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It’s been about 9 months since I published my own set of Visio shapes for VMware vSphere and Horizon View.  The VMware Visio stencils have been quite popular, with the pages that host them seeing more than 37,000 page views since I first published them.  I’ve since updated both stencils with new shapes and diagrams as I’ve worked on different projects at Clearpath.  Most of the changes are in the Horizon View Visio Stencil, with new shapes and diagrams.  I included some hand-drawn shapes for Horizon View for some fun whiteboard like diagrams that I’ll be using in some posts very soon – the image to the left is a quick peek at what the hand drawn ones look like.  I also added shapes for Persona Management and ThinApp repositories, a Transfer Server shape, and a few client access device shapes.

Both updated stencils are linked below for download in Visio 2013 .vssx format:

And by request, here are the same stencils in Visio 2003-2010 .vss format:

If you need another format, leave a comment below and I’ll see what I can do.

If you want to link to these, link to my permalink page for VMware Visio Stensils so folks see the latest and greatest version.

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EMC ViPR Overview

by Joshua Townsend on May 20, 2013 · 0 comments

in Clearpath, EMC, EMCWorld, Storage

EMC ViPR Logo IconEMC showed off ViPR (previously known as Project Bourne) at EMC World 2013. ViPR is EMC’s solution for Software Defined Storage (SDS), helping to round out the EMC² family’s (EMC, VMware, Pivotal, RSA) Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) vision. Dave provided our introductory coverage of ViPR here. Since being unveild at EMC World, I’ve heard some confusion in social media circles over what exactly ViPR is – along the lines of ‘ask 10 people what ViPR is and get 10 different answers’. To try to clear up some confusion, here is a brief overview of ViPR… [Continue Reading on Clearpath's Blog]

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Pivotal Announcements

by Joshua Townsend on May 8, 2013 · 0 comments

in Clearpath, EMC, EMCWorld, VMware

Pivotal_Logo_green_spotInterested in learning more about the joint EMC-VMware Pivotal startup?  Yesterday at EMC World 2013, Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz took the stage for a keynote to talk a bit about what Pivotal is, why it matters, and how the combination of EMC and VMware assets (think Greenplum, vFabric, GemFire, SQLFire) have already produced products for customers’ most demanding big data / fast data challenges.  I’ve got a quick write-up published on Clearpath’s Blog, with some pictures on how the combined products from both EMC and VMware fit into the Pivotal initiative.  Continue reading…

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EMC Elect Shirts!

by Joshua Townsend on May 7, 2013 · 0 comments

in Clearpath, EMC, EMCWorld

Clearpath Solutions Group LogoI’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – it’s awesome working for an awesome company that supports the greater EMC, VMware and Cisco communities.  The inaugural class of EMC Elect are finding the custom shirts that Clearpath had made for them at EMC World.  The shirts are just one of our ways of saying thanks to the EMC Elect for their contributions to the EMC community.  If you are one of the EMC Elect, make sure you stop by the Bloggers area at EMC World to pick up your custom shirt!

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EMC DataDomain DDOS 5.3 Released

May 7, 2013
EMC DataDomain DDOS 5.3 Released

The Clearpath team is attending EMC’s EMCworld event in Las Vegas this week.  EMC is announcing new products and solutions, and we’ll be covering those announcements in a series of posts on the Clearpath Blog.   If you’re not already following Clearpath, feel free to subscribe to our RSS feed or fill out the form [...]

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VMware Product Updates – April 2013

May 7, 2013
VMware Product Updates - April 2013

VMware has released updates to several products over the past couple weeks.  Many of the updates take the version 5.1 products announced at VMworld 2012 to Update 1 (i.e. the first major service pack).  The updates, spanning vSphere (ESXi and vCenter), vCloud Director, vCenter Operations, vCenter Orchestrator, vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vSphere Data Protection, [...]

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Is Spanning VMDKs Using Windows Dynamic Disks a Good Idea?

April 10, 2013
Is Spanning VMDKs Using Windows Dynamic Disks a Good Idea?

I’ve had several folks ask me recently about how to support very large NTFS volumes on vSphere virtualized Windows servers.  The current limitation for a VMDK in vSphere 5.1 is 2TB minus 512B.  FWIW, a Hyper-V virtual disk in Windows Server 2012 can be up to 64TB.  Those asking the question want to support NTFS [...]

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Planning for PCoIP on the Network

March 19, 2013
Planning for PCoIP on the Network

I just published an article on the Clearpath Blog that looks at how to size a network for PCoIP traffic in support of a VMware Horizon View deployment.  I also had a look at other network issues that could affect your PCoIP deployment, like latency and jitter thresholds.  Here’s a preview:   PC-over-IP is a [...]

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