I can finally tell you what I’ve been working on for the last 17 months. Today Dell EMC announced the PowerOne System. This is what I’ve been working on, it hasn’t been a VDI program or anything like that. My work has been part of a team creating an autonomous, outcome oriented, converged infrastructure.
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Jun 04
Finding New Opportunities
This is my third iteration of this blog. Originally I started drafting sort of a playful blog with a bunch of fluff. I have sense decided to use the advice of Roxette’s album “Don’t Bore Us, Get to the Chorus!” That said here we go… On Wednesday, May 30th, I was given the opportunity to …
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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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Apr 30
Casting a Wider Net
For the past 19 months I’ve had the awesome opportunity to work at VCE as a solutions architect specializing in the VMware Horizon Suite. Which is a fancy way of saying an end user computing (EUC) subject mater expert (SME). During this time I’ve been able to work with some of the smartest people in …
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Sep 25
Configuring Soft 3D in VMware Horizon View 5.2
On September 25th, 2013 I had the pleasure of presenting to the Dallas Fort Worth VMUG Regional Conference. I had the opportunity to present on VMware Horizon View Soft 3D Graphics. Here is how you to configure soft 3D graphics in Horizon View 5.2. A Long time ago in a datacenter far, far away… …
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Jun 20
Oh how could I forget… Its 32 bit not 64
Oh how could I forget this… Today I was working on syspreping some Windows 7 x86 VM’s that I built earlier in the week. For what ever reason they kept getting stuck in the sysprep process and I couldn’t figure out why. I checked the logs and there wasn’t much that stud out in them …
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Jun 15
10zig Thin Clients, Getting USB to Work With VMware Horizon View
Yesterday I was working on preparing some stuff for VCE and our booth at CiscoLive. I ran into an interesting problem and thought I would share it with you… Hopefully it helps you if you run into the same problem with your 10zig or similar device. The problem I ran into was that anytime I …
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Apr 24
VMware Horizon Workspace Initial Setup
While building a demo environment of VMware Horizon Workspace for EMC World 2013 I found that if you want to use a domain administrative or service account for connecting Workspace to the vCenter (this is needed so that workspace can monitor its own VM’s health) you will need to negate the ‘\’ for the domain. …
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Feb 18
4 Months & Going Strong
I can’t believe its been a little over 4 months since I started at VCE as a Solution Engineer in VCE’s Corporate Engineering branch. Now that I have my bearings with my new job I figure that my readers might like an update about what I’m doing. I know I’ve been pretty quite on my …
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