Bhumik Patel
Summit and Synergy Hands-on Workshops on Cisco UCS, NetApp and XenDesktop
Are you looking to get technical hands-on learning on a complete solution for hosting XenDesktop such as FlexPod for XenDesktop? Interested to configure Cisco UCS platform and NetApp storage for hosting XenDesktop? In this single workshop class, instructors from Cisco, NetApp and Citrix (me) will provide hands-on learning on all three solutions and showcase value that the joint solution can provide. Training will be provided ...
Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) solution for Citrix XenDesktop
Cisco recently released an updated Cisco Validated Design guide (CVD) for its Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) with Citrix XenDesktop. It is available here and provides a comprehensive coverage of the entire Cisco VXI solution for delivering virtual desktops with XenDesktop - so I highly recommend anyone interested to give it a read.In this blog, I would like to provide key summarization of the VXI ...
Better QoS for XenDesktop with Branch Repeater
One of the new features of Branch Repeater 6.0 is the traffic shaping module that allows a better and more granular level of QoS for delivering protocols and applications over the WAN – including virtual desktops and applications. This traffic shaping feature of Branch Repeater coupled with the new HDX Multi-Stream implementation for XenDesktop 5.5 and XenApp 6.5 allows us to optimally prioritize HDX traffic ...
NetScaler Cloud Bridge Implementation Requirements
For customers looking to leverage the relatively new NetScaler Cloud Bridge feature, I would like to share some implementation specific details for extending an on-site data center network to the cloud provider network. For some basic feature background, please refer to our sites here and here. Ok, if you are like me you probably didn’t read all the way through the links. So here in ...
Branch Repeater VPX Scalability Analysis
Customers deploying Branch Repeater for providing WAN acceleration and optimizations to Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop solutions or for optimizing any other TCP based protocols have a choice to either deploy the physical appliances or the virtual appliances (VPX). While deploying physical appliances has been a well-known territory for many years, especially in terms of its specifications and expected scalability, deploying VPX instances warrant answering a ...
Cisco CVD for Citrix XenDeskop on Microsoft Hyper-V
It's been almost 4 months since I mentioned in my last blog to "stay tuned" for the Cisco Validated Design guide (CVD) for Cisco UCS with XenDesktop on Hyper-V and trust me, we have been busy testing at the Cisco labs since then. Well, I am glad to share with you that the CVD is now released and available here. The report provides XenDesktop validation ...
Technical Insight in to the Citrix-Cisco Validated Design Guides
You must have seen the announcements around Citrix and Cisco partnering together to deliver a joint comprehensive solution for desktop virtualization. This is very exciting and there is a lot of industry buzz around it. Being the Citrix Consultant onsite at Cisco along with Frank Anderson from the XenDesktop Product Marketing team, I would like to provide technical insight in to the published Validated Design Guides ...
Get hands-on with Citrix NetScaler VPX at Synergy
If you are like me, you would agree that the best way to get introduced to a new product or technology is to see it in action. That's exactly how we plan to do it in our Learning Labs Introduction to NetScaler VPX session at Synergy. In this class each attendee will get access to a NetScaler VPX and through our virtualized labs you will ...
How much Bandwidth is required to deliver XenDesktop 4?
One of the common questions that Citrix customers implementing XenDesktop 4 for Branch Offices ask is "How much Bandwidth is required to deliver XenDesktop 4?" Even though the typical answer to such a specific question is "It depends" and it is based on available bandwidth, latency, WAN congestion and user/application activities, customers still need some sort of guide or range to help them plan for ...
Citrix Delivery Center Demonstration at SAP — Part II
In the first part of this blog series we looked at specific details on Citrix Delivery Center and the Disaster Recovery demonstration for SAP NetWeaver. In this posting we will cover different High Availability solutions also demonstrated at SAP. In addition to this blog series, please refer the Reference Architecture document that provides all the technical details about Citrix and Marathon solutions implemented for SAP.Getting ...