Being Virtually processed...

23-April-2015

Well...moving on...

I have some plans to re-load ESXi on one of my old desktop workstations and do some early testing of Windows 10. On the way from North Carolina is some Vintage Audio equipment that I won at an online Estate Auction, which will be a distraction from this Windows 10 experiment.

Some background:
After working on the app side of Citrix for a number of years, I have moved to the infrastructure group and will begin working on Netscalers. In the mean time, my Windows 7 laptop with a SSD drive is getting a little long in the tooth, so my next step is to get a new machine.

Windows 8 has been around for a while but I still don't hear anyone screaming from the roof tops about it so might as well prepare to move up a couple of ticks to 10.

The journey will be part Windows 10 and part Altec Lansing tube audio!

Stay tuned.....


24-April-2015

Windows 10 stuff.

Last evening, I had gotten VMware ESXi installed on a server class machine, downloaded the Windows 10 Preview, and then headed out for Turkish food. I created two 70GB partition virtual machines to hold two versions of the preview. Getting the Win10 ISO accessible to the VM's was just a matter of copying the file to the data stores.

Once win10 was installing on the first VM (Win10-001), I left it overnight to complete...the install was going extremely slow, probably related to the fact that the server is a number of years old.

SIDEBAR

One plan, once I get ESXi set up is to remote the server near the front door, with only the network cable coming back to the router. ESXi is made to be "headless" and I should be able to get to its VMware's console and VM's through the vSphere client software installed on my laptop.

SIDEBAR END

This morning, I completed the install, created a new Windows account, and configured the VM for RDP access. Once I was in via RDP, I loaded the Citrix Receiver applet and was able to start a work session inside of windows 10:

My Laptop -> RDP into Win10-001 under ESXi -> get token and start work connection to Hosted Virtual Desktop (HVD)

I need to get some additional apps loaded on Win10-001.


Vintage Audio stuff


At this time, the tuner, preamp and amp have arrived downstairs!! Might be "Multimeters and Ocilliscope time" soon.

Picture of this carnage soon.