For those of you who missed the June 18th TechTalk on the design for a 20,000 user environment, missed out. Well, not really. Luckily, we recorded the presentation so you can watch it whenever you desire. As you know, the webinar was based on a reference design for a 70,000 user school district. Links to [...]
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ABC School District Webinar Q/A
Posted: July 2, 2010 in ABC School DistrictTags: citrix, Reference design, TechTalk, vdi, webinar, windows 7, xendesktop
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Delivering Desktop Images at the School
Posted: June 8, 2010 in ABC School District, UncategorizedTags: design considerations, IOPS, Provisioning services
In a previous post, I discussed how many different desktop images the ABC school district required for their desktop virtualization design: five. Read the previous blog to find out why five were needed. With 18,000 virtual desktops, the challenge now becomes on how to design/scale the Provisioning services environment. And even still, what happens if [...]
Hyper-V and XenDesktop – What the School Decided
Posted: June 2, 2010 in ABC School DistrictTags: hyper-v, Reference design, vdi, xendesktop
To cluster or not to cluster, that was the question for the ABC School District. For those of you that read through the ABC School District reference design noticed that the environment was based on Microsoft Hyper-V. And not only that, it consisted of two distinct groupings: Virtual Desktops Infrastructure Why the two groupings? Because [...]
The Virtual School Is In Session, Please Take your Seats
Posted: June 1, 2010 in ABC School DistrictTags: bandwidth, design considerations, desktop virtualization, FlexCast, hyper-v, profiles, Reference design, storage, TechTalk, vdi, xendesktop
Once upon a time, there was a little school (70,000 users) with a little problem (desktops over 5 years old) with a little idea. The school was trying to find a way to make the tax money go further. The newest desktops were 5 years old with many more approaching 10 years. Depending on the [...]
How many desktop images do I really need?
Posted: May 24, 2010 in ABC School DistrictTags: application virtualization, design considerations, desktop virtualization, images, vdi
One of the main goals with desktop virtualization is to reduce the number of required desktop images. The fewer number of images, the easier it is to support and maintain the desktop environment, which makes desktop virtualization so promising when compared to the traditional desktop approach. The goal is a single image, but oftentimes, other [...]
