Entering the Atomic Age, the Intel Nuke (NUC) that will Change Desktop Virtualization History! Powered by MaximumBit Desktop365

Over the last several months I have had the honor of evaluating a killer new solution that will forever change the Desktop Virtualization industry! The Intel NUC (pronounced nuke) small form factor is very disruptive and innovative, but it's the power of ViewSonic's distribution and MaximumBit Desktop365 that will truly make this a game changer. Think of this as VDI Out-of-the-Box (not VDI-in-a-Box)! The automation and management platform that MaximumBit built enables this tiny  device to support a full Desktop Virtualization solution in less than an hour from unboxing, hopefully opening up new markets to the value of Citrix products. [...]

Rebranding AppSense Management Suite to DesktopNow Requires a Fresh Look at AppSense User Virtualization! Part 1

Meeting with a colleague earlier this week, I discovered that a significant rebranding/realignment occurred with one of our ecosystem partners, AppSense. Similar to Citrix’s acquisition of Xen, requiring a rebranding of all core products, our friends over at AppSense have finalized their branding initiative to classify three core product families, DesktopNow (Formerly AppSense Management Suite / AMS family includes Environment Manager, Application Manager, and Performance Manager), DataNow (Corporate/secured Dropbox solution), and MobileNow (Mobile Device Management / Mobile Application Management / Enterprise AppStore). While I won’t go into detail on what each of these product families will cover, I felt it [...]

Rebranding AppSense Management Suite to DesktopNow Requires a Fresh Look at AppSense User Virtualization! Part 2

If you’ve just stumbled upon this article, I recommend you start from the beginning by clicking the Part 1 link below.  For easy reading, I’ve broken this blog post into four parts: Part 1: AppSense DesktopNow Single Server Installation Part 2: AppSense DesktopNow Single Server Configuration < YOU ARE HERE! Part 3: Importing the Base Configuration Part 4: Deploying the Client Communications Agent Click Launch Management Server Configuration once the install has finished: Review the Welcome screen and click Next: Review the prerequisites and click View: Click Repair All to remedy any required prerequisites: Click Refresh: Once all requirements have been [...]

Rebranding AppSense Management Suite to DesktopNow Requires a Fresh Look at AppSense User Virtualization! Part 3

If you’ve just stumbled upon this article, I recommend you start from the beginning by clicking the Part 1 link below.  For easy reading, I’ve broken this blog post into four parts: Part 1: AppSense DesktopNow Single Server Installation Part 2: AppSense DesktopNow Single Server Configuration Part 3: Importing the Base Configuration < YOU ARE HERE! Part 4: Deploying the Client Communications Agent From the Start Menu, launch the AppSense Environment Manager Console: To provide a starting point for Proof of Concept deployments, I am providing a Base Configuration MSI that can be imported into Environment Manager. This is a collection [...]

Rebranding AppSense Management Suite to DesktopNow Requires a Fresh Look at AppSense User Virtualization! Part 4

If you’ve just stumbled upon this article, I recommend you start from the beginning by clicking the Part 1 link below.  For easy reading, I’ve broken this blog post into four parts: Part 1: AppSense DesktopNow Single Server Installation Part 2: AppSense DesktopNow Single Server Configuration Part 3: Importing the Base Configuration Part 4: Deploying the Client Communications Agent < YOU ARE HERE! From an AppSense Managed System, navigate to http://%appsenseservername%/ManagementServer in a Web Browser. Click either AppSense CCA 32 Bit or AppSense CCA 64 Bit: Click Run: Click Run: Click Next: Accept the License Agreement and click Next: Click Next: [...]

VSX2012 Presentation – Advancements in Hypervisor Technologies

I was recently asked to present an agnostic session on "Advancements in Hypervisor Technologies" at the Virtualization Solutions Exchange, sponsored by Entisys Solutions (www.VSX2012.com). Below is the description of the session, followed by the YouTube upload and images from the slidedeck. In this presentation Dane Young (@youngtech) Systems Engineer and Jaymes Davis (@cloudprophet) Virtualization Practice Manager from Entisys Solutions discuss the advancements in hypervisor technologies. In an advanced session geared toward technologists and engineers, the presenter will discuss product development timelines and how to create synergies between virtual infrastructures and today's leading hypervisor platforms. Key take-aways from this session include [...]

HP Customized VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1 Installation Media Does Not Include Emulex OneConnect be2net CNA Drivers

UPDATE: HP has fixed this issue with their branded installation media. Use the following link to download directly from HP: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/vmware/esxi-image.html For general information on performing this process in case drivers are excluded from the installation media in the future, read on! I recently decided to update a couple hosts in our demo center to vSphere 5.1. These hosts are HP Blades (BL460 and BL490 G7s) in a C7000 chassis with Emulex CNAs and Flex-10/FlexFabric Virtual Connects. These servers are all configured to boot from SAN using FCoE LUNs. To get started, the first place I went was to HP’s [...]

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