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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 ...
Citrix Profile Management and VDI – Doing it Right!
For anyone that has ever worked with XenApp or XenDesktop you know that user profiles can be one of the most difficult things to get right. This was one of the driving forces behind Citrix including a profile management solution as a standard component of all editions of XenDesktop.I am not going to go into the details of the various types of profile strategies nor ...
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 ...
From Wow to How: Virtual Desktops, Networking and the Cloud
Thank you to those of you who joined us on Tuesday, November 15th for “From Wow to How 2: Virtual Desktops, Networking and the Cloud” webinar. I was excited to hear Citrix and Microsoft experts discussing the role of public, personal and private clouds, the power of virtual desktops and ways to provide a single point of authentication for users to securely access ALL applications, ...
VDI in a “pizza” box
Thoughts on VDI Write-Cache Storage Alternatives.It is quite common that the overall cost of VDI implementations is over 80% dependent on the cost of shared storage, especially when dealing with single-tenant VDI instances. Const-effective purchases hinge on bulk storage acquisition, thus impeding possibility for incremental growth. At the same time short and long term system scalability is largely bound to storage design which has to be revisited during VDI implementation life-cycle.It ...
Cisco and Citrix: Enlightened Approach to Partnering Drives Customer Success
On Wednesday I shared my excitement about our new multi-year strategic alliance with Cisco to enhance the delivery of rich, media-enabled virtual desktops over the network. I couldn’t be more excited about the innovations that will come from bringing together the best minds in desktop virtualization at Citrix, with the thought leaders in networking, voice, video and datacenter technologies at Cisco.The impact of this alliance was demonstrated ...
Customers Drive Citrix and Cisco Expanded Collaboration in Desktop Virtualization
こんにちは (konnichiwa: Hello)Last week was a great week for me on a number of levels. I was in Tokyo for our sold out iForum Japan event. Let me tell you, Citrix XenDesktop is rocking in Japan. From my standing room only, greater than 600-attendee XenDesktop session, to the first ever Citrix Tokyo user group, to my in-depth customer visits, -- the response to XenDesktop 5.5 was ...
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 ...
XenClient – Painless Ubuntu usage with XenClient II
Preface I personally ran into some issues after my 1st XenClient two installation when I tried to install my existing Ubuntu VM i've created with the TechPreview code.So I thought I'm sharing my experience, so it might save you some time.... Ubuntu and XenClient 2Designed to work with Ubuntu 11.04 32Bit Experimental as for version 2.0 XenClient Tools on the XC-Tools CD/ISO contain the following debian packages/xenclient-linuxtools.deb (for actual 2.6.38 Kernel) /ubuntu-drivers/2.6.32/xenclient-linuxtools_i386.deb /ubuntu-drivers/2.6.37/xenclient-linuxtools_i386.debXenClient Tools for Ubuntu ...
HDX 3D Pro takes another leap forward
With the recent introduction of XenDesktop 5.5, our HDX 3D Pro technology for delivering professional graphics has taken another giant step forward. 3D Pro led the way in remoting high-end OpenGL and DirectX applications when it was released two years ago. We focused first on building an architecture capable of efficiently rendering very large and complex 3D models (hundreds of thousands or even millions of ...