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Horizon View in a stretched cluster environment: Can I have that? No!

Alex Muetstege — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:44:20 +0000

Ever since VMware started selling View as a desktop solution, we’ve had these discussions with colleagues and customers. You probably are familiar with the topic: Many companies have more than one location, but they all want to manage their IT infrastructure as if it was one. So, if we can throw in a big data-line [...]

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posted in Best Practices by Alex Muetstege

How to license Windows 8 in a VMware Horizon View deployment

Edwin Weijdema — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:43:10 +0000

It is a common misunderstanding that, if you buy software licenses you can do anything with it. You will not become the owner of it, you only get the use right of the software under STRICT CONDITIONS. What you may or may not do with Microsoft software is recorded to the smallest details by Microsoft [...]

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posted in How To by Edwin Weijdema

VMware vCenter Server 5.1 fails after demoting Windows Domain Controller

Edwin Weijdema — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 05:38:41 +0000

Last week a colleague of ours was tied up in troubleshooting a VMware environment with a vCenter Server. It failed authenticating through LDAP with the Windows Domain. He was demoting two old domain controllers from the Windows domain which became obsolete after creating new virtual machines to replace the old physical ones. Last month new [...]

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posted in vCenter Server by Edwin Weijdema

VMware View with FlexPod deployment guide

Erik Scholten — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 06:32:30 +0000

As a Cisco/NetApp FlexPod Partner we deploy a lot of FlexPods with all kinds of workloads. One of the more populair applications of aFlexPod is a VMware View environment. One of the tools to execute a valid and correctly configured FlexPod is a CVD, a Cisco Validated Design. Looking for the latest CVDs I ran across [...]

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posted in Cisco by Erik Scholten

VMware Technical Journal – Summer 2013

Erik Scholten — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:16:19 +0000

Today VMware Technical Journal (VMTJ) is celebrating its first birthday! VMTJ is a VMware Labs journal with in depth technical information which is published twice per year. Today VMware Labs published a new version of the the 2013 Summer edition of the VMware Technical Journal. It is available as a PDF, or you can visit [...]

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posted in VMware by Erik Scholten

VMware vExpert 2013 !

Erik Scholten — Wed, 29 May 2013 13:24:59 +0000

VMGuru.nl is very proud to announce that for the fifth year in a row, we can proudly put the VMware vExpert logo on our site. Alex, Edwin and myself have been given the vExpert award 2013 for our contributions to the VMware virtualization community. This is an acknowledgement of our work and we will continue to share [...]

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posted in vExpert by Erik Scholten

VDI optimization script (part 2)

Sander Martijn — Tue, 28 May 2013 11:43:48 +0000

In my previous article I wrote about a VDI optimization script from Microsoft for Windows 8 and Windows 7. This article focuses on the features and services you could disable or adjust to increase the performance of your VDI desktops. There are a lot of changes that can be made and you might want to [...]

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posted in How To by Sander Martijn

VDI optimization script (part 1)

Sander Martijn — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:37:54 +0000

In the summer of 2010 Erik wrote an article about “How to: Optimize guests for VMware View” in which he describes all sorts of changes he makes for a Windows XP or Windows 7 virtual desktop in a VDI environment. The changes that are suggested in the article are still valid, but after reading them [...]

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posted in How To by Sander Martijn

Why visit VMworld 2013?

Edwin Weijdema — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:02:47 +0000

For 10 years VMworld has been the source for the knowledge and connections you need to leverage virtualization and cloud computing technologies in your business. You can try out several new or improved solutions through the Hands-On-Labs (HOL) get deeper insights through great breakout sessions and of course meet several people including the VMGuru.nl crew [...]

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posted in Events by Edwin Weijdema

New free tool Snapshot Explorer added to Foglight for Virtualization toolkit

Edwin Weijdema — Wed, 22 May 2013 06:02:18 +0000

Snapshot Explorer completes Dell’s Free Utility Toolbox for Virtual Machine Administrators. Detect all snapshots, including orphaned snapshots, to avoid problems with performance and capacity with this 6th utility which got added today! Foglight for Virtualization was formerly know under the name vOPS Server Explorer from vKernel. With the latest tool Snapshot explorer you can eliminate [...]

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posted in Third party product(s) by Edwin Weijdema