April, 2010 | 2vcps and a Truck

Firewalls are not Routers

Post Author:Jon Owings
Post published:April 29, 2010
Post Category:network / Uncategorized
Post Comments:3 Comments

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…

Using Network Load Balancing with View

Post Author:Jon Owings
Post published:April 26, 2010
Post Category:Uncategorized / view
Post Comments:11 Comments

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…

Adaptive Queuing in ESX

Post Author:Jon Owings
Post published:April 25, 2010
Post Category:storage / Uncategorized
Post Comments:0 Comments

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,…

My Fun with the VMware Enterprise Administration and Design Exams

Post Author:Jon Owings
Post published:April 22, 2010
Post Category:administration / capacity / Uncategorized / vcdx
Post Comments:8 Comments

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…

Ask Good Questions

Post Author:Jon Owings
Post published:April 5, 2010
Post Category:network / performance / Uncategorized / view / vmware
Post Comments:3 Comments

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…