Results for: Provisioning Services Read-only vDisk Storage
Provisioning Services – keeping your data persistent
OverviewThe most popular phrase of each and every consultant is “it depends” – we like this phrase and we use it a lot JHowever, the fact that you can say “it depends” doesn’t make you a good consultant of course – if consultant cannot give you any straight answers, he is kind of useless. Even though we usually say “it depends”, most of the time ...
No More Read-only LUNs in PVS, Sanbolic Melio Offers Consolidation, Scalability and Performance for PVS HA
While browsing the Citrix® Support Forums last week, I came across a posting that was written by a Citrix® customer who had recently upgraded his Provisioning Services™ (PVS™) farm from version 5.6 SP1 to version 6.0 and was disappointed to find out the Read-only LUN feature in PVS had been removed.In his posting, the individual explained that he had multiple 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 ...
Clearing The Air – Fixed or Dynamic vDisks?
Have you ever heard conflicting information about a setting or best practice and wondered what was really true or the "real" best practice? Never from Citrix, right? ;)I've recently heard some people saying to use fixed vDisks with PVS and others saying dynamic. So what is the true or real best practice? That's precisely what I'd like to discuss in this article.Before I begin, please note:I'm ...
“XenDesktop® on Hyper-V™”: From PoC to Production at Enterprise Scale with Sanbolic® Melio™
Every week I speak with IT professionals considering or in the process of evaluating Citrix® XenDesktop®. One of the things I find particularly interesting is the vast majority who plan on conducting their PoCs on Hyper-V™ also intend to start over from scratch using vSphere™ when they implement XenDesktop in production."Start over from scratch using another hypervisor," I initially thought to myself. "Why would anyone want to rebuild a virtual desktop infrastructure from scratch when they could save themselves ...
3 x PDFs you must have read
Dear community members,please feel free to respond if I should switch back to english again instead of writing in german from now on. ( my 2nd post )So liebe Citrix-Gemeinde ( Community hört sich schon cooler an , oder ? )Heute wollte ich Euch mal wieder ein paar wirklich interessante PDFs vorstellen. Dinge die man unbedingt gelesen haben sollte, auch wenn vielleicht nicht das ...
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 ...
Achieving High Performance, Scalability, Availability and Manageability for Citrix® Provisioning Services™
There was a great write-up posted on the Citrix community blog site last week that focused on improving the performance of Provisioning Services (PVS) using CIFS shares. In it, the author provided keen insight into the inner-workings of network shares and how PVS works with network shares by default. The blog was not only informative, but very helpful as it also provided suggestions on how ...
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 Scalability Webinar Q&A Part 1
This blog is to respond to questions from my Citrix, Microsoft, HP: Best Practices for Scaling Virtual Desktops webinar on June 17, 2010. I received 22 questions during the webinar and unfortunately did not have time to answer them all. I will cover the first half of them in this blog and address the remainder in a follow-up blog. Some questions with similar content ...