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• Recovering From a Massive Microsoft DFSR Failure Quickly

  By wfcastle33 on September 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Hi everyone. Heard this one? Three engineers were riding in a car: a mechanical engineer, a chemical engineer, and a Microsoft software engineer. The car stalled, so they rolled it to the side of the road and got out to… Read More ›

• iSCSI Storage + Cisco UCS + vSphere 6= FTW!

  By wfcastle33 on September 1, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Notes from building a Cisco UCS infrastructure with vSphere 6 and iSCSI storage.

• VDI Vertical Monitor Setup with WYSE Zero Clients

  By wfcastle33 on June 18, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Recently I pulled myself out of the datacenter for a while to help install VDI hardware and speed up the roll out. There are two problems that come up frequently when it comes to a VMware Horizon View 6.1 infrastructure… Read More ›

• The Joy and Woe of Six – Initial Problems and Improvements with VMware’s Horizon 6 and Workspace 2.1

  By wfcastle33 on April 7, 2015 • ( 0 )

  I recently upgraded my View and Workspace installations to versions 6.0.1 and 2.1 respectively. My personal installation notes for these two technologies are here (View) and here (Workspace). What happened after the upgrade is what this post is about. There… Read More ›

• Optimizing P2V Conversions with VMware Converter Stand Alone 5.5.3

  By wfcastle33 on March 21, 2015 • ( 0 )

  A couple of years ago I added notes on speeding up physical to virtual conversion using VMware’s Stand Alone Converter 5. Recently, I had to do another conversion, this time with Converter version 5.5.3. I’m happy to report that the… Read More ›

• Promote Users to Admins in VMware Workspace Portal 2.1

  By wfcastle33 on March 12, 2015 • ( 0 )

  This little task isn’t very well documented by VMware, so I’m writing it down here so I don’t spend an hour poking around the admin console. Again. Just to back that up, here’s the sentence in the VMware Workspace Portal… Read More ›

• VMware Workspace Portal 2.1 Installation Notes and Solutions

  By wfcastle33 on March 9, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Portal is the new version of VMware’s Workspace, a complementary interface to gather and display all the desktop pools, applications and files for enterprise users. This version is much smaller, one VM rather than a five or six (if redundant… Read More ›

• Upgrading VMware Horizon View to Version 6.x – Lists and Fixes

  By wfcastle33 on March 3, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Upgrading a VMware Horizon View environment from 5.3 to 6.01 is straight forward. I created the checklist (at the end of this entry) that is just a subset of the one VMware provides, it’s just shorter and more concise. The… Read More ›

• Creating an Isolated VDI Pool With vCloud Networking and Security Suite – Real World Example

  By wfcastle33 on February 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Instructions on logically isolating a group of VMs in a VDI pool using VCNS 5.5, vShield Edge

• Microsoft Office 365 Migration Considerations

  By wfcastle33 on October 13, 2014 • ( 0 )

  A few weeks ago I visited a Gartner conference on Microsoft Office 365. We were considering trying it out until the notes below were passed around. We’re going to wait a while to see how all this shakes out. For… Read More ›

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