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Planning storage is probably the most difficult part of architecting any VDI solution and estimating IOPS is probably the most difficult part of planning the storage. For a little background on some of the discussions I have had around this topic, see my Saving IOPS with Provisioning Services blog and the associated comments. Since posting […]
April 13, 2010
Comments Off on Three Steps to a PXE-Free XenDesktop on Hyper-V
I ran into an interesting situation last week while working with Tony Sanchez from our Global Microsoft Team. He was setting up XenDesktop 4 on Hyper-V 2008 R2. However, the lab he was at used a Windows Deployment Server (WDS) for image management and it relies extensively on PXE. Rather than modify the WDS to […]
April 8, 2010
Comments Off on Deploying XenDesktop without a SAN
The Question Can XenDesktop be deployed without a SAN? A commonly asked question by customers in the small and medium business (SMB) arena which I recently decided to investigate. For those of my readers not familiar with Provisioning Services or XenDesktop, I will tell you it is possible using these technologies to stream a virtual […]
January 15, 2010
Comments Off on Optimizing Windows 7 for FlexCast Delivery
Introduction With the release of XenDesktop 4, Windows 7 is now a supported operating system for XenDesktop. Since Microsoft announced the end-of-life for Windows XP many institutions are considering moving their user population to Windows 7. Microsoft has built Windows 7 as a virtualization-aware operating systems and as such it is already optimized for such […]
November 2, 2009
Comments Off on Selecting a XenDesktop Logoff Behavior
I wanted to take a moment and provide some thoughts around selecting the correct logoff behavior for your XenDesktop environment. When working with a pooled desktop environment, the administrator can choose between restarting the virtual desktop at logoff and doing nothing. Below is a screen shot of the two settings I am referring to for a pooled […]
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October 31, 2010
Comments Off on Finding a Better Way to Estimate IOPS for VDI