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 […]

How to install SQL 2008 R2 in your vSphere 5 Home Lab

This is something I’ve been wanting to do a while. As you recall, I’ve been reinstalling everything in my VMware vSphere 5 home lab I’ve decided that I really need/want/”glutton for punishment” to install SQL Server 2008 R2 and start moving away from the default SQL Express stuff that most of the VMware tools let […]

VMware View Backup Best Practices

Talk about your perfect timing. Hot off the presses last week was the very timely VMware View 5 Performance Best Practice Guide that I blogged about and then I see a tweet from Scott Sauer (@ssauer) about the new VMware View Backup Best Practices Deployment and Technical considerations guide. The funny part is I […]

VMware View 5 Performance and Best Practices

As I’ve said a couple of times, I’m pretty passionate about End User Computing (EUC) and where that technology is heading towards (like the end of desktops as we know it :). I was afforded the awesome opportunity to be apart of a sub-group within the vSpecialist organization that focuses on EUC and specifically lately […]

Quick VDI Sizing HowTo

From time to time I’m asked to do quick/dirty IO sizing for customers looking to do View Virtual Desktops. Normally it’s a request by the EMC Technical Consultant to help size the array. Now, I usually throw a bunch of caveats into the mix like “they really should be working with either EMC Consulting Services […]

See I told you VMware wasn’t evil

Me being right doesn’t happen often (just ask my wife) but when it does, I like to make sure I point it out to people 🙂 If you go back a few weeks to VMware’s big vSphere 5 announcement you will recall that no matter how many awesome features and benefits they rolled out with […]

Various info around deploying VDI

Lately I’ve been doing a lot of discussions with companies around Virtual Desktops (VDI) and these meetings usually fall into 2 types. First type is “what is VDI” or “VDI Best Practices” and even sometimes it’s “Why VDI now” or VDI 101. Normally this is an open discussion around why they are looking at […]

VMware Events in July

It seems that July is turning into VMware Month. The amount of information that will be rolling out of VMware in the next 2 weeks is mind blowing. Just to make sure nothing gets lost in your inbox I’ve pulled together some of the most interesting dates you need to make sure you circle in […]

Follow up PCoIP Questions

Some follow up PCoIP Questions. On Wednesday (12/15/2010) I had the pleasure of speaking to a group of people in Troy Michigan (my slide deck is at the bottom). This was a discussion around “Why EMC for VMware View”. We discussed all the benefits of a secure virtual desktop as well as the scalability and […]