August 3, 2011 2:23 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
CitrixYes, I know “floating anonymous users” brings forth this image of total strangers hovering over cubes in the offices trying to login to your system. It’s actually a turn of phrase I picked up on when I was last at Citrix offices in Dublin last year – getting my head around how XenApp,...
August 23, 2010 2:21 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
CitrixYes. I’m launching a special draw. Heck, it might even be a weekly thing. Here’s how it works. As an exceedingly well-known, influential and modest member of the virtualization community I occasionally get freebies. I mean nothing fancy. I’ve never been offered an IPAD but I would take one if...
June 8, 2010 3:20 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
CitrixCitrix recently announced their work is almost done on the client hypervisor (can you call it a hypervisor if their is a DOM0 or parent partition?). That apparently ruffled some feathers and caused a bit of kerfuffle. [Yes, that really is an Andy & Lou reference] Personally, I wondering what...
May 24, 2010 10:25 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
CitrixIt’s been brought to my attention that there two typos in my SRM 4.0 book surrounding the Microsoft SQL Configuration.
On page 151 on step 8, I incorrectly state you should select “Windows Authentication” when it should read “SQL Authentication”. It pretty obvious typo as in the book...
March 3, 2010 9:12 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
CitrixI recently made the move over to using an Apple MBP, and was able to find the full Mac Client for my new laptop. The wheels came off when it came to licensing. Seems like I had temporary license on my MBP which when it expired wouldn’t be cleared. It took some google-wacking to find how to clear...
February 9, 2010 5:36 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
CitrixCrisis? What crisis?
I hope VMware will widen the scope of its storage options for its disaster recovery automation product, Site Recovery Manager (SRM), this year. At the moment SRM only works with storage array-based replication from the big storage vendors. So far, purely...
February 6, 2010 7:27 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
CitrixWhen I first became involved in virtualisation back in 2003 and 2004, people used to ask me if anyone actually used virtualisation in a product. Most of the time, their plans were to initially restrict its usage to test and development environments and disaster recovery (DR). Quite rightly, I...
January 28, 2010 8:49 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
CitrixIn this article, we eschew the normal blue-sky 2010 technology predictions for something a bit more everyday that will affect your daily virtual life.
Scale up, up, up and away
Firstly, it’s no surprise that by mid-year there is likely to be a major rerelease of...
September 7, 2009 10:30 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
CitrixA pal of mine has put me on to a new utility called XenServer Documenter. To quoth the blurb “provides a time saving solution for making detailed documents of Citrix Xenserver infrastructures. It highlights a plethora of configuration parameters in neatly formated tables and constructs a...
