Windows8 on myvirtualcloud.net

Why you should move your VDI to Windows 8

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:28:09 +0000

I believe I may have found a pretty compelling reason to migrate your VDI deployment to Windows 8. While running some experiments I collected some statistics for Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 2K8 Server running as virtual desktops.

At this point we should all be familiar with the challenges associated with the number and latency of IOs in VDI environments, therefore I am not getting getting into details in this article.

Windows 8 storage performance for VDI. Forget what you know…

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:25:14 +0000

Last week Microsoft Corporate VP, Worldwide Licensing and Pricing, Joe Matz finally brought some light to a long standing Windows licensing discussion. In summary, It's now public understanding that ISPs wanting to deliver DaaS (Desktop-as-a-Service) will need to implement Windows 2K8 Server with SPLA. In addition to that, with the soon Windows 8 release organizations will start to prepare themselves to either go to VDI/TS or upgrade existing VDI environments. That probably won't happen as fast as we would like to because there may be no business reasons for to upgrade.

How to Access Windows 8 CP via PCoIP with VMware View

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:15:00 +0000

I have recently posted a video showing Windows 8 Customer Preview being streamed via PCoIP to an iPad, and I received comments and emails asking for a step-by-step guide to reproduce the solution. If you didn’t have the chance to watch the video go to Windows 8 CP + View 5.0 with PCoIP + iPad [video].

Windows 8 CP + View 5.0 with PCoIP + iPad [video]

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:50:00 +0000

I dedicated part of my Saturday to get Windows 8 Customer Preview running on ESXi5 with VMware View 5.0 and PCoIP. VMware View 5 doesn’t support Windows 8 CP out-of-the-box, and I had to do some modifications to get that working.