Results for: Using XenDesktop with ESX
The scoop on Remote PC
Hello and good Friday to you! Just a quick introduction in case we have not been properly introduced. I've been at Citrix for going on 8 years now, and before that I was in various IT sysadmin functions as well as a customer of Citrix for 12 years prior to joining Citrix. In those almost 8 years, I've been a Sales Engineer, a Technology Specialist supporting all ...
Citrix is still working on OpenStack
I attended the OpenStack Design Summit and Conference last week. One of the most commonly asked questions was: What are you doing here?The answer is that Citrix has not stopped all it's contributions to OpenStack. We have two people working full time on OpenStack: myself and Renuka Apte. We are concentrating on making OpenStack work well with XenServer. We even in the processes of hiring one more ...
XenDesktop and Provisioning Services on vSphere 5
I want to preface this post by saying if you are not interested in any backstory just skip down to the summary section for a wrap up...Coming from a consulting background I learned the hard way that you always have to check the compatibility of all components in a project. Since VMware released vSphere 5 many people found out the hard way that Citrix Provisioning ...
NetScaler for the XenDesktop\XenApp Dummy
I have been working with XenApp since the WinFrame and MetaFrame days. Back then we had to create ALTADDR and NAT entries on the firewall to allow connections from the Internet. Later, we moved into CSG (Citrix Secure Gateway) that allowed only 443 and a single IP address to be exposed to the Internet to access the internal Presentation Server farm.Now, the preferred method is Access ...
Planning and Deploying XenDesktop on VMware vSphere
Recently, three new articles related to planning and deploying Citrix XenDesktop have come out to help you with getting a XenDesktop environment up and running with VMware vSphere. Two come from Citrix Consulting services; a Planning Guide incorporating Citrix Consulting best practices from the field and the lab, and a Deployment Guide with step-by-step instructions to help you get your base configuration up and running. The third document is 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, ...
SCVMM 2012 and Project Morpheus – Getting Started
I’ve been a Hyper-V user ever since it was introduced a few years ago. I found it simple and very easy to use and understand, but by itself it was sorely lacking many features that VMware had incorporated into ESX, thus making it a hypervisor that one could not consider seriously in a production environment. So I began working with SCVMM 2008, which gives Hyper-V ...
Top 10 reasons why Service Providers need to adopt XenApp 6.5 for delivering Windows desktops and applications – Part 2 of 2
In Part 1 of this 2 part blog on why Service Providers should be migrating to XenApp 6.5, I focused on Receiver & HDX. In this blog I will look at the management enhancements in XenApp 6.5 that help Service ProvidersXenApp policies have been enhanced to include settings like farm membership, zone and load evaluators. This should further help in automating and dynamically changing farm ...
Aero Redirection in XenDesktop 5.5
Tired of the quaint Windows 7 Basic Theme of your VDI desktop? Looking to deliver a modern experience on your capable Windows XP devices with zero effort? Check out the new Aero Redirection feature in XenDesktop 5.5.HDX RichGraphics Aero Redirection delivers the full Windows 7 Aero Glass experience for VDI desktops. It provides an immersive look-and-feel ...