Varrow Blogs

A lot of people installed vSphere 4 Update 2 when it released, only to find that desktop connections using PCoIP (a multimedia-optimized remote desktop option for VMware View)  would no longer work.  The tricky part is that the problem only occurs once VMware Tools is upgraded in the guest, and since not everyone does that immediately [...]

Beware using IP DHCP PING (Cisco) or DHCP Conflict Detection (Windows) when deploying templates in VMware vCenter. If the DHCP server takes too long to answer a DHCP request, Guest Customization will time out while attempting to join a Windows VM to a domain (it makes two attempts). This will be recorded in the logs [...]

I got the chance to play around with a new WYSE P20 thin client today at our lab.  The new P20 is designed specifically to take advantage of the new PCoIP technology found in VMware View 4.  What makes this thin client different is that is optimizes performance using a dedicated HARDWARE PCoIP engine from [...]

In my last few blogs about Windows 7 I ranted a little about how I was impressed so far with the latest OS release from the evil empire of Microsoft (had to put that in there for the Mac geeks).  The biggest thing I had to whine about was that the VMware View client wouldn’t work [...]

When it comes to Thin Client computing there are several questions that typically come up.  The big one is usually “What about video performance?”.   Video performance was typically subpar or “choppy”, how choppy usually depending on what protocol (ICA or RDP) you were using.  WYSE responded with it TCX Multimedia Redirection software which significantly improved [...]