Blog entries by Herco van Brug

These are some topics I ran into at customers that may benefit other people.

The VDI armageddon (about Storage impact of VDI)

Posted by: hbr in vdi, storage, impact, desktop virtualization on Nov 8, 2010

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, or VDI, is hot. It’s cool, secure, centrally managed, flexible - it’s an IT manager’s dream.

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Import a VM in Lab Manager using Orchestrator

Posted by: hbr in vCenter, server virtualization, script, Orchestrator, Labmanager, esx, bash on Nov 3, 2010

There are a lot of things you can automate in a virtual infrastructure. One of the tools that can help automate the more complex workflows is Orchestrator. It’s free when you have a vCenter and it’s very powerful.

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Script bits (update 4)

Posted by: hbr in script, powershell, esx, bash, Active Directory on Jun 1, 2010

This post is a quick gathering of a few small scripts I wrote with my IT-life's motto: "Never do anything twice"

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A blog post with Windows Live Writer to Joomla/myBlog

Posted by: hbr in MyBlog, Live Writer, Joomla on Jan 12, 2010

On the server side, take the next steps to install the MetaWebLog XMLRPC plugin in Joomla:

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Scheduled View VM refresh

Posted by: hbr in vmware, view, vdi, script, schedule, refresh, desktop virtualization on Dec 21, 2009

If you use non persistent desktops with VMware View, there are two options to reset the machine to its default state. One is immediately after a user logs off, the other is manually by a View Administrator. Currently, there is no way to schedule a VM reset at, say, 2PM. 

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Creating a VDI template

Posted by: hbr in vdi, template, desktop virtualization on Nov 17, 2009

A basic Windows XP machine can do a lot of things. Apart from facilitating an environment for a user's applications, it can do things like self maintenance, updates, hardware changes, etc. This is nice in a physical environment with lots of different pieces of hardware but in a virtual instance things hardly change, the environment is pretty much set and all tricks to speed things up usually have an adverse effect on the infrastructure. All these virtual instances need to share the often rather limited amount of resources.

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