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It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, really because I haven’t had much to say and the rest of the blogsphere has already said it.  However recently, I’ve had some interesting discussions which prompted me to write something.

Some background – For the last 5 weeks I’ve been in meetings and discussions with many vendors around data retention and eDiscovery based on a project our legal department is sponsoring.  I’ve met with at least half a dozen eDiscovery vendors from StorIQ, Digital Reef, Commvault, Symantec, etc. but the last couple days we’ve been talking with other IT people in my industry (chemical manufacturing) around their processes and procedures on the topic.  Some of the companies we spoke to said something that really struck a chord with me regarding home directories.

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Ok, so I’ll explain my personal thoughts on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure – aka VDI.  Some of this comes in light of Brian Madden’s recent article on VMware’s View product and the future of their hypervisor.  However, even before that article was posted by Brian, I made similar comments during the VMware Communities Podcast over a month ago.  What I said was that VMware had no business being in the desktop and application delivery workspace and that they should focus on what they do best, hypervisors and VM management.  I got some flack for the comment with statements like “Why shouldn’t VMware be allowed to expand their business”…”you’re just a legacy Citrix guy”…”I feel bad for Terminal Server people.  They work extremely hard to deliver a desktop to users that they end up hating”  Well, here is the truth, users don’t like VDI either!….at the moment.
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I was reading Rick’s blog at vmwaretips.com and discovered this wonderful healthcheck script from Rick, as well as a kick ass Powershell script from Virtual IEF.

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Every storage vendor offers some sort of disk snapshot technology. Some better then others, but one of the best ways to use snapshots is to increase backup and recovery speed, while decreasing the backup window. Leveraging your storage system snapshots is a great way to accomplish this.

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