15. September 2010 by Tony.

The VDI calculator is targeted for VMware View designs, however you can use the calculator for any VDI running on top of vSphere infrastructure. Please leave your comments or questions below.Recommended Practices to follow:
Number of Desktop Pools: it will ERR more than 512 VM’s per pool.
Concurrent Users: Concurrent users is different from Number of VMs
%Used memory: 80%
%Shared Memory: 40% or 50% (if all desktops running same OS)
Host redundancy: No host redundancy is included in the calculations
Fill all fields as they somewhat relate to each other.

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8. July 2010 by Tony.

Details

FusionStorm — “Making Technology Work” — is a leading, national provider of IT products, professional services, support contract services and 24×7 managed services for enterprises of all sizes. The company delivers complete solutions for system infrastructure, storage, networking, voice-over-IP, security, database, disaster recovery, managed hosting and remote managed services. FusionStorm offices include San Francisco (HQ), San Jose, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Las Vegas, Cincinnati, Boston and Chicago. We have an immediate opportunity for a Senior Systems Engineer, Desktop Virtualization on the East Coast. Position Summary: The SSE provides technical leadership and solution/project delivery for customer-facing projects of any size or degree of complexity. In addition, the SSE will perform complex technical analysis and hands-on technical tasks as part of assigned projects. The SSE is relied upon to accurately execute projects within time and budget and provide significant knowledge transfer to more junior team members and customers. Work with practice director in tuning project scope based on project experience. Some scoping of projects when not engaged in project and solution delivery engagements. Primary Duties / Responsibilities: * Plans and leads all aspects of all projects. * Effectively multi-tasks across multiple initiatives/projects with a high speed of delivery. * Acts as the primary interface for the client or project manager for basic to intermediate projects. * Takes an active role in business development of net-new or follow on engagements. * Provides technical “thought leadership” to the sales team as well as junior and other practice leaders and members as necessary. * Leads, plans and designs technical solutions that meet, or exceed, customer requirements and expectations. * Creates an environment where others feel it is safe to be open and candid, and where conflicting ideas and opinions are regularly discussed. * Takes full responsibility for overall execution and delivery of critical tasks or projects. * Stays focused on department and strategic priorities and allocates their time and resources accordingly. * Steadily leads others through the ambiguity and newness of both planned and unexpected project changes. * Mentors, coaches, provides timely feedback, and helps develop the skills of others; attracts new talent to the team. * Works with and through others to consistently break down barriers between departments. * Exemplifies excellence by setting high standards for themselves and others, while demonstrating endurance and the ability to lead the team through major obstacles. * Leads by example and wouldn’t think of asking others to do something he/she wouldn’t gladly do. * Engages, encourages and inspires colleagues and customers through a positive personal presence. Primary Qualifications and Requirements: * Positive customer service attitude * Extensive track record implementing large, complex enterprise-class solutions using Citrix, Microsoft and VMware technologies * Extensive experience in delivery of technical collateral across entire portfolio (white papers, knowledge base, Education courseware, etc). Technical Skills o Extensive skills with Citrix Products and Technologies and/or competitive and relevant technologies. o Knowledge of server and desktop virtualization. o Extensive skills with Windows Networking, Active Directory, GPO. o Advanced Networking concepts (TCP/IP, Routing, Firewalls, Network Security) Requirements (Education, Certification, Training, and Experience) o 1-3 yrs experience as virtualization SE, Consulting Manager, or equivalent experience. o Willing to travel 50% of the time with 70-80% of this travel within the GEO for GEO-based roles. o The following certifications preferred: CCIA, CCEE, CCEA, CCA, MCSE/MCITP. o Specific knowledge for the qualified candidate would include: o Extensive XenApp, XenDesktop, NetScaler, or XenServer hands-on. Additional Qualifications and Requirements * Application Development, SQL, and/or scripting experience a plus * Citrix CCI a plus. Would act as the primary Instructor for specific Citrix Authorized training classes. * VMware VCP, VTSP a plus ( or equivalent ESX, ESXi, vShpere, and View experience and hands-on). Want to know more about FusionStorm? Please visit our website at www.fusionstorm.com and CHECK OUT OUR GREAT BENEFITS! In addition to offering competitive compensation plans and long-term career opportunities, FusionStorm provides an attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to its employees’ good health, future financial security and peace of mind. Please visit our website for more information about our competitive benefits package: http://www.fusionstorm.com/careers/benefits.html. You must be authorized to work in the United States. FusionStorm is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong commitment to supporting and retaining a diverse and talented workforce. No AGENCIES, please. We are not obligated to pay any fees for any individuals we decide to hire.

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21. December 2009 by Tony.

ABSTRACT:

Today’s businesses are tasked with providing the most effective work environment for their users, while meeting budgetary restrictions and maintaining security initiatives. In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchVirtualDesktop.com and Citrix, you will discover how virtual desktops can be used to meet the growing demands of today’s businesses. Gain insight into the significant benefits associated with virtual desktop technology and explore the top ways VDI can be used to improve the security of your organization. Learn how to determine whether or not available virtual desktop technologies will meet your users’ needs and enhance their work capabilities. Get it here

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8. September 2009 by Tony.

At VMworld 2009 in San Francisco, Ann Livermore, executive vice president of HP’s services organization, announces two new virtualization solutions that will give system administrators the ability to better virtualize and converge their entire IT infrastructure by enabling access of virtual and physical assets inside the environment.

‘Today we’re announcing a whole set of additional solutions along with VMware, and these are things that we think greatly extend the value and capabilities around our virtualization solutions. The first one extends the power of the desktop all the way back to the data center. What we’re introducing is our HP Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Reference Architecture. And this allows you to plan, implement and have a highly scalable computing infrastructure based on built from the desktop. The second introduction is a solution which will enable you to greatly increase the productivity of the administrators inside your environment and to be able to manage both the physical and virtual assets in the environment. So this is taking our insight control software and making it available along with vCenter. And this is integrated fully in all of our ProLiant products and also our BladeSystem products so you’ve got that integration right from the box of the management capabilities, and just a dramatic improvement in the productivity for the administrators. A step further than that is our next solution which is also focused on helping with the management of the environment, which, again, we think is one of the key challenges around getting the benefits from virtualization. And this is a step where we’ve taken some enhancements to our HP Operation’s Center software and also our HP Business Service Automation software. And we’ve taken this and done some additional work to enable, again, the full management of the environment. Not just the individual boxes but the environment for both a virtual and a physical world. So you look at all these things and go back to the trends I was mentioning the huge demands that are sitting on top of almost every CIO today and these 3 big trends happening in the marketplace. The data centers in need of transformation, the explosion of information that has to be managed, being able to take services that are being delivered and integrate them into your environment.”

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19. June 2009 by Tony.

Apparently there are some issues pertaining to

Communication with the DDC (pools not working)

Xendesktop Setup Wizard stops working because its no longer sees the templates

the proxy.xml file may be overwritten when upgrading from VCenter Server 2.5 to 4.0

Citrix is working on releasing a hotfix

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