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Tag: Citrix Consultng
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Simplified VDI Architecture
There’s a perception that VDI is complicated. I’m far from being a rocket scientist, and I’ve managed to implement many successful VDI projects over the past ten years. I truly believe that VDI is one of those things that is only as complicated as you make it. It’s like saying that driving is complicated. You’d have to be crazy to take your first lesson in ...
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Virtual Desktops: 32-bit or 64-bit Desktop Operating Systems?
One of the key decisions during a XenDesktop design is whether to use the 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) version of the Windows desktop operating system. I’ve seen a few projects falter because they’ve opted for the 64-bit version without really thinking this decision through and I want to make sure that this doesn’t happen to you. Question: What’s the benefit from implementing a 64-bit desktop ...
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XenDesktop – High Availability & Load Balancing Add On For Web Interface!
The XenDesktop Availability Problem Over the last several years I have been actively involved in helping many of our enterprise customers deploy large VDI environments. A reoccurring theme is that most, if not all, have experienced outages in their XenDesktop environments. This problem has not only been occurring with the large customers that I have personally been involved with, but I have also been getting emails ...
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Citrix Profile Management and VDI – Doing it Right Part 3!
I previously wrote two blog articles on properly configuring Citrix Profile Management and Folder Redirection and architecting it so that it scales for large environments. If you have not yet read the previous two articles, then I would suggest you read them first. You can find them at the links below: http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/02/11/citrix-profile-management-and-vdi-doing-it-right/ http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/08/05/citrix-profile-management-and-vdi-doing-it-right-part-2/ In this third and final installment of this series, I will provide some guidelines on ...
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Citrix Profile Management and VDI – Doing it Right Part 2!
I previously wrote a blog article on properly configuring Citrix Profile Management and Folder Redirection. If you have not yet read it, then I would suggest you read it first. All of the articles in this series apply to non-persistent virtual desktops or XenApp published desktops. You can find Part 1 at the link below: http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/02/11/citrix-profile-management-and-vdi-doing-it-right/ After I wrote the first article I received a lot of ...
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Load Balancing TFTP with NetScaler
I published an article called "Load Balancing TFTP - Anything But Trivial" a little over a year ago. And since then, it's received over 10,000 hits and it's been one of the most popular articles I've ever written in terms of comments and offline emails that I receive about the article. If you haven't had a chance to read that article yet (or the comments), ...
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Sizing LUNs with VAAI – Another Citrix Perspective
Let's face it - we see a lot of VMware out there. And I might see a bit more than most people since I am part of our Consulting team and I primarily work in the large/enterprise space. In all honesty, I've probably done about the same amount of XenDesktop on vSphere deployments as XenDesktop on XenServer or Hyper-V deployments. So I've had to stay ...
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Beware the 50/50 Split with PvD
So you’ve got a use case for Citrix Personal vDisk (PvD) and you want to integrate it into your existing XenDesktop environment with your perfectly architected profile management solution – should be pretty straightforward, right? It certainly can be, but you really need to understand the key design considerations when implementing PvD. I’m going to talk about one of those key design considerations in this ...
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Hardware & Storage Calculator
During your desktop transformation project, you’ll need to estimate hardware and storage requirements so that project costs can be calculated and the infrastructure can be ordered. To provide an accurate estimate you’ll need to consider many different factors - including virtual desktops per host, virtual desktops per site, desktops per controller, users per XenApp Server, XenApp Servers per host, users per farm, hosts per resource ...
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Clearing The Air – Fixed or Dynamic vDisks?
Have you ever heard conflicting information about a setting or best practice and wondered what was really true or the "real" best practice? Never from Citrix, right? ;) I've recently heard some people saying to use fixed vDisks with PVS and others saying dynamic. So what is the true or real best practice? That's precisely what I'd like to discuss in this article. Before I begin, please note: I'm ...