear some success stories of companies that were/are truly on the ragged edge of being no longer... but leveraged technology and made it through a truly tough time.
Saturday, November 21, 2009 by Eric S. Perkins | 1577 views | 4 comments
A conversation about why VMware, XenServer, and the rest of the space simply emulate a BIOS when the advantages the opensource community is starting to produce at the BIOS level are clear. OpenFirmware & EFI was a step in the right direction, but did not go far enough.