I excited to be a speaker at Pure Storage’s Pure EVOLVE 2013 conference in San Francisco later this month. I’ll speak about why my employer (a hospital) selected Pure Storage’s SSD SAN, the mixed workload that it’s running (VMware View and Microsoft SQL databases), and the performance we are receiving.
Yearly Archives: 2013
VMware View Feature Pack 2 and Microsoft Lync 2013 client
After recently updating my VMware View parent virtual machines, I discovered that a particular combination of settings prevents the Microsoft Lync Basic 2013 client from launching: Windows 7 SP1 x86 Microsoft Lync Basic 2013 15.0.4420.1017 Security Update for Microsoft Lync 2013 (KB2817465) 32-bit Edition VMware Horizon View 5.2 Remote Experience Agent (aka Feature Pack 2) …
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Google Giveth, Google Taketh Away
Ten days ago Google killed off their Google Reader service, a site I visited multiple times a day. It was main source of content on the internet and represented years of curated RSS feeds. Today, Google announced that it will soon do the same for their Google Latitude service. I used this service today to …
Completed a VMware vCenter 5.1 U1a upgrade
This weekend I performed a vCenter 5.1 U1a upgrade (from vCenter 4.1 U1). While the upgrade went well and had only a few issues, I could not have done it as well without these two resources. Derek Seaman’s vSphere 5.1 Resources VMware vCenter Certificate Automation Tool This was certainly the most complex vCenter upgrade I’ve …
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Increase the number of available ephemeral ports
During the VMware vCenter Server 5.1 installation there is an option to check a box that says “Increase the number of available ephemeral ports.” The description reads: If your vCenter Server manages hosts on which you will power on more than 2000 virtual machines simultaneously, this option prevents the pool of available ephemeral ports from …
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