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K-12 Superintendent, reformed IT guy, educator, 1:1 evangelist, life long learner, father, husband, geek, ex self-propelled field artillery turret mechanic, GCT, CCTO, INFP

Category: VDI

  • VDI: The Old Frontier

    This is the final part of the VDI Saga I’ve been writing about on and off for the past several months. To catch you up, two years ago, I inherited a 1000 seat VDI infrastructure build in 2009 that wasn’t performing. The situation was a result of a trifecta of poor design, old (and slow) technology…

  • SAN Be Nimble, SAN Be Quick

    This is Part 5 of a multi-part VDI saga. In part 4 we left off with a split environment, two four year old overloaded SANs and a whole lot of virtual desktops running poorly on them. As SAN IOPS and disk space were two of the biggest culprits in this evolving crisis, I went looking for…

  • VDI Sprawl

    This is part 4 in a series of posts on my not so great experience inheriting a VDI infrastructure at a school district. We left off with the student virtual desktops running on repurposed non-redundant, redundant hardware at the secondary site and teachers and staff running on the DO hardware. Through the first few months of school, teacher and staff performance…