Results for: I'm working when I'm idle
HTTP Call-Outs – Welcome to 2006!
It's not often I take my competition to task, but when I do I always have a good time.So the kids over at one of my larger competitors have added the concept of HTTP Call-Outs, something that has been a part of the NetScaler policy framework for years. Indeed, it is a powerful tool that can be used for a lot of interesting things. For ...
Moving a XenDesktop PoC to a production environment Tech Talk – Q&A
Recently, I held Tech Talks for providing guidance to move a XenDesktop PoC to a production environment and you submitted many good questions, which is the reason why it required some time to provide you the answers. I covered most of these questions, however there were some that I needed to leave out because the question was not clear. Therefore, I would appreciate if you ...
XenDesktop Masterclass – Lesson 01 Q&A
So, what's all this about then?Last week we started our first XenDesktop Masterclass from the UK hosted by myself and Patrick Irwin from Product Marketing. I'm the technical guy (Systems Engineer in the UK) with too much enthusiasm for my own good and he's the level headed one that tells me to hurry up. That's our dynamic. SeriouslyWe've done a bunch ...
XenDesktop 4 PowerShell SDK Primer – Part 3 – Creating a New Desktop Group
When you configure a XenDesktop environment, the primary configuration you are going to make is to create new desktop groups. Desktop Groups define the virtual desktops that you want to make available to users, who can access them, how they are assigned to users, and how many are kept active at any given time. Whenever I'm working within the Delivery Services Console, I ...
TechEdge Close-up – Interview with Michael Rock
Another one of our presenters at Citrix TechEdge 2010 is Michael Rock. Michael is a member of the Escalation Team, with a focus towards XenDesktop. His roles include working technically complex mission critical or hot customer issues, developing and delivering training to other teams and engineers, and the development, design, and coding of new tools which aid in troubleshooting Citrix products. Prior to joining Citrix two ...
TechEdge Close-up – Interview with Dave Hawkins
At Citrix TechEdge not only will you meet some of support's top escalation engineers, you'll also meet Dave Hawkins one of our top Technical Relationship Managers (TRM). As a TRM, Dave works closely with key accounts for design, implementation, and problem solution for the NetScaler Products. The TRM is a single point of contact for the customer and becomes familiar with a customer's network, their requirements, and internal procedures, leading ...
I’m working when I’m idle
I'm working when I'm idle, well from my desktop's perspective that is the case. We all know that when a desktop starts, when a user logs on, when a user is working and when a user logs off that user has an impact on the system resources: CPU, Memory and Disk. When the user is idle, we expect CPU and Disk ...
How User Patterns Impact a Desktop Virtualization Infrastructure
One of the questions you must ask yourself when designing a desktop virtualization solution is understanding the user patterns. This has a direct impact on XenDesktop farm design and scalability with respects to boot up storms and logon storms. Let's take two different examples so you can get a better idea for what I'm talking about: Scenario 1: 9-5: In this scenario, all users logon in the ...
Deciding on Your Virtual Desktop Specifications
Being an architect in the desktop virtualization space, I get a lot of questions around scalability. I'm not a big fan of scalability questions because there is too much SWAG involved. Unfortunately, I've been getting them for over 10 years: first with XenApp (which was WinFrame 1.7) and now with XenDesktop. As an example, I can easily get hundreds of users on a single XenApp ...