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Disaster Recovery and XenDesktop ….
Hopefully you are not laughing at this Dilbert Cartoon because it hit a little too close to home. (-: I think there is a little of that in everyone’s plan like it or not. Working with our friends at NetApp we recently put together a joint XenDesktop Disaster Recovery whitepaper that highlight some key NetApp and Citrix product features that make the job of protecting ...
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Getting a Quicker Start with XenDesktop 5
As part of the Americas Strategic Alliances team at Citrix I spend a lot of my time working with partners and customers on desktop and server virtualization proof-of-concepts so in this blog I thought I would bring together a collection of "goto" XenDesktop 5 resources and a dash of guidance for those getting started with a XenDesktop 5 POC. So not to waste time ...
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Citrix XenDesktop on Cisco UCS
As a Engineer on the Americas Strategic Alliances team at Citrix one of my focuses has been with our Cisco partnership and I have been spending more of my time working with XenDesktop and XenApp customers that are in the process of evaluating the Cisco UCS virtualization platform to host their desktop virtualization environments. I have to say Cisco has done a fantastic job ...
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Using Microsoft’s DFS replication with Provisioning Services HA
When configuring Citrix provisioning services for HA (feature of Xendesktop) you first need to decide on the type of storage you will use to host your VHD images. PVS provides active-active HA meaning each server will need to have access to the same set of VHDs simultaneously. NTFS will not tolerate multiple servers accessing the same LUN in a read-write mode, even if you ...
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Get Hands On with XenDesktop’s provisioning services at Synergy 2010
The Citrix provisioning services feature of XenDesktop is one of those technologies that you really need to experience to get a full appreciation of what it can do. So come join us at Synergy 2010 learning labs and see how quickly you can learn to use Citrix provisioning services to leverage in your XenDesktop deployment? This session will show you ...
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PVS 5.1 Direct VHD Boot using XenServer
After going through the Direct VHD Boot process for HyperV which was a feature of PVS 5.1 the next question that came up was "Does it work with Xenserver?" and the answer that came back was "It technically should work but it is not officially supported yet." So we decided to do the next logical thing and give it a ...
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New Way to Upgrade with PVS 5.1 and HyperV
If you have been using provisioning services for any amount of time you have come to realize the benefits of how easy and quick it can be to update a OS image compared to the old school methods. In the past the exception to this would be if you needed to update the PVS client software, nic driver, or some applications that use network filter ...
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Xendesktop at 34,000ft and 520kts
For those who travel for business the need for offline access to your desktop has always been a requirement but with internet coverage growing .....Broadband WiFi, cellular data cards, and now even on commercial flights with Delta and other airlines offering en route satellite based internet service things are changing. Last week flying back to Atlanta I thought I would pony up the $9.95 and ...
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Provisioning Services … to the Edge with a Thinclient
Streaming a Full OS to a ThinClient ... Step by Step Provisioning Server(PVS) has been a amazing addition to the citrix "Dynamic Delivery Center" line up. It is a game changing technology that has a wide range of use cases. So for those of you not familiar with PVS .... The brief of it is. We virtualize the Disk IO allowing you to host a full OS ...
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Using PVS Boot Device Manger with Xendesktop and Hyper-V
This is Part 3 of my blog regarding BDM we will go through setting up a HyperV virtual machine template to boot from ISO. A few important things to note- - Currently with PVS and HyperV we must use the Emulated(legacy) NIC for pvs to work. You do have the option of setting up a private virtual network for PVS and assigning the legacy NIC to this ...