VMGuru.nl – I choose (a virtual) life!

For about three weeks ago I was asked by my colleague Erik Scholten to help him out with his VMware View project for our Service Center. I thought this is my change to explore the ins and –outs of VMware View. The infrastructure for VMware View was already build by Erik on four Dell servers and a Dell Equallogic SAN. After one week of figuring out the architecture and everything up and on it, Erik told me he had to leave for another project right away. A lot of trust in my hands with a dead line in sight over a couple days.

Let me sum things up that Erik couldn’t finish;

• Windows Vista client customization failed.
• Windows XP client poor performance.

I started with the Windows Vista customization problem, but first let met tell you something about the client.  Vista was deployed with Windows BDD 2007 in a virtual machine and customized using the build-in Sysprep by my colleagues of the IT team for the customer. After my colleagues had installed all the software it was time to convert the VM into a template waiting to be deployed. But unfortunately it is not that easy as just reading the administrator guide and do what it says. This is how I tackled these problems:

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VMware recently introduced the new and improved VI Toolkit, version 1.5

VI Toolkit (for Windows) is a command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell. It provides more than 150 cmdlets for managing and automating your VMware Infrastructure. You can download now this new version from : http://www.vmware.com/downloads/download.do?downloadGroup=VI-WT-15

For the release notes you can visit:

http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/windowstoolkit/wintk15/windowstoolkit15-200901-releasenotes.html