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 ‘xendesktop’
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 [...]
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 [...]
Machine Creation Services Primer – Part 1
Posted: June 22, 2011 in Machine Creation Services, UncategorizedTags: mcs, xendesktop
I get a lot of questions about different components of XenDesktop. What are they? How do they work? Should I use it? I’ve decided to spend some cycles trying to provide information about some of these components. The first one we will hit is Machine Creation Services. Machine Creation Services (MCS) is one option for [...]
