Syndicated Industry Blogs from around the Web - March 2012 - Michel Roth Michel Roth

Free tools for VMware View– or other VDI products

This article sums up a couple of free tools which you can use designing, implementing and maintaining a VMware View Infrastructure or any other VDI implementation like Quest vWorkspace or Citrix XenDesktop. I’ve divided the tools in the following categories...

Published Mar 30 2012 by Michel Roth , 450 views, 0 comments

Sysinternals Tools Updated: ProcMon 3.0 released

The famous sysinternals tools have been updated: AccessChk v 5.03, Autoruns & Autorunsc v 11.22, ProcMon v 3.0, PsList v 1.3, where ProcMon v 3.0 is the cool one. Process Monitor v3.0: This update to Process Monitor, a real-time file, registry...

Published Mar 29 2012 by Michel Roth , 454 views, 0 comments

Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP): Overview

Probably the main reason most people know MDOP is App-V but there are a lot more components to it. This article highlights the other components in MDOP. Microsoft provided an excellent manageable operating system with Windows 7 Enterprise. However, to...

Published Mar 29 2012 by Michel Roth , 411 views, 0 comments

The Pros and Cons of Using Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

This article provides a high level insight to the advantages and disadvantages of VDI. Many organizations continue to run Windows XP on many or all of their desktop PCs, either because migration typically requires costly hardware upgrades, time-consuming...

Published Mar 29 2012 by Michel Roth , 360 views, 0 comments

How ‘Free’ are free Server Virtualization Products?

This article by Wilco van Bragt describes what the free product actually offers and how useful these free versions are, it will just mention and compare the available features. When considering a free hypervisor you should always test the product to see...

Published Mar 28 2012 by Michel Roth , 369 views, 0 comments

vWorkspace Connector for Android version 1.2 Beta

Quest released a new beta for the vWorkspace Connector for Android and it packs some new features. Give it a try on the Amazon Fire or Cisco Cius. See below for answers to questions regarding items such as where to find documentation and new functionality...

Published Mar 27 2012 by Michel Roth , 391 views, 0 comments

Boot storms and how to avoid them (without using vWorkspace HyperCache)

The short answer is to use Quest vWorkspace HyperCache. The long version is to read this article . Seriously. A “boot storm” is the tremendous performance drain experienced when hundreds or thousands of users logon at, or near, the same time in VDI environments...

Published Mar 27 2012 by Michel Roth , 338 views, 0 comments

Remote Desktop Server farms explained

In this second part of Remote Desktop Server farms article series, the author will see why and how the RD Connection Broker serves a central role. This article continues where we left off in Part 1. In Part 1, we walked through the different types of...

Published Mar 26 2012 by Michel Roth , 329 views, 0 comments

New Brian Madden book "The VDI Delusion" sponsored by Quest Software

I knew this was coming but now we can finally talk about it. Brian Madden has written a cool book of the subject of VDI and Quest Software is a proud and exclusive sponsor of it. You may have noticed that I haven't written much on BrianMadden.com...

Published Mar 23 2012 by Michel Roth , 603 views, 0 comments

VKernel Announces Ins and Outs of IOPS White Paper

VKernel's new white paper "Ins and Outs of IOPS" is a guide to help IT administrators gain a better understanding of IOPS, storage I/O and the impact storage has on non-virtualized and virtualized performance. IT admins will learn about storage...

Published Mar 23 2012 by Michel Roth , 371 views, 0 comments

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