Tony

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Jul 28

I shot an arrow into the air… (New Job)

My parting message when I left VCE on May 23rd of this year was based on Longfellow’s poem “The Arrow and the Song.” The jist being that “I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to the earth I knew not where.” With my announcement today I complete the poem, “Long, long afterward, in …

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Jul 17

Backing Up My WordPress Site

Thought I would share a quick post on how I protect this site. For those who don’t know me I started my career working in the backup industry. As such I am a firm believer in the saying “if you don’t have 3 copies of it then it doesn’t exist.” As such I try to …

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Apr 30

Casting a Wider Net

For the past 19 months I’ve had the awesome opportunity to work at VCE as a solutions architect specializing in the VMware Horizon Suite. Which is a fancy way of saying an end user computing (EUC) subject mater expert (SME). During this time I’ve been able to work with some of the smartest people in …

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Feb 03

Signing up for a VMware Advanced Exam

For those of us out there who are seeking an advanced VMware exam like a VCAP-DCD or VCAP-DCA at VMware Partner Exchange or PEX or for any other reason. You may have discovered its not quite as easy as it once was. After talking with folks at both VMware (Partner, Education, and Certification) and Pearson …

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Sep 25

Configuring Soft 3D in VMware Horizon View 5.2

On September 25th, 2013 I had the pleasure of presenting to the Dallas Fort Worth VMUG Regional Conference. I had the opportunity to present on VMware Horizon View Soft 3D Graphics. Here is how you to configure soft 3D graphics in Horizon View 5.2.   A Long time ago in a datacenter far, far away… …

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Jul 11

Random Musings for July, 11 2013

Today I had a lot of insights. So many that I figured I should blog about them lest I forget them. That and maybe they’ll help someone else. Most of these musings are related to the management audio books I’ve been listening to of late. (I’ll blog about that later.) What follows may seem obvious …

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Jun 20

Assign Horizon Workspace 1.0 Admin’s

It took me a bit of googleing and work to figure out how to add other users to the admin role for Horizon Workspace. I finally found it so I figured It would be nice to provide a quicker way for folks to figure this out. If you want to do it without reading this …

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Jun 20

Oh how could I forget… Its 32 bit not 64

Oh how could I forget this… Today I was working on syspreping some Windows 7 x86 VM’s that I built earlier in the week. For what ever reason they kept getting stuck in the sysprep process and I couldn’t figure out why. I checked the logs and there wasn’t much that stud out in them …

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Jun 15

Sonic Peanut Butter Bacon Shake

Today I had the opportunity to try a Sonic Peanut Butter Bacon shake. Here is my review of that shake… The short of it: It’s good! The cost of it: A small runs about $2 bucks Overall bacony goodness rating: 3.5 out of 5 strips of bacon. Amount left after testing: None Corporate site:Sonic Peanut …

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Jun 15

10zig Thin Clients, Getting USB to Work With VMware Horizon View

Yesterday I was working on preparing some stuff for VCE and our booth at CiscoLive. I ran into an interesting problem and thought I would share it with you… Hopefully it helps you if you run into the same problem with your 10zig or similar device. The problem I ran into was that anytime I …

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