What’s the impact of Microsoft Office on VDI?
I regularly get questions from customers what the impact is of the Microsoft Office version on their VDI deployment. It’s a common misunderstanding that the sizing and performance of a VDI deployment is equal when using Microsoft office 2007, 2010 or 2013. But until now…
Horizon View in a stretched cluster environment: Can I have that? No!
Ever since VMware started selling View as a desktop solution, we’ve had these discussions with colleagues and customers. You probably are familiar with the topic: Many companies have more than one location, but they all want to manage their IT infrastructure as if it was…
How to license Windows 8 in a VMware Horizon View deployment
It is a common misunderstanding that, if you buy software licenses you can do anything with it. You will not become the owner of it, you only get the use right of the software under STRICT CONDITIONS. What you may or may not do with…
VMware vCenter Server 5.1 fails after demoting Windows Domain Controller
Last week a colleague of ours was tied up in troubleshooting a VMware environment with a vCenter Server. It failed authenticating through LDAP with the Windows Domain. He was demoting two old domain controllers from the Windows domain which became obsolete after creating new virtual…
VMware View with FlexPod deployment guide
As a Cisco/NetApp FlexPod Partner we deploy a lot of FlexPods with all kinds of workloads. One of the more populair applications of aFlexPod is a VMware View environment. One of the tools to execute a valid and correctly configured FlexPod is a CVD, a…
VMware Technical Journal – Summer 2013
Today VMware Technical Journal (VMTJ) is celebrating its first birthday! VMTJ is a VMware Labs journal with in depth technical information which is published twice per year. Today VMware Labs published a new version of the the 2013 Summer edition of the VMware Technical Journal….
VMware vExpert 2013 !
VMGuru.nl is very proud to announce that for the fifth year in a row, we can proudly put the VMware vExpert logo on our site. Alex, Edwin and myself have been given the vExpert award 2013 for our contributions to the VMware virtualization community. This is…
VDI optimization script (part 2)
In my previous article I wrote about a VDI optimization script from Microsoft for Windows 8 and Windows 7. This article focuses on the features and services you could disable or adjust to increase the performance of your VDI desktops. There are a lot of…
VDI optimization script (part 1)
In the summer of 2010 Erik wrote an article about “How to: Optimize guests for VMware View” in which he describes all sorts of changes he makes for a Windows XP or Windows 7 virtual desktop in a VDI environment. The changes that are suggested…
Why visit VMworld 2013?
For 10 years VMworld has been the source for the knowledge and connections you need to leverage virtualization and cloud computing technologies in your business. You can try out several new or improved solutions through the Hands-On-Labs (HOL) get deeper insights through great breakout sessions…
New free tool Snapshot Explorer added to Foglight for Virtualization toolkit
Snapshot Explorer completes Dell’s Free Utility Toolbox for Virtual Machine Administrators. Detect all snapshots, including orphaned snapshots, to avoid problems with performance and capacity with this 6th utility which got added today! Foglight for Virtualization was formerly know under the name vOPS Server Explorer from…
Veeam Back-up & Replication v7
Today Veeam announced 2 more secret features of their new and improved version of Veeam Backup & Replication, version v7.0. The ‘Back-up from storage snapshots’ and ‘Build-in WAN Acceleration’ features now complete the list of 9 new features. The new version now contains the following new features,…
VMware Horizon View 5.2 Performance and Best Practices and 3D graphics
At VMGuru.nl we’ve done a lot of articles on VDI performance and best practices. Recently I’ve done an article on ‘How to improve VMware View video performance‘ and Edwin did an article on ‘Boosting Google maps and video with VMware View‘. Researching the possibilities and…
Looking for a reliable hypervisor?
Every time a vendor releases a new hypervisor, it’s always more reliable and stable than all the previous versions and certainly better than the competition. But was the previous version all that bad? Of course with the addition of more and more advanced features it…
vSphere 5 memory management explained (part 2)
As I said earlier this week, VMware memory management is still a topic which a lot of VMware administrators don’t understand. Tuesday I discussed the virtual machine memory allocation graphs. Today we will deal with VMware vSphere uses transparent page sharing (TPS), memory compression, host…