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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Lessons Learned with vCPU Allocation and HDX
Posted: May 6, 2011 in Uncategorized, User ExperienceTags: HDX, xendesktop
How many of you have read the XenDesktop Planning Guide called “VM-Based VDI Resource Allocation” that is in the XenDesktop Design Handbook? Hopefully, there are a lot as it provides a table with initial recommendations for allocating vCPU, RAM, steady state IOPS for VDI type desktops. Remember, these are estimates! User Group Operating System vCPU [...]
Streamed VHD
Posted: April 8, 2011 in Streamed VHDTags: Provisioning services, pvs, Streamed VHD, xendesktop
I was recently asked a question about how we can still utilize endpoint hardware computing power when doing desktop virtualization. If doing a hosted VM-based virtual desktop, you can do the client-side rendering of flash and other multimedia activities, but there is another option that most people forget about… Streamed VHD. You simply turn that [...]
