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A blast from the past: Free tools you might not know about. Yet.
Every system administrator or consultant has a set of tools that they use on a daily basis. When I started my IT career in the late 90's I worked with Windows NT 4.0. If you remember these times, you should probably summon into mind some of the tricks from the past. Two of my favorites were the floppy less OS installation using winnt.exe /B and installation ...
Simplified VDI Architecture
There’s a perception that VDI is complicated. I’m far from being a rocket scientist, and I’ve managed to implement many successful VDI projects over the past ten years. I truly believe that VDI is one of those things that is only as complicated as you make it. It’s like saying that driving is complicated. You’d have to be crazy to take your first lesson in ...
Virtualizing XenApp Hosted Shared Desktops on Hyper-V
My latest adventure into density testing for Citrix solutions centers on XenApp (XA) Hosted Shared desktops. For those unfamiliar with the XA Hosted Shared model, it combines application and session virtualization, relying on a single OS instance on a Citrix XA server to publish familiar Windows desktops and applications. The Hosted Shared model centralizes application delivery and management (securing data and applications in the data ...
Announcing availability of StoreFront 1.2!
You may have seen the recent announcement on CloudGateway 2, which makes it possible for enterprise customers to deploy and manage mobile applications in addition to windows apps, Web/SaaS and ShareFile data. Well, we are excited to announce the availability of StoreFront 1.2, which is an integral part of the CloudGateway 2 solution. Here's what's new with this release of StoreFront 1.2: Enhanced Desktop Support: Desktops now show up on ...
Q&A from Dec13th Solution Webinar “Enterprise Benefits of Desktop Virtualization with Google Chromebooks”
Question Answer Do you know about availability for Chromebooks with .se local characters? Yes we do have Chromebooks available with a Swedish keyboard layout. You can purchase them from Google. - KG will we see more chromeos options (other laptop manufacturers or desktops)? Point to event recording as this exact question was answered during event. -CM How do you do enterprise management for the chrome os? Point to event recording as this exact question was answered during event. ...
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 ...
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, ...
Webinar QandA: Using Desktop Virtualization to Drive Business Agility and Growth
Thanks to everyone who joined us for our webinar "Using Desktop Virtualization to Drive Business Agility and Growth". In case you missed the event, you can watch the replay here - https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/882288713 (you will need Windows Media Player 9 or higher to view the presentation). There were quite a few questions posted during the live event that we did not have time to answer so ...
Finding a Better Way to Estimate IOPS for VDI
Planning storage is probably the most difficult part of architecting any VDI solution and estimating IOPS is probably the most difficult part of planning the storage. For a little background on some of the discussions I have had around this topic, see my Saving IOPS with Provisioning Services blog and the associated comments. Since posting that blog in August, I have had fielded multiple requests ...
Defaults only take you so far, especially with desktop virtualization
Default configurations are great in that they make the setup and configuration easy. Unfortunately, they don't work for all environments. In fact, if you simply use the defaults for an entire virtual desktop deployment, you will miss out on tons of optimizations to allow your environment to scale. Simply following the defaults is the 2nd most common mistake people ...