Archive for August 28th, 2008

A-SIS or FlexClone or Both? (2008-8-28)

Category: ESX, Storage, VMware, Virtualisation | No Comments

Scott Lowe has written an article that discusses the pros & cons of FlexClone & A-SIS when used in conjunction with a VMware environment.
If you are just getting to grips with these technolgies (like me) it is a very useful starting point to understand how the two technologies may work with VMware.
I was investigating it [...]

Make Windows XP A Thin Client (2008-8-28)

Category: VDI, VMware, Virtualisation | 1 Comment

I found an excellent article written on DABCC.com discussing ways to make Windows XP essentially a thin client. Some of the tweaks include:

Desktop Folder Redirection
Start Menu Redirection
Autologin
Loading iexplore As Shell

Very useful for all those people running VMware VDI as you can use these tips to load VDM in kiosk mode.