How large should we make our PVS Accelerator cache? Too large and we waste resources. Too small and we lose the performance. Let’s take a step back and recall our best practice for sizing the RAM on Provisioning Services. We would typically say allocate 2GB of RAM for each vDisk image the server provides. This… Continue reading XenServer PVS Accelerator Cache Sizing
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Provisioning Services Accelerator
An interesting new feature was included with the XenServer 7.1 release: Provisioning Services Accelerator. In a single sentence, PVS Accelerator overcomes PVS server and network latency by utilizing local XenServer RAM/Disk resources to cache blocks of a PVS vDisk to fulfill local target VM requests. Take a look at the demo video to see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_vhMf3SFks… Continue reading Provisioning Services Accelerator
PVS vs MCS – Part 7: Summary
As Q said in the final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, “All good things must come to an end” and after 6 previous blogs focusing on deciding between Provisioning Services and Machine Creation Services, it is time to end. As I explained, over the past 5 years, improvements were made to Provisioning Services… Continue reading PVS vs MCS – Part 7: Summary
PVS vs MCS – Part 6: Architecture
This is part of a series comparing Provisioning Services and Machine Creation Services Part 1: Resource Delivery Options Part 2: Scalability Part 3: Storage Optimization Part 4: Deployment Part 5: On-going Maintenance Part 6: Architecture Part 7: Summary In the previous blogs comparing PVS with MCS, I focused on functionality within each technology, but this… Continue reading PVS vs MCS – Part 6: Architecture
PVS vs MCS – Part 5: On-Going Maintenance
This is part of a series comparing Provisioning Services and Machine Creation Services Part 1: Resource Delivery Options Part 2: Scalability Part 3: Storage Optimization Part 4: Deployment Deploying Machine Creation Services is extremely easy as there is nothing to deploy. Deploying Provisioning Services is easier with Hyper-V Gen2 VM support and the single-stage Boot… Continue reading PVS vs MCS – Part 5: On-Going Maintenance
PVS vs MCS – Part 4: Deployment
This is part of a series comparing Provisioning Services and Machine Creation Services Part 1: Resource Delivery Options Part 2: Scalability Part 3: Storage Optimization Part 4: Deployment Part 5: On-going Maintenance Part 6: Architecture Part 7: Summary So far, the latest analysis between Machine Creation Services and Provisioning Services included within XenApp and XenDesktop… Continue reading PVS vs MCS – Part 4: Deployment
PVS vs MCS – Part 2: Scalability
This is part of a series comparing Provisioning Services and Machine Creation Services Part 1: Resource Delivery Options Part 2: Scalability Part 3: Storage Optimization Part 4: Deployment Part 5: On-going Maintenance Part 6: Architecture Part 7: Summary In Part 1 of the PVS vs MCS debate, we saw Provisioning Services bridges the gap between… Continue reading PVS vs MCS – Part 2: Scalability
PVS vs MCS – Part 1: Resource Delivery Options
This is part of a series comparing Provisioning Services and Machine Creation Services Part 1: Resource Delivery Options Part 2: Scalability Part 3: Storage Optimization Part 4: Deployment Part 5: On-going Maintenance Part 6: Architecture Part 7: Summary Five years ago, Citrix released Machine Creation Services. As a way to help admins decide between Provisioning… Continue reading PVS vs MCS – Part 1: Resource Delivery Options
Sizing Windows 10 and Windows 7 Virtual Machines
After reviewing all of the scalability tests we conducted over the past few months, I thought it was time to revisit the recommendations for sizing Windows 10 virtual machines. I also reached out to Nick Rintalan to see if this is in line with what is currently being recommended for production environments (if you disagree,… Continue reading Sizing Windows 10 and Windows 7 Virtual Machines
Microsoft Windows 10, Citrix XenDesktop and Logon Time
How long does your Windows 10 logon take? Logging into my lab, my logons felt long. True I’m not using server-level hardware that you would see in production, but my logon times felt too long because I don’t have logon scripts, complex group policy preferences, or even massive profiles. After reading the Rule of 30… Continue reading Microsoft Windows 10, Citrix XenDesktop and Logon Time
