I have seen a lot of scalability reports lately around desktop virtualization. This is good in that we can start to see how the different things we do can provide better capacity. However, one thing that does trouble me is when I see tests only allocating 512 or 768MB of RAM to a Windows 7 [...]
Archive for the ‘Windows 7’ Category
VDI Resource Allocation
Posted: November 10, 2010 in Windows 7Tags: CPU, design considerations, desktop virtualization, IOPS, RAM, windows 7, windows xp, xendesktop, XenDesktop Design Handbook
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Windows 7 Optimization Guide for XenDesktop
Posted: October 20, 2010 in OptimizationsTags: best practices, design handbook, desktop virtualization, optimization, vdi, virtual desktops, windows 7, xendesktop
If you have been following my ongoing commentary regarding Windows 7 optimizations for virtual desktops, you have probably been wondering when all of this information will be put into a document. Well, it has finally happened. Based on many of the items Citrix Consulting has identified, we have our initial Windows 7 optimization guide for [...]
Optimize Your Virtual Desktop Recycle Bin
Posted: October 13, 2010 in OptimizationsTags: desktop virtualization, optimization, vdi, virtual desktops, windows 7, xendesktop
I’m reading more and more Windows 7 optimization guides for virtual desktops and I’m starting to believe that many people are focusing too much on scalability and too little on the user experience. I’ve spoken about people taking optimizations too far before, but this time I want to talk about one item… the Recycle Bin? [...]
Feller’s Law on Virtual Desktop Optimizations
Posted: October 3, 2010 in OptimizationsTags: desktop virtualization, optimization, vdi, virtual desktops, windows 7
I’ve been spending time developing the Citrix recommendations for Windows 7 optimization and came to an interesting conclusion: many of these settings sounds good, but they don’t really have much impact. I’ve now read two different studies on this: Ron Oglesby’s assessment Project VRC’s Deep Dive What have I learned? You will get minimal performance [...]
Taking Virtual Desktop Optimization Too Far
Posted: September 28, 2010 in OptimizationsTags: optimization, vdi, windows 7, xendesktop
I’ve been spending a lot of time focusing on the lessons learned with Windows 7 migration. There are plenty of articles about optimizing the Windows 7 image (I’ve even authored a few of them in my Windows 7 Optimization section). However, I am left to wonder if some of these recommendations go too far. Most [...]
