{"id":1425,"date":"2011-03-24T13:16:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T20:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2011-03-24T13:16:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T20:16:48","slug":"support-your-local-vmug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=1425","title":{"rendered":"Support your local VMUG!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/vmware-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1428\" title=\"vmware-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/vmware-logo-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"vmware-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/vmware-logo-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/vmware-logo.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>VMware sponsors local <a href=\"https:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/community\/vmug\">VMware User Groups<\/a> worldwide.\u00a0\u00a0 I recently attended a meeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/community\/vmug\/forums\/us-west\/santabarbara\">Santa Barbara VMware Users Group<\/a> and had a great time!\u00a0 The topic was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/view\/\">VMware View<\/a>, their flagship <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Desktop_virtualization\">desktop virtualization<\/a> solution.\u00a0 VMware sent one of their Systems Engineers to do a step by step hands on demonstration of installing VMware View.\u00a0 After a (free!) pizza lunch, Wyse demonstrated using their thin clients with View.\u00a0 The coolest Wyse thin clients I saw were the ones made by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teradici.com\/\">Teradici<\/a> that did native <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PCoIP\">PC over IP (PCoIP)<\/a> in hardware, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyse.com\/products\/hardware\/zeroclients\/p20\/index.asp\">Wyse P20<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Having installed both VMware View, as well as Citrix XenDesktop, I can honestly say both products have their relative strengths and weaknesses but that View has a far easier install process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMware sponsors local VMware User Groups worldwide.\u00a0\u00a0 I recently attended a meeting of the Santa Barbara VMware Users Group and had a great time!\u00a0 The topic was VMware View, their flagship desktop virtualization solution.\u00a0 VMware sent one of their Systems&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=1425\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}