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As the administrator of a VMware Horizon View virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for a county hospital, I’m frequently looking for applications that abuse infrastructure resources by consuming excessive CPU, RAM, or Disk. Allscripts Pro EHR and Allscripts Pro PM are two applications that often create unnecessary challenges in our environment. Allscripts Pro PM requires Microsoft …
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My objective was to upgrade vSphere host from 1 gigabt Ethernet to 10 gigabit Ethernet connections. All of my VMware Horizon View 5.2 linked-clone desktops resided in a single cluster of 10 hosts that I’ll call Cluster A. I had an even mix of persistent and non-persistent desktops. Cluster B was needed Through trial and …
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I’m making an effort to teach myself PowerShell when the opportunity arises. Next week I will be reorganizing several VMware View desktop pools and the Active Directory Security Groups that are tied to them. Since I’ll be moving large groups of users around, I taught myself a few PowerShell one liners that should help. Table …
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Each week I learn a little more about PowerShell and PowerCLI. Today, I wanted to share how I used PowerCLI to change all of the LUNs connected to my ESXi hosts to the Round Robin multipathing policy. Note: Please make sure that your SAN/storage supports Round Robin before making these changes. First thing you need …
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