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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Here is a pretty common question… I want to virtualize my XenApp servers, how should I carve the physical server up? Should I use a bunch of small VMs or a few massive VMs? First, you have to look at a few decision points: OS Scalability: This is more of an issue in Windows 2003. [...]
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 [...]
Application compatibility with Windows 7
Posted: April 29, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: application virtualization, vdi, virtual desktops, windows 7, XenApp
How many of you have migrated to Windows 7? If the company you work for has, I bet there are a host of applications that are not compatible with Windows 7 (although Win7 is much better at app compatibility than Vista). So what options do you have? . Let’s say your application worked fine with [...]
Previously, we went over how power management works with XenDesktop 5. Why? Was it because I have nothing else to talk about? No. I went over this because many people are wondering why they would need to change the settings. If you have no idea what I’m talking about with regards to power management, check [...]
