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VDI Questionnaire – follow-up for XenDesktop use
After being tasked with creating a “product” SKU around Virtual Desktop, I came up with a VDI Questionnaire for potential VDI customers starting with 200 users. Understanding that its difficult to get all of the customer details clearly defined from a list of questions, I think we cover the majority of the key components. I […]
Tags: Citrix, VDI, XenDesktop, XenServer
Posted in Citrix, Citrix XenDesktop, Cloud, Desktop Virtualization, Flex System, Hitachi Unified Compute Platform, Hyper-V, IBM, Linux, Microsoft, ThinApp, VDI - Virtual Desktop, View, Virtualization, vmware, XenServer | 1 Comment »
VMware to Cut 900 Jobs as Revenue Growth Slows, now what?
After reading the Wall Street Journal Article, attending VMworld 2012 (where it was announced that Pat Gelsinger was replacing Paul Maritz), and after VMware consumes acquisition after acquisition only to wait one, two and even three years before incorporating said acquired functionality into the VMware product line (for which they acquired); I’m beginning to wonder if […]
Tags: cloud, cloud computing, desktop computing, ESX, esxi, virtualization, vmware
Posted in Cloud, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, vmware | 4 Comments »
What hypervisors are you seeing in the general public?
Scott’s post on multiple hypervisor’s got me thinking… Regardless of workload (server, VDI, DR, Test/Dev) I myself only really see one hypervisor out there… VMware. I think so many companies have built their operational policies, processes and procedures around ESX that it is going to be an incredibly difficult migration to something else. I know of […]
Tags: Citrix, cloud, ESX, esxi, microsoft, VDI, VIew, vmware, XenServer
Posted in Citrix XenDesktop, Cloud, Desktop Virtualization, Hyper-V, Linux, View, Virtualization, vmware, Windows Server 2012, XenServer | 2 Comments »
Installing the Nexus 1000v – A step by step guide to installing the 1000v
VMware has typically used the traditional Standard Virtual Switch (SVS), which is host based networking. The Distributed Virtual Switch (DVS), which is a cluster based virtual switch; single point of configuration. Now both Cisco and IBM have release various software based distributed virtual switches that are installable into the vSphere environment. Installing the 1000v used […]
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Posted in Cisco, Cloud, Networking, vmware | 1 Comment »