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Deployment Options for vCenter Server in a Horizon View Pod [video]

Mon, 08 Jul 2013 16:10:30 +0000

Starting in Horizon View 5.2, you can use a single vCenter Server to manage up to 10,000 desktops in a single Horizon View pod. VMware delivered this innovation in response to multiple requests from customers and partners.

Using a single vCenter Server, you can build a simple infrastructure that provides a single place to manage master images, fewer back-end databases and database servers, and a single vSphere Web interface to match the View Administrator interface. A single vCenter Server deployment drastically simplifies management.

Open letter to non-persistent VDI fanboys...

Mon, 24 Jun 2013 08:20:27 +0000

An article that recently sparked my interest was authored by Harry Labana on Brian Madden’s blog entitled “Searching for a new way to enable non-persistent VDI. Can we leapfrog traditional PC management?”. I was suddenly taken back to early 2011, when I wrote an article entitled “Floating Pools are the way to go….”.

Understanding CBRC - RecomputeDigest Method

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:51:49 +0000

After my article Understanding CBRC (Content Based Read Cache) I received few direct questions about the BBRC exposed API methods exposedI in vSphere 5, as mentioned by William Lam in hist article New Hidden CBRC (Content-Based Read Cache) Feature in vSphere 5 & for VMware View 5? The questions were specifically targeting the RecomputeDigest_Task method.

vSphere 5.0 + View 5.0 vMotion Fail

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:51:00 +0000

There is a bug in the way the object buffer cache size is calculated for vMotion. This bug only appears with Hardware version 8 virtual desktops with large screen resolutions, however only if 3D is disabled.

When 3D is enabled ESxi5 takes the necessary screen objects into account in the calculations and allocate sufficient buffer for vMotion to succeed. But with 3D disabled it doesn't calculate the values correctly for the buffers. This is will impact any VM with large screen size.

vSphere 5.0 New .vswp file & Storage Tax on VDI

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:20:00 +0000

Virtual Machine swap files have been around since the early ESX days and overtime we have learnt how to play with Memory Reservations to constrain their maximum size and reduce storage footprint. This type of operation may not be as effective with server virtualization as it is with desktop virtualization.

ESXi 5.0 Enhanced Security Profile

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:30:00 +0000

Bloggers have been doing a great job during the past couple weeks and several vSphere 5.0 articles are being published. There is a lot of information floating around and I would recommend to have a peek at this page from from Eric Siebert with vSphere 5 Links.

vSphere 5 new Networking features

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:47:00 +0000

Since the release of vSphere 5 few days ago several articles have been published, however most of them of focusing on the new “core” features and improvements. Well, that may not be true. I have noticed that the enhancements to the network stack have been mostly left aside. I guess bloggers are all busy trying to squeeze the juicy out of vSphere 5.

My first vSPhere 5 “Monster VM”

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:55:00 +0000

Amongst all the new features introduced with vSphere 5, VMware increased the virtual hardware limits for virtual machines. What has so far been referred as “Monster VM” or “Super VM” is VMware’s ultimate move to help organizations to virtualize business-critical applications.

vSphere 5.0 Datastore Clusters & VDI

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:27:00 +0000

I have been fortunate enough to be part of the vSphere 5 Beta program. vSphere 5 really raise the bar and implement a number of new features; mostly around automated management. I’m sure there will be many blog posts listing those new features, so I decided to show some screenshots of those features.