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Comment on Deciding How to Integrate Applications into a Virtual Desktop by Does Personal vDisk solve the application challenge? « Virtualize My Desktop

Thu, 17 May 2012 15:28:36 +0000

[...] all of these applications nor should we expect them to. For some time, I’ve provided an application delivery strategy that focused on a few categories for applications, but with Personal vDisk do we throw the model [...]

Comment on Is Podio the Next Generation Desktop? by Jason Poyner

Jason Poyner — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:31:50 +0000

Spot on. Another “me too” – when I saw the demo at Synergy of Podio with ShareFile and apps from XenApp the light bulb went on. Could this be a desktop replacement? A workspace to replace the desktop? I’m starting to play with Podio and am keen to see if Podio can really work as a true workspace.

Comment on Is Podio the Next Generation Desktop? by benchtime

benchtime — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:12:17 +0000

Love this idea, Dan. Was thinking the same thing as I was playing with the iPhone app on the flight home from Summit/Synergy last week. I could completely replace our cumbersome Outlook/Sharepoint/desktop “collaboration” that currently consumes probably close to six licenses of something or other not including my corporate laptop OS. With Podio, I could do probably 90% of my current architecture project work in there alone – on whatever device I want! Gonna give this a real-world test also. It is very cool!!

Comment on How we decided between Kaviza, XenDesktop or XenApp by virtualfeller

virtualfeller — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:38:45 +0000

none yet. This project is just starting the build of the systems.

Comment on XenDesktop 5 Scalability – XenDesktop Controller Capacity by Andy Stewart

Andy Stewart — Mon, 14 May 2012 01:30:48 +0000

Eric – did you every got any information back re subnet recommendations, specifically re PVS dual-homing? I have determined that the built-in TFTP service only supports binding on a single IP address but it appears that PVS itself can/will listen on multiple subnets.

Comment on How we decided between Kaviza, XenDesktop or XenApp by Richard Adams

Richard Adams — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:45:36 +0000

Are there any lessons learned that you could share with us? We are deploying 150 users and have experienced response time issues and application freezing, although our infrastructure looks the same as yours

Comment on PVS or MCS – What’s Your Decision Going to Be by PVS or MCS – What to do?

PVS or MCS – What to do? — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:17:56 +0000

[...] Earlier this year Daniel Feller wrote a great blog article on how to choose between PVS and MCS. This article can be found here. [...]

Comment on Scaling Up or Out with XenDesktop Sites by Steve

Steve — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:59:02 +0000

I’m about to do a very large scale deployment and will be customizing the web interface to connect to multiple identical farms. The long term goal is also to detect farm state and load balance connections. It is unfortunate that the web interface does not already detect farm, or desktop pool, state.

Comment on Planning the XenDesktop 5 Database by Faisal Iqbal

Faisal Iqbal — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:17:40 +0000

Dan — If you use the “Simple Recovery Method” is there anyway to use NS DataStream as an alternative to SQL mirroring to provide SQL DB HA?

Comment on Improper Storage Design for Virtual Desktops is a Killer by Some Straight Talk about VDI-in-a-Box

Some Straight Talk about VDI-in-a-Box — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:49:18 +0000

[...] Thanks to Dan Feller of Citrix, we know how to calculate the “functional IOPS” of a given disk subsystem. Here are the significant factors that go into that formula: [...]