In my previous blog post I discussed how virtual desktops are a growing market, and that I give most of the credit to an increased user experience (as opposed to Server Based Computing). I didn’t mention that there is a glass ceiling with virtual desktops and that historically it just wasn’t possible to use virtual [...]
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Role Change
This is another non-technical post. I wanted to get this out because I realize I have been pretty silent around here for at least a few weeks. Yes, I had a lot of travel during Q1 (through March and early April) and then (thankfully) I had some time of…
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The Reality of Virtual Desktops
Those that know me know that I’ve worked on a virtual desktop as my primary desktop for the past couple of years. I believe very firmly that if you are going to talk about a certain topic, you must live that topic. I’ve gone through many of the same pains that others have gone through [...]
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Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 Personal vDisk – Part III
Now that we’ve covered what it is, how you install/configure it, and how it REALLY works (“caring” more about the assignment to the desktop than to the user), I’ll explain why I think the technology is great, how it will help, but also why it’s not the “end game” most of the end user computing
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Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 – Personal vDisk Part II
In Part I I covered the basics of what the “new” Personal vDisk feature in XenDesktop 5.6 is. In this part I’ll cover how it’s installed/configured, and some of the interesting things I found out doing during some lab-playtime. The installation/configuration to enable the Personal vDisk is rather low-thrill, and that’s a good thing
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Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 – Personal vDisk Part I
Citrix held their launch event on Twitter this week and I participated as much as I could, asking a bunch of questions and receiving a couple of answers. The “new” Personal vDisk sounded like one of the more beneficial enhancements I’ve heard in a while, so I decided to test it out. Here’s a quick
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Citrix User Profile Management Not Deleting Local Profiles
While building out a new XenApp 6.5 farm and handling the profiles through Citrix’s User Profile Management utility, I noticed some issues where the local profiles were not being deleted on logoff as I had configured them to be. After doing some checking and verifying what I had set in the GPO was being “applied”
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Installing the Teradici APEX2800 on ESXi 5.0 / VMware View 5.0
Getting Started Before you start, make sure you have the following. Putty.exe http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe WinSCP http://winscp.net/download/winscp437setup-sponsored.exe APEX Driver http://techsupport.teradici.com
Introducing the PCoIP Configuration Utility (beta)
Let’s get this out of the way – I’ll be the first to admit this tool needs a better name and I’m open to suggestions but for now let’s talk about what this tool does. For quite some time internally I have been pushing for …
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Absorbing the “Storm” with EMC FAST Cache
I copied this over from the eGroup blogs where I posted it at the end of our EMC VNX roadshow (when the VNX was announced, but using our beta array we had for 5 months before the announcement). I’m well aware that boot storms and read IO isn’t what needs to be sized for (or
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