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General / VMware / VMware Horizon
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 27. March 2020 · Last modified 21. March 2020
I’m building customized and optimized Windows 10 images for my VDI, removing unnecessary stuff from the Windows installation (to name a few: unneeded drivers, retail/demo files, Hyper-V components). This reduces the disk and memory footprint. Once...
General / Linux / Tips & Tricks / VMware
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 22. March 2020 · Last modified 4. November 2020
You might have seen my previous blog post about the VMware Appliance for Folding@Home. This article is about how the local console was made underneath – and actually how simple it is. Usually when powering on...
The PhotonOS-based appliance allows you quickly deploying the software by Folding@Home running protein folding calculations using your available CPU/GPU resources to help fighting COVID-19. Deploying the OVA gives you different set of options: In the end,...
General / Tips & Tricks / VMware / VMware Horizon
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 24. November 2019 · Last modified 21. March 2020
VMware Horizon 7.10 – released on September 17, 2019 – ships with a new dynamic encoder. Depending on what content you’re watching to in your VDI, it will seamless switch to the best suiting codec for...
General / VMware / VMware vRealize Log Insight
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 24. October 2019 · Last modified 21. March 2020
The new Log Insight 8.0 release brings some cool new things: The OS of the whole appliance is replaced with Photon OS 3.0 instead of SUSE (in-place update possible!), the Windows agent is being open-sourced and...
