Mar 30
Yesterday, March 29, 2017, two community announcements were made. One was for the 2017 VMware EUC Champions program and one was for the 2017 Dell EMC Elect. I was selected for both recognition’s. I feel doubly honored to be part of both amazing groups. For those who don’t know about the Dell EMC Elect it …
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Apr 07
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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Mar 26
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
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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Feb 04
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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Oct 04
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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Sep 25
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
It took me a bit of googleing and work to figure out how to add other users to the admin role for Horizon Workspace. I finally found it so I figured It would be nice to provide a quicker way for folks to figure this out. If you want to do it without reading this …
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Jun 20
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
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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