Monthly Archives: July 2011

Samsung Chromebook Round 2

Posted on July 29, 2011 by

After using the Samsung Chromebook for about a week, I have determined that standard users will be alright with the browser-only computing experience; however power users and system administrators like us would only be hindered. First thing I wanted to … Continue reading →

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Quick Geek Shout-out

Posted on July 28, 2011 by

Still have my nose firmly to the grindstone building my XenDesktop environment, although this was a light week due to some scheduling issues.  Turned out to be a good thing because it gave me some time to catch up on … Continue reading →

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YAvLP – Yet Another vSphere Licensing Post

Posted on July 25, 2011 by

I was recently asked to write up my thoughts on the new vSphere5 licensing. In our current environment we have approximately 56 physical processors and 1536GB of memory spread across 18 servers. This infrastructure is supporting close to 500 virtual … Continue reading →

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The Man Behind the vCurtain

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

While I am not as garrulous or descriptive as Mike, I should at least introduce myself. My name is Les and I work as an IT Administrator with Mike, but have only been there for about 5 years; Before that I … Continue reading →

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Bringing in a guest blogger!

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

I’m happy to announce that Les Ault, the vSphere admin I refer to in this post, has offered to do author a series of posts for the site.  His first post will be about vSphere 5 licensing and its potential … Continue reading →

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Building my virtual desktop environment – one week in

Posted on July 15, 2011 by

We completed the seventh full day of work on my virtual desktop environment today, so I’m calling it a week even though it technically wrapped across two work weeks.  My original naive intention was to try to do daily blog … Continue reading →

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My Take on the vSphere 5 Licensing Kerfuffle

Posted on July 13, 2011 by

Update: I’ve posted a link to new information from VMware at the bottom of this post. I’m too busy right now building my XenDesktop environment on our FlexPods to digest all of the big cloud and other announcements coming out … Continue reading →

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Chromebook: Meh

Posted on July 12, 2011 by

So I decided to spend more time using the Chromebook to make sure I was giving the it a fair shake.  For the last week I’ve used the Chromebook as my primary home computer. The only time I used another … Continue reading →

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Chromebook First Impressions

Posted on July 6, 2011 by

In a rare instance of good timing, today was both the beginning of the build phase of my virtual desktop project and the arrival of a device I ordered a few weeks ago – a Samsung Series 5 Chromebook.  My … Continue reading →

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