VSI Install Guide–USM with View 5 Integration

Hopefully you have followed along with my other blog posts around the FREE cool vSphere Plugins EMC Offers. In the first blog post I took you through the process of downloading and installing our Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) Storage Viewer plugin (version 5.1) that was recently released in Jan 2012. One of my favorite […]

VSI Install Guide – Unified Storage Management

Hopefully you had a chance to read my last blog post on how to setup and install the Virtual Storage Integrator – Storage Viewer plugin for vCenter. If not, you will want to go back and review it before moving on to this next plugin. You can certainly install these independently of each other […]

VSI Plugin – Storage Viewer

A few weeks ago the EMC Solutions group released their Virtual Storage Integrator version 5.1 (VSI). For those EMC+VMware customers that read my blog, and are not familiar with the VSI it’s the framework that EMC uses to write the various EMC+VMware plugins we offer to our joint customers. What’s nice about a common framework […]

Booting up 500 desktops on 11 spindles in under 6mins

Pretty cool right? A little backstory – One of the things the End User Computing team inside the vSpecialist organization was tasked with was updating some of the tools, demos and various other “rules of thumb” type metrics we use when speaking to customers. A few weeks ago our team met with VMware, Cisco […]

VMware Certified Associate Desktop VCA4-DT Review

I decided to put all of the time and effort I’ve been doing with installing View in the home lab to good use. I downloaded a copy of the VMware Certified Associate – Desktop Certification blueprint and went about seeing how ready I was to take the exam. For those of you that are […]

Using VMware View 5 Security Server with Dynamic IPs

Hopefully you’ve kept up with my How to install, Configure and deploy VMware View 5 on vSphere 5” series and had some fun playing around with View 5. Let’s now take it to the next level. Let’s get access to our View environment from outside of our home lab and without the need of VPN. […]

Maximizing View 5 Storage Performance in your home lab

Continuing the “How to install, configure and deploy VMware View 5 on vSphere 5” series is one near and dear to every storage persons heart!! I One of the really cool features in VMware View is the ability to separate some of the VDI storage performance profiles into separate datastores. This is really useful when […]

FastCache-the answer to the Automated Storage Tiering Problem

This is sort of a rant blog post 🙂 Not like the ones Chuck Hollis does, but more of a nit that I hope to shed light on. I’m a HUGE fan of EMC’s FAST Cache feature as part of our FAST Software Suite but I don’t think we at EMC do a good enough […]

Setting up the View 5 Event Database

One of the screens I find myself spending a lot of time in, especially when troubleshooting View 5 issues is the Events Monitoring Screen. Unfortunately it’s not created for you as part of the View 5 install. Instead, you have to realize its not created, and then go about creating it and logging the […]