Stop Blaming Storage For Busting you VDI Budget

Guess what….you can now officially stop blaming storage as the most expensive part of a VDI deployment. 🙂 Gunnar Berger (@gunnarwb) with Gartner sent out a provocative tweet that grabbed my attention: He followed that tweet up with a blog post that gave some detail: The Real Cost of VDI Storage . In […]

Updated EMC EUC Reference Architectures

2014 is the year of EUC Because of this EMC has recently updated their list of EUC Reference architectures with nice additions from the XtremIO team. In an effort to help other track down where all of these EMC Reference Architectures are located, I’ve made it really simple. At least simple for me […]

Large Horizon View Deployment Reference Architecture

HOT OFF THE PRESS! For those of you that are avid readers of my blog (thanks Mom!) I wanted to make you aware of a kick butt new reference-architecture that VMware just released for large scale VMware Horizon View deployments. Large in this case is 7000 concurrent Windows 7 desktops. Special thanks to Itzik Reich […]

DFW Area May 2013 VMUG

I had the pleasure of talking about “End User Computing, The Journey Starts Here” at the May 2013 DFW Area VMware User Group a couple of weeks ago. HUGE thanks to Brad Christian (@BChristian21) for the opportunity to present ! Nothing is more exciting then getting a chance to nerd out with fellow VMware focused […]

Fun with Horizon View HTML5 and Unity Touch

Hopefully you have been keeping up with my blog series on updating your VMware View 5.2 environment. So far we’ve done the following: Updated the VMware Connection Broker Added the new End User Experience Pack to the Broker We’ve updated VMware View Composer Updated the View Agent & Installed the Remote Experience Pack into […]

Creating a New Desktop Pool in Horizon View 5.2

Over the last few blog posts we’ve taken our existing VMware View 5.1 environment and upgraded it to VMware Horizon View 5.2. Along the way we did the following: Updated the VMware Connection Broker Added the new End User Experience Pack to the Broker We’ve updated VMware View Composer Updated the View Agent & Installed […]

Updating View Agent & Installing Remote Experience Pack

So hopefully you’ve been following along on my adventures of upgrading my VMware View 5.1 environment to the latest VMware Horizon View 5.2 in my home lab. So far we’ve done the following: Updated the VMware Connection Broker. Added the new End User Experience Pack to the Broker We’ve updated VMware View Composer Up […]

Upgrading VMware View Composer

So far we’ve been going down the journey of updating a VMware View 5.1 environment to VMware Horizon View 5.2. Let’s review what we’ve done so far: We’ve updated our Connection Broker We’ve added in the new End User Experience Pack In this blog post I’m going to take you step by step through […]

Installing VMware View End User Experience Pack

Some of the most anticipated updates in Horizon View 5.2 is bundled into something called the VMware View End User Experience Pack. This pack includes some really cool features that the VMware View team has been showing off over the last couple of years. One of the really cool features in VMware Horizon […]