Yesterday Citrix announced that XenServer 6.1 was released. I am excited to download and try it as I will be studying XenServer on my pathway to CCEE. There is also a new conversion tool, XenServer Conversion Manager, for use with XenServer 6.1 Download XenServer 6.1XenServer Master Class webina
“Hey, Joe, remember when VMware introduced vRam and we were all totally stoked and excited beyond belief?!”“Yeah, man that was totally awesome! Wait…what?”“I know…!”“No, Tad, vRam was terribad. So terribad that customers revolted and in vSphere 5.1 they actually removed it entirely.”“Oh…” VMware has received strong recognition among Fortune 500 […]
I wanted to point out that although I am anxiously awaiting support for Hyper-V 3.0, no Citrix products currently support it. Take a look at the hypervisor support matrix for an at a glance view for XenDesktop, or eDocs System Requirements for XenApp 6.5. :Edit 7/14/2013: For Server […]
Minor change, but I decided to use the publishing name |Atum| rather than my gamer name Mevious, which is the same as my nickname on Freenode IRC and use for #Citrix.
Have you ever completely blown off some really good advice only to feel silly about doing so later? I know the folks in #Citrix on Freenode are some very smart people, but it seems when I was new there I didn’t pay enough attention to their words. [2012-05-14 09:49:00] Well, […]
During our initial implementation of our pilot project we did not include Edgesight deployment in our scope of work. After using the XenDesktop, XenApp solution for some time I decided it was time for some measurable metrics to answer some questions that are key to our pilot. Those questions included: […]
Perhaps the best resource (or at least the most fun for me!) has been working with the people in #Citrix (on IRC, not twitter!) on irc.libera.chat. If you don’t know about IRC, perhaps you’re ultra young or you lived under a rock, but Wikipedia can help you out. I invite […]
Today I was trying to replace my hard disk in my laptop with a solid state drive. I have usually done quick images with ImageX, which was introduced with Windows Automated Installation Kit back with Windows Vista. I loaded up my trusty WinPE and attempted to use ImageX to capture […]
This is part 5 of an ongoing series of posts to document and describe my journey implementing Citrix VDI with XenApp. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5. Another pain point for our users has been just how dreadfully slow our ancient machines boot. Between 1-4 minutes to get a to a […]
This is part 5 of an ongoing series of posts to document and describe my journey implementing Citrix VDI with XenApp. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4.It wasn’t all so rosy and perfect going from Proof-of-concept to pilot, and we knew things might not be. During our PoC we relied solely […]