Category Archive: networking

My Work & Home Lab Environments

photo1.jpg

This is one of those geek posts that are interesting to the community IMO. I am frequently asked about the lab environment I am using for prototyping End User Computing stuff and general VMware product learning and testing. People ask me what kind of physical hardware and logical setup I am using to interact with …

Continue reading »

Permanent link to this article: http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=4173

PowerShell Module for (NVP) Nicira Network Virtualization Platform

The network virtualization concept of decoupling the logical networking from the physical networking much like in the same way server virtualization de-coupled the operating systems and software from the physical server hardware is permeating IT organizations. NVP creates an intelligent abstraction layer between hosts and existing networks. Managed by a distributed controller system this intelligent …

Continue reading »

Permanent link to this article: http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=4210

PCoIP Recommended Practices for Networking Devices

mtu_formula_thumb.jpg

Display protocols for VDI are still very much a subject to be discussed, and in most environments tuned. The out-of-the-box setting from ANY of vendor will work for many situations; however every environment presents different challenges, making optimization a must. I previous articles I have covered PCoIP optimization from a display protocol standpoint. My article …

Continue reading »

Permanent link to this article: http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=1903

Using iOmega IX4-200d as DHCP, DNS, TFTP and PXE server

image.png

This article is a bit off-topic if compared to what I usually write about ‘VDI’, but I thought it was worth to share. I really like the benefits of PXE booting and wanted to run PXE boot in my homelab, however my LinkSys WRT320N wireless router only provides very basic DHCP functionality. The other option …

Continue reading »

Permanent link to this article: http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=1618

F5 Networks releases deployment guide for VMware View 4

F5 Networks released a deployment and procedures guide for VMware View. This document provides guidance and configuration procedures for deploying the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) v10 with VMware View. Probably one of the most interesting features provided by F5 BIG-IP appliance is the ability to create UDP tunneling with dTLS (datagram TLS) and TCP …

Continue reading »

Permanent link to this article: http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=769

Cisco Solutions for a VMware View 4.0 Environment Design Guide

Mid February Cisco released a Networking Design Guide for VMware View 4.0 authored by Shannon McFarland. Only now I was able to have a look at the document and it seems to cover a reasonable amount of Cisco components that could possible integrate in a VMware View solution.   Some of the topics covered in …

Continue reading »

Permanent link to this article: http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=747