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o tempo do tempo nao é do meu tempo
o tempo que eu quero nao é o tempo que tenho
mas o tempo que passa nao passa como quero
o tempo que foi nunca foi como desejo
sorry about the Portuguese but today is a bad day for me so when im having a bad day i always rant about life and make stuff up...

Vmware View recompose fails operating system not found fixed

ok so true story.
im just updating my golden image because of an BMW update just normal stuff then i do a recompose set it to 21:00 and like every time works fine i just let it do its thing about 22:15 i go check and 50 desktops BOOOOOMMM the OS dosent start "operating system not found" and i do another snapshot and recompose the same thing happens,i rebooted the vmware view server and the vsphere server and did a recompose nothing the same exact thing by now im in 911 emergency all guns out googling and thinking im in a S#"##" load of problems... i did a clone of the template/golden image do a snapshot and another recompose the same thing happens no operating system found... its 01:00 im thinking im in a hole lot of trouble so i did what i always do i step back and get a cup of coffee and think persistant disk...
when you have a problem just step back go get a coffee i go to the vmware view persistent disk  and do a manual detach of 50 desktops and waited they all deleted just fine and i get to the detached tab selected all and there is a small button that says recreate desktops it started coping the replica and recreating the desktops and coping the user data and it worked and damend it work.
i think its the fotocopy effect the copy of a copy of a copy and 14 months of copy that template... and sometimes you have to think outside of the box and something with this mindset "what box"...

Do you want Exchange(fries) with that?

ok so im 100% virtualized now and i have a load of licenses because i have a S.A. Microsoft but something is not right...
why do we need windows server 2008 r2 if you only have Exchange?
If you activate fault tolarance(VMWARE) there goes 2 licenses one for windows one for exchange...
why do we need windows server 2008 if the only thing running is SQL???
we can virtualize 100 servers in to one we can send a man to the moon and send probes to map the microphages... but we cant decuple the OS from the things we want?
imagine this you have exchange running and the os fails your in a waste gate of a nuclear reactor(f"#"##")
imagine that if you could virtualize only exchange and not the OS... that is the future without a doubt...
just my 2 cents?

Cisco VXC 2212

ok so i got a Cisco VXC for testing purposes only since im interested in buying some 50 units some pictures:

its works great with vmware view 4.6 uses the same teradaci chip as the wyse p20 and the evga pcoip pd01
here are some videos
setting up

working:

first of all sorry about the English im portuguese and the mess the user is not testing is working with the Cisco and so far so good the vmware view 4.6 works perfect just like a regular old pc...
plus sides
works with poe
no power cables
plug and play
vmware view 4.5 and 4.6 tested and works
beautiful and stylish
negatives
only in color white so far
conclusion
its a must have in any company i recommend it
DEVAXTATOR

IT Nightmare

So, my nightmare is:
my computer dosent boot up...
i got a problem with my mouse
my computer freezup
my computer reboots etc...
well you can get rid of the nightmares by a 3 front attack with the help of vmware the 3 words are
virtualize, virtualize, virtualize.
get rid of fat pcs they are prone to let everybody done and got too many parts to you to handle like
a power supply (i've replaced as many as as they are stars)
disk drives dead
monitors
and last but not least memorys (dont get me started)
replace fat pcs with a clean version of windows xp and vmware view client and disable all linux dosent work because pcoip dosent work (yet)
when they burn out buy these options:
a zero client like evga good price great quality or wyse or now Cisco vxc 2200
or buy a monitor with zero client integration like a Samsung or a Fujitsu kill two birds one stone (for the user its a new monitor and a pc)
virtualize the servers and consolidate resources and put the money u saved and go buy a decent switch with POE the word you need to know is POE is the future Samsung is coming out with a monitor with poe imagine plug a network cable the mouse the keyboard thats it... when things can go wrong they will(Murphy's law) get rid of things that can go wrong...
imagine the power savings and the operations savings in a workstation enviroment and when windows 8 comes out its only a matter of replacing the master disk and compose... Vmwareview style!!!
get a contract yes buy leased IBM like i do its the best... 3 year contract when the contract ends you replace the hardware and cutting it costs get new servers...
you got to focus on the datacenter and get rid of the pcs and get zero clients
its the mainframe era again...
get a good phone system like Cisco
get blade servers theyre the best save space and power lower costs
get a good switch i advice is a 4506e i got mine 4 years now and i plan this year to buy a supervisor card thats it...
thats just my 2 cents

Windows Thin PC RC

So i was invited to do some testing on windows Thin Pc the beta version had many bugs and was frankly disappointing but when the RC came, i installed on vmware and for the heck of it installed Vmware client for Vmware view and got 5 pcs running in less than 30 minutes since installing windows and Vmware tools and Vmware client, creating the pool you name i did in less than 30 minutes so far users have been pleased with the speed its fast and on steroids with a diet it only occupies 2 gigs of disk space im in a lab test environment and i got to say im impressed.

vmware view problem vsphere update 4.1

if you want to update vsphere 4.1 update 1 dont update vmware tools in the virtual machine if you do update please be aware that pcoip will not work you have to do this in the vm http://twitpic.com/3yuw2r.