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These are a few key reasons that Desktop Virtualization or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is such an important driver currently and how to tell in the future if it is a relevant delivery option.Minimum device resources in multiple device tiers drive Virtual Desktops Low cost per device tier drive Virtual Desktops. Ubiquity of Internet connectivity drives Virtual Desktops. More base Hardware compared to operating system base requirements drive ...

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What do you do if you want to copy your vhd's from a share to your storage on your Hyper-V server?I guess cut and paste...What if you don't want to get your fingers all sticky from the GUI?Lets try some powershell:First lets create the directory so wh acn have a copy of the vhd's where we want it. Lets create a folder in the ...

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Wow, a lot of jumping between XenServer, Hyper-V and vSphere this week. It really was fun, fun, fun until I had to take my daugher's T-bird away. But that is yet another story.Today's topic is everyone's favorite xml file, proxy.xml. What fun! Ah, the pleasant days spent in a customer's datacenter, conference room, or cube hacking away at this file. I ...

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As you can probably guess, I've been working on configuring a pool of XenServers via SSH. Partially because my daughter stole the batteries out of my mouse for her Leapster, and partially because I've always wanted to be like those computer guys you see on movies. You know the ones with the Hot Pockets, Cheetos, and Mountain-Dew, typing furiously with a console session ...

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Sometimes it comes in handy to manage your XenServer via command line. Maybe you just want to perform some of the xsconsole functions. Here are some options:From a Mac:1. Navigate to Applications > Utilities > Terminal 2. use the ssh command to get to your XenServer. lets try an example where we are connecting with teh default root account on a ...

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Simul-Post The vhd Tool at MSDN by Chris Eck can crete large VHD's via command line in seconds. Wow! this is better than chocolate ice cream and just short of Spumoni. (And when the fat guy rates something in the range of ice cream you know it's a good tool.Here is what he says about it...Latest NewsThe final release of v2 is now available. I've ...

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Sorry I haven't posted in a while. A case of pneumonia and Kylie had bronchitis so I'm a bit behind.Here is an interesting bit: I grabbed some code from bsonposh.com and added it to some code scraped out of SCVMM to get something to automate adding a host to SCVMM.I used www.bsonposh.com Set-myCredential.ps1 to save a credential file:#Set-myCredential.ps1 $user = "xendesktop\administrator" $file = "c:\scripts\credentials.enc.xml" $Credential = Get-Credential $credential.Password | ...

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Almost every day I am asked the question that every virtualization technologist hates... "How long is a piece of string?" Really, every day. O.K. some days I am kidnapped by an alien race with advanced technology that gives me unlimited access to expensive lab equipment like large storage arrays and switches. But every other day "How long is a piece of string?"Or: How tall is a ...

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Use PowerShell To Log Custom Events from XenDesktop, XenApp, or Hyper-V I have been rewriting some of the scripts I had on www.tokeshi.com into PowerShell. I recently discovered that I am using a old not recommended function and variable naming convention. When I started doing vbscript I tried to use a very scrict Hungarian Notation and Pascal Case. That is, I would name a string $strStringname. ...

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Ping Test Your XenDesktop Resources with PowerShellOne of my current adventures is a migration of some of my XenServers to Hyper-v in the home lab. As I was dividing up some NFS storage to a iSCSI server, I found myself bringing up and updating a lot of my infrastructure components and started to think that maybe it was a good time to update an ...

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