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As posted on VMwareInfo.com: What impact does letting your software maintenance expire have? As a real life example, Customer X had purchased VMware ESX 3.0.2 with 1 year support. They had chose to let that support end and were now looking to upgrade to 3.5. According to support policies, we determined that they should be [...]
How wonderful would it be to hear time after time, and especially from our most demanding executives. “My corporate desktop experience is awesome. Thank you!!”. Well, two weeks ago, Citrix raised the bar again with their XenDesktop 4 announcements. To see what all the buzz was about, I spent 6 minutes viewing the Most Watched [...]
As posted on VMwareInfo.com: When crafting VMware solutions for clients, I always stress the importance of buying HOST servers in at least pairs. This guarantees that every server will have a vMotion partner in the farm. When clients buy servers that are not vMotion compatible with another server, the VMs they place on it are [...]
As posted on VMwareinfo.com: So what is an OVF and why is it neat? You can read the official scribe here, but basically the neatest part about it is the way developers can create URL paths to an OVF file that we (users) can plug into VirtualCenter and import configured Virtual Machines or Appliances. This [...]
When we last met on these pages, I spoke of the evolution from the Mainframe data center to distributed processing within departmental clusters, and then back again to the centralized datacenter. Now I’d like to take you into the current evolution of the Hosted Virtual Desktop. A work in progress, if you will. Demands to [...]
Technorati Tags: vdi,citrix,vmware,microsoft So from the last article,“I Stream”, “You Stream”, Let’s all Stream!!, we assume that your organization has 100 applications that need to be accessed by many users from their desktop and you are in charge of designing the next desktop architecture (hosted, server-based, physical desktop) or any combination of the above. We [...]
Eric Siebert who is very well known for his list making abilities, has put together another stellar list of Virtualization twits to follow. The top 20 bloggers and the top 100 VMware & virtualization people to follow on twitter. If you are interesting in Virtualization and new to Twitter, these lists are a great place [...]
As posted on VMwareinfo.com: Great tip from Sam Jacobs on hiding the XenApp tray icon. By default, when seamless applications are launched, an icon is place in the system tray which can be opened to show sessions and servers. [More things to confuse the Users! ] To suppress the icon from appearing, the following RegKey [...]
As posted on VMwareinfo.com: This week Steve Koff from Vizioncore came by our offices to give us a rundown of the vProduct line. For those not familiar with VizionCore, think vRanger Pro; their most recognizable product in my humble opinion. Acquired by Quest software, Vizioncore has actually grown their product offerings quite a bit [...]
Technorati Tags: vdi,citrix,vmware,microsoft You’re probably thinking – Are we talking about ice cream or technology? Well we all know that ice cream, even low fat, will not make you lean. Especially Ben & Jerry’s cherry garcia . As Jerry Seinfeld mentioned on one of his shows – he kept eating these fat free cookies and [...]