When VMware View 5.1 was release I wrote about the changes to storage and memory footprint when the 3D software rendering option was enabled. VMware View 5.0 3D Reverse Engineered vSphere 5.0 New .vswp file & Storage Tax on VDI Just to recap: ESxi 5.0 implements a second .vswp file for every virtual machine created either with …
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View VSA Recompose Time Issue & Workaround
The View Storage Accelerator (aka VSA or CBRC) feature is part of vSphere 5 and later and is used by VMware View. VSA helps to address some of the performance bottlenecks and the increase storage cost for VDI. CBRC is a 100% host-based RAM-Based caching solution that helps to reduce read IOs issued to the …
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My Work & Home Lab Environments
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 …
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VMware Distributed Storage and VDI
In today’s market we are seeing a clear change in storage architectures and the drivers for change are new technologies such as SSD/Flash and new applications, which have different requirements from the storage subsystem. Some of the storage architectures that we are seeing in the market are the traditional ones such as SAN/NAS, gateways to …
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Windows 7 Transparent Page Sharing and the ASLR story…
“Common knowledge is knowledge that is known by everyone or nearly everyone, usually with reference to the community in which the term is used.” – Source: Wikipedia. It is typical to have sets of common knowledge that guide best practices. However, common knowledge isn’t always correct and people tend to embrace common knowledge as the …
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TPS, Large Memory Pages and your VDI environment
If you have been running VMware View 4.0 or greater the chances are that you have vSphere 4.0 U2 or vSphere 4.1 deployed in your VDI infrastructure. You may have VMware Infrastructure 3.5 U5 but I am hoping that at this stage you have already been trough the upgrade. If you haven’t yet upgraded you …
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vscsiStats Excel Macro for Automated Charts
Navigating through some VDI related posts I found this very useful Excel macro created by Paul Dunn that will automatically create charts for all the data produced by vscsiStats. I thought was worth sharing since I always spend time creating those charts when I need to demonstrate the IO profile or troubleshoot storage latencies. Paul, …
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