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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 […]
August 17, 2011
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 […]
August 16, 2011
Comments Off on Speeding Up Web Interface
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 […]
February 28, 2011
Comments Off on Parsing IOSTAT with Powershell
I have had a couple people remark to me that it is somewhat difficult to use iostat on XenServer to gather storage performance metrics because the output format is not easily parsed. Today’s blog is about how to collect and import storage performance values from XenServer using the iostat command and a PowerShell script I wrote to make this […]
February 10, 2011
Let me first apologize for my delay in getting this out. I have been extremely busy with my current project, however, I think you will be pleased with what I have researched for today’s blog. I had the opportunity to collect a considerable amount of production data at a customer site over the past two months. I […]
VirtualizationJedi 
August 30, 2011
Comments Off on Generating Virtual Machines with System Center Virtual Machine Manager SP1