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Tag: provisioning_services
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Citrix FlexCast Style: Delivering XenApp on Hyper-V with PVS and McAfee
Follow me @TonySanchez_CTX Architectures—whether physical or virtual—should be flexible enough to adapt to different workloads, allowing them to support changing business needs. Although implementing a new IT architecture takes time and careful planning, the process to test and validate an architecture should be easy. In the case of a virtual desktop architecture, test engineers should be able to follow a repeatable pattern, step by step, ...
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Last Chance to Register! Citrix Support Secrets Webinar February 21st
This is your LAST CHANCE to register for this months webinar in the popular Citrix Support Secrets series. The February webinar covers Planning, Implementing and Troubleshooting Provisioning Services. The webinar will be delivered by one of Citrix Support's top Provisioning Services SME's, so make sure to pop along for the best troubleshooting tips. The webinar takes place on Thursday, 21st February 2013 @ 10am EST/4pm CET. What you will ...
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Register Today! Citrix Support Secrets Webinar – Provisioning Services
Thanks to everyone who attended our Citrix Support Secrets January webinar covering CloudGateway 2.5 Technical Overview and Troubleshooting. The on-demand recording is here. Each month we will pick a subject that is hot within the support dept, like a hot/common issue, new Citrix product or tools that make troubleshooting much easier. Previous Webinars available on-demand: Jan 2013 - CloudGateway 2.5 Technical Overview and Troubleshooting Dec 2012 - Reduce your time to Resolution ...
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The Pagefile Done Right!
After much internal debate and struggle, I've decided to finally write an article on the pagefile. Why the struggle? Because the topic is the Windows paging file...a pretty old concept that I think most folks understand, not to mention virtual memory is a pretty abstract and boring topic so I'm sure to lose a few people along the way. Then why am I finally writing ...
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PVS Write Cache on local disks – A Real World Experience
When implementing a Provisioning Services infrastructure the decision about the Write Cache location is one of the most important and therefore one of the most discussed. As I already wrote two blogs about this topic (you can find them here and here) I’ll not bore you with any more theory. Instead this time I’d like to share some practical real world data, of an environment ...
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Tracking the PVS Write Cache size
One of the few missing features of Provisioning Services is a central PVS Write Cache monitoring facility, which allows measuring the size of the Target Side Write Cache files (Setting Cache on Client HD) from a central location. This would be very helpful during POCs and Pilots for estimating the storage requirements for the final infrastructure as well as for trend analysis during normal operations. As ...
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PVS – The MTU Story
If you are working with Citrix Provisioning services you might have seen a small difference in the MTU size value from previous releases of the product? If not, it is time you take a look in the GUI. The older version of the product (5.1), had a MTU size of 1464 bytes set in the GUI, compared to the newer releases (5.6/6.0) of the product, which ...
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Introduction to Storage Technologies – Available Now!
Have you ever wondered how a SSD works and why read/write performance can drop once the disk contains some data? Have you heard of nested RAID levels, but you where not sure how a RAID 50 works and if it would make send for your environment? Have you attended a meeting about planning your new data centers and you heard people talking about synchronous and ...
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Storage Best Practices and Planning Guide – Available Now!
In the good old MetaFrame days (shared) storage was merely used for storing user profiles / homes, some application related data and maybe some installation sources, but not much more. Since that time Citrix introduced a couple of new products, technologies and architectures (XenServer, PVS, MCS,… just to name a few), which rely on storage (whether shared or not) as an integral and vital part. ...
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Automated Image Management Streaming to You Live on Friday, May 27th
Couldn't make it to Synergy San Francisco, but you still would like to see how upcoming features of Provisioning Services can enable you to automate image management for your streamed XenApp and XenDesktop machines? Not a problem! This year Citrix is making certain sessions, including SYN204 - Automate Server and Client Image Management with Citrix Provisioning Services available over the internet on Citrix ...