Results for: Sizing LUNs - A Citrix Perspective
Get your VDI project off the ground, attend a Desktop Transformation Workshop
Find a Workshop near you: http://www.registerandcompute.com/2012DTM/EventListing.asp Pre-Read: (get the most benefit from attending the workshop - please read the description of what's covered below) Who: Citrix Consulting and SE's created and present the content, just the facts! Why did we put the workshops together? * Talking with customers we realized that a lot of deployments plateau once they hit 200-500 or 1000 desktops, or never get off the ground ...
Digging into RingCube
Background As you've probably heard by now, we've acquired RingCube Technologies. I'm really excited about this acquisition because I spend a lot of time in the field working with some of our largest customers...and doing VDI the "right way" in the enterprise space has been difficult at best up to this point. I'll openly admit that. There's a reason that many of our large, production XD ...
Tuning XenServer for Maximum Scalability
One of the things I talked about in my BriForum presentation a couple weeks ago in Chicago was dom0 tuning. Not only did I get quite a few inquiries after my presentation specifically about this topic, but I also get a lot of questions from fellow field consultants, partners and customers about XenServer scalability in general. So I wanted to take a few minutes today ...
Are SSDs All They’re Cracked Up To Be?
I've had to have a couple "difficult conversations" (as we like to call them in Consulting) recently with a couple enterprise customers. In each of these situations, the customer was complaining about poor performance when using solid-state drive (SSD) technology in conjunction with their PVS-based XenDesktop deployment. Before running any actual tests, I had long speculated that SSDs might not be a great fit for ...
IOPS in the Real World
When I started at Citrix 7 years ago, the question I seemed to get the most was "How many users can I get on each box?". Of course, we were talking XenApp back then, but that's not really the point - the point is my answer was almost always "It depends!" (which is what any Consultant who's been around the block might say...). ...
Sizing LUNs – A Citrix Perspective
In my last blog I talked about why NFS was "recommended" and mentioned that I'd talk about LUN sizing with block-based protocols in a future blog...well this is it! Have you ever wondered why organizations create LUNs a certain size? Have you ever wondered why some organizations put a single Virtual Disk Image (VDI) on a LUN and others put 20 VDIs on ...