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Using Network Load Balancing with View

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Jon Owings

If you have a smaller View deployment but still want to have redundant connection servers look no further than Microsoft NLB. Solve this problem without the need for an expensive hardware loadbalancer. Will it have all of the bells and … Continue reading →

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Ask Good Questions

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Jon Owings

This happened a long time ago. I arrived at a customer site to install View Desktop Manager (may have been version 2). This was before any cool VDI sizing tools like Liquidware Labs. I am installing ESX and VDM I … Continue reading →

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VMware View and Xsigo

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Jon Owings

*Disclaimer – I work for a Xsigo and VMware partner. I was in the VMware View Design and Best practices class a couple weeks ago. Much of the class is built on the VMware View Reference Architecture. The picture below … Continue reading →

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Storage Design and VDI

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Jon Owings

Recently I have spent time re-thinking certain configuration scenarios and asking myself, “Why?” If there is something I do day to day during installs is this still true when it comes to vSphere? or will it still be true when … Continue reading →

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VMware View – Repurpose your Existing PC’s as Thin Clients

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Jon Owings

I was looking for last couple weeks for a good way to re-purpose PC’s as thin clients to ease the investment in VDI. I stumbled across this PDF from VMware and I thought it was great. I would tend towards … Continue reading →

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