The latest article in my Desktop Virtualization Bible has been published and it’s on VDI and IOPs. http://blog.danbrinkmann.com/2012/02/05/4-vdi-and-iops/
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Will 2012 be the year of Follow Me Data?
This market is growing and the potential is huge. Follow Me Data gives flexibility to the one thing users need in their move to multiple devices, hybrid on-premise and hosted infrastructure, and greater efficiencies…Access to their data! I posted an article outlining some of the features I’d like to see in such a solution that I think would cause enterprise organizations to take notice. Send me an email or tweet if you think I’ve missed any.
http://blog.danbrinkmann.com/2012/01/30/follow-me-data-aka-enterprise-dropbox/
Citrix Receiver with ShareFile integration
I posted a short video of me using Citrix Receiver with ShareFile “Docs” integration…check it out! http://blog.danbrinkmann.com/2012/01/19/citrix-receiver-with-sharefile-integration-video/
Denver VMware User Group VMUG presentation
Thank you to everyone who braved the snow and attended the VMUG today. Special thanks to Cale Fogel from VMware for the all of the assistance demo’ing and discussing vSphere 5 today.
Denver VMUG nov 2011
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Citrix User Group on November 1, 2011
Are you a Citrix administrator? Are you curious about Desktop Virtualization? Were you in Barcelona Spain for Synergy 2011 this week? If not then you should be here, Citrix has acquired 3 companies in the last 6 months, they’ve released updates for literally every product they sell…if you don’t live and breath this stuff you need to be here.
Description:
You are cordially invited to attend the Denver, CO Citrix User Group Meeting.
Our goals are simple… we want to foster community, dialogue, and an exchange of ideas within the rapidly growing Citrix community.
- Learn more about the Citrix Desktop Transformation Model including:
- Defining user segmentation
- Base architecture and design recommendations
- Lessons learned from the field
You will be the key to a successful Citrix User Group community! Citrix staff will be available for questions and answers after the meeting.
We look forward to seeing you at the best User Group in Colorado!
12:00pm – 12:30pm Registration & Lunch Served
12:30pm – 3:00pm Presentations
Location:
Cisco Office
9155 E Nichols Ave
# 400
Englewood CO 80112-3419
(720) 875-2900
Upcoming Data Center to Desktop event at Mile High Station
I’d like to invite everyone to an upcoming event Lewan & Associates is hosting with our partners: Cisco, NetApp, AppSense, and Citrix
When:
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
2:45 pm – 6:00 pm
Where:
Mile High Station
2027 W Lower Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80204
Agenda:
2:45 – 3:00 Registration
3:00 – 4:30 Technical Discussion
4:30 – 5:00 Panel Discussion
5:00 – 6 :00 Social Hour with drinks and appetizers
http://www.lewan.com/ClassRegistration/ClassRegistrationDisplay.asp?p1=114&p2=Y&Sort=
We will have keynote speakers from each vendor discussing their joint architectures for Desktop Virtualization. We’re hoping to even have some of the new Cisco VXI client’s onsite for people to see too. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11295/Products_Sub_Category_Home.html
We’ll conclude with a panel discussion led by leaders from Lewan, Cisco, NetApp, AppSense, and Citrix where everyone will have an opportunity to ask questions of the panel…which should lead to a lively discussion!
A social hour with drinks and appetizers will give everyone some one-on-one time with the technical resources from the vendors and time to mingle and meet your industry peers.
Things we’ll be covering:
- Ideas to improve your architecture to deploy a virtual environment to end users
- How to easily manage your virtual deployment and endpoints
- How virtual deployment affects your network
- How to manage and size your storage environment
- How to deploy VOIP as part of a desktop virtualization project
Questions we hope you’ll have answered when you leave:
- I’ve heard that using video in a virtual desktop won’t work, is that true or false?
- I’ve heard that desktop virtualization is expensive, how can I reduce the cost of a desktop virtualization project?
- I’ve heard that disk IO is critical in desktop virtualization, what methods are available for optimizing disk for desktop virtualization, or virtualization in general?
- I’m not going to do any desktop virtualization today, but I might in the future, how do I begin building for that future state?
Denver VMware User Group VMUG
Lewan is sponsoring the upcoming Denver VMUG, if you want to learn more about VMware products and network with others in your industry signup and attend. I hope to see you there!
Join us for the upcoming Denver VMUG meeting! This is a great opportunity to come together with your fellow VMware users to discuss virtualization trends, best practices, and the latest technology!
Registration is open and included as part of your VMUG member benefits. Please note, in order to register for this meeting we ask that you sign up for a complimentary VMUG membership, if you haven’t already done so. Click login below to sign up today.
http://www.myvmug.org/e/in/eid=221
Meeting Agenda
- 11:15 a.m. – Doors open
- 11:30 a.m.- Lunch served
- 11:45 a.m.- Open discussion
- 12:15 p.m. – What’s New at VMware/VMworld review
- 12:30 p.m.- vSphere 5 overview
- 1:15 p.m.- vSphere 5 Demo
- 2:00 p.m.- Questions, discussions, giveaways
Thank you to our meeting sponsor: 
Citrix XenDesktop Hypervisor Support Matrix
Recommended disk or LUN sizes for VMware ESX/ESXi installations
August 25, 2011 VMware vSphere Performance Monitoring and Troubleshooting
Thank you to everyone who came out today to join us at Sports Authority Field. As a reminder, please let me/us know what we can do to help make you and your company successful.
- VMware vSphere 5 architecture and design session, we’ve been part of the beta program now for many months and we’re ready to help you successfully upgrade or implement vSphere 5
- vSphere Health Check, configuration drift happens, best practices changes, lets get your environment back on track
- Onsite vSphere Performance Analysis session
- POC or implementation of vCenter Operations, we’ve got it setup in our offices, you are all welcome to come poke around and see what it can do.
- “Enlightened Enterprise”, not ready for cloud IAAS yet but interested in using some of the features being developed in public cloud infrastructures?
Thanks again for coming, follow me on twitter @dbrinkmann – see you all again soon!
http://www.slideshare.net/dbrinkmann/vmware-vsphere-performance-troubleshooting