What Are You Doing Right Now
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Whatever we have in stock from a previous (failed) deployment by someone else...
And I'm running Hyper-V 2012 R2 for the RDVH hosts and Windows 8.1 (right now) for the VDI desktops (this will likely change to Windows 10 in the next few weeks).
Using Pooled (non-persistent) VDI with User Profile Disks for storage...
Host servers are Dell R720s w/256GB Ram, 1.2 RAW SSD storage (RAID 6 + hot spare gives me about 800 GB Usable), and 2 x NVIDIA GRID K2's for the Graphics Intensive stuff.
We're trying to get away from VMware View. Did a bunch of tweaking and got the performance up to snuff enough that the CIO likes it, so I'm happy... To start with, we'll be replacing around 100 desktops... we plan to go up to as many as we can... If it works well enough, we'll see a couple of thousand users on it.
(We already have a second R720 w/same specs ready to be spun up and added to the mix).
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@dafyre said:
Waiting on my CIO to bring me a thin client to test out with our VDI setup.
I'd like to know how well flash based pages work on it. I've never had anything but problems with Flash based pages. And sure, while they are going away, they are definitely not gone yet.
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@Dashrender said:
@dafyre said:
Waiting on my CIO to bring me a thin client to test out with our VDI setup.
I'd like to know how well flash based pages work on it. I've never had anything but problems with Flash based pages. And sure, while they are going away, they are definitely not gone yet.
I find that if you don't install Flash, they work great everywhere
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@dafyre said:
Waiting on my CIO to bring me a thin client to test out with our VDI setup.
I'd like to know how well flash based pages work on it. I've never had anything but problems with Flash based pages. And sure, while they are going away, they are definitely not gone yet.
I find that if you don't install Flash, they work great everywhere
LOL - assuming you can live in that world, I completely agree with you!!
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@dafyre said:
Waiting on my CIO to bring me a thin client to test out with our VDI setup.
I'd like to know how well flash based pages work on it. I've never had anything but problems with Flash based pages. And sure, while they are going away, they are definitely not gone yet.
I find that if you don't install Flash, they work great everywhere
Right now, we're using whatever the browsers support out of the box. Sadly, this does include Flash for Chrome and Internet Explorer. I am unsure about Firefox, as I don't have that in the live image yet.
But I'm done today... Tomorrow's Schedule includes figuring out why slightly older programs that work in Windows 7 don't work in Windows 8.1, lol... Which usually leads up to ACT hacks or either software updates.
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It just hit 30c in the office and I have retreated to the AC'd server room with my laptop. Do not tell my co-workers or there will be a riot.
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Why is it so warm? AC broken?
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@mlnews No one here puts AC in anything but a luxury home or a server closet
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NBC news just announced that thanks to Change.org (WOOT!!!) Donald Trump is fired from Celebrity Apprentice. We are very proud of these little victories.
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@scottalanmiller said:
NBC news just announced that thanks to Change.org (WOOT!!!) Donald Trump is fired from Celebrity Apprentice. We are very proud of these little victories.
Grr, I damn well hate the auto sensing country code that websites use. Can you all get with the program and do more than just look at my f'n IP address?
My PC regional settings are US. My current IP is in Japan. So all my default sites are now Japan. I do not want this. For a 2 week location, changing this stuff is a pain in the ass.
Examples:
google.com
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Google is slipping... shouldn't that say "I'm feeling rucky"?
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Just had to explain how num-lock works to someone...
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@MattSpeller said:
@mlnews No one here puts AC in anything but a luxury home or a server closet
Boy you can say that again!
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And the hell continues.
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@Minion-Queen said:
And the hell continues.
We know what doesn't work,... now - let's find what will.
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@Minion-Queen Yawl still working on that dead HP?
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@dafyre said:
@Minion-Queen Yawl still working on that dead HP?
In a sense - the HP is actually running. While two drives did fail,.. the MOBO replacement took and it fired right up.
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That IP sensing stuff is terrible. My Mac will randomly change time zones, GOG charges me in Krone, sites aren't available in English, search data is wrong.... it's amazing how much it screws everything up.
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This is why I like having a desktop in my home locale that I can remote into when ineeed to search for stuff.
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@dafyre said:
This is why I like having a desktop in my home locale that I can remote into when ineeed to search for stuff.
You can use a service like Hola now too.
