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Repurposing PC’s as VMware View Clients

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

If you are one of the people who keeps Microsoft Software Assurance on your licensing you are going to love this option if you are thinking about VDI. Microsoft released a stripped down version of Windows 7 called ThinPC and the…

Justifying the Cost of Virtual Desktops: Take 2

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

Two years ago I did a post on how was I trying to justify VDI for a customer who was refreshing 40 desktops. In the end I don’t know what happened with that sale as I changed jobs about a…

Using the VMware OS Optimization Tool for VDI locally

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

In July VMware released a new fling on the VMware Labs site that is designed to help you apply all VMware best practices for virtual desktops in one easy swoop. There are two ways to run the tool, locally and…

HP StoreOnce Virtual Appliance Announced

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

This week I have been attending HP’s Discover event in Las Vegas and one of the big announcements was the release of a virtual StoreOnce Appliance. If you are not familiar with StoreOnce it is similar to EMC Data Domain,…

View Desktop Pool with HTML Access HowTo

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

Last week VMware officially released the bits to allow HTML access for VMware Horizon View connections. So naturally, I decided to upgrade the Hands on Labs to View 5.2 with HTML access the night before an event. No worries though…

VMware View 5.2 is now GA

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

Today VMware View 5.2 was released, and with it comes a list of new features. Some of which might be helpful and some of which you might never use 🙂 Here is the list: Ability to add Nvidia GPU’s to…

Network and Storage for VDI: Exactly the same, entirely different

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

Once upon a time as an admin you weren’t so sure about virtualization. It was yet another alien technology that management or a well-intentioned zealot in your IT organization was pushing on you, bringing a new set of challenges and…

Justifying the Cost of Virtual Desktops

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Justin Paul | 12 Comments

Recently I was putting together a proposal for a customer who needed to refresh 40 desktops, in the proposal I needed to compare the costs of replacing the aging desktops with new HP Desktop PC’s versus replacing them with VMware…

VMware View 1.2 iPad Client Released

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

This morning my iPad was showing one program that had an update available, and after checking which one I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was the VMware View Client. It looks like this is release 1.2 and holds…

Thinking about trying out VDI and Terminals? Check out HP ThinPro Demo

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

This morning while looking for the updated HP t5745 firmware I noticed another package on the support page called “HP ThinPro Operating System Demonstration Package”. So naturally I followed the link to figure out what sort of demo this was,…