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By Greg Shields, 02/01/2012
VMware vSphere 5's Storage DRS load balancing runs by default every eight hours and is also triggered by these events.
By default, the I/O load-balancing algorithm used by Storage DRS is invoked every eight hours; VMware recommends against changing this default.
By Greg Shields, 01/31/2012
Affinity rules in Storage DRS ensure VM disk files with special use cases either stay together or are always separate.
By Greg Shields, 01/27/2012
Because of differences in partition block sizes between vSphere 4 and vSphere 5, VMware recommends creating new volumes rather than upgrading existing ones.
By Greg Shields, 01/25/2012
VMware Storage DRS can help load balance VM disk files; for best performance, use these guidelines for setting the I/O latency threshold.
By Greg Shields, 01/24/2012
VMware vSphere 5's Storage DRS is designed to assist in two high-level load balancing use cases.
By Greg Shields, 01/20/2012
You can use VMware Player to create a template VM that will automate VPN connections for your end users.
By Greg Shields, 01/18/2012
VMware Player's Unity feature can provide legacy applications through a VM to Windows 7.
By Greg Shields, 01/17/2012
You should ensure that all hosts in a VMware vSphere cluster are upgraded before enabling new features and functionality such as vSphere HA or Storage DRS.
By Greg Shields, 01/13/2012
VMware Workstation 8 doesn't include the Teams feature but you can get shared startup and shutdown settings as well as LAN segments by grouping VMs in folders.
By Greg Shields, 12/23/2011
Citrix XenDesktop includes policy settings for graphics compression that can improve responsiveness but results in lower-quality graphics.
By Greg Shields, 12/21/2011
Booting Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) via the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) requires booting that computer from its network card, and specifically a legacy network adapter.
By Greg Shields, 12/20/2011
Citrix XenDesktop can send and receive audio content in a lossy format by using UDP Real-time Transport when the quality is unacceptable at the medium audio quality setting.
By Greg Shields, 12/16/2011
Citrix HDX MediaStream Flash Redirection enables the Citrix HDX MediaStream Flash Redirection enables the relocation of Adobe Flash content processing from the XenApp server to ...
By Greg Shields, 12/14/2011
Learn what ports and feature to enable to support Cirtrix XenDesktop services with Windows Firewall.
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