I am no network super-genius but I do enough with networking to be able to get by. Two common mistakes I find many times are flat networks and firewalls as the default gateway. A flat network is when generally switches are connected to one another without any configuration. There is one broadcast domain which means […]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Using Network Load Balancing with View
If you have a smaller View deployment but still want to have redundant connection servers look no further than Microsoft NLB. Solve this problem without the need for an expensive hardware loadbalancer. Will it have all of the bells and whistles? No. If you have less than a 1000 users you probably would not see […]
Adaptive Queuing in ESX
While troubleshooting another issue a week or two ago I came across this VMware knowledge base article. Having spent most of the time with other brand arrays in the past, I thought this was a pretty cool solution verses just increasing the queue length of the HBA. I would recommend setting this on your 3par […]
My Fun with the VMware Enterprise Administration and Design Exams
Sorry I have been missing for a few weeks. I know many were quite worried why I hadn’t blogged for a couple weeks (not really). Back in February I sat for the Enterprise Administration Exam at PEX in Las Vegas. It was scheduled the day after the Super Bowl, what a bunch of distractions. Thankfully […]
Ask Good Questions
This happened a long time ago. I arrived at a customer site to install View Desktop Manager (may have been version 2). This was before any cool VDI sizing tools like Liquidware Labs. I am installing ESX and VDM I casually ask, “What apps will you be running on this install?” The answer was, “Oh, […]