Tony

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Mar 26

Deep Learing in Virtual Data Center Management

During VMworld San Francisco I had the opportunity as a VMware vExpert to attend a special breakfast that SIOS put on and which my friend David Klee was speaking at. This was a pretty cool session about how SIOS was using data analytics to look at the health of the data center. SIOS Technology Corp …

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Mar 19

Dynamic HPC Farms

High Performance Compute as a Service (HPCaaS) Continuing on my random ideas post. Here is another item that can be applied to High Performance Compute (HPC) scenarios. With research institutions and the like it is often necessary to wait to use physical HPC clusters to perform research. (It hearkens back to the days of mainframes …

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Mar 08

ArcGIS Virtualization Links

I’ve had some questions about virtualizing ArcGIS and I thought it might be helpful to share the links that I’ve found helpful in architecting around ArcGIS VDI/EUC deployments. Updated 3-19-16 added a couple of additional links. As I’m reviewing my links I’ve discovered that some are no longer relevant or have been updated to include …

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Mar 05

GPUs and Detecting Pestilence

This is a project that has been on my mind for about a year now. Chalk this up as another crazy idea that could make someone a lot of money. About a year ago, it was announced that K-State University (proud alumnus) would be partnering with Australia’s Queensland University of Technology in a really cool …

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Feb 04

Do you want to build a snowman??? (virtual or otherwise)

Yes you can bash me now for the reference to Disney’s Frozen. When I wrote this a week ago I was sitting at my desk with the doors and windows open enjoying the 70 degree weather here in Kansas while the East coast was getting pounded by #Snowpocalypse. Now that most everyone hates me for one …

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Nov 10

GPU Virtualization Links (Part 1)

Today I start a series of blog posts on GPUs and 3D rendering in VMware Horizon View. I’ll be sharing much of my knowledge on the technical aspects of GPUs. In this post I will be sharing links that will be helpful as you plan and deploy a graphically intensive workload. In future posts I …

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Oct 14

Configuring VMware Virtual Flash in vSphere 5.5

I recently had a question come in at work about configuration limits on VMware Flash Read Cache limits. I thought this is some material the community might like as well as a walk through on how to install and configure it. Before we get into how to setup VMware Virtual Flash is I think it’s …

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Oct 04

Mirage 5.1 Web Client Install Quirk

I thought I would add a quick post on the Mirage 5.1 web client install. I’ve been setting up a lab recently with all of the VMware EUC products and Mirage is one that I’ve been working on. I went though the install of the Mirage 5.1.0 server and that install went smoothly. No errors …

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Jul 28

I shot an arrow into the air… (New Job)

My parting message when I left VCE on May 23rd of this year was based on Longfellow’s poem “The Arrow and the Song.” The jist being that “I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to the earth I knew not where.” With my announcement today I complete the poem, “Long, long afterward, in …

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Jul 17

Backing Up My WordPress Site

Thought I would share a quick post on how I protect this site. For those who don’t know me I started my career working in the backup industry. As such I am a firm believer in the saying “if you don’t have 3 copies of it then it doesn’t exist.” As such I try to …

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