*Update* vCenter Converter 5.0.1 is available, but not fully supported. For those of you looking to upgrade to 5.1, be aware that the very important Converter tool is not supported when targeting vCenter 5.1. When trying to direct it to a vCenter 5.1 instance you will see the following message: Converter Standalone […]
“Hey, Joe, remember when VMware introduced vRam and we were all totally stoked and excited beyond belief?!”“Yeah, man that was totally awesome! Wait…what?”“I know…!”“No, Tad, vRam was terribad. So terribad that customers revolted and in vSphere 5.1 they actually removed it entirely.”“Oh…” VMware has received strong recognition among Fortune 500 […]
This is part 2 of an ongoing series of posts to document and describe my journey implementing Citrix VDI with XenApp. View part 1. After our selection of Citrix as the VDI solution of choice, an architecture was drafted with assistance from a Citrix partner to implement a VDI solution […]
Over the past year I have worked to establish a proof-of-concept and now pilot implementation for virtual desktops in an effort to create a host of new functionality for our users. The guiding principles of the implementation have been to expand user access to computers, provide any-time, any-where, any-device access […]
I’ve recently had the inclination to give Hyper-V a go now that it wasn’t only a release candidate. After a brief setup and install, I was impressed with the responsiveness of the MMC snapin. Compared to VMWare’s Infratructure Client (VIC) it is a huge difference. VIC has on often crashed, […]
“That didn’t take long.” I thought as I thought of ways to rebuff management’s scorn of a product that has seemingly “had a lot of issues” in its short life with our organization. But it is true – we’re attempting to return our VMWare ESXi to HP. Not because we’re […]
So the saga with squid continues. I am now fighting with NTLM authentication. According to the documentation, I should be able to use Samba/Winbind with an authentication helper to authenticate to a Windows Domain. What does that do for us? The cache log will show username rather than IP address, […]
It seems that Squid cache is living in the past. With support for only a single core and support for SMP only loosely on the horizon, we were looking for ways to improve the performance of our Squid proxy / filtering server which we use for filtering. To overcome the […]
Well, it is official: We have our iSCSI target set up on our DL380 G5 WIndows Storage Server. Our final specs ended up as follows: HP DL380 G5 Windows Storage Server1 Quad-Core Intel Chip (2.2ghz)2GB MemoryMSA 60 w/ 12 750gb drives (9.6tb total) We configured the initial volume for RAID5 […]
We started setting up our VMWare ESXi environment today using an HP DL580 G5 server, along with an HP DL380 G5 Windows Storage Server (with iSCSI target). We installed and updated the iSCSI target today and set up a target immediately. Then we installed the Virtual Infrastructure client and attempted […]