18 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop?

Hello, I’ve been researching whether to use VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop for a large VDI deployment at my work. Recently I had both companies demo their products and I must say I was impressed with both. XenDesktop has a feature called FlexCast that intelligently adjusts the DVI solution to available bandwidth, where-as View has [...]

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Creating Windows templates for deployment in Virtual Center

This will cover Windows templates but the same steps are used with Linux, except the Sysprep. After you get your VM the way you want it, patches, secured and have your applications installed, you right click on it in the inventory windows of your virtual center and select “convert to template”. Converting to a template [...]

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vKernel CapacityVIEW is Free and Works!

Yesterday I saw a demos of the vKernel CpacityVIEW tool that is a free download from vKernels website. It sums up some the more complete tool like Capacity Analyzer into one page. Which is a good thing if you ever use the Capacity Analyzer tool. Aside from the huge product links on the dashboard, it’s [...]

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