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Horizon Mobile – demos, links and feeds
Since the announcement at VMworld 2011, I have had some interest from my customer base around Horizon Mobile and set up a couple of calls with one of the Product Marketing Managers for Horizon Mobile. She shared some great publicly available information as well as some feeds you may want to follow to stay up…
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vCenter Orchestrator – You Own It, Use It!
At lunch this week with a customer when the subject of automation came up, as it seems to more and more frequently these days. They were looking for a way to automate provisioning of servers so that they could reduce time to market. What product would help them with that, they asked. You already own…
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Setting the Citrix CLIENTNAME to match the View client host name
Often, applications will use the Citrix client name to assign location based resources (printers, for example). In the case of a Citrix XenApp session running from a Windows based View session, location awareness is lost because Citrix client name assumes the Windows host name of the VM, not the endpoint (a thin client or View…
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Changes
Tomorrow I will make my last sales call for Compellent. It’s been a great, albeit short, ride with an up and coming storage company and I appreciate every thing about the past 13 months. There are so many great people at Compellent who I will miss and I wish them the very best in whatever…
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A Pool of Storage
I saw a question pop up on Twitter regarding the difference between “free allocated vs unallocated disk space” on a Compellent Storage Center. I believe the question arises out of this screen from the System Manager GUI: The bar graph shows the storage utilization for disks in the default “Assigned” disk folder (which is typically…
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Sub-LUN Tiering Design Discussion
Nigel Poulton’s recent blog posting on storage architecture considerations when using sub-LUN tiering is very thoughtful and I appreciate his approach and concern for the subject. Indeed, one of the challenges for me in working with new Compellent customers is helping them understand the different approach to storage design using automated tiering with sub-LUN granularity….
John Dias