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Repurpose Old PC’s For VMware View as VMware View Clients
Do you have old PC’s that still function fine but have been replaced by the “3 year” hardware refresh? If you do, why not repurpose then and use them as VMware View Clients. There is now a free linux based solution available which can be configured online via web interface. Take a look at this […]
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How to measure Citrix Provisioning Server performance
To make Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS), you must rely on block I/O cache. In this case, we will be using Windows 2008 R2 X64. When an endpoint logs into PVS, the read I/O for that device then points back to the vDisk hosted on the PVS server. Doing this, you need to make sure you have plenty […]
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Citrix XenDesktop Machine Creation Services Deep-Dive
So… with vmware View, you have a connection broker that connects to vCenter that connects to the ESX hosts using vSphere API which then tells whichever ESX host to build whichever linked-clones from the replica-vm to which ever destination datastore they are supposed to be on… right? :) Well… with Citrix XenDesktop Machine Creation Services (MCS) […]
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Need a VDI questionnaire for potential customers
Some beginning questions, not limited to: Operational Will this be utility priced? What are the end user experience requirements? Should desktop customizations be available (personalization) How are profiles/user data managed? What is the endpoint OS going to be? XP? 7? What AV products do you currently use? Is two –factor authentication a requirement? Hardware What […]
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