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Xangati Released Two New Dashboards to extend their Software Suite

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Xangati just announced two new dashboards in their software suite. Xangati is a specialist in end-to-end real time monitoring, but their product offers some unique capabilities, like storm tracking or automatic recording when your infrastructure is performing badly. There is new Executive Dashboard which offers an overall view of VDI and VI components and also […]

How to add RDS functionality to Horizon View 6

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The newly announced Horizon View 6 flagship product from VMware brought great enhancements from the architectural point of view as you could already read about in my yesterday’s post. However from the administrator’s point of view (not from the architect’s perspective) there are some really cool features that I’d like to point out in this […]

VMware Horizon Workspace Fundamentals [V1.8] Free Training

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VMware Horizon Workspace 1.8 which has been released last month is fully compatible with vSphere 5.5 U1. The product grew further with new feature and enhancements. While you can read what’s new below, I’d like to point you to New Free 2 hours training for VMware Horizon Workspace 1.8 called VMware Horizon Workspace Fundamentals [V1.8]. If […]

Shadowing RDS connections in Windows 2012 R2

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Some sources reported that Microsoft has removed the possibility to shadow RDS connections in Windows 2012, but then put it back in the Windows 2012 R2 release. I quickly checked in my lab on two VMs, but saw that both versions of Windows Server 2012 allows that. I double checked that and unfortunately the statement […]

vSphere Homelabs in 2014 – scale up or scale out?

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Quite a few cool posts on home labs lately triggers this post concerning vSphere Homelabs in 2014 – designs and evolution. There was the first one I spotted on Erik Bussink’s blog yesterday which talks about Shift in homelab designs. Erik is right when saying that the requirements for homelab are exploding.  And now he just […]

Check out the TOP vBlog 2014 Results

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Last night I was watching (or trying to) the TOP vBlog 2014 voting live with @ericsiebert @jtroyer @RickVanover and @davidmdavis. Awesome event, great competition and excellent motivation for the future. This year there was 320 blogs participating. The list is just huge….-:) There was over 1400 votes this year compared to around 1300 last year. The number of […]

My VSAN Journey Part 3 – VSAN IO cards – search the VMware HCL

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I’m in a phase to build my own VSAN home-brewed cluster. I’m using mostly consumer parts, but where I probably won’t, it’s the IO card. Because it’s the IO card which make the disks visible to VSAN. It’s the card which will affect your system’s stability and reliability, so even I’m planing for homelab, I […]

My VSAN journey – Part 2 – How-to delete partitions to prepare disks for VSAN if the disks aren’t clean

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In part one of My VSAN journey I outlined the possibility to “clean” your disks if they were previously installed with VSAN or had partitions of different OS on it. You could also see my thought on going cheap on a homelab VSAN nodes with a Haswell low power node. As I was the part […]