This question has come up quite a few times in the past week, so I thought I would try to add some clarity. It all comes down to people looking to move to XenDesktop 5 from XenDesktop 4. Most of the XenDesktop 4 implementations are using Provisioning Services for single image management. When you create [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Virtual desktop’
Which Hosted Virtual Desktop Do I Use?
Posted: January 25, 2011 in Desktop TypesTags: desktop virtualization, Virtual desktop, xendesktop
3
XenDesktop Design Handbook – No Registration Required
Posted: November 22, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: design considerations, optimization, Provisioning services, Reference design, vdi, Virtual desktop, windows 7, xendesktop
A few months ago we released the XenDesktop Design Handbook that contained a collection of reference designs, implementation guides and planning guides. When it was initially released, it had a few items. Over the past couple of months we have included additional items like Bandwidth planning Windows 7 optimization guide VM resource allocation SMB reference [...]
SAN, VDI and SMB
Posted: August 31, 2010 in SMB, StorageTags: desktop virtualization, High Availability, Load Balancing, NetScaler, SMB, SME, vdi, Virtual desktop, xendesktop, xenmotion
One of the big questions regarding virtual desktops is storage. In fact, I’ve discussed this numerous times (here and here and here). This has mostly been with a focus on IOPS. This time I want to focus on the high-availability aspect you get with shared storage, but with the focus of being on the SMB/SME [...]
Desktop Virtualization for the SMB
Posted: August 20, 2010 in SMBTags: desktop virtualization, SMB, vdi, Virtual desktop
I’ve been part of quite a few desktop virtualization designs in my day. Most of these are for enterprise customers with over 10,000 desktops. When you get to this scale, you have to take into account so many different variables that you need many different options. What about the SMB organizations? The smaller organizations (500 [...]
