Troy's IT Blog

I have been working to build a test VDI environment for windows 10 and been working with login times. I found this really nice blog series by Sven Huisman that can be found here . If you have been working windows 10 login times I recommend checking this out.

This week I had the opportunity to attend VMware SociaLab Indianapolis - vSAN 6.2 from A to Z with Paul Braren. You can find Paul at  https://tinkertry.com/ . This was my first opportunity to attend a VMware SociaLab and it was a great experience that i would highly recommend to anyone that can get the time to attend. To Find a SociaLab near you please visit VMware's SociaLab Site .

On March 3rd VMware announced VROPS 6.5. This product update delivers new capabilities to accelerate time to value, manage deployments at scale and collaborate with other data center tools. For details on the changes in 6.5 check out VMware Cloud Management blog post here .

So you might be building a new environment or you might be doing a hardware refresh for your VDI. If this is the case you have three options one being Traditional Infrastructure, Converged Infrastructure, or Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI). In this post i am going to focus on HCI and why it is such a great option for VDI. What is Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI): HCI is a type of infrastructure system with a software-centric architecture that is comprised of the following building blocks compute, storage, networking and virtualization resources in a commodity hardware box supported by a single vendor. HCI Systems are managed as a single system using a common tool set. Advantages of Hyper-Converged Infrastructures: Simplified management: a HCI helps unifies management into a single interface. This  can allow the rest of your IT team to focus on proactive parts of the business. Reduced costs and increased efficiency:  With HCI lower costs of purchasing and managem