Results for: Provisioning Services and CIFS Stores - Tuning For Performance
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 ...
Virtual Provisioning Server – A Successful Real World Example
A colleague of mine, Nick Rintalan, wrote an excellent blog post on whether one should virtualize Provisioning Server. If you have not read it, then I recommend you check it out here: http://blogs.citrix.com/2011/02/22/should-i-virtualize-provisioning-server/I am an avid supporter of virtualizing Provisioning Server. Servers today are just too powerful and it is a waste of resources to run things on bare metal. Let’s face it, the average ...
Citrix recommends NFS for XenDesktop…huh?
I've been getting a lot of questions lately around MCS vs PVS and which protocols work "best" with which technologies. And then just a couple weeks ago I was reading this lovely whitepaper put out by NetApp and I saw this statement on page 8:"Best Practice: Citrix recommends NFS as the preferred protocol for XenDesktop 5"Huh? Come again? We recommend NFS for ...
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 ...
Provisioning Services and CIFS Stores – Tuning For Performance
Provisioning Services and CIFS Stores - Tuning For Performance When deploying a Provisioning Services environment, the question of where to host the vDisk store and the VHD files for target devices often arises. There are really only two primary options:1) Block Level Storage2) NAS Storage (CIFS or in some cases NFS)I go into quite of a bit of detail as to why one should select block level ...