Results for: Provisioning Services High Availability Considerations - Part 1
Follow-up for the TechTalk “Virtual Desktops – A design for small environments”
A while ago we hosted the TechTalk "Virtual Desktops - A design for small environments", which had more than 1.100 live attendees. During that session we ran a live Q&A with the intention to answer all questions that the attendees might have. The flaw of the plan was that we underestimated the amount of questions and although we extended to Q&A part to 60 minutes ...
Provisioning Services Read-only vDisk Storage
In the previous Provisioning Services High Availability Considerations blog, I briefly spoke about using Provisioning Services 5.1 with read-only shared access to a SAN LUN(s). Now I will provide a step-by-step overview of how to implement this feature.Let's start with pre-requisites that I mentioned in my last blog:You need to install Microsoft iSCSI initiator on all Provisioning Services servers that access the SAN. Private Image mode ...
Provisioning Services High Availability Considerations – Part 4
Provisioning Services High Availability Considerations - Part 4In the previous Provisioning Services High Availability Considerations blog, I spoke about placing your vDisks on a Network Attached Storage (NAS). Now I will talk about placing your vDisks on a Storage Area Network (SAN).Placing your vDisks on a Storage Area Network (SAN) - iSCSIUsing a SAN to store the vDisks and access it by means of the ...
Provisioning Services High Availability Considerations – Part 2
In the previous Provisioning Services High Availability Considerations blog, I spoke about placing your vDisks Local on the Provisioning Server. Now I will talk about placing your vDisks on a Windows Network Share.Placing your vDisks on a Windows Network Share (CIFS)Using a single Windows Network share (CIFS) to store the vDisks is a very easy way of implementing a central vDisk store at minimal cost.What ...
Provisioning Services High Availability Considerations – Part 1
I have been working with Provisioning Services (PVS) for a while and one of the questions that keep coming up is around Provisioning Services High Availability (HA).What is HA? Maintaining access to a service or resource is probably the best explanation for this type of functionality.What does HA provide? Within the context of the Provisioning Services resource, we are referring to the target devices ability to ...
XenApp Related Sessions at Synergy 2008
As many of you have already seen, Citrix's annual Global User Conference has had some major changes this year. The first major change is that the event has been up-leveled to cover much more than the user conference but to be an industry conference around Virtualization, Networking and Application Delivery. The second major change is that the event is just around the corner - ...