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In a few weeks, I will be upgrading my employer’s VMware Horizon View environment from version 5.2 to version 6.0. Some of the steps in the Preparing vCenter Server and View Composer for an Upgrade documentation are rather repetitive. Here are my notes on how I might perform these steps via View PowerCLI. View PowerCLI …
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I was a Dreamhost customer for more than a decade before discovering DigitalOcean in 2014. Both offer virtual private servers to host one or more websites, but DigitalOcean offers better performance via an all SSD back-end and better pricing. Dreamhost‘s shared hosting plans cost $9/month. While DigitalOcean virtual private servers (1 vCPU, 512MB vRAM, and …
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As the senior engineer for a mid-sized VMware Horizon View virtual desktop infrastructure , I sometimes have to figure out how to configure legacy applications to perform better in a modern non-persistent VDI world. My most resent challenge was to globally disable HP’s annoying Printer Status Notification popup messages that occurred every day for some …
This December 2014, I took a riverboat vacation along the Danube — traveling from Hungary to Nuremberg. Here are some brief highlights. Budapest, Hungary (Dec 17-20) My favorite city on this trip. They also had the best Christmas markets, where I enjoyed a lot of mulled wine. Visegrad, Hungary (Dec 21) Most of the day …
I’ve done a fair bit of international travel (50+ countries). I’m also an IT professional. Here are a few tips that I’d like to share for my fellow travel geeks. Many tips are technical in nature, while others are just steps I recommend. Life Hacks Clothes to Pack As a seasoned geek, you’ve been to …
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