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Is VDI even necessary in this case?

Gary180 — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:37:03 +0000

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Performance & User Experience AnalysisTool

Verboten — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:41:37 +0000

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 to show to the executive level the potential benefits of density, and HVD as a whole compared to physicals as well as be able to do point in time analysis for review and tuning, of the environment.

Microsoft VDI and Citrix

ITKE — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:41:15 +0000

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?

XenDesktop and Windows 7 configuration

ITKE — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:14:35 +0000

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 am having is that neither of the two new VM’s I created from my template will boot to the vdisk. They get a DHCP address but then they just sit there with a black screen. My original master Windows 7 image is still set to boot to its hard drive which works fine, but as a test I set it to boot to its vdisk and it did the same thing as the two new ones.

I was wondering if anyone has experienced this before?

XenDesktop load balancing

ITKE — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:16:41 +0000

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

Windows Server 2008 creating test VM’s with Hyper-V

ITKE — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:43:18 +0000

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 ?

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