Upon my desk sits a height adjustable, tilt and swivel capable 24 inch Samsung PCoIP Monitor. To maximize my desktop experience I have connected a second 24 inch monitor and a wireless keyboard and mouse. The only cords I have are an Ethernet cable which provides access to my VMware View desktops and a power cable. The solution is both functional and extremely sexy. It doesn’t stop there because Samsung has decided to one up their already simplified solution by offering a power over Ethernet option.
To get POE to work you need a network switch that has POE ports. All of the top switch manufactures like Cisco, Juniper, and Brocade have POE options. In essence electricity is safely passed over your Ethernet cable
How do you minimize the number of devices your mobile employee carries? How do you reduce cost? How do you manage two, three or more devices for each mobile worker? How do you implement a virtual desktop solution for your mobile workforce? Is there currently a solution to this problem? These questions have plagued [...]
Both VMware and Juniper have come out with numerous press releases that tote the ability to connect to your VMware View 4.5 Virtual desktops using PCoIP while leveraging the Juniper SSL VPN. The statements are true but the problem is you have to uncover all of the marketing jumbo and poor documentation to find the [...]
For the past few weeks there has been a lot of excitement around EMC’s record breakers event. They left a lot to the imagination and really made you feel like something very special was about to take place, good job marketing team! However, did the event live up to all of the hype that was [...]
Unisphere is EMC’s latest management interface that allows you to administer all of your midrange to enterprise class arrays in a single pane of glass. I am not going to bore you with all of the marketing mumbo jumbo that you normally find on Unisphere there is plenty of that already out there. Unisphere is [...]
Overview How company’s do business is vastly changing. No longer is our work confined to our brick and mortar offices. Instead, we can efficiently perform our job duties from our home patio, or on the road, or at Panera. The demand for information is on the rise and as such we need to be able [...]
Overview Juniper has done an amazing job at simplifying the management of its devices, much more so than Cisco. I have nothing against Cisco and their products are very nice, but Juniper products are easier to use. The Secure Access gateway is no exception, upgrading your device is painless and very simple. Furthermore, Juniper provides [...]
Introduction The iPad has created some serious buzz this year with over 3 million iPad’s being sold is just 80 days! The iPad boasts a sleek and intuitive design that appeals to a wider range of consumers than most electronic devices. Apple has also done a great job of continuing to offer a wide range [...]
Introduction “My LUN has run out of space and now my VM’s are freezing up, please help while I hide in a hole!!” If this sounds like you then you have come to the right place, so take a deep breath. Running out of disk space on a LUN can be a less than ideal [...]
Hardware Setup HP Proliant DL 360 G6 Servers with 8 1GBE connections. ESX 4.0 is installed on each server. Juniper EX 4200 Ethernet Switch EMC Celerra NS-120 with ISCSI The Goal The goal is to aggregate the ports on the Juniper Switches for faster throughput and redundancy. Since we are virtualizing the servers we will [...]
