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Horizon View Offline VDI Calculator (Sneak Peek)

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If you are wondering why my blog posting frequency has slowed down in the last couple weeks – worry not! Many consulting professionals and architects asked for a portable – offline – version of my  well-known VDI Calculator. I’m happy to say that the new tool finally coming and I’ve been busy trying to reach code complete. This new version is built …

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VMworld Public Session Voting is Open and these are my sessions

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The VMworld Public Session Voting is now Open to anyone and allows VMware to poll the general public on which sessions they want to see presented at the event. This year I decided submit only co-hosted sessions with people who are specialist in their product areas. People like Mac Binesh, Director for Horizon Performance; John Dodge, Tech …

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New VMware Fling: View Pool Manager

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View Pool Manager allow Horizon View administrators to easily manage users across desktop pools and security groups in large deployments. One of the of the biggest challenges View administrators face in large deployments is the desktop pool maintenance. Commonly each desktop pool has an Active Directory security groups with the correct amount of users a …

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Horizon View VDI Calculator v3.0 Released

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I have just release the Horizon View VDI Calculator v.3.0 with full support for Horizon View 5.2 and vCenter 5.1. This is a major release of the calculator with multiple enhancements to mostly support higher scalability with the new versions of View and vCenter.   What’s New in Release 3.0 – Added support for pools …

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VMware Horizon Workspace WalkThrough Video

Last week I published the VMware Horizon View 5.2 video (here) and due to it’s success I decided to also record and release a VMware Horizon Workspace video. The video has two parts, Horizon User Workspace and Horizon Administrative Workspace. Please make sure you go to my article Introduction to the new VMware Horizon Suite …

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VMware View VDI Flash Calculator v2.9 Released

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I have just uploaded Release 2.9 of the online VDI Flash Calculator supporting vSphere 5.1, adding new features and preparing the foundation for next VMware View features.   Release 2.9 – Increased number of allowed VMs per CPU/Core to 20 – Added support for manual CBRC Base % IOP savings – Added support for vSphere …

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Last post of the year and New Theme… Happy New Year!

For me this has been a year of many changes, challenges and opportunities. Early in the year decided I accepted an offer to help to shape the future of End User Computing by working for VMware as an architect in the Office of the CTO. I get to talk to customers, partners and spend time …

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