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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 »
Cleaning the Replica Closet
Posted by James B. in Technology on February 28, 2010
If, like me, you have been through all the versions of View Composer and the broker since its introduction, various bugs and broken recompositions will have left you with a large amount of detritus in your VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolder, making it hard to keep an eye on the proper operation of the Composer, and in my case, causing a datastore to run out of space and subsequent operations to fail. Time for a clean up.
This is decently documented here, but how do you know which ones you can delete? Read the rest of this entry »
VMware Virtual Center and vCenter Redundancy
Posted by James B. in Technology on February 8, 2010
Introduction
VMware Virtual Center (now called vCenter) is a critical piece of VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure Suite. If you use the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Suite, it is likely that you use Virtual Center / vCenter for ANYTHING related to management of your virtual infrastructure. Many of us have Virtual Center, SQL Server, and the VMware License server running all on a single server. We use VC to administer our guest VMs, check performance, configure high availability, load balancing, and so much more. But what if Virtual Center went down? What would happen to your Virtual Infrastructure and the entire critical guest VMs? Let us find out what would happen and then what you can do to keep VC as highly available as possible. Read the rest of this entry »
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