Results for: Optimizing PVS
Looking for an Alternative to Read-only LUNs, Replication and File Shares for PVS HA?
Have you recently upgraded to PVS 6.0? Did you happen to notice the Read-only LUN feature has been removed? Was it a feature you used previously to consolidate your vDisks and make vDisk management and maintenance easier?Other options such as replication and file shares introduce data management overhead, inefficient use of storage and single points of failure, and offer no ability to scale, less-than-stellar performance and various other unfavorable results.If you're ...
VDI Storage – see what happens when you’re out to lunch
Although I’m a product architect, and my co-workers accuse me of doing nothing more than drawing boxes and lines all day long, I do occasionally get to roll my sleeves up. I’ve recently been working on a project that involved collecting detailed information about the storage I/O performed by a ‘typical’ desktop running inside a VM for a day in the office. I captured a ...
Sharpen the Edge on XenDesktop 5!
Cutting edge technology is nothing new for Citrix. With the release of XenDesktop 5 in December of last year, we once again sharpened our edge on desktop delivery. We released a newly designed Desktop Delivery Controller which provides true enterprise-ready scalability and management. We introduced the Quick Deploy method using Machine Creation Services that allows you to stand up a complete XenDesktop infrastructure in less ...
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 ...
So how about a CIFS filer?
Last week , Dan Allen posted an excellent article about optimizing Provisioning Services for using a CIFS share to put your images on. You can read it here, if you haven't done so (highly recommended).Now in this article Dan works with a CIFS share based on a Windows O/S file server. In the comments of the article some people asked if the performance increases by ...
XenDesktop, Hyper-V and System Center Resources
Citrix and Microsoft have been working together on our joint solution for desktop virtualization for about three years. We have seen the interest in the solution steadily grow. The announcement of the new global V-Alliance program at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference this summer has increased the interest in this solution dramatically.Both Citrix and Microsoft have invested in field sales resources specifically tasked with working with ...
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 ...
Enhancing Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp with Sanbolic Melio 2010
Add Seamless Scalability, High Availability and Simplified Storage Management to Citrix Virtual Solutions with Sanbolic Melio 2010 Hi, my name is Andy Melmed and I am the Director of Enterprise Solutions for Sanbolic Inc., a developer of software products designed to simplify, share and extend the capabilities of SAN storage.As a new guest blogger on the Citrix Community blogs, I plan to use this forum to ...
Optimizing Windows 7 for FlexCast Delivery
IntroductionWith the release of XenDesktop 4, Windows 7 is now a supported operating system for XenDesktop. Since Microsoft announced the end-of-life for Windows XP many institutions are considering moving their user population to Windows 7. Since Microsoft and Citrix work closely together, I was assigned to work at their Enterprise Engineering Center on some preliminary scalability testing XenDesktop 4 on Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2. Out ...