Setting up ODBC for View 5 inside vCenter 5

Let’s do a quick recap of what we’ve done so far. 1st – we’ve installed Windows SQL 2008 R2 inside a Windows 2008 R2 server. 2nd – we’ve setup the VMware View 5 Database inside that SQL Server The next step of the View install is to go to vCenter and install VMware View […]

Creating View 5 Database in SQL Server 2008 R2

The last couple of weekends have afforded me some SERIOUS VMware Home Lab time and out of that is a few blog posts around what I’ve been up to. In one of my prior blog posts I spoke about my new home lab (still working on that blog) and my endeavor to install everything from […]

How to vMotion VMs from vCenter Client for iPad

What a difference a week makes !! Geez, this is what I really love about being in IT and specifically getting to work with VMware products. Last week I published a quick blog on “How to Monitor vSphere 5 from your iPad”. Essentially this is a tool that VMware released that allows you to […]

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 […]

How to Monitor vSphere 5 from your iPad

I’ve been in the process of updating my VMware home lab (future blog alert) and with that I’ve decided to do a lot of “fall cleaning” of stuff. About the only thing I’m keeping is my ActiveDirectory and DNS VM and everything else is getting a brand new install including vSphere 5.0, vCenter 5 etc […]

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 […]

My Top Oracle on VMware Resources

This week I had the awesome opportunity to work the Oracle Open World show in San Francisco. I was there mostly as an invite from the EMC Oracle Social Media/Marketing team to help with a couple of fun #oowHunt (Scavanger Hunt) things and had a blast participating. Personally I think Oracle has a […]

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 […]

My Top VMware Resources

This blog post is a long time coming !! This is a culmination of information I seem to consistently send out to customers and prospects that I meet with on a day to day basis. Usually I send this information in a REALLY REALLY long e-mail but I thought now I can simply send them […]