Presentation: Hyper-V vs ESX in the datacenter

5 March, 2009

This is the revisted version. My companies logo has been removed from the PDF’s of the presentations since we don’t publish reports like this in a way for example Gartner does. If you have been using the previous versions, please delete them and use these new ones without logo’s. In November 2008, I’ve written three [...]

My article on VDI

26 September, 2008

I got my first article published. For NetOpus magazine I was allowed to write a commentary on VDI and the hype that it is creating at this moment. It got published in the september issue (nr 6 – 2008). Below is a link to the pdf. It is only in dutch. netopus-6-2008 At the dutch [...]

DV07 – Optimizing storage for virtual desktops

1 March, 2008

DV07 – Optimizing storage for virtual desktops (Tony Armstrong – VMware, Mike Slisinger & M. Vaughan Stewart (NetApp) To be honest, this was one of the session I didn’t like. I would have expected this session to be about how to work with storage in a VDI environment, but it turned out to be a [...]

DV02 – Implementing VDI using VDM2, tips and tricks

DV02 – Implementing VDI using VDM2, tips and tricks (Puneet Chawla)   VDI is catching on with more and more companies. Personally I’ve not had the question yet to implement it, but I do get questions from my customers about what VDI is and if its suited for them. So, this was a must see [...]

Building a great VDI ready Windows

3 February, 2008

VDI is getting more attention everyday. Companies are transforming their Windows XP installations into VDI desktops. We all aim to get as many XP installations on an ESX host. When preparing my testlab I was not amused to see that XP after a default install, without any fancy stuff is quite memory hungry. Without any [...]