VMware Communities > Blogs > Virtual Desktop Blog > 2008 > June > 05

Blog Posts

Virtual Desktop Blog

Previous Next
4

I am pleased to announce the availability of the VMware VDM 2.1 Reviewer's Guide. I had the honor of working with Doug Brown, founder of DABCC, well known expert and long time contributor to the Server Based Computing, Application Delivery and Virtualization communities. Many of you might be familiar with Doug Brown's Methodology in Box (MIAB) deployment and install guides. Doug's MIAB takes a step-by-step approach to deploying and installing server based computing and virtualization products.

By taking a simple step-by-step real world approach MIAB can ensure audiences from all levels of technical aptitude and background are ensured a successful deployment.

Partnering with Doug for the creation of the VMware VDM 2.1 Reviewer's Guide just made sense. Who better to help create this guide. The VMware VDM 2.1 Reviewers Guide is a subset of a typical DABCC (MIAB), with the goal to provide a step-by-step guide for people interested in evaluating VMware VDI for their VMware based VDI deployments. By using the the VMware VDM 2.1 Reviewer's Guide new comer to VMware VDI and VDM 2.0 can quickly and easily get a full VMware VDI environment up and running for evaluation.

At a later date Doug will follow-up this work with a more extensive MIAB available from DABCC.

For more information about DABCC please visit - www.dabcc.com

The VMware VDM 2.1 Reviewer's Guide can be found here - VMware VDM 2.1 Reviewer's Guide



Add a comment Leave a comment on this blog post.
Jun 6, 2008 1:42 PM Reply David Jones

WOW, This document is perfect. Thanks

Jun 6, 2008 4:51 PM Reply Warren in response to: David Jones

David I am glad you like it!! We worked hard on it. Doug more than me. Please let me know if their are any other topics that you would find useful. Or how we can improve this one. We made some minor tweaks today and the update will post later, nothing major though.

Warren

Jun 26, 2008 6:50 PM Reply Iwan Rahabok VMware

Hi Warren,

Great document. Very detailed with step by step instructions.

It is targetted towards IT technical folks, which normally have larger screen (sometimes wide screen). As a result, you may want to provide an output that is better suited for on-line viewing. A dual-column landscape will be great. This also discourage us from printing, hence being friendlier to environment.

To assist the reviewers, perhaps you want to add "limitations" of current version, and encourage reviewers to test it in their own environment. For what we know, the limitations don't apply or are acceptable. It's better to hear it from vmware than "competitors" rite.

Thanks from Singapore
e1
Senior SE

Feb 26, 2009 8:08 AM Reply Hussain in response to: Iwan Rahabok

Thanks for this great document, I'm really new to the VDI world and I hope it will help me to deploy vdi infrastructure @ out Testing environment and then in the production.

Thanks,

wponder

Member since: Apr 5, 2006

A blog about VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

View wponder's profile