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Generating Virtual Machines with System Center Virtual Machine Manager SP1

August 30, 2011

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Today’s blog is the result recent scalability testing I performed for XenDesktop 5 on Microsoft’s System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) SP1 platform and HP BL460 G7 blades with DAS storage. On a side note, if you have not yet had a chance to review the scalability results, they have been published on HP’s Client Virtualization […]

Server 2008 R2 SP1 and XenApp 6 Updates

August 17, 2011

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Ever have that problem with a brand new XenApp 6 server running on Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1 where not even Notepad will launch? Well, the secret is to get the right Microsoft patches and Citrix hotfixes installed, which when complete will enable applications to run again. Ran into this several times and with […]

Speeding Up Web Interface

August 16, 2011

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I was working at a customer site where we had a brand new Web Interface server built on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with IIS 7, but still had horrible response times. Before I implemented these changes my Web Interface site was taking 20-30 seconds to load and 30-60 seconds to enumerate applications on an unloaded server. After […]