Posts Tagged vmware
Planning for vSphere
Posted by James B. in Technology on April 15, 2010
The fundamental assumption in all my vSphere4 articles is obviously that you are intending to carry out all the work yourself, rather than bring in outside experts to do it for you. I believe that none of the procedures involved should be beyond the skill level of the average IT Manager, provided they put in the necessary preparation and practice. However evaluating systems in a lab is a major step away from deploying them in a live business environment, with both the immediate cost of hardware/software and the potential cost of disrupting business productivity to take into account. Therefore please consider carefully whether you are ready to take this on yourself, or if it would be more prudent to seek assistance. At the very least this article should help you to gain a much better understanding of what is involved, and so ensure that you are getting value for money if you do outsource the work. Read the rest of this entry »
ESXi over ESX! Why?
Posted by James B. in Technology on March 15, 2010
Good question isn’t it! IT admins at VMware were asked the same question and they decided to push ESXi instead of regular ESX. VMware has started to roll out ESXi on all their servers and the job is still in progress. Listen to Jeremy Hunt at Talkshoe.com talking about how they provision their own applications at VMware on ESXi.
So if VMware does it, eats its own dog food as we used to say, why shouldn’t we do the same and deploy ESXi? Is there any issue NOT to deploy ESXi? Is ESXi a better hypervizor than ESX or less featured? What are the differences between both versions if any? Do I need to change my monitoring system? Do I have to change my procedures? How do I deploy ESXi? Can you deploy ESXi using PXE? How can I troubleshoot my host without a COS? That’s a lot of questions isn’t it and I will try to give some answers here.
Organizations and VDI Deployment – Part 3
Posted by James B. in Technology on March 11, 2010
I finally found sometime to finalise the third and last part of this article. In the first part of this article I discussed the Business Drivers and Operational Benefits, Technology Savings and Operational Improvements of a properly deployed Desktop Virtualization project - and in the second part I talked about the underlying technology, design considerations and the site-wide architecture for a multi-site VMware View rollout.
In the meantime VMware released it’s new VDI solution, VMware View 4.0, that promises to solve latency problems that represented an obstacle for deployments over WANS and Internet. The new PCoIP remote display technology is a dynamic solution that adjusts the compression/quality level depending on the available network resources.
Organizations and VDI Deployment – Part 2
Posted by James B. in Technology on March 8, 2010
In the first part of this article I discussed the Business Drivers and Operational Benefits, Technology Savings and Operational Improvements of a properly deployed Desktop Virtualization project.
- Lower Cost of Desktop PC Management
- Quickly and Easily provision Desktops to Clients Anytime, Anywhere
- Satisfy Different Regulatory Security Requirements e.g. HIPAA, SOX, PCI
- Reliable Desktop Disaster Recovery Plan
- In this second part I will focus my attention on technology and how to architect a successful Desktop Virtualization infrastructure.
Organizations and VDI Deployment – Part 1
Posted by James B. in Technology on March 1, 2010
I see many organizations going through the desktop virtualization process without being able to answer simple questions like – What are your primary drivers for desktop virtualization? or – How will your organization benefit from desktop virtualization? or even – What is the estimate cost and payback?
Nonetheless it is not their fault. Vendors make it as difficult as possible for us mere mortals to understand and be able to respond to these questions. They try to make the licensing options as different as possible from one another so not even a master in mathematics would be able to predict what solution is more affordable or best suit your organization. Nether less to say they keep changing the licensing model.
What I will try to do here is to give an insight on how a VDI project should start and then each one of the phases it should go through up to the POC (Proof of Concept). Read the rest of this entry »
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