Tweaking your Windows 7/XP Desktops on VDI
My buddy John Simon has put together some common tweaks he uses for for his company’s Virtual Desktops. These are easy tweaks that can be used in VMware…
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How to enable ALUA and Round Robin Multipathing with ESX and Clariion CX4
John Simon put in some hard work and great effort in producing and SHARING this document on how to enable ALUA and Round Robin Multipathing. For some background…
New VMware View Version – Say that 5 times!
Although not totally NEW – It’s been out for about a month; VMware View 3.1.1 Build version 175957 is out. The release notes can be found here. The …
Configuring a Network share for VMware Data Recovery (vDR)
Now that you have dutifully followed John Simon’s clever documentation on installing vDR, you’ll need to give your little appliance some storage space to dump those backups too. …
How to install the VMware Data Recovery Appliance (vDR)
Once again John Simon has sent me some very thorough documentation from our recent engagement with VMware’s Data Recovery Appliance. If you have seen some of John’s earlier…
How to migrate an ESX 3.5 v4 VM to vSphere v7 VM
Now that VMware has released their first set of patches for vSphere, let the mass migrations begin! :) John Simon sent me over his EXTENSIVE notes from our…
Quick Tips for Troubleshooting vDR (VMware Data Recovery)
After working a couple of weeks with vDR, John Simon sent me over some of his favorite quick commands for troubleshooting and working with the appliance driven backup…
Creating a LUN on an EMC NS20 Celerra Filer
Creating a LUN on an EMC NS20 Celerra Filer – Screen grabs by John Simon To leverage enterprise features of VMware such as DRS, vMotion and HA, shared…