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Tag: storage
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How to leverage the new multiple datastore options of VDI-in-a-Box 5.2
Last year with version 5.1, VDI-in-a-Box introduced the ability to take advantage of two separate data stores, allowing VDI-in-a-Box to better leverage the direct attached storage of servers. When using the Hyper-V or ESX hypervisors, VDI-in-a-Box allows you to define a second datastore to separate the storage of golden images, and linked clones. Now with version 5.2 of VDI-in-a-Box we have introduced the option for a third datastore. In addition to ...
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Simplify Data Sharing and Storage with Citrix ShareFile and NetApp
“Whatever we possess becomes of double value when we have the opportunity of sharing it with others.” -- Jean-Nicolas Bouilly Okay, I’ll admit I had never heard of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly before I searched for a quote about sharing, but that doesn’t make the quote any less fitting for my blog. We are all aware of the value of sharing. We live in a world that’s ...
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How Do You Catch a Cloud and Pin It Down?
Sorry, much like Family Guy, I can’t resist a good Sound of Music reference. Now if only I could figure out how to incorporate “flibbertijibbet” into this blog… Anyway, even if you’re not singing from a hilltop, I’m sure you’ve asked yourself that very question or at least something along those lines. How can you ensure your move to the cloud doesn’t require a leap of ...
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Tintri is Citrix Ready
Tintri is reinventing storage for the virtual enterprise, with dramatically simpler storage for virtual environments that transforms the economics of the datacenter. Designed from the ground up for flash and virtualization, Tintri’s VM-aware storage solution brings new levels of agility, intuitive VM-level manageability and assured performance to storage for virtual environments. Customers around the world have simplified storage management, increased performance and achieved ROI in ...
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Building a Cloud: It All Starts with Storage (Guest post from Cloudian)
This guest post comes from our friends at Cloudian. Whether you are a service provider or an enterprise considering providing cloud services, using cloud services, building an internal private cloud, or even enabling a hybrid cloud, it can seem that there are an overwhelming number of things to consider: Network, Compute, Storage, Virtualization, Cloud Orchestration, APIs, Deployment Costs, Hardware costs. And the list goes on. At Cloudian, ...
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NetApp Virtual Storage Console for Citrix XenServer
NetApp recently released the Version 1.0 of its VSC for Citrix XenServer. Now why am I so excited about it? It makes the administration of your NFS-based Storage a lot easier. It offers some brilliant features to support your virtual Desktop environment, like: Storage controller discovery and configuration. NFS storage repository provisioning, deduplication, resizing, and destruction. Rapid VM cloning (in existing and new NFS-based storage repositories) for persistent desktops and ...
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Live-migrate VMs and virtual disks with Storage XenMotion and XenServer
What is Storage XenMotion? The XenServer team is working on an exciting new feature called Storage XenMotion (SXM). This is an extention to the existing XenMotion live VM migration feature, which allows VMs to be migrated between XenServer hosts in a resource pool. SXM extends this feature by removing the restriction that the VM can only migrate within its current resource pool. We now provide the ...
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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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Combine PVS and Melio to Maximize Investments in XenApp and XenDesktop
Hi all, Always striving to educate the industry on how Sanbolic's distributed data management software, Melio™, is helping organizations around the world realize the greatest return on their XenApp™ and XenDesktop® deployments, we're taking the opportunity once again, this time in the form of a webinar being held tomorrow morning at 11:00AM EST. / 8:00AM PST. The webinar, titled "Citrix PVS 6.0 and Sanbolic Melio 4 – ...