Varrow Blogs

Recently Chad Sakac wrote an article on using some PowerShell scripts to quickly deploy VDI replicas.  As always, it’s a very good article but I wanted to expound a bit on what he has written and provide more instruction on setup and use.  I have had the opportunity to use and demo these scripts lately [...]

If you notice the dates on my posts you’ll see I haven’t been blogging lately but that doesn’t mean I’m not working on some interesting things.  Lately I’ve been doing a lot with snapshots from iSCSI LUNs on Celerras while playing with VMware’s VDM.  The Celerra CLI allows you to do some powerful things with [...]

I recently started working with Windows 2008 and decided to build a Windows 2008 VMware ESX template to use to roll out Windows 2008 Servers.
I first upgraded my Virtual Center to 2.5 Update 3 and then updated my host to 3.5 Update 2 and all post update 2 patches. I did these updates because my [...]

Citrix XenApp is the new name for Citrix Presentation Server. The following clients and components have been updated to reflect that product name.
Citrix XenApp Advanced Configuration is the new name for the Presentation Server Console
Citrix XenApp Plugin for Hosted Apps is the new name for the plugin for server-side virtualization (formerly named Citrix Presentation Server [...]

I did a VMware ESX project last week at a client that has HP ProCurve switches. I had worked a little with HP ProCurve switches in the past so I knew the terminology that HP uses is different than what Cisco uses.
Cisco vs. HP terminology:
Trunk

Cisco - Trunk links provide VLAN identification for frames traveling between [...]

I am currently in the process of going through VMware’s Lighthouse certification for Lifecycle Manager. For enterprises with large numbers of VM’s this product really has a lot of potential to easy the load on System Admins using automation and proces…