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Team: Consulting
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When you need more than a shared desktop
When working on desktop transformation designs, many start with the VDI (personal) model. I tend to go for the RDS (Shared) model. There are many reasons why, but mainly it is because Scalability: Most agree that a shared desktop environment achieves better scalability than personal desktop environments. Storage: Due to the shared operating system, the impact on storage is mostly a non-issue Security: Although a desktop ...
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XenApp Published Apps In Fashion Again
When starting to transform a desktop, many people get stuck at one of the first decisions: What type of virtual desktop should I implement? (VDI, RDS, Local VM, etc) There are so many options for so many use cases that we are stuck analyzing our users until we confuse ourselves even more. The problem is we are trying to start by dealing with ...
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Better QoS for XenDesktop with Branch Repeater
One of the new features of Branch Repeater 6.0 is the traffic shaping module that allows a better and more granular level of QoS for delivering protocols and applications over the WAN – including virtual desktops and applications. This traffic shaping feature of Branch Repeater coupled with the new HDX Multi-Stream implementation for XenDesktop 5.5 and XenApp 6.5 allows us to optimally prioritize HDX traffic ...
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Expanding Your XenApp Environments for Virtual Desktops
I've heard many people talk about how to start their desktop transformation projects when they are looking at 5000 desktops. How do you even begin? The number of desktops, users and applications is so overwhelming many can't even figure out how to begin. The desktop environment is so vast that making any change looks impossible. But it isn't impossible if you start correctly. You have to ...
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NetScaler Cloud Bridge Implementation Requirements
For customers looking to leverage the relatively new NetScaler Cloud Bridge feature, I would like to share some implementation specific details for extending an on-site data center network to the cloud provider network. For some basic feature background, please refer to our sites here and here. Ok, if you are like me you probably didn’t read all the way through the links. So here in ...
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Time to Ask the Architects in Barcelona
If you could ask a Citrix consulting architect a question, what would it be? Would you ask a specific design question about your environment? Or would you focus on better understanding a XenDesktop concept? Or would you ask them who their favorite Star Trek captain is (Benjamin Sisko)? What if you could ask 8 architects? Well, Synergy Barcelona is your chance. Not going to Barcelona? ...
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XenDesktop, XenApp or VDI in a Box… How we decided
I've been absent from the blogging world for some time due to summer holiday and working on two different projects with two new technologies (Kaviza and CloudStack). In the future, I'm might be able to talk about CloudStack items, but today the focus is on Kaviza. The project I've been involved with is focused on delivering desktops for 200 concurrent users. We had three options: XenDesktop ...
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Branch Repeater VPX Scalability Analysis
Customers deploying Branch Repeater for providing WAN acceleration and optimizations to Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop solutions or for optimizing any other TCP based protocols have a choice to either deploy the physical appliances or the virtual appliances (VPX). While deploying physical appliances has been a well-known territory for many years, especially in terms of its specifications and expected scalability, deploying VPX instances warrant answering a ...
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Machine Creation Services Primer – Part 2
In the first part of the Machine Creation Services Primer, we focused on the creation of Pooled-Random, Pooled-Static and Dedicated desktops. The process was very similar. However, at this point, items start to change and I want to focus on updating the master image, as this question usually comes up pretty quickly. With Machine Creation Services, we have a master virtual machine somewhere within our environment. ...
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Virus Alert!!!
I also just got back from BriForum 2011 – Chicago and attended two sessions that furthered my beliefs that blanketing antivirus across all of my virtual desktops probably isn't the best thing. First, Jim Moyle focused his session on a deep dive into Windows IOPS and showed how different actions impact IOPS requirements in a virtual desktop. Let's just say the graph for certain Antivirus ...