At Citrix Synergy 2012 the other week, I had a lot of discussions with people around Personal vDisk. This is the new technology in XenDesktop 5.6, which you can get from the Synergy session: SYN119 Deep dive on XenDesktop personal vDisk. In a nutshell, it separates the base image from user customizations allowing an administrator [...]
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Does Personal vDisk solve the application challenge?
Posted: May 17, 2012 in Personal vDisk, UncategorizedTags: Application Delivery, hosted shared desktop, PVD, vdi, XenApp, xendesktop
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Is Podio the Next Generation Desktop?
Posted: May 14, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: citrix, Citrix Synergy, Podio, virtual desktops
During Citrix Synergy last week, I was in the audience watching the demos. One demo in particular, Podio, got me thinking about the value of a desktop. What is a desktop? Is it needed? Why? I’ve been a proponent of a desktop operating system and of desktop virtualization. Being a workshifting Citrite (what we call [...]
How many desktops can a XenDesktop 5.x site support? I get asked this question a lot. Tests have been done showing that a site can support 10,000, 20,000 or more desktops. But my question is if it really matters. After a certain number, I always am left to wonder if putting that many desktops in [...]
I’ve had another discussion with people passionate about memory overcommitting for virtual desktops. My stance is it can be dangerous if you take it too far. Unfortunately, many reports I see talking about the value of memory overcommit take it too far. So where is just far enough? Let’s go through an example (I’ve generalized [...]
Had a brief discussion on twitter the other day where people (@simoncrosby, @joeshonk, @RichCrusco) were saying that we only need to focus on delivering applications and NOT a Windows 7 desktop. I completely disagree. In fact, we should be treating the desktop interface as an application. Of course the desktop-haters immediately came out saying “No, [...]
