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Tag: hypervisor
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A More Open Xen = A Stronger XenServer
Last week, Citrix joined other industry leaders (Google, Cisco, Intel, Verizon) to create a collaborative open source project under the Linux Foundation to drive the future development of the Xen virtualization technology now named Xen Project. This is a significant development for the open source community at large, and was premiere news at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Conference earlier this month. The acceptance of Xen.org ...
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vSphere 5.1 GPU acceleration now supported on XenDesktop with HDX 3D Pro and XenApp with HDX 3D
VMware recently introduced GPU hardware acceleration support for its latest hypervisor release, vSphere 5.1. XenDesktop 5.6 FP1 and XenApp 6.5 FP1 have tested successfully with the new GPU acceleration capabilities on vSphere 5.1 and Citrix officially supports these configurations. vSphere 5.1 introduced two GPU acceleration methods: Direct graphics acceleration (vDGA) and Shared graphics acceleration (vSGA). vDGA is similar to XenServer’s GPU pass-through method where each graphics ...
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How to Configure the XenClient Enterprise Synchronizer
Citrix just announced the next release of XenClient with XenClient 4.5 Technology Preview. XenClient 4.5 adds several features to the Synchronizer such as high-security external network synchronization via NetScaler support, new enterprise network policies with VLAN tagging, and support for the latest operating systems with Windows 8 support. This is an exciting new release that promises to accelerate client-side desktop virtualization. If you are looking for ...
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XenServer is One in a Million
If you’ve downloaded Citrix XenServer you’re one in a million, or soon to be. That’s right, since Free XenServer was announced in 2009 it has been downloaded almost one million times and, with the recent release of XenServer 6.1, we’re approaching that milestone fast. Several key trends in today’s server virtualization landscape have led to this high level of adoption; Commoditization of server virtualization solutions- The hypervisor ...
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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 ...
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10 to Xen! (Part 1 of 3)
Happy New Year everyone! As my first blog post of 2012, I’d like to wish everyone a very healthy, prosperous, and productive year ahead. There are sure to be some exciting technologies coming our way! In this three-part blog series I’ll run through a basic XenDesktop environment setup/POC at a high level with pointers on how to save time and streamline the installation process. First, we’ll ...
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XenClient VM disk resizing
It's been a while since I started to use XenClient on my laptop, and I've always missed a nice and easy way to resize my VM's disks not being synchronized. Cause I'm a techie, and we techie's used to like the idea of being aside the corporate standards and preserve our independence. XenClient is a great match for this BYO concept, and that same feeling ...
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Business Value of Citrix XenClient 2
XenClient 2 is Available Now! With more than 100,000 downloads of XenClient since v1 and with more than 10,000 checking out the Tech Preview of v2, we are excited that XenClient 2 is finally available now. XenClient 2 extends the performance, flexibility and security of desktop virtualization to mobile users—and even lets users run multiple virtual desktops on a single laptop—while providing effective control for IT departments ...
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Antivirus Protection – Good and Bad
Someone save me from antivirus. Did you read that correctly? I said save me from antivirus. Odd isn't it? Anti-virus is there to protect us, but we also need to be protected from antivirus. Antivirus solutions are critical, even in a virtual desktop environment. Many people believe that because a hosted VM-based virtual desktop image is created from a real-only image ...
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How Many Resources Do My Users Require
If you were asked what desktop resources your needed how would you answer? If you ask me what type of desktop I need, I'm going to say, 2+ cores with at least 4+ GB of RAM, 500+GB hard drive, etc. If you look at what I really need, you will see 1 core and maybe 2-3 GB of RAM. In fact, ...