Syndicated Industry Blogs from around the Web - January 2011 - Michel Roth Michel Roth

A closer look at the new "Dynamic Memory" feature of Hyper-V: is it worth it for VDI?

Over the past couple of months we have been designing the integration plans for Quest vWorkspace with RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory. I have gather my thoughts and written an article about it which has been published at BrianMadden.com. Microsoft Windows...

Published Jan 27 2011 by Michel Roth , 636 views, 0 comments

Installing print drivers and migrating the logical printers on Terminal Server

With all the beauty of Universal Printers being available in all major desktop virtualization products, installing a printer driver often is still needed for some printers. This article tells you how to do it via a PowerShell script. Then we will look...

Published Jan 26 2011 by Michel Roth , 496 views, 0 comments

Quest vWorkspace 7.2 Failover Mode

vWorkspace 7.2 has a newly added feature called “Failover Mode” that allows for a temporary virtual desktop in the event your normal virtual desktop is not available. This blog post shows the user experience. What is Failover Mode? Failover Mode - With...

Published Jan 26 2011 by Michel Roth , 665 views, 0 comments

Large Pages, Transparent Page Sharing and how they influence the consolidation ratio

This is a great article by VMware expert Gabri van Zanten. It also is a great example of why I think Dynamic Memory is going to be a very popular feature. In short, Gabri rightly states that using Large Pages is a tradeoff between memory savings and performance...

Published Jan 25 2011 by Michel Roth , 800 views, 0 comments

IBM Rolls Out Virtual Desktop Offering

IBM is working through resellers to roll out a VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) package that costs US$150 per user annually. Nice. But how? Is there some magic or is there fine print? The reason why I am skeptical is, how can they offer everything...

Published Jan 25 2011 by Michel Roth , 868 views, 0 comments

Oracle VDI 3.2.2 Maintenance Release

Oracle, yes Oracle, has made available the second release of their 3.2 maintenance release. Two tiny new features VDI 3.2.2 is available on My Oracle Support under Patch ID 11664634 to Oracle Support customers and Partners. This patch does squeeze in...

Published Jan 25 2011 by Michel Roth , 1,175 views, 0 comments

SolarWinds Acquires Hyper9

SolarWinds has acquired Hyper9.It seems SolarWinds wants to get into the virtualization management business. SolarWinds will offer Hyper9 products for a fraction of the cost of current virtualization management suites, making it one of the most affordable...

Published Jan 25 2011 by Michel Roth , 699 views, 0 comments

Modifying the default RD Web Access web page

RD Web Access, especially in R2, is one of those features that doesn’t look to bad right out of the gate. Of course, you could modify it. Here’s how you do it and not just for the look and feel), beyond the manual.) The good news is that at its core the...

Published Jan 24 2011 by Michel Roth , 1,468 views, 0 comments

12 Steps to a Better SBC(or VDI?) Farm

Andrew wood wrote a nice high level whitepaper that helps you get a better SBC farm by taking 12 steps . As with the original test, the higher the score the more likely you have a disciplined environment, a good team and a stable service that consistently...

Published Jan 24 2011 by Michel Roth , 430 views, 0 comments

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