It is 2022 and I am still quite surprised at the number of people with an incorrect appreciation on why portfast is good for hypervisor hosts. So, a week ago (26-Feb-2022), I posted a poll on LinkedIn, to cast a wider net to see if my observation scales to a greater population. Indeed the common… Read More »
This post focuses on the different aspects to be aware of to deploy a Nutanix Cluster. There are other considerations when we zoom out to look at large scale deployments, such as for Cloud Infrastructure transformation from traditional 3 tier storage deployments to Hyper-converged Infrastructure, but that will be another post for another day. Nutanix… Read More »
This is a question that was posed to me recently, it’s an unusual but valid scenario which I feel is worthy of sharing. This is a Horizon View virtual desktop use case where the virtual desktop is hosted in Singapore, and the users are located overseas. In this situation they were in China and Korea,… Read More »
This post was written on the 5th May 2015. Hopefully sometime in the near future it is no longer relevant, but until then, be aware of an error in a KB article (2085383) for Horizon View 6.x network ports. I’m compelled to write this post as I’ve just encountered a 2nd partner who got misled by… Read More »
Optimisation Type [explain] : user experience (-) / resource optimisation (-) / functionality (-) / administration (↑) I have seen situations where virtual desktops oddly lose network connectivity. After some investigation, it was found that the NIC for the virtual desktop had disappeared. The root cause was determined to be an accidental eject of the virtual… Read More »