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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 ...
10 to Xen! (Part 2 of 3)
In the first post of this three-part blog series I went over installing XenServer and preparing the base virtual machine images for a XenDesktop deployment. The first post may be read at http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/01/13/10-to-xen-part-1-of-3/. Now with the following virtual machines available I’m ready to proceed with the XenDesktop install. XD – Windows Server 2008 R2 XenDesktop Controller and components (4GB RAM + 4 vCPUs)Win7Base – Windows 7 ...
XenApp and virtual IPs : Real world experience
Hello and happy new year everyone !4 years I haven't posted any message on the Citrix blogs.. many changes occured since 2007 ! I hope those changes were as good for you as they were for me..Today, I wanted to provide a real life experience about using virtual IP addresses with XenApp 6.x as very few articles exist on the web since Microsoft released Windows ...
Redundancy and Scalability for TFTP using NetScaler Direct Server Return
While Citrix Provisioning Server is not really my area of expertise, my fellow consultants working in that field have the challenge to create architecture designs for this component. In a PVS deployment, provisioned workloads - physical or virtual - query DHCP and get then directed to a TFTP server that offers some sort of boot image which is a file of usually a couple of ...
Free BGP
Border Gateway Protocol, open-source and it's para-virtualized. No more proprietary software and hardware, you can run as many copies of this as needed on one physical XenServer machine. As a proof point, we used the Vyatta Open Source router to build out our Link Load Balancing network in Santa Clara. The Open Source Vyatta is running on a Dell server. We configured the BGP ...
First Virtual Router for XenServer
And it's FREE! Throw away those behemoths that suck power from every grid in the state and drain your budget. This baby is Free, Open Source and VIRTUAL, meaning you can run as many instances of this router as you want on your choice of hardware. What is even more gratifying is it's faster than the old router technology.Vyatta has commoditized router, ...