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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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 [...]
Machine Creation Services Primer – Part 2
Posted: June 28, 2011 in Machine Creation Services, Uncategorized, XenDesktopTags: mcs
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 [...]
Machine Creation Services Primer – Part 1
Posted: June 22, 2011 in Machine Creation Services, UncategorizedTags: mcs, xendesktop
I get a lot of questions about different components of XenDesktop. What are they? How do they work? Should I use it? I’ve decided to spend some cycles trying to provide information about some of these components. The first one we will hit is Machine Creation Services. Machine Creation Services (MCS) is one option for [...]
End User Experience or Density
Posted: May 16, 2011 in Uncategorized, User ExperienceTags: vdi, xendesktop
With a virtual desktop, what do you care more about: End user experience or virtual desktop density? It comes down to who you ask. If I ask myself this question but with a user’s perspective, my response would be that I want my virtual desktop to be able to access company resources, to watch videos [...]
