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Networks built on clouds, which are built on networks
Today at Synergy we announced the availability of a technology preview of NetScaler for Amazon Web Services. The formal announcement is here. To get access to the tech preview, start here.We often say "NetScaler was running the biggest clouds before they were even called clouds." What we're getting at is that NetScaler got its start powering the original "dotcom"/"webmonster" data centers. Looking back, we now ...
Load Balancing and Web Acceleration with NetScaler 10
As you may already know, we recently launched The Most Advanced Cloud Network Platform the “NetScaler 10”. This outstanding product is loaded with more than 100 new world-class feature.Today, I want to spend few minutes to familiarize you with some of the major Load Balancing and Web Acceleration enhancements that we have integrated in NetScaler 10. My hope is that you get to play/try these ...
How to Doom a Cloud: Forget Networking
The number of clouds being built that are doomed to failure is staggering. Which is a shame because the builders are getting better by the day.Let me explain.At Citrix, we get the benefit of talking to a lot of people that are actively building clouds. They come in and talk to us about a variety of projects they are working on; from networking to VDI ...
NTT Selects CloudStack to Power New Cloud Services
NTT Communications Corporation, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, and its NorthAmerican Subsidiary Verio this morning announced that they have chosen Citrix CloudStack™ to power their upcoming public cloud service. Cloudn, NTTs new public cloud offering based on our latest platform, is launching in North America today and in Japan early this summer.Cloudn is an innovative, highly scalable public cloud service designed to ...
Get your VDI project off the ground, attend a Desktop Transformation Workshop
Find a Workshop near you: http://www.registerandcompute.com/2012DTM/EventListing.asp Pre-Read: (get the most benefit from attending the workshop - please read the description of what's covered below) Who: Citrix Consulting and SE's created and present the content, just the facts! Why did we put the workshops together? * Talking with customers we realized that a lot of deployments plateau once they hit 200-500 or 1000 desktops, or never get off the ground ...
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PVS Write Cache Sizing & Considerations
Every now and then I’m asked where the Provisioning Services Write Cache should be located and how big it might become. So I thought it might be worth to share some thoughts.LocationProvisioning Services supports several options for storing the PVS Write Cache, which contains all disk writes of a target device when using a write-protected vDisk (Standard Image). Options for the write cache location are:Cache ...
XenServer Workload Balancing Thresholds Are Critical
With the cliffhanger ending of my last post, I left you all breathlessly wondering why the way XenServer Workload Balancing (WLB) works is important.Understanding how Workload Balancing work is critical in understanding how to tweak your thresholds.Workload Balancing recommendations are triggered primarily by thresholds, values for resource metrics that, when one is crossed, indicate to Workload Balancing that it needs to make a recommendation. You can improve the timing of Workload ...
Optimizing PVS
While everyone using Provisioning Services (PVS) in a productive environment should be aware of the basic networking best practices outlined within CTX117374 or the design considerations at CTX125126, there are a couple of advanced configuration options that are not widely known. Today I would like to discuss some of these.Subnet AffinityThe Subnet Affinity feature which has been introduced with PVS5.6, is an advanced load balancing ...
XenServer for XenDesktop – How many network cards do I need?
No matter what the size of the project, you'll always need to ask yourself: How many network cards do I need? Unfortunately it's not always immediately apparent and will vary depending on requirements for redundancy, throughput, security, scalability and network connectivity. However, I've put together a few general guidelines to help you on your way.Let's start with the facts: in its most simple form XenServer ...