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Q&A from Dec13th Solution Webinar “Enterprise Benefits of Desktop Virtualization with Google Chromebooks”
Question AnswerDo 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. - KGwill we see more chromeos options (other laptop manufacturers or desktops)? Point to event recording as this exact question was answered during event. -CMHow 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 ...
Windows 7 Registry Optimizations for Virtual Desktops
In another blog, I discussed Windows 7 services that you might wish to disable when going down the path of desktop virtualization. In this article, I'm now focusing on registry modification you will want to make to optimize Windows 7 for virtual desktops. I've broken it down into Recommended configurations, Standard Mode configurations (for Provisioning services), and Optional configurations.As ...
Remember to optimize the desktop image
Building a virtual desktop is simply a matter of installing the Windows operating system. Right? Slow down... although this will work, it won't give you the best performance and scalability. One of the items that many people mistakenly forget to accomplish is to optimize the base operating system. This is the 7th mistake out of the top 10 mistakes made ...
Desktop Virtualization is not Server Virtualization
Desktop Virtualization is about user experience and agility, Server Virtualization is about consolidation and cost savings. It's amazing to me how so many people still confuse and believe Desktop Virtualization is just a straight forward extension of Server Virtualization that will just naturally evolve from their existing Server Virtualization infrastructure, without realizing that these are two very different use cases requiring a different approach.In ...
TechTalk Q and A – Simplifying Application Delivery to the Virtual Desktop
Q: Any recommendations for hosting or streaming components such as .NET, Oracle Drivers, MQ drivers, teradata, DB2, etc ? A: Many core OS components will need to be installed as part of the base image. Things like anti-virus, drivers, .NET. Q: Is there a place to find this "Leverage Existing Infrastructure" slide or the info later on?A: Yes. In the next few days there will be 3 ...