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I have been wondering about the need for fault-tolerant architectures specifically with regard to the servers hosting the virtual desktops. I definitely believe the supporting infrastructure should be fault-tolerant, but what about the myriads of servers running just a hypervisor and hosted desktops? Here are my two premises: 1. Virtual desktop adoption right now is […]
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 […]
October 24, 2008
Comments Off on Optimizing Windows XP for XenDesktop and Provisioning Server vDisks
Introduction Many environments have already managed to streamline the image building process and already have familiarity with the many Windows XP performance and optimization tips. Both XenDesktop (XD) and Provisioning Server (PVS) support the Windows XP operating system and can benefit from performance enhancements. For those who are familiar with these performance enhancements, this blog […]
VirtualizationJedi 
March 17, 2010
Comments Off on Do we need fault-tolerant servers to host desktops