When designing VDI solutions for VMware infrastructures, one of the many ways to reduce shared storage consumption is to allow the placement of VM Swap files (.vswp) on host local storage. The .vswp file is automatically created by ESX when the VM is Powered On, and automatically removed when the VM is Powered Off. (if …
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PCoIP is a dynamic protocol and contains some very advanced mathematical algorithms to detect the ideal bandwidth, throughput, image quality and codecs to be utilised to stream contents to endpoints. These algorithms utilise arguments such as latency and variance to create what is called ‘rto’ metric. The higher the ‘rto’ the worse is the user …
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Getting the right storage requirements for VDI can be tricky in most situations. The reason for that is the lack of information about the workload that will be running in each one of the virtual desktops. It is possible to use some pre-trended numbers as baseline, however despite this would be an indication of what …
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One of my readers posted a comment on my VDI Calculator page mentioning that he would not see the VM storage consumption increasing when Suspend VM option was select at “Desktop State when Not in use”. Suresh Thoppay thanks for the comment! According to Suresh, “ESX suspend file, which has a .vmss extension, is created …
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This is rather a quick tip than an article. In some cases where multiple connection brokers are available in your network, or if you have an Active-Passive DR Data Centre, or even if your users constantly move between branches, you may want want the users to automatically connect to the secondary brokers. Below you will …
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This is one of those cases when, in my opinion, VMware was quite modest highlighting one of the VMware View 4.5 new features. VMware introduced with VMware View 4.5 the ability to select a different datastore to host Linked Clone replica disks. If you are still unsure how Linked Clones and replicas work, please read …
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This post is intended to be a quick review of the new VMware View Limits and Maximums. I recommend you to read first my article “A review of VMware View Limits and Maximums” to understand the requirements to design a proper VDI architecture from an infrastructure perspective. VMware View 4.5 adds a number of new …
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