Microsoft Office and VDI – Performance tips
A couple of months back, during a recent engagement, I was trouble-shooting end user performance problems. To keep it short and sweet, Microsoft Office (Outlook and Word), were monopolizing the CPU....
View ArticleVMware Horizon View 5.3 – 3D vDGA deployment
Over the course of the last month, I’ve been engaged with a client around a Horizon View Plan & Design. One of the main business drivers and Use Cases, is full scale workstation replacement for CAD...
View ArticleThinApp Optimise and Book Review
ThinApp has been around for years and application virtualization is extremely useful. Although I’ve used ThinApp in the past, I needed to brush up in a few areas, recommit some knowledge back into my...
View ArticleConfigure Horizon View 6 Cloud Pod Architecture
Now View 6 has become GA, it’s time to look further into one of the many new features! One of the features that grabbed my attention, is the Cloud Pod Architecture feature, essentially allowing you to...
View ArticleView Planner 3.0 as VDI Benchmark (VMworld 2013 – TEX5760)
Benchmarking – Why we care? Understand VDI performance scope Bench marketing and show case solution(s) Drive consistency and predictability around solution Understanding VDI performance scope – its...
View ArticleGroup Policy – VDI, Best Practices and Tools
Refresh Group Policy I hear you mutter? It’s nothing new on the scene or ground breaking, it’s been around for years, everyone has heard of it and used the technology. It’s extremely powerful and...
View ArticleEUC3605 – CloudVolumes: Simplifying App Delivery (VMworld Europe 2014)
Session Overview (by VMware) End-users expect a personal desktop (aka persistent desktop) while IT wants a non-persistant world. Join us in this session to learn how VMware is revolutionizing how...
View ArticleEUC Group Discussion session notes (VMworld Europe 2014)
Horizon Technical Overview – Group Discussion App Volumes standalone, not fully integrated to begin with App container. Read only VMDK, using vSphere API call Should plan around IOPS for application...
View ArticleEUC1513 – Stress Testing Your Horizon View System (VMworld 2014 – US)
Overview (by VMware) Many companies build a VMware View infrastructure, and test it lightly, and then begin putting production users onto it, believing they will catch the system before it hits the...
View ArticleFrom the field – View Planner 3.0 Stress testing
Background VMware View Planner, is a software solution (appliance) which has been around for quite some time, but doesn’t get a great deal of publicity or traction. Sure if you follow a number of...
View ArticlevRealize Operations for Horizon View 6 – Quick Setup Guide
The following post outlines the high level steps to configure this solution. This is a quick setup guide only, which will point you in the right direction. As always, refer to the official docs for...
View ArticlePCoIP Sizing and What’s New from VMworld 2013\2014
Here are my notes from both of these sessions from VMworld 2013 and 2014. VMworld 2013 – PCoIP: Sizing for Success PCoIP is a ‘bursty’ real-time protocol Easily affected by poor networking conditions...
View ArticleHorizon View 6 PCoIP – WAN, Limited Bandwidth, Optimise, Tune
Back in February, I was engaged for a couple of days, to help a customer pilot the PCoIP protocol using Horizon with View 6, with the primary driver to deliver multimedia and video across WAN links....
View ArticleEUC5733 – Deep Dive on Horizon 6 Cloud Architecture – Best Practices to...
Cloud Pod Architecture (CPA) used to address challenges: Active\Active Datacentres (for View) Disaster Recovery Deploying across multiple locations Scale beyond 10k desktops Multiple client URLs No...
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