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Continue reading →: XenDesktop Shadowing via Desktop Director – WinRM configuration for Windows 7
I think we can all agree that XenDesktop has VMware View beat as far as feature sets are concerned. One of the best features of a XenDesktop 5.5/5.6 is the Virtual Desktop management via the Desktop Director. It provides Admins, Support/NOC folks with an excellent overview on what is going…
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Continue reading →: Determining the size of your Provisioning Services Write-Cache
I been prepping to get a new XenDesktop 5.6 FP1 / XenApp 6.5 environment to run with Provisioning Services 6.1. In the last few weeks, I been collecting lots of information re: best practices, etc. In the past I worked with PVS versions 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 and 5.6. However I…
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Continue reading →: XenDesktop licensing – Features and Editions
It seems almost everyone that I talk to (including Citrix Reps) are a little confused as what the different XenDesktop license model covers. For further details, click on this article from Citrix. Now, to clear things up, XenDesktop is offered in four editions: Platinum. A comprehensive enterprise-class desktop virtualization solution…
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Continue reading →: VDI benchmarking – Login VSI 3.6
I been working with VDI deployments for some time now. One of the hardest thing to do is try to determine and estimate the VDI infrastructure sizing and how performance behaves with different types of Hypervisors. Searching the net and reading documents benchmark from other manufacturers, I discovered Login VSI (Virtual…
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Continue reading →: NetScaler VPX 10.0.69.4 save config issue
If you’re running the latest build of the NetScaler VPX, be aware of the Save config bug. Issue: After getting the VPX up and performing some changes, I was not able to save the config. After scratching my head a bit, I went to dashboard under the system log and…






