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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘XenApp’
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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XenApp is The First Step.
Posted: November 4, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: TechTalk, XenApp, xendesktop
I’ve heard many people talk about how to start their desktop transformation projects when they are looking at 5000 desktops. How do you even begin? The number of desktops, users and applications is so overwhelming many can’t even figure out how to begin. The desktop environment is so vast that making any change looks impossible. [...]
How we decided between Kaviza, XenDesktop or XenApp
Posted: September 14, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: kaviza, XenApp, xendesktop
I’ve been absent from the blogging world for some time due to summer holiday and working on two different projects with two new technologies (Kaviza and CloudStack). In the future, I’m might be able to talk about CloudStack items, but today the focus is on Kaviza. The project I’ve been involved with is focused on [...]
One of the first questions when virtualizing XenApp is how many VMs to put on a server. Well, that was discussed in the Virtualize XenApp blog. Once you figure out how you plan to carve up the physical server, one of the next common questions is deciding which features of the hypervisor to enable/disable. For [...]
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. [...]
