Tag: VDI

Good Sounding Virtual Desktops

speaker with sound bars and a no symbol across it

You’re prepping an image for use with a VMware Horizon deployment. You get all your applications tweaked and life is good. You optimized your image with the VMware OS Optimization Tool Fling. You go and test it, it appears to work great. On to the next task, oh wait you didn’t hear the familiar sound …

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GTC16 Session: S6245 – IT-as-a-Service With Visually Intensive VDI

GTC 2016 Session S6245 – IT-as-a-Service With Visually Intensive VDI I wanted to provide access to my session materials for my GTC 2016 session S6245 on IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) with Visually Intensive VDI. In this blog you can review a pdf version of the slide deck that I presented at GTC. If you haven’t guessed there …

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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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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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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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Doomsday Preparation for companies

Time for a random (sort of) dream post around disaster recovery. This post is aimed at those companies that see themselves as preppers. It’s not for the individual home owner this is for the business that wants to avoid a dooms day scenario. Many companies have disaster recovery (DR) plans in place they may even …

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