Tag: EUC

Jan 07 2026

Revealing Data, Reviving the Idea of Virtual Mobile Devices

Copilot. (2026). Ghostly spirits escaping a collapsing smartphone interface in Soviet-style propaganda illustration [AI-generated image]. Microsoft Copilot.

The concept of a virtual mobile device isn’t new. Now may be the time to revive that idea. Phones with multiple, or seemingly multiple personalities could be beneficial and quell concerns about data privacy. #EUC #ARM #vExpert #OmnissaTechInsider

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Aug 25

VCF and VVF 9 New GPU Management Scripting with PowerShell and Python [CODEQT1767LV]

VCF and VVF 9 introduce some new methods for managing GPUs both in the GUI and through code such as PowerShell and Python. I presented on this at VMware Explore in a VMware {Code} session CODEQT1767LV. Here are are the details on whats new with GPU management in vSphere 9 from my session.

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Aug 11

Make Room for Another End User at the EUC Table

Humans and robots working in cubicles with virtual desktops delivered by EUC as someone looks out over the vast expanse of users. This image is AI generated using the following prompt in Copilot: Create a digital illustration of a vast office landscape filled with hundreds of cubicles stretching to the horizon. Each cubicle is separated by light gray walls and contains either a humanoid robot or a human worker seated at a desk with a computer. Approximately 80% of the cubicles should contain robots, and 20% should contain humans. The robots should vary in eye color (e.g., blue, green, amber, violet) and some should wear ties to resemble office attire. The humans should be dressed in typical business clothing. The humans should be both male and female. The humans should represent different nationalities. There should be only one human or robot per cubical. In the foreground, include a person standing in an elevated position, looking out over the cubicle grid as if surveying the scene. The overall tone should be muted and professional, with soft lighting and a sense of depth created by the receding cubicles.

What is this new user type is that’s going to take #EUC and #AI by storm? Simply put, it will be an #agentic agent user.

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Sep 10

VMUG EUC Day Session: Virtual Desktops, GPUs, and Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do

Cover Slide for VMUG EUC Day: Virtual Desktops, GPUs, and Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do

VMUG EUC Day session: Virtual Desktops, GPUs, and Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do. This post contains the content for my EUC day session, from the slides to the recording following the event.

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Jul 23

AI Qubits You Need for Your VMware Explore Schedule

You got approval to attend VMware Explore this year! That’s fantastic, I look forward to seeing you there. By now you have probably started to build your schedule in session builder. I have a few Explore sessions you might want at the top of your list. And some of you might be wondering what AI …

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Oct 05 2021

VMTN2835 – Update to VDI by Day Compute by Night

This is post for my VMworld 2021 vBrownbag session VMTN2835. This session covers updates to the VDI by day compute by night scripts that I’ve been writing and updating for a couple of years. You can download all of the modules needed for this from my GitHub repo.

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Oct 04 2021

New PowerCLI Module – Finding vGPU Profiles

A deep dive on a PowerCLI module for finding vGPU profiles, used as part of VDI by day Compute by Night scripts. This PowerShell script finds what vGPU profiles are supported by a given set of hosts and reports it back as an object collection.

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Mar 13

Scripting VDI By Day and Compute By Night

Cycle of VDI by Day and Compute By Night (Cycle Harvesting)

Over the weekend I finished writing a PowerCLI script to do VDI by day and compute by night. In in this post I’m going to share the script and how to set it up with you.

For those not familiar with the term VDI by day and compute by night here is my vision for it. Let’s say you have a bunch of VDI users who are structural engineers. They typically work from 8 in the morning to 5 or so at night. On their VDI desktops they have programs like like AutoCAD which require high end GPUs, but since they are using VDI they’re virtual GPUs or vGPUs. That means you have these high end GPUs that might be sitting idle for 12 to 16 hours a day and the organization spent a lot of money for those GPUs.

Now what if you could use those GPUs for something other than just engineers virtual desktops? You know, get a little more millage out of them. The R&D department keeps wanting more servers for their high performance computing (HPC) farm… What could 12 extra hours a day of GPU time coming from the Engineers idle VDI hosts do to help them?

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Feb 19

Number of vGPUs Available in vSphere

PowerCLI Code Snippit for Carrying Capacity Function

I’ve been working on a PowerCLI function for the last few months in my free time and now I’d like to share it with everyone. This is a pretty spiffy function for those folks working with vGPUs, and it’s not just for VDI it can help those looking to virtualize ML/DL systems too. It calculates the vGPU carrying capacity of a vSphere environment.

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Oct 19

Empowering CUDA Developers with Virtual Desktops (Part3)

Benefits of Virtualizing the CUDA Toolkit

Woot!!! You’ve made it this far, or maybe you started here. In Part1 of this blog we looked at the problem of installing the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit on a virtual machine (VM). In Part2 we looked at how to install the CUDA Toolkit on a VM. This post covers why installing the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit …

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