Is VDI even necessary in this case?
Here’s the question… We’re investigating the need for a hosted desktop solution.  Here’s the data for our case: We have about 100 semi-managed desktop sessions running on top of ESX.  They’ve been built over time and are somewhat consistent.  They all sit in our main data center.  We do not have any VDI solution in [...]

Answer Question   |  February 4, 2013  3:37 PM
VDI, XenApp, XenDesktop

Performance & User Experience AnalysisTool
Hello all. I’m wondering what the community thinks about what the best tool would be to do comparitive analysis of HVD environments compared to other HVD configurations and physicals. Standard metrics for iops, userX, task timing, etc. Performance tuning would also be helped with this data.  I am asking as I want to be able [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  1:41 PM
Holographic data storage, Holographic storage, IOPS, Storage, XenDesktop

Microsoft VDI and Citrix
What is MSs VDI strategy, what in-house capabilities do you have, and how do you work together with Citrix and its XenDesktop offering? ie. could you offer a 100% MS VDI offering or would you always involve Citrix to extend your capabilities?

Answer Question   |  April 6, 2010  8:41 PM
Citrix, Desktop virtualization, Microsoft virtualization, VDI, Virtualization, XenDesktop

XenDesktop and Windows 7 configuration
I’ve got XenDesktop configured and working with Windows XP. Now I would like to test Windows 7 Enterprise. I created the Windows 7 VM, imaged it to a new vdisk on the provisioning server, then ran the XenDesktop Setup Wizard on the provisioningserver to create two VMs’, and all that worked fine. The problem I [...]

Answer Question   |  July 14, 2010  6:14 PM
VDI, Virtual Desktop, Windows 7, Windows 7 in 2010, XenDesktop

XenDesktop load balancing
I have 3 XenDesktop DDC servers and want to load balance and prefer not to use MSFT NLB. Has anyone used anything else?

Answer Question   |  February 23, 2009  5:16 PM
DDC Servers, Load balancing, Server load balancing, XenDesktop

Windows Server 2008 creating test VM’s with Hyper-V
I have setup Windows Server 2008 Enterprise 64x on my desktop and have the Hyper-V feature enabled. Is it possible to create test virtual machines on it like XenServer 5.0 / XenDesktop and VMWare ESX 3i ? User Submitted

Answer Question   |  February 16, 2009  3:43 PM
Hyper-V, Virtual Machines, VMware ESX 3i, Windows Server 2008, Windows Virtualization, XenDesktop, XenServer